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Retail investors are the newest wave on Wall Street. Over the past 12-18 months, “armchair trading” became mainstream. In other words, retail investors who make investment decisions without regard to traditional stock fundamentals began to dominate public markets. It’s been coined as the “Robinhood Effect”: the rise of retail investors taking up stock trading as a hobby as social media became the catalyst for a whole new army of investors who are only just realizing their group buying power.In part due to increased time spent at home during quarantine and more browsing online in community conversation locations like Reddit and Twitter, and in part due to the influx of cash in the form of government stimulus checks, the stock market has forever change …
