What if a surge and collapse in equity margin financing triggers forced selling in A-shares?
A renewed surge then collapse in equity margin financing triggers forced-selling cascades in A-shares, echoing the leveraged-unwind dynamics of the 2015 crash.
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The butterfly cascade
How this trigger trickles across markets, left → right — the root shock, its first‑order moves, then the ripple effects. Drag any node; tap a market for its real price history.
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What it would mean
If this plays out, it is a risk-off shock. A renewed surge then collapse in equity margin financing triggers forced-selling cascades in A-shares, echoing the leveraged-unwind dynamics of the 2015 crash. The trigger decomposes into signed root‑shocks — Volatility (VIX) ▲ · China growth ▼ · Risk appetite ▼ · Risk-parity deleveraging ▲ — which propagate through our causal graph to the markets below.