Stock trading has become more accessible over the years. Stock ownership was a luxury in the 1950s, with only 4.2% of Americans owning stocks at the time. Now, 53% of families own stocks in large part ...

Chances are you’ve heard of retail trading. It’s when investors use their own money to buy assets. However, if you’ve ever wanted someone else to put up the funds, you may be interested in prop ...

When trading equity markets, one of the challenges is understanding the breadth and variety of participant types. Within any equity market there is a wide range of participants, from proprietary ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Meme stocks are often thought of as a joke, but what if you can actually leverage them into ...

In the dynamic realm of modern trading, technological advancements are revolutionizing the buying and selling of assets. This article aims to provide readers, particularly those in the tech industry, ...

(EXECUTION MATTERS is a Traders Magazine content series focused on the topics most important to traders and technologists in US equities and options markets. EXECUTION MATTERS is produced in ...

For Wall Street firms, retail traders are attractive market participants because they tend to be less informed about underlying security values and the true trading costs they might be incurring. To ...

Social-media-fueled retail trading poses new risk to institutional investors. This paper examines the origin and pricing of this new risk. Using data on meme stocks, I first establish that aggregate ...

Capital markets regulator Sebi on Tuesday facilitated the participation of retail investors in algorithmic trading (algo ...