01.02.19
Individual Investors Try Not to Panic Over Big Market Gyrations
by: Dawn Lim; Daniel Kruger; Ira Iosebashvili
Retail investors as a whole are not panicking despite the recent market gyrations. Some are even taking advantage of the rout, showing the type of support that in the past has helped boost a falling market. Fidelity, for example, said its customers bought more than they sold in the closing quarter of 2018. For every sell order from Fidelity's retail brokerage clients in that period, there were also 1.25 buy orders, up from a buy/sell ratio of 1.21 in the year-ago period.
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