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Retail Investors Powering the Market: Can the Momentum Last Through Year-End?

🧭 The Big Picture

The stock market’s 2025 rally has found an unexpected hero — the retail investor. While institutional giants tread carefully, individuals have been buying dips, holding through volatility, and fueling steady inflows into equities and ETFs.

Analysts from J.P. Morgan and Vanda Research suggest retail investors could pour as much as $600 billion into stocks by year-end, potentially adding 5-10% upside to major indexes. That’s no small feat in a year marked by high interest rates and global uncertainty.
According to J.P. Morgan Asset Management, retail investors in the U.S. have bought roughly US$270 billion in stocks so far this year, and they may add an additional ~US$360 billion in the second half, which puts total 2025 retail equity purchases at close to US$630 billion.
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Traders, take note — Futu is on fire!

Futu Holdings saw its quarterly profit soar 144%, fueled by booming trading activity in Hong Kong stocks and rapid growth in the crypto market. The online brokerage reported net income of HK$3.22 billion ($413.5M) for Q3, up from HK$1.32 billion a year earlier. Revenue also jumped 86% to HK$6.40 billion ($822.9M), according to today’s (Tuesday) results.

During the quarter, Futu added 254,000 funded accounts, bringing the total to 3.13 million, a 43% increase YoY and nearly 10% higher than Q2 2025. Hong Kong led the way in client acquisitions for the fourth consecutive quarter, as investors poured into the resurgent IPO market and rallying tech stocks.

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