Day Trader Fever Ticking Back Up in Latest Show of Retail Pluck
- Stock buying sits at high end of one-year range: JPMorgan
- Options trading has bounced back following a dip in March
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They’re back. Or rather, they never went away.
In a market where stock indexes hit record highs almost every other day, a new report from JPMorgan Chase & Co. finds that do-it-yourself investors are jumping back in. Strategists including Peng Cheng studied recent equity and option transactions from retail investors and concluded these prominent players in the yearlong bull market are once again ratcheting up their wagers.