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description: "$Oracle(ORCL.US) Institutional holders may be exiting, distributing chips to retail investors; proceed with caution when entering the pit. Here is part of the GPT analysis:1. The main force behind Oracle's stock price decline indeed comes from institutions.For large tech companies like Oracle:Market cap is approximately $350 billion;Institutional shareholding ratio usually exceeds 40% or even higher;The top ten institutional shareholders include large asset management companies, index funds, pension funds, etc.Retail trading can only affect short-term fluctuations and cannot single-handedly drive:A $600 billion level market value evaporation."It wasn't caused by retail investors."This is basically correct.The main force must come from:Active funds;Hedge funds;Quantitative funds;ETF capital;Institutional risk model adjustments.2. So, could it be that institutional quantitative strategies are retreating?Answer:Possible, and the probability is not low.In fact, institutional selling does not necessarily manifest as:"A 20% crash in one day."Large institutions usually do not operate this way.For example, a fund holding Oracle:5 million shares.If sold all at once:The market would know.So more commonly:Algorithm execution:VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price)TWAP (Time Weighted Average Price)Dark pool tradingSplitting orders across multiple accountsSelling hundreds of thousands to millions of shares daily.Result:Stock price:Slowly declines.Trading volume:Remains consistently above average levels.This is very similar to the July trend you observed."
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# $Oracle(ORCL.US) Institutional holders may be exit…


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