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 🚀 Are Retail Investors Secretly Running This Bull Market?

The market keeps climbing, even with bad news and uncertainty all around. And at the front of this rally? Retail investors.

They’ve been the forerunners — buying dips, pushing momentum, and fueling one of the most relentless climbs in recent memory. For retail, it’s simple: the only way most can profit is if stocks go up. That mindset — plus a steady flow of buying — may be what’s keeping this market alive.

Even Fed Chair Jerome Powell weighed in last night, saying stock prices appear “fairly highly valued.” That lines up with what many of us feel — this rally looks stretched, maybe even fragile.

Here’s the split:

Retail investors (collectively):

• Tend to be long-only — their main path to profit is “stocks go up.”

• Love buying the dip, reinforcing bullish momentum.

• Are more prone to behavioral biases — FOMO, chasing, panic selling — but in a bull trend, those behaviors amplify the upside.

Institutions:

• Can profit either way with shorting, options, futures, arbitrage.

• Are cautious right now, sitting on record levels of cash.

• Don’t need to chase the rally — they can monetize volatility instead.

⚖️ So what happens?

• Retail keeps feeding the rally.

• Institutions wait, skeptical.

• The result is a market that feels like retail is in control, driving prices higher despite hesitation from the “big money.”

👉 That’s what makes this the most hated bull market — retail enthusiasm pushing prices up while institutions stand aside, watching and waiting.

.@Daily_Discussion @TigerEvents @TigerStars @CaptainTiger @MillionaireTiger