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Sixteen single-stock leverage products tied to Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, including two inverse products, drew about 7 trillion won over one month, according to data.<\/p>\n
From June 16 to July 15, a total of 7.3364 trillion won flowed into the 16 single-stock leverage and inverse products, according to the Korea Exchange (KRX) and ETF CHECK on the 18th.<\/p>\n
By product, 3.4472 trillion won flowed into the “KODEX SK hynix Single-Stock Leverage,” the largest amount among all exchange-traded funds (ETFs). It was followed by the “KODEX Samsung Electronics Single-Stock Leverage” (1.5083 trillion won) and the “TIGER SK hynix Single-Stock Leverage” (1.4271 trillion won), which ranked second and third. The “TIGER Samsung Electronics Single-Stock Leverage” saw net inflows of 693.8 billion won.<\/p>\n
Money continued to pour into single-stock leverage products over the month even as the shares of the underlying stocks, Samsung Electronics and SK hynix, declined. From June 16 to July 16, SK hynix fell 19.49% and Samsung Electronics fell 24.33%. During the same period, the KODEX SK hynix Single-Stock Leverage and the KODEX Samsung Electronics Single-Stock Leverage, which recorded the largest net inflows, dropped 45.60% and 48.44%, respectively.<\/p>\n
Much of the money that went into single-stock leverage products is believed to have come from retail investors. Over the month, individual investors net-purchased 4.2386 trillion won across seven SK hynix single-stock leverage products and a total of 1.6119 trillion won across seven Samsung Electronics single-stock leverage products. Foreign investors also net-purchased 859.5 billion won and 724.2 billion won respectively, but far less than individuals. Institutions were net sellers of 5.1713 trillion won and 2.2671 trillion won.<\/p>\n
Raising the Leverage Threshold<\/p>\n
As criticism mounted that the heavy concentration of retail investors’ money in single-stock leverage products was increasing market volatility, financial authorities announced security measures on the 16th to tighten investment requirements.<\/p>\n
Starting on the 5th of next month, the basic deposit required to invest in single-stock leverage products will rise from the current 10 million won to 30 million won. The trading unit will also be provisionally expanded to 20 shares at a time going forward. The implementation is scheduled for November.<\/p>\n
In addition, the training time required to invest in single-stock leverage products will increase from the current two hours to three hours, and new listings of single-stock leverage products will be provisionally suspended until the market stabilizes. Advertising and marketing will also not be permitted for products already in trading.<\/p>\n
If investment demand declines due to the tightened deposit requirements, the combined market capitalization of single-stock leverage products, which reaches 12 trillion won, is expected to shrink to between 4 trillion won and 5 trillion won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo unrelated to the article content. Clipart Korea Sixteen single-stock leverage products tied to Samsung Electronics and SK…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[47420,19719,337,989,127,276,12720,275,21644],"class_list":["post-90130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-samsung-electronics","tag-etf-regulation","tag-kodex","tag-korea-exchange","tag-retail-investors","tag-samsung","tag-samsung-electronics","tag-single-stock-leverage-etf","tag-sk-hynix","tag-tiger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}