On the 20th, SK Hynix's stock price is displayed on the dealing room of Hana Bank's headquarters in Jung-gu, Seoul. [Yonhap News] 사진 확대 On the 20th, SK Hynix’s stock price is displayed on the dealing room of Hana Bank’s headquarters in Jung-gu, Seoul. [Yonhap News]

As Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix’s stock prices closed sharply, the transaction value of 16 types of leverage (including two inverters) exceeded KRW 1 trillion in two days.

According to financial information companies Yonhap Infomax and Yonhap News on the 20th, the total transaction value of 16 single-stock leverage and inverse ETFs was 1.574 trillion won.

This is a 35.2% increase from 781.6 billion won the previous day. Following 1.1951 trillion won on the 18th, the transaction value exceeded 1 trillion won in two days.

KODEX and TIGER SK Hynix Single Stock Leverages recorded 368.2 billion won and 176.4 billion won, respectively, while Samsung Electronics Single Stock Leverages of these two brands recorded 153.8 billion won and 94.2 billion won.

SOL SK Hynix Futures Single Item Bus 2X recorded the second highest transaction value of KRW 240.3 billion among 16 types.

The increase in transaction value of these ETFs is due to the surge in the main shares of Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix. On the same day, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix soared 9.49 percent and 12.73 percent, respectively. Leverage also soared 16-17% and 23-25%.

Retail investors have started selling leveraged products in large quantities. In addition to net sales of KRW 512 billion and KRW 23.3 billion of SK Hynix’s single-stock leverage of KODEX and TIGER, respectively, Samsung Electronics’ single-stock leverage of the same brand also recorded net sales of KRW 16.1 billion and KRW 3 billion.

In contrast to foreigners’ net purchases of KODEX and TIGER’s SK Hynix single stock leverage of 22.9 billion won and 9.5 billion won, respectively, it seems that they have started to realize profits from selling stocks they have held so far.

Individual investors net purchased KRW 4.9736 trillion and KRW 3.4857 trillion in SK Hynix’s two single-stock leverage stocks from May 27 to 19, when the single-stock leverage ETF was listed.

Instead, he bought Inverse products. SOL SK Hynix Futures Single Item Bus 2X and PLUS Samsung Electronics Futures Single Item Bus 2X recorded net purchases of 27.9 billion won and 1.7 billion won, respectively.