Investors are feeling better about the market even as risks loom

The Street

Despite policy uncertainty and global risks, retail investors are cautiously optimistic about the stock market.

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00:00So we're talking retail investor sentiment.

00:03How are investors feeling right now?

00:05I think cautiously optimistic.

00:07We just surveyed our readers.

00:08Every two months we talk to our newsletter readers.

00:10We ask them, how are you feeling?

00:11Are you bullish?

00:12Are you bearish?

00:12What are you buying?

00:13What are you afraid of right now?

00:14We've been tracking this very closely,

00:16especially over the past six months,

00:18and they're finally feeling a little bit better about things,

00:20but still a little bit skeptical about the future

00:22just because of the policy confusion.

00:25We've seen so much volatility in the stock market,

00:27but they've got to love the rally,

00:28and they've got to love the trend,

00:29and most of them have kind of stayed put

00:31and kept to their investing strategies throughout all of this,

00:34and some of them even stepping out

00:36and buying the dip a few times.

00:37Finally feeling better about things,

00:39the market's at all-time highs right now,

00:41but to your point, there is a lot of economic uncertainty.

00:44There's some geopolitical turmoil.

00:47Still, there's a lot of uncertainty

00:48about what's going to happen with tariffs

00:50as those deadlines loom.

00:52Why do you think that they're not more panicked at this point?

00:55Because I think they've seen a lot of push and pull

00:57on the policy side,

00:58a lot of threats that were pulled back later on

01:01that didn't end up coming to fruition,

01:03and they've also seen the stock market

01:04kind of rebound throughout all of this.

01:06We bounced back from that 19% drop,

01:08came right to the edge of a bear market,

01:10but it ended up being a cute little correction

01:11because it was over in a couple of weeks

01:13as the 90-day extension was put into place,

01:16so they've seen that happen.

01:18They've also seen their favorite stocks rebound aggressively,

01:20and I'm talking about the NVIDIAs,

01:22the Teslas of the world,

01:23even some of the other mega-cap tech stocks.

01:25They've seen them drop.

01:26A lot of them, as I said, did some dip buying,

01:29and they've been rewarded for that.

01:30Global fund managers, institutional investors,

01:33much more bearish and have been much more bearish

01:35even throughout the recovery.

01:36They're protecting their clients' money,

01:38but individual investors have done the right thing,

01:40sometimes just stand there and do nothing,

01:41or be opportunistic when things are on sale.

01:43They're protecting their clients' money.

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