The Rise of Retail Investors

To investors,

The rise of the retail investor has been well documented over the last few years. This group was previously mocked and ridiculed across the financial industry. People considered them uneducated, ill-informed, and undisciplined. A retail investor was merely a slight step up from a drunk gambler at a Las Vegas casino.

But the thinking has completely changed.

Retail investors are now led by sophisticated, wealthy self-directed investors. These are doctors, lawyers, business professionals, and full-time investors. Even young people working inside the largest financial institutions consider themselves self-directed investors with their personal investment accounts.

Self-directed investors have more access to information than ever before thanks to X/Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and a plethora of other online resources. They no longer need a financial advisor or a stock broker because they can directly access the market on Robinhood, Public.com, eToro, SoFi, and others. And these individuals have learned to communicate with each other in group chats and other messaging platforms to accelerate their understanding of companies, assets, and markets.

It is widely accepted that retail investors have become more than 1/3rd of the stock market based on current data. These self-directed allocators also were able to navigate the uncertainty and volatility in the market better than hedge funds earlier this year. Hedge funds have been under-exposed to the historic rally in stocks, bitcoin, and gold, yet the retail investment community bought the dip in April and May, so they have been benefitting from the asset appreciation.

Simply, retail investors have become a very important part of the market.

This is why I am hosting the first-ever Independent Investor Summit in less than two weeks. The goal is to bring together hundreds of these investors into a single room so they can meet each other, learn from each other, and take away actionable investment ideas.

The event is happening in NYC on September 12th. We have a great lineup of speakers that will each do a fireside chat with me on-stage. These investors will share thoughts on the current market, explain what assets are in their investment portfolio, and share their best investment idea for the next few months.

Speakers include:

• Jordi Visser - Understanding the convergence of AI, bitcoin, and the digital future

• Chris Camillo - How to invest in humanoid robots and finding ideas through social arbitrage

• Eric Jackson - How to find 100-baggers and his Opendoor investment thesis

• Darius Dale - Investing across global markets with an understanding of liquidity

• Jeff Park - Seeking out volatility to drive outsized returns

• Tom Sosnoff - Investing during uncertain and chaotic times as a retail investor

• Dave Mazza - Understanding the ETF revolution and how to allocate across different structures

• Jon Najarian - Using options to outperform your peers

This event is going to be packed with insights and actionable ideas. I will personally conduct every interview and will ensure the event is worth every second of your time.

Attendees will have the opportunity to meet the speakers after their talks as well, so bring your questions. The goal is to use the Independent Investor Summit as a giant day of learning from the people driving returns in modern markets.

I take our events very seriously and ensure people walk away delighted they came.

For this event, we are almost sold out so I suggest you get your tickets in the next 24 hours:

Get a Ticket Now!

Once the event is sold out, there will be no more tickets available. The venue is limited in space and we can not exceed the max capacity.

Hope to see everyone there!

-Anthony Pompliano