Trading -- Institiutional Stop Loss Triggers in SPX, SPY, DIA,

This thread is to discuss institutional behavior in sell-offs, esp. methodologies employed by institutional portfolio managers when placing stop-loss orders. This is an effort to better understand the ratcheting-down of stops in recent 2-sigma downside events, especially 2011, Q4 2014, AUG-2015.

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