Retail vs Institutional Buying

TrailerParkTed · Dec 15, 2022

vanzandt said:
Stocks will always move in the direction that takes the most money from the most people that can least afford to lose that money.
When that's over, the stocks reverse.
~vz

Took me a long time to learn this truth! Another incredible post by one of the great ones on Elite.

vanzandt · Dec 15, 2022

TrailerParkTed said:
Took me a long time to learn this truth! Another incredible post by one of the great ones on Elite.

I don't know about all that lol.. but there is a lot of screen-time and tuition money there.

Overnight · Dec 15, 2022

vanzandt said:
...and tuition money there.

Surely at this point it has become "intuition money".

vanzandt · Dec 15, 2022

Overnight said:
Surely at this point it has become "intuition money".

You nailed that one.

Overnight · Dec 15, 2022

vanzandt said:
You nailed that one.

Hey, I keep an eye on what goes on at GABA. I see it.

qlai · Dec 15, 2022

deaddog said:
Does anyone know where one could find this information? It would be handy to know if buying was retail or institutional.

I don’t know if this makes sense, but someone is willing to pay for it

https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/a-new-way-to-look-at-retail-trading-trends

smallAxe · Dec 16, 2022

deaddog said:
Today on CNBC (Fast Money) there was a segment about the number of retail traders buying TSLA. (Apparently very heavy retail buying)

Does anyone know where one could find this information? It would be handy to know if buying was retail or institutional.

Have you tried calculating turnover?

I calculated the turnover to distinguish whether the activity was done by an institutions or retails.

If a stock goes up with high-volume turnover among peers in universe, retail buy, and vice versa. But if a stock goes down with high-volume turnover among peers in universe, institution sell, and vice versa.

TrailerParkTed · Dec 16, 2022

deaddog said:
Guess I should have checked Google first.

Retail investors pile into Tesla as shares remain under pressure (yahoo.com)

Vandatrack seems to be a paid service. No price on their web site

Because Vanda’s data filters out the insane number of bots and bad faith actors? Yesterday, that felt like Institutional buying. How many Retailers have the buying power to use 20,000 share reserve book orders till 100-200k(Kept happening) volume fills like yesterday?