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A New Generation of ‘Buy the Dip’ Investors Is Propping Up the Market

Investors were told to fear the crash and instead learned to love the dip

A New Generation of ‘Buy the Dip’ Investors Is Propping Up the Market
Illustration: ELENA SCOTTI/WSJ, ISTOCK

You can’t keep everyday investors down for long, at least not in this market.

When markets swooned this spring in the face of tariff turmoil, individual investors jumped in to buy the dip. They helped propel a rebound in stocks to record levels and even resurrected meme trades.

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