Small Investors Jump Back Into the Trading Game
Small investors are diving back into stock trading, driving business at some discount brokerages to near record levels.
After a 15-year period of volatility marked by the dot-com crash and the 2008 financial crisis, individuals are swelling trading volume at firms such as E*Trade Financial Corp. and TD Ameritrade Holding Corp.—and stoking worries that investors may be piling in when stocks are at their peak.