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"Largest Buy Imbalance In History": Retail Euphoria Breaks All Records, Steamrolling Bearish Hedge Funds

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by Tyler Durden
Friday, Feb 07, 2025 - 11:11 AM

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Retail euphoria is absolutely off the charts, and in a repeat of what happened in early 2021, bearish hedge funds and institutions are getting steamrolled by the retail army where sentiment is as high as it has ever been. Actually, scratch that, according to JPM, sentiment is even higher than it was at the peak of the meme mania in 2021.

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In an carbon copy of the early days of 2021 when an army of tiny retail traders steamrolled such established hedge funds as Melvin Capital, retail investors have responded to the DeepSeek-induced equity sell-off and the Trump tariff double-whammy by doing what they do best: buying the dip, and they have done so in never before seen amounts, including both the March 2020 market trough as well as the peak of the dot com bubble, when retail investors were buying anything and everything.

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