When sports betting and trading stocks collide.

“Professional investors have largely abandoned the stock market amid the coronavirus pandemic, but sports bettors and bored millennials have jumped into the retail stock trading market with both feet.

Why it matters: They may be a driving force pushing U.S. stocks to their recent highs — and potentially driving them further.

What’s happening: Online brokerages have seen a record number of new accounts opened this year, and the big four — E-Trade, TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab and Interactive Brokers — executed as many trades in March and April as in the whole first half of last year, per public disclosures.

• Equity strategists at Deutsche Bank note there is “plenty of evidence” that new retail investors have been buying since the stock market began to crash and that professional money managers are “now chasing” them.”

You need an edge.

You need risk management.

The market is largely irrelevant.

https://www.axios.com/sports-betting-stock-market-surge-0e945773-d676-4f0a-a6a0-a0f92611b10b.html

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