"Black Monday 2018" saw widespread and indiscriminate selling in CEFs. As mentioned in "Exploiting ETN/CEF Illiquidity - Playbook For Tomorrow", this panic selling can trigger dislocations in the price of securities that can be exploited by the nimble investor.
With CEFConnect NAV figures finally being updated as of Tuesday morning, I can finally present the top CEF gainers and losers from Monday.
Biggest premium/discount losers
Here the top 25 funds where the share price drop exceeded the NAV decline yesterday. In other words, these are buy candidates as their discounts have widened significantly.