Given the stock market plunge of the last few days, the following chart is interesting. It is current to year-end 2017 (latest available), the data comes from FINRA.
Given that total market cap at the time was approx. $32 trillion, margin debt of $650 billion doesn't seem all that excessive. In other words, selling due to system wide over-leveraging isn't the likely culprit of the sell-off.
Given that total market cap at the time was approx. $32 trillion, margin debt of $650 billion doesn't seem all that excessive. In other words, selling due to system wide over-leveraging isn't the likely culprit of the sell-off.
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