The first is the difference between retail investors and large households. The biggest difference is in the number of people. Under normal circumstances, there are more retail investors and fewer large ones. General retail investors are composed of individual investors, and large ones are composed of institutions and large hot money. Usually, their economies are also different. Under normal circumstances, retail investors are scattered and large investors are well funded.
Another difference between retail investors and large households is that their research on the stock market is different, because retail investors don't have as wide news as large households, which is a disadvantage for retail investors, because under normal circumstances, when retail investors learn some bad news, large households will know it for a period of time before them, so it is difficult for retail investors to grasp the ups and downs of the market during this period, so retail investors must be ahead of large households in macro terms if they want to make money.
The biggest difference between retail investors and large households is the difference in professional knowledge. Usually, retail investors are mostly individuals, and large households are groups of professionals. Therefore, for those large households, they have more professional investment experience and knowledge, and have deeper theoretical study and experience skills, which is also an advantage compared with retail investors.
If retail investors want to gain a foothold in the stock market, they should pay as much attention to the stocks they choose as possible. Many people are analyzing the macro economy, such as the RRR cut of the central bank some time ago. Usually, this macro-economy may have a certain impact on the stock market, but the impact will not be particularly great. If you don't study stocks well and have been studying RRR chopping, it can be said that it is not worth the candle. Besides, we should try our best to make money for a long time. Long-term trading is often easier than short-term trading. In addition, remember not to have too much greed in the stock market, because too much greed will be blinded by temporary profits and losses, resulting in no way to rationally judge your next behavior.
Therefore, there are many differences between retail investors and large-cap stocks, mainly in quantity and ability. If retail investors want to survive in the stock market, they must pay attention to the study of individual stocks, try to do long-term trading and not be too greedy.