Retail Investors Returning To The Market - Business Insider

Matthew Boesler Feb. 28, 2014, 12:40 PM3,430 Email More Share on Tumblr Business Insider/Matthew Boesler (data from E*TRADE) The stock market crash of 2008 has for many years caused an aversion to stocks among retail investors, but they may finally be coming back after a 188% run-up from the March 2009 lows. Daily average revenue trades (DARTs) at leading online brokerage E*TRADE have been trending up since bottoming out in mid-2012, but in January, this metric soared 26% from the previous month to 195,652, marking the biggest monthly gain in nearly three years.Now, E*TRADE DARTs — a common measure of the amount of commission-generating trades taking place per day on average over the course of a given month — are at the highest level since May 2010, suggesting trading activity …


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