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Retail trading

  • Monday, 4 May, 2026
    Equities
    America’s retail army now rules the stock market

    Unbowed by the Iran war and other shocks, individual investors are buying their way to new heights of influence

    Ruchir Sharma
    Hands using a smartphone displaying a stock trading app with charts, in front of a computer screen showing similar financial graphs
  • Tuesday, 3 February, 2026
    Precious metals
    Silver’s runaway rally becomes ‘death trap’ for Reddit’s retail crowd

    Meteoric rise — and thumping sell-off — has seen the volatile precious metal compared to a ‘meme stock’

    Montage featuring a silver bar labelled ‘Fine Silver 100 oz’, flanked by two gold bars, with a fluctuating chart line in the background.
  • Wednesday, 7 January, 2026
    Cryptocurrencies
    Reader callout: Have you tried to put crypto in your Isa?

    Tell us your views on the UK government’s decision to allow investors to hold digital ETNs in their savings accounts

    A novelty Bitcoin token placed on a British ten-pound note showing a portrait of Queen Elizabeth II.
  • Wednesday, 31 December, 2025
    South Korean business & finance
    The upstart exchange drawing traders to the world’s best-performing stock market

    Nextrade has become a hit among South Korea’s risk-loving amateur investors

    A currency trader stands with a notepad as others work at computer terminals beneath electronic boards displaying financial data at Hana Bank.
  • Sunday, 14 December, 2025
    South Korean business & finance
    Risk-loving Korean investors made to watch training video before trading

    South Korean regulators want to strengthen oversight of retail traders

    The Korea Exchange building in Seoul with two people in silhouette walking in the foreground.
  • Tuesday, 9 December, 2025
    US equities
    Alphaville. Are retail traders the captains now?

    RIP EMH

  • Monday, 8 December, 2025
    US financial regulation
    Faith-based oil driller is first US company to block investor class-action lawsuits

    After passage of new SEC rule, Zion Oil and Gas requires shareholders to resolve disputes through arbitration

    Workers in red uniforms and hard hats operate machinery on Zion Oil and Gas's drilling platform, with water spraying from equipment.
  • Monday, 8 December, 2025
    Financial services
    Robinhood bets on retail investors in fast-growing Indonesia

    US broker will acquire two businesses to gain entry into one of Asia’s biggest markets

    A stack of gold-colored coins with a digital circuit design is shown in front of the Robinhood logo on a bright green background.
  • Tuesday, 18 November, 2025
    Cryptocurrencies
    Crypto market sheds $1.2tn as traders shun speculative assets

    Bitcoin drops 28% in six weeks amid concerns about lofty tech valuations and US interest rates

    Three digital coins displaying the logos of Bitcoin, Ethereum and Solana on a blue background with circuit-like patterns.
  • Wednesday, 12 November, 2025
    Asia-Pacific equities
    ‘Squid Game market’: how Asian retail traders are driving US meme stocks

    Holdings of Wall Street equities nearly double this year as South Korean investors hunt for higher returns abroad

    A person in a light jacket walks past the Korea Exchange building in Seoul, with a large sign celebrating the Kospi surpassing 4,000 points
  • Monday, 10 November, 2025
    Robinhood
    Robinhood wants to allow amateur traders to invest in AI start-ups

    US broker plans to offer shares in a fund that holds a handful of private tech companies

    Vlad Tenev
  • Thursday, 23 October, 2025
    Insight & Comment
    Time to add crypto to your Sipp or Isa? Wait, there’s a catch

    Regulatory changes make it possible to gain exposure inside a UK tax wrapper — but few platforms offer them

    Claer Barrett
    Montage of a golden coin with a Bitcoin logo and two one pound coins
  • Wednesday, 17 September, 2025
    Robinhood
    Lex. Robinhood gives armchair investors a new way to roll the dice

    A new fund will offer retail shareholders a slice of a ‘concentrated portfolio’ of unlisted start-ups

    Premium content
    A hand holding a smartphone displaying the Robinhood app welcome screen with a green "Sign up" button.
  • Monday, 18 August, 2025
    Equities
    ‘I almost fell off my chair’: Investors lose billions on meme stocks as ‘pump and dump’ scams multiply

    A handful of Nasdaq-listed Chinese companies crashed last month after heavy promotion on social media

    Two people watch a large screen at the Nasdaq site displaying news of Donald Trump meeting Vladimir Putin in Alaska.
  • Friday, 8 August, 2025
    US equities
    Lex. Online brokers, like the stocks they shift, are hot again

    Mom and Pop investors have been busier than ever, much to the benefit of those platforms that support them

    Premium content
    Logo of Robinhood
  • Friday, 25 July, 2025
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    Return of the stonk

    Retail traders are buying into meme stocks Krispy Kreme and GoPro

  • Wednesday, 23 July, 2025
    US equities
    Meme stock mania returns as Krispy Kreme and GoPro shares soar

    Retail traders inspired by social media pile into stocks targeted by short sellers

    Krispy Kreme doughnuts
  • Wednesday, 23 July, 2025
    Retail & Consumer industry
    Lex. Meme stock 2.0 may prove fleeting

    Like bitcoin, meme stocks may best be interpreted as a gauge of the market’s animal spirits

    Premium content
    The day’s numbers and statistics are displayed on a monitor on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange
  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Isas
    Robinhood takes aim at UK investment platforms with no-fee Isa

    US broker that pioneered zero-commission share trading plans to disrupt UK market

    Jordan Sinclair, head of Robinhood UK
  • Thursday, 15 May, 2025
    Financial services
    Lex. Online brokers: More animal spirits than London Zoo

    Big bumps and spills are not necessarily bad news for the sector as a whole

    Premium content
    The eToro logo on display at an exhibition in Miami, US
  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Personal Finance
    How I’m staying calm when markets are uncertain

    Are you buying the dip, battening down the hatches or carrying on as normal?

    Claer Barrett
    Illustration of a small sailboat approaching a big wave made of arrows
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    US equities
    Retail traders plough $67bn into US stocks while investment giants flee

    Individual investors ‘buy the dip’ this year as equities slide

    People walk by a display showing stock tickers
  • Friday, 21 March, 2025
    Aerospace & Defence
    Alphaville. Danke memes: have Eurostonks finally found their rizz?

    (How many headlines do you write per day that would kill a Victorian child?)

  • Thursday, 20 March, 2025
    Aerospace & Defence
    Retail investors take on hedge funds in Europe’s answer to ‘meme stock’ mania

    Small traders have piled in to defence companies targeted by short sellers, in an echo of 2021’s GameStop trade

    A stand host demonstrates the use of a Hensoldt virtual reality trainer for Stinger anti-aircraft missiles on display at the 2024 ILA Berlin Air Show A satellite dish in a ground network of satellites at the headquarters of Eutelsat Madeira Unipessoal Lda in Canial, Madeira, Portugal Employee Tobias Kasan works at a gear in a assembly hall of the German gear manufacturing company Renk in Augsburg, southern Germany
  • Friday, 14 March, 2025
    Markets
    What are retail traders telling us?

    A look at how mom-and-pop investors are trading in the current market

    Jennifer Hughes
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