The DOW is NOT the US equity markets. It is 30 big caps and it changes. Shorting the DOW has a remix risks. If you are shorting the US equities the DOW is a lousey proxy.
I also know what equity markets are.
What YOU don't appear to know, is that I was replying to a post, wherein the DOW, alone, was mentioned. But since the poster started out talking about the DOW, then talked about shorting the dollar, and wound up claiming that no, he was long on the dollar but short in the equity market, leads one to believe that he's more than just confused and confusing, but playing word games.