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Individual investors have put almost $ 70 billion into US shares this year, even if professional money managers reduce the market exposure due to fear of Donald Trump’s policy.
Net inflow from retail investors in To American stocks And Exchange, which is traded on sale, recorded $ 67 billion in 2025, which is less than $ 71 billion spent in the last quarter of 2024, said the Vandatrack data.
A strong appeal emphasizes that individual investors remain optimistic on Wall Street shares despite intense turbulence This year launched the president’s Irregular tariff plans and the appearance of Chinese start-up for artificial intelligence Deepseek.
“Buying swimming is basically a stupid strategy for four of the last five years,” said Steve Sosnick, the main market strategist at Interactive Brokers, a platform widely used by individual investors.
He added, “To do something that has been acting incredibly well for so long means that you are conditioned to hold on to it.”
The user on the Reddit Committee to discuss Wall Street, which is popular with amateur investors who made speculative bets, offered a similar feeling: “Respect DIP, Be DIP, Buy DIP!” They said.
The S&P 500 Wall Street dropped by 2 percent this year and the index technological sector overthrew 8 percent. The drop indicates a sharp contrast in 2023 and 2024, when the S&P 500 published sharp gains guided by expensive in large technological stocks – the award -winning merchants they bought when the market fell.
A similar topic has been played in recent days, with the S&P 500 reduced a significant share in their annual loss, growing 1.8 percent on Monday only on Monday, hoping that Trump will at least partially grow into its threats that on April 2.
“Investors still look more concerned about missing the possibility of buying recesses” than concerning further falls on the market, said Jim Paulsen, an independent market strategist.
Goldman Sachs data show that retail investors are net sessions of US shares this year in only seven sessions, despite the fact that the S&P 500 fell to 25 days. In contrast, the great investors accompanied by the Bank of America made the “biggest ever” reduced awarding of US capital in March.
Investors also continued to buy shares in groups that were among the biggest winners in the last two years, but that suffered great losses in 2025.
Returning traders bought $ 3.2 billion Tesla’s shares and $ 1.9 billion in Nvidia shares last week, according to JPMORGAN Chase.
The demand for ETFs with twice that follow and enhance the gain or losses of Tesla and Nvidia has proven equally resistant, said Sosnick, adding that the seemingly insatiable appetite for such products “makes sense” given how much the profitable Bathing of the DIP recently proved.
“Retail investors tend to seek famous names,” said Dhruv Aggarwal, Assistant Professor at the Northwestern Pritzker Law School, who is co -authored by “Meme supposes”.
However, some institutional investors and analysts at Wall Street consider a rise in retail demand as a counter intuitive reason for caution.
Alexander Peterc, analyst from Bernstein, said: “Back in 1999, when my housewife began to ask what stocks she should invest in, this is exactly when things started to fall apart.”
