The S&P 500 has climbed 28.2% so far this year. 📅 Big Tech’s AI innovations have been the biggest driver — with the Magnificent 7 nabbing a record 33.54% weighting on the index. Like Nvidia’s soaring climb of more than 174.79%, and Apple retaining the top spot as the world’s biggest company.

Trumponomics had some economists worried. 😬 But the Republicans’ pledge to legitimise cryptocurrencies spurred a Bitcoin ETF rally following their decisive November win. 

You were busiest in your Hatch Investor’s Club on 23 April. 👨‍💻 You jumped in with 218 comments and 541 reactions — and you posted the most for the year that same day. Was it chat about markets getting spooked by the Meta’s sell-off? No, it was all about Tesla… and you can take your pick of topics here!

You were all about that sizzle in 2024. 🍳 You read up on your investment news, notching more than 650,000 views of The Fry Up. And we reckon some of you might even like us, 🤏 because you referred over 1,000 of your whānau and friends to Hatch, with many of you grabbing yourself a cheeky top-up from us. 

So let’s crack on with your year in full technicolour! 🐣

Your most traded US stocks 🚀

You liked Big Tech and you cannot lie. 🤖 And you liked a Kiwi space pioneer too — one that blasted off 383.80% in 2024. The highest total number of trades this year went to these stocks:

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‍Google held your tenth spot… but only just. 🤏 This year you were also buying Super Micro Computer (SMCI) and MicroStrategy (MSTR).

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Your most traded ETFs ✌️

Nothing moved your top ETF off its perch in 2024. 🦜 Hundred-year-old fund manager Vanguard tallied four ETFs in your top 10, and a freshly-minted-in-January Bitcoin ETF made its debut as your number 4. Here are your 10 ten ETFs by total number of trades:

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As Vanguard’s S&P 500 ETF (VOO) climbed this year, you were right alongside buying it — but that wasn’t the only ETF that lifted above 10% so far this year:

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Are you acting your age? 👯‍♂️

Putting pocket money towards future goals. 👛 There’s one group that was less about buying a new fit in Roblox, or adding a new Squishmallow to their collection, and more about making the most of compounding growth. Because the Hatch investors with the highest proportion of buy orders vs sell orders were Gen Alpha and Gen Zers. They’re understanding the assignment, period:

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Bitcoin ETFs debuted in US share markets 🔔

The SEC was ‘deeply skeptical’. 👴 But Bitcoin ETFs took their first step towards making crypto more legitimate with some of the world’s largest fund managers creating Bitcoin ETFs that tracked the digital asset — which quickly became a battle of the fees. Here are the bitcoin ETFs with the highest number of orders this year:

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You jumped in and bought bitcoin ETFs. But throughout the year, BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) separated from the pack. They kick-started with grabbing 46.6% of your buy orders, and have ended 2024 (so far) with claiming nearly 70% of your bitcoin ETF orders. Did they chomp ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF’s (ARKB) share of the pie? The ARK fund began the year claiming 23.0% of your Hatch orders, which has slimmed down to 13.3% today. 🥧

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Thanks bank of mum and dad! 👩🧔

2.8 million Gen Alpha kids are born every week. 👶 They’re tracking to become the largest, and most tech savvy generation in the world. And when it came to Hatch investor growth by generation, Gen Alpha — that’s kids born from 2010 to 2024 — led the charge. In 2024, this investor age group grew at 1.5 times the rate of their elder investors (thanks mum, dad, nan, pop, cool auntie…). 🧧

‍Stocks accounted for 65% of Hatch Investors' top 10 investments in 2024. ⚖️ But when it came to Gen Alpha, they flipped the script! This year, ETFs made up 65% of Gen Alpha's top 10 most traded investments:

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The US share markets’ AI leader: Nvidia 🦾

Your top company stock made the Dow… but there’s a but. 🤨 This year the Dow’s controversial weighting system may have been evident with Nvidia (NVDA) given a weighting of just 2.1% on the legacy index when it joined in November. Meanwhile on the S&P 500, Nvidia’s weighted at 6.43%. 

‍You backed Nvidia’s revenue forecast. 🔮 And for those of you who read and re-read The Fry Up this year, you’d also have seen that Nvidia’s not just a chipmaker, they’re biotech venture capitalists too. 🧬

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November was your most active month 🛒

November was your biggest month for trading. 📈 And it wasn’t just you — November was the biggest trading month for the S&P 500 and the Dow in 2024. We saw an average 53% increase in your trading (both buying and selling) in November. Plus, we welcomed the highest number of new Hatch investors since January 2022 (Oh hey, you! 👋). 

‍Why the spike? 📈 According to some commentators, the Wall Street rally was likely due to the decisive outcome of the US election. See how your November trades compared to the rest of 2024:

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You loved the chats 💬

You’re the stars in our eyes. 🤩 We engaged in 17,855 conversations and replied to you with 34,989 messages. In November — when you hit peak trades for the year — we had more than 5,000 chats with you! ⏰

‍You notched up a total of 1.31 million Help Centre article views. 👀 And the cumulative time you spent reading our educational LearnHub and Investment News articles in 2024 was… 🥁 2,093 hours and 43 seconds.

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You were satisfied! 😉 Nearly 2.5K of you rated your chats with us. And more than 2.2K of you giving us 4 or 5 stars — that’s 90.8% — ending the year with an A+. We’ll take it! 🌟

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