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The Compound and Friends: Retail Investors Just Plowed $100 Billion Into Stocks. THIS MONTH.
Michael Batnick
October 10, 2025
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The Compound and Friends:
On today’s show, we discuss:
Charts:
Tweets/Bluesky:
"We have just witnessed the largest Retail Investor buying EVER. Retail has bought over +$100B of US stocks in the last month, the largest 1M buying on record."
Morgan Stanley via @Marlin_Capital
— Daily Chartbook (@dailychartbook)
9:30 AM • Oct 9, 2025
Last "week’s notional US de-grossing – short covers and long sales combined – was the largest since Jul ’24. Macro Products (Index and ETF combined) made up more than 90% of the total de-grossing and were net sold (-0.6 SDs one-year)."
Goldman Sachs via @zerohedge
— Daily Chartbook (@dailychartbook)
10:29 AM • Oct 2, 2025
S&P 500
How does the rally compare to history?
-The 4th strongest rally vs all other bulls (82, 09, 20 were >).
-The STRONGEST recovery excluding recessionary cases.
At 116 days w/o a 6% pullback, the rally has gone farther than all but two early-stage bulls (1966 & 1957).— Warren Pies (@WarrenPies)
2:36 PM • Sep 27, 2025
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