Young investors pile into stocks, seeing 'generational-buying moment' instead of risk

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The major online brokers saw a major jump in new users during the coronavirus sell-off, many of who were of a younger cohort.

and Robinhood — saw new accounts grow 150% or more in the first quarter, when stocks experienced the fastest bear market and the worst first quarter in history.In March, stocks started to rebound led by resilient tech stocks. There were also hopes that slowly reopening the economy and a Covid-19 treatment will create a path to recovery.The major online brokers saw a major jump in new users during the coronavirus sell-off, bolstered by zero commissions and fractional trades.

"Perhaps because they're home or perhaps because of furloughs, they also have time to dedicate to their investments that they didn't necessarily have before," Kinahan added. "The access to trading, there are no barriers to entry anymore, its on your phone, you can buy whatever you want, fractional shares are available so if you can't pony up $1,400 to buy one shares of Google you can still own the FANG stocks," Welsh added.Stock positions at the Silicon Valley start-up have nearly tripled since the end of last year.

TD Ameritrade investors "have been doing a pretty good job choosing technology stocks," said Kinahan. "In this last month, Apple was one of the stocks that stood out in terms of millennial clients compared to our overall client base and Apple performed pretty well in that time frame." Market participants have increased positions in American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, United Air lines, Carnival Cruises and Norwegian Cruise lines the most of any stocks in the past month.

"Traders here are 'buying the dip' in a lot of names with questionable fundamentals now, i.e. airlines, highly volatile stocks, low in recent price momentum, and ones with that have recently had lottery ticket like upside payoffs occur," added Krause. "Robinhood investors are making all the classic mistakes in the short term. May work for today's market, but not in the long-run if repeated.

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