to get the size-all you have to do is sum all market capitalizations of all us companies. then compare(if you have something to compare with)
Hehehe!! Its like going to a Casino in Las Vegas and telling the Mob Boss leave the Casino, I am here to play! You know what will happen next? You will be eating concrete sandwich on the sidewalk.
How regrettable, how sad that is.. From your side of the street.. Feds have engineered this rally, its backed by bulls and its doing a collateral damage to your accounts. You keep going to the same well and getting killed. You had 3 months of lawlessness. No more. Feds have stepped in cleaned house and put you out of your misery.
Sure. You think Feds and Treasury will let you bleed every Mom and Pop investors children's education and pension funds? Shorting is highway robbery , taking money from people who can't defend themselves and lose out to financial predators like yourself.
This is nonsense. WAY more than 10% of USA folks have 401K, or pensions, or trusts, or IRA's - including Traditional, Roth or Sep-Ira. And plenty own mutual funds. Both inside and outside retirement accounts. And lots of folks have multiple accounts of the above. And that doesn't even count private equity management, etc. More like 40 - 50% have some kind of direct or indirect exposure.
I wish Ron Paul became president. He wants to abolish the Fed and have no government regulation in the markets. Unfortunately, this obviously sounds too good to become true.