Record Retail Investor Purchases Heading Into Earnings, As Reluctant Institutions Get Dragged In

There was a fascinating chart in today's Fund Manager Survey report from Bank of America: it showed that while financial institutions are bearish (or at least deeply underweight stocks), US individuals - as measured by the AAII (American Association of Individual Investors) are very bullish: in fact there are only a handful of times when they have been more bullish.

record retail investor purchases heading into earnings as reluctant institutions get dragged in

But while it remains doubtful that institutions are truly "waiting for the moment to go short" or even merely underweight stocks, despite what their profess to the BofA Fund Manager Survey which, as we have lamented before, nobody ever tells the truth...

Authored by Tyler Durden via ZeroHedge July 19th 2023