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3 quadrillion ain't enough????

The current market value of derivatives is said to be between 544 trillion and 1.2 quadrillion. That's at least 5 times the value of the world's available money, at least twice as much as the global real estate value, double the amount of the world's debt value for observational purposes.

In business, it's wise to go after what produces the most profit, yet here people are going after ETFs, low return stocks, "dividend" stocks", crypto, the list goes on. Granted, there is some substantial utility to certain investments, but the fact that the derivatives market is so big, yet so many people seem to not understand or know how to utilize it, I think, is a testament to either laziness, failure to focus, or failure to care. So realistically this shows that many are missing out on possibly great money making opportunities (yes options contracts are a form of derivative). So why waste time on glybto gurency and other high risk low probability of reward investing instruments when you can create entire derivative markets on your own? Do you not realize I should be charging you for even releasing this type of info? Thoughts?

https://money.visualcapitalist.com/worlds-money-markets-one-visualization-2017/