What retail investors want to know about markets right now

It was a rocky week for stocks, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average being the only of the big three indexes (^DJI,^GSPC, ^IXIC) to post a weekly gain. But retail investors have seemingly shrugged it off, Investopedia Editor-in-Chief Caleb Silver tells Yahoo Finance.

Based on Investopedia’s sentiment indicators, Silver thinks that, overall, the stock decline may not have lasted long enough for it to really register with individual investors. “Even though we have had these sort of pauses… this rotation is super healthy and I think investors that have been through a couple of cycles know this. They know that market breadth expansion is actually good for the overall health of the bull market,” he says.

So, what is Investopedia’s audience interested in right now? The election, though Silver notes that it’s “not necessarily about who wins as much as what kind of chaos can we expect in front of and during that election.” He also notes there is interest in debt levels by president, inflation rates by president, and investing in small caps.

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This post was written by Stephanie Mikulich.