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Half of Japanese retail investors are up. Only 7.1% report zero stress.

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14.6% of Japanese individual investors say they are losing money. 7.1% say their stress level is zero. Fewer people are calm than are losing. **What the survey found** Treasure Promote surveyed 800 Japanese individual investors on July 1 and published the results on July 14. The panel was split almost evenly between men and women. On profit and loss, 52.0% said they were up overall — 8.6% "up a lot" and 43.4% "up somewhat." 14.6% were down, and 33.5% reported no change. Half winning, one in seven losing. Not a bad scorecard. Stress did not follow that shape. Asked to rate it from 0 to 10, 26.1% chose 7 or higher. The most common single answer was 5, at 24.8%. Only 7.1% chose zero, the lowest this survey has recorded. Investors in their twenties landed at both ends at once. 20.5% said they were up a lot, more than five times the 3.8% among investors in their sixties. But 8.9% of that same cohort said they were down a lot, the highest of any age group. Stress repeated the pattern: 12.5% picked the maximum of 10 against 2.3% in the sixties group, while 10.7% picked zero, also the highest of any group. **The index is not the portfolio** The Nikkei closed at 70,475 yen on the day the survey was fielded. On August 17 it closed at 69,220.25 — still below the survey date even after five straight up sessions. That August 17 session is worth a look. Of the 506.45 yen gain, Advantest contributed about 219 yen and Kioxia Holdings about 190, so roughly 409 yen of the move came from two names. TOPIX fell 13.09 points the same day. The Nikkei is price-weighted rather than capitalization-weighted, so a few high-priced stocks can lift the headline number while the broad market goes the other way. Plenty of accounts shrank on a day the index rose. Whether that is what the stress numbers are measuring, I don't know. The survey never asked why. Worth stating plainly: none of this is about national temperament. Different rules mean different products on the shelf, and different products mean a different number of times you open the app. If you scored your own stress this year from 0 to 10, would it track your P&L or run against it?
利益が出ているのは52.0%、ストレスが0なのは7.1% 個人投資家800人・2026年7月1日調査(トレジャープロモート、7月14日公表) 損益 52.0% 33.5% 14.6% 利益 増減なし 損失 ストレス(10段階の自己評価) 26.1% 66.8% 7.1% 7以上 1〜6 0 見落としやすい点:損をしている人(14.6%)より、ストレスが0の人(7.1%)のほうが少ない。「1〜6」は公表値からの逆算。
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