The Rise of Online Trading

CAPEX.com’s overview of the post-pandemic spike in trading patterns.

A few short years ago, trading used to be a manual and highly tedious process. Those days are, of course, long gone. With the rapid increase in easy-to-use platforms and the availability of multiple resources to guide retailers, including the vast influence of social media, today, we live in times where investing has become the norm. In recent times, the world witnessed the onset of the covid-19 pandemic, which changed the trajectory of investing at large.During the pandemic, more people seem to switch their interest in trading the financial markets. A study by Bloomberg Intelligence revealed that the market volume of retail trading for the year went up 20%, surpassing both banks and hedge funds.