Retail Investors Buy $3,400,000,000,000 in Stocks – But Analyst Warns Insiders Are Selling Equity Market Rips: Report
Retail investors are piling into the stock market, deploying trillions of dollars in capital.
Data from the Nasdaq shows that individual investors snapped up $3.4 trillion worth of shares in the first six months of 2025 amid market volatility triggered by geopolitical tensions and Trump’s trade war, reports MarketWatch.
Meanwhile, the investor cohort also sold $3.2 trillion in stocks over the same time period, pushing total trading activity between January and June to a record-setting $6.6 trillion.
Citing data from VandaTrack, the Financial Times reports that retail investors stepped in to buy the dip, scooping up $155 billion worth of US stocks and exchange-traded funds this year – even as markets witnessed a sharp correction in April.
But while retail investors are busy gobbling up shares, popular macro analyst Adam Kobeissi says that company insiders have been exploiting stock market rips to unload their holdings.
The founder and editor-in-chief of The Kobeissi Letter tells his 948,800 followers on the social media platform X that insiders are showing extreme bearishness toward the stock market based on data from InsiderSentiment.com, a firm that tracks net insider buying and selling activity across US equities and sectors.
“Insiders have rarely been this bearish before:
Only 11.1% of companies with insider activity are seeing more buying than selling by corporate officers and directors, the lowest share on record. Over the last decade, this figure has never fallen below 15%.
This means insiders were net sellers in almost 90% of companies with recent transactions. Insiders were either neutral or negative in 10 of the 11 S&P 500 sectors, with utilities being the only sector to show positive sentiment.
Selling was also broad-based across company sizes, from small to large-cap stocks. An interesting divergence.”

Meanwhile, InsiderSentiment says corporate insiders and executives often beat the market by buying their firm’s shares before prices spike and selling before prices plunge.
“They achieve a return that is triple the market return (on average, on a one-month horizon).”
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