This year’s stock market volatility has turbocharged a favorite strategy among individual investors: buying the dip. The dramatic plunge in major indexes will test their resolve.
On Thursday, when the stock market had one of its worst days of the year, individuals rushed in, setting a one-day buying record. In March, they invested the largest ever monthly sum, according to Vanda Research data beginning in 2014, and continued to pour money into the markets in April.
