Small Investor

Small investor

An individual person investing in small quantities of stock or bonds. This group of investors makes up a minimal fraction of total stock ownership.

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small investor

A person who occasionally buys and sells securities, generally in relatively small amounts. See also odd-lotter.

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Small Investor

An investor who deals in securities only occasionally, especially when he/she deals only in small quantities. Small investors are also called odd-lotters. Odd-lot theory holds than small investors are both poorly informed and risk averse, and encourages larger investors to do the opposite of whatever small investors tend to be doing at a given time. This theory has little evidence to support it, and few have held it since the 1990s.