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Retail stock traders who have helped shares of Tesla (TSLA) climb +56% this year are showing signs of fatigue and have pulled back on their purchases of the stock. According to data from Vanda Research, net daily purchases of Tesla shares by individuals have fallen by about 75% as of Wednesday from a peak of $436 million on March 1. In addition, retail investors were net sellers of Tesla stock on Tuesday for the first time in nearly a year.
In a sharp reversal of this year’s rally where retail investors bought shares of Tesla aggressively, enthusiasm for the stock had waned since March 1 when Tesla sponsored its investor day conference. Since that investor day conference, shares of Tesla have fallen -6.6% compared with a -0.5% decline in the S&P 500 ($SPX) (SPY) and a +5.7% rally in the Nasdaq 100 Stock Index ($IUXX) (QQQ).