This Market Is for Noobs
Bloomberg Businessweek|November 23 - 30, 2020
Professional money managers aren’t beating the market. The novice trader next door might be
Pat Regnier
This Market Is for Noobs
At a time of peak complexity in markets—when a pandemic rages, a recession seethes, and new-wave experiments are conducted in fiscal and monetary policy—it’s not the quants or the mutual fund managers or the proprietary traders or any other Wall Street constituency who are figuring out the situation first. It’s the amateurs.

A basket of the stocks that newbie traders love most soared 62% for the year through Nov. 17, according to Goldman Sachs, which created the list. That beat the usually bulletproof S&P 500 by 50 percentage points and almost doubled the return on a list of hedge fund favorites. Thanks to bets on cruise operators, airlines, and electric cars, screenshots of six-figure brokerage accounts inundate Twitter. In the age of behavioral economics, the financial world is obsessed with diagnosing the biases and talents that explain investing success. In that context, two theories are usually offered to explain how retail investors came to rule 2020.

The first is that individual investors, unlike the pros, don’t have to worry about their careers. Unencumbered by risk controls and unconcerned with how their decisions would look to others, quarantined amateurs flush with time were simply freer than their suited counterparts to invest at the March bottom. They correctly surmised that a recovery would rescue the companies that bore the brunt of the plunge. They “bought low” and reaped rewards equal to their daring.

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