NYSE Investor Leverage Is Higher Than During the Tech Bubble

Say you have 100% of your brokerage account in a diversified portfolio of stocks. And you’re absolutely certain that the market is going to rise.
Sounds great, right? But if you’re like most investors, you want to get rich as soon as possible.
If the market cooperates and blasts higher from here, you want to be sure that you’ve maximized your gains when your investments rise.
Unsurprisingly, the financial services industry has a way to help you satisfy this greedy impulse… It’s called margin debt.  (more)

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