screenshot from a finance article: Retail investors are dumping US stocks at a pace not seen since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, breaking with their typical market-down-day habit of "buying the dip." Everyday investors sold a net $358 million in individual US stocks on Thursday as of 2:58 p.m. ET, according to Vanda Research, putting them on track for their biggest single-day net selling spree since March 17, 2020, when retail investors pulled $502 million from individual stocks.