1035 days ago • Posted by William Ramstein
Retail traders increase pull on the stock market
Interesting visual on retailer traders ramping up activity. Volumes keep rising and now online brokerages moved en masse to commission-free trading (at least in the US). Activity from individual investors trading on Robinhood accounted for roughly 4% of total US trading volume in January and E*Trade Financial activity made up 2.4%. On a net basis individual investors have poured a net $140.57B into the US stock market this year alone, a figure that is up 33% from the same period last year. The trends suggest that they move in and out of trends at a quick pace, and this effect has pushed individual investors to back-off their meme stock bets out of worry that a short squeeze could cause them to lose large sums of cash.
Source: WSJ
