Retail trading hit an all-time high this year, according to JPMorgan data, as non-institutional market participation enjoys a renaissance amid a favorable start to 2023 for equities, even surpassing 2021’s high-profile, meme-driven surge in day trading....
Meme stocks like GameStop, AMC and Bed Bath & Beyond are each up 35% or more this year, despite the latter being on theof insolvency, and retail volume remains concentrated in smaller stocks, but habits of day traders are shifting, according to Cheng’s analysis. Retail investors are accounting for an increasing percentage of total trading volume for large cap stocks, according to Cheng, and the most-bought stocks among non-institutional traders were Amazon and Apple, while the most sold was Tesla.
Cheng also shared a declining percentage of options trades among private investors, with the high-risk, high-reward trades accounting for about 12% of all trades in the most recent week, down from about an 17% share in early 2021.from the last 24 hours on the WallStreetBets subreddit, whose more than 13 million subscribers drive much of the retail trading activity, reads: “META Yolo, up $75k so far, gunna keep holding.
Any news drives up the market. Will terrorism, war or a financial crisis bring it down? Might need a hat trick to finally tank it. Too much dumb money out there! US could use a punch in the face
nobody like stocks. the gains are too small and corporate america sucks.