Why a large number of retail investors traded only on a single day last year

Even when aggregated, investors trading up to 10 days constituted 69% of the total active retail base. This reveals a “highly skewed, long-tailed pattern, where bulk of investors trade only a handful of days in a year, while a very small proportion participates regularly,” according to NSE’s Economic Policy & Research Department (NSE EPR), which prepared the data.