This is a disconnect of sorts between «Big Money» and investors with smaller dollar-value portfolios. It bears remembering that institutional volumes are substantially larger than retail volumes. Thus, if the overall «majority player» sentiment is bearish with institutional investors looking to generate profits off bear markets, a phased selloff is arguably inevitable, For retail investors, it makes all the more sense to strongly consider tactical market opportunities as opposed to the pursuit of company growth narratives. European investors have a leg up in this area over U.S. investors, thanks to a wide variety of «leveraged» (i.e. +2X, +3X, etc.) products on both single names as well as broader indices ideal for upward-trending trajectories and «leveraged inverse» (i.e. -2X, -3X, etc.) during the downside through many leading brokers.
This week will see 35% of all the constituents of the S&P 500 – translating to nearly 49% of the index’s market capitalization – publishing their earnings updates. Now is the time, more than before, for retail investors to consider a paradigm shift on the means adopted for making profitable investments.
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