Stunningly dumb, but the amounts are tiny: "In terms of the amounts, just over half of investments were under $250 in size, but 15% of the people who invested this past January invested $1,000 or more."
But 15% bought or margin, and 22% with call options.
"A lot of these buyers were new to the market. The survey found that 43% of the people who said they had a brokerage account had signed up within the past month, an enormous uptick that matches Google trends results that showed that more people were googling “how to buy stocks” than ever before."
??? This was the sample ... "Using a representative sample size of 1,089 Americans, "
Are you kidding me? The headline states all Americans...and in the body it states 25% of adults?
"Over a quarter of American adults say they bought GameStop (GME) or another viral stock in January, according to a new survey from Yahoo Finance and The Harris Poll."
It was a "sample size"....of 1089...lol. That is not how math works.