Retail Investors Mobile Trading – A Sign Of A Stock Bubble?

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Mark Melin
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As the cost of trading has significantly lowered, making money less sticky to particular stocks, new tools that enable buying and selling on the fly are becoming ever more popular. Could such a development, being actively used by retail investors, be a sign of a market top? Retail discount brokers see consistent growth in mobile trading apps Retail stock investors have used their smartphones for obtaining stock quotes in the past, but are now executing buy and sell orders from their cell phones.  Mobile trading grew over 60% in 2013 at Fidelity Investments, where its financial apps have been downloaded…

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.