Data suggests F&O volumes are drying, and even active investor base is slowly shrinking.
The post Covid investor is getting a wake up call that beginners can't rely on the stock markets as their only source of income.
The finfluencers and SIPers have brainwashed the entire country promising 15/20% CAGR and doubling money every 3 years.
The tippers and subscription folks, with near zero experience have randomly drawn lines on a chart to take promises and stock prices to the moon.
The celebrity analysts giving vague targets like 27272, 35353 have totally misguided the retail and everyone is sitting on red M2Ms.
Rule number one in equity markets is that returns are lumpy.
Moreover, most of the dejected investors and traders will now have to go back to 9-5 jobs, and with the current economic situation, jobs will be difficult to find.
The earnings season so far has been mixed, and even good numbers aren't getting rewarded because future guidance has been poor, meaning minium wage hikes, if at all.
The biggest snowflake will be the BNPL economy that the country is running on. If unsecured loans go on a default spree, the results will create a mishap in the BFSI sector.