Michael Burry's bet against the stock market is estimated to be 1-2% of his portfolio, costing a few million dollars, rather than the reported $1.6 billion.
"Michael Burry's bet against the stock market right now is probably closer to maybe one to two percent of his entire stock portfolio which cost him maybe a couple million dollars to make as an insurance a hedge against the stock market going down not 1.6 billion dollars going all in on betting against the stock market like we're told."