Retail Buying And Participation Blow Away All Records In H1 2025

Something remarkable happened in the first half of 2025, and especially the 2nd quarter - at a time when most institutional and hedge fund investors had staged a buyers strike, or were actively pressing shorts, retail investors did that they always do after the S&P tumbled into Trump's liberation day, and the subsequent crash: they BTFD with a frenzy not seen since the days of the Jan 2021 meme stonk explosion.