london retail investors havent been frightened away by the comedown in stocks this year in 2023 most individual investors plan to invest the same amount or more despite the costofliving crisis according to a new survey from londonbased investing insights platform finimize only 1 of retail traders say they plan to sell off their investments in the new year the finimize survey said while 65 will continue investing and 29 plan to add to their portfolios this data is proof that even in the current market environment the majority are seeing volatility simply as part of the economic cycle thanks to access to information and growing experience with investing said max rofagha finimizes ceo in a press statement wednesday additionally it is clear that the retail investor narrative is changing for example previously there has been a focus on how a tiny population of day traders is behaving the survey of over 2000 retail investors across europe asia and the us found that over 80 of retail investors think the worst of the stock market rout will be over within six months the majority 72 of the traders plan to back individual stocks next year with 64 favoring big tech names like apple  microsoft  google and meta  meanwhile 38 of retail investors plan to invest in crypto even amid the fallout from the collapse of sam bankmanfrieds crypto exchange ftx