Openfolio Insights

The average investor is down 8.56% after the first ten trading days in 2016

The Openfolio Investor Index has gotten off to a rough start in 2016 closing -8.56% after the first ten trading days.

In 2015, the average investor was down 3.09%

The South suffered the worst losses due to overexposure…

Investing Close to Home

How region affects investment decisions

Our data shows that investors are 20% more likely to invest in industries close to home. We looked at investing behavior by geography for 40,000 US investors and the top 2000 most popular stocks…

Investor Portfolio Changes in November

Largest Changes in portfolio allocations by sectors, stocks and funds

Students bet on single stocks — Teachers prefer funds

Portfolio allocation by occupation

We looked at how different investors split their portfolios between single stocks vs funds. The results are interesting, as the youngest investors start…

The Average Investor Portfolio

A look into average investor portfolio by stocks, funds, and sectors

Following up from our previous post where we showed that over 70% of users made money in November, this update looks at what drove that…

70% of Investors Made Money in November

A look into the Average Investor performance & Market Change in November with Openfolio Community Data

Kids these days… making risky investments that don’t pay off

Originally Published December 31st, 2014

This month, we looked at investors’ performance by age group. The average Openfolio investor returned ~6–9% this year. Younger investors? Less than half that…

Tesla Motors and Exxon Mobil: A Tale of Two Companies

Originally Published December 9th, 2014

This month we looked at companies on Openfolio in order to determine their relative popularity. Popularity means what percentage of Openfolio members own a stock. For…