"When Jensen Huang Was Saying 1.8 Million Won" ... I Couldn’t Buy Even One Share Until SK hynix Hit 2.7 Million [World of Retail Investors]

I heard people saying it would keep going up, jumped in too quickly, and thought I was going to get stuck buying at the top. " Office worker I, 39, said he still vividly remembers last Tuesday.
It was the day Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, the leading semiconductor stocks, both plunged on a U. S.-triggered chip shock, breaking key support levels. The KOSPI circuit breaker was triggered after the market opened with a drop of around 10%.96 million won during the session. Jensen Huang's remark that "now is the discount period" draws renewed attention That was also the day NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang visited South Korea and met with Chey Tae-won, chairman of SK Group.
I heard people saying it would keep going up, jumped in too quickly, and thought I was going to get stuck buying at the top. " Office worker I, 39, said he still vividly remembers last Tuesday.I heard people saying it would keep going up, jumped in too quickly, and thought I was going to get stuck buying at the top. " Office worker I, 39, said he still vividly remembers last Tuesday.
Some retail investors hit the buy button, saying, "The world's top AI chip CEO himself told us to buy. " Others were skeptical, saying, "A public remark that boosts the stock price of a supplier raises possible conflicts of interest," and "Semiconductors are cyclical, so optimism about AI demand alone is not enough." In I's case, he was among those who had no room to pay attention to Huang's words. 1 million won per share, and the sudden market plunge left him rattled.911 million won on the 8th, so he had no spare cash to average down. All he could do was watch his account and hope the losses would recover as soon as possible.
6 million won on the 18th, Huang's remarks from his visit to South Korea became a hot topic in online communities. 7 million won.
38, breaking the 9,000-point mark for the first time and making history.
I heard people saying it would keep going up, jumped in too quickly, and thought I was going to get stuck buying at the top. " Office worker I, 39, said he still vividly remembers last Tuesday.I heard people saying it would keep going up, jumped in too quickly, and thought I was going to get stuck buying at the top. " Office worker I, 39, said he still vividly remembers last Tuesday.
I heard people saying it would keep going up, jumped in too quickly, and thought I was going to get stuck buying at the top. " Office worker I, 39, said he still vividly remembers last Tuesday.I heard people saying it would keep going up, jumped in too quickly, and thought I was going to get stuck buying at the top. " Office worker I, 39, said he still vividly remembers last Tuesday.
As market funds poured into related stocks on expectations for the artificial intelligence (AI) industrial revolution, the two shares surged.
7 million-won range for the first time.
I heard people saying it would keep going up, jumped in too quickly, and thought I was going to get stuck buying at the top. " Office worker I, 39, said he still vividly remembers last Tuesday.I heard people saying it would keep going up, jumped in too quickly, and thought I was going to get stuck buying at the top. " Office worker I, 39, said he still vividly remembers last Tuesday.
"I should have bought then" — why people still get it wrong even when they know the answer As the 9,000-point era became reality, investment communities were flooded with belated regret and sighs such as, "Jensen Huang was practically sending us a signal, and I was stupid not to believe it," and "I should have jumped in even when it broke 2 million won, but now I'm too scared to even look.
" Behavioral economics explains this mindset in two ways.The first is "hindsight bias" .It is the tendency to reconstruct the past after seeing the outcome and say, "I knew it.7 million won, Huang's remarks at the time look like a perfect buy signal, which is an example of this bias.The second is "regret avoidance" .
This is the mindset that keeps people from pressing the buy button because they want to avoid future regret, such as "What if I buy and it falls further?" It is one of the easiest psychological traps for individual investors entering the stock market.Fear of locking in losses or getting stuck at the top often prevents them from making a decision, only for them to regret it later.This is a repeated cognitive error.Meanwhile, the securities industry says the upward trend in the stock market remains intact as long as earnings continue to improve, and some are even forecasting a move to 10,000 points.However, others say it remains to be seen whether volatility will fall back to normal levels in the short term, given that the recent rally has been led by large-cap stocks such as semiconductors.
I don't want to become one of those people who keep saying, "I should have bought, I should have sold, I should have held.
I heard people saying it would keep going up, jumped in too quickly, and thought I was going to get stuck buying at the top. " Office worker I, 39, said he still vividly remembers last Tuesday.I heard people saying it would keep going up, jumped in too quickly, and thought I was going to get stuck buying at the top. " Office worker I, 39, said he still vividly remembers last Tuesday.
bng@fnnews.com Kim Hee-sun Reporter