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⚠️CHART OF THE WEEK: Retail investors' market speculation reached historic levels
Individual investors are piling into the options market at the worst possible time
Global Markets Investor
August 02, 2025
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Retail investors' share in the options market has exceeded 20% for the first time in history. Over the last few weeks, the retail options activity has skyrocketed.
This is now ~5 percentage points above the meme stock frenzy peak in 2021.
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This also aligns with retail total trading activity, which now accounts for ~20% of total stock market volume, the highest level in 4 years, according to Citadel data.
Read more about the speculative behavior and the market sentiment in the following article.
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