According to data from Vanda Research, retail investors bought $111 million worth of NVIDIA stock in the first 30 minutes of Thursday's trading session, setting a record for the highest opening half-hour retail buying in the stock's history. In addition, investors injected $42.5 million into six 2x leveraged NVIDIA ETFs between Monday and Wednesday, marking the highest comparable demand since the DeepSeek sell-off in January 2025, while short NVIDIA ETFs saw no net buying.