Investors are caught in a tug of war. On one side are the growing cases of COVID-19 throughout the country. On the other, the expectations that a virus cure, or at least a vaccine, is just around the corner. The market remains in the middle.

In the midst of the worst pandemic since 1917, a new trend of investing has risen on Wall Street. Millions of individuals, forced to shelter in place as COVID-19 scourges across the country, have turned their sites on the stock market for a number of reasons, not all of them good.