Tyler Crowe

Right now, data from the Federal Reserve of St.

Louis says that about $8.1 trillion is in money market funds as of fourth quarter of 2025.

That sounds like a lot, but you also have to factor how much is in the market in general.

And we have a thing at The Motley Fool, it's called the Petitioner.

potential growth indicator.

And basically, it takes all the cash that's on the sidelines or in money market accounts, like the FRED data says, and then divide it by the total stock market valuation, which is at about 10.1%.

And over the past 30 years, that is a little bit on the lower side.

You could say that that's saying everyone's pretty optimistic.

They want to be in the market relative to what we see in other different times.

So with those little factoids there, the amount of money that we're talking about here, guys, what do you have to say to Ben and Thomas's questions here?

I feel like we're probably all going to get that SpaceX email from our brokers in the next week or so.

I want to just actually conclude with this, too, about ETFs and allocations and things like that.

This is an important thing for people to consider when they're buying ETFs.

Say you're buying a broad-based S&P 500 ETF.

There are two different types.

There are market cap weighted ones, which is obviously the ones that are going to be most influenced here by the large amount of money going into them.

But there's also equal weight.

cap or equal weighted indices as well, where instead of doing, you know, market capas, it's every single company at the every single way, equal ways.

It's pretty self-explanatory.

Ones like this are obviously going to probably see less volatility relative to these sorts of trades.