Retail Investors Who’ve Only Known Bull Markets Are Buying the Dip

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Tariff turmoil has shredded investing play books up and down Wall Street. But far from Manhattan, in the Nevada desert, Brandon Arnett is sticking to the retail trading mantra that’s worked for all his life: Buy the dip.

“I have been buying into the S&P 500, Nasdaq, Nvidia, Broadcom, and Amazon,” the 31-year-old in Las Vegas, said, calling the market selloff “short-term bumpiness hopefully for long-term gains.” Arnett left his job in the medical field in 2023 to trade stocks full time, and in recent weeks has been cutting spending to invest more.