JMP said retail investors bought the largest level of stocks in 10 years, almost $5b, on April 3. Retailers saw opportunity. Robinhood average age of their retail traders is like 30.
No one knows what the market will do. I had gone to treasury etfs a month before, but had started shorting and buying just a bit, and on April3 at around noon it had started to stabilize it looked like so I had bought a bit attempting to make 3 or 4 % before it slowly went down again, but it didn't recover. I lost about 1 or 2% of that smallish trade when I sold before the close, and it continued down another percent or two before close.
China will impose additional 34% tariffs on US goods starting April 10. Chinese finance ministry. Will China drive other countries business to them?