by Tyler Durden
Sunday, May 09, 2021 - 04:13 PM
A little over a month ago, at the end of March, we first pointed out something troubling for the bulls: after leading the market in terms of both sentiment and volume, retail participation had collapsed. This was most obvious when looking at OCC option data, where SpotGamma noted "a sense of decay or attrition happening on the call side."
Bloomberg also picked up on this, warning of call fatigue as call option volumes - the preferred investment instrument of millions of GenZ and Millennial traders - had fallen off a cliff.
Now, it's JPMorgan's turn to report what our readers knew almost two months ago, namely that the latest data reveals that US retail investors share in