Host tamir uses the 2026 South Korean margin-call crash to argue against leveraged investing. Young Koreans, priced out of housing and watching the KOSPI nearly double in a year, piled into leveraged ETFs and margin loans that brokers offered “like choosing coffee strength” (x2–x5). Samsung and SK Hynix swelled to about half the index purely because they could be leveraged; the KOSPI then fell ~40% within days, forced liquidations wiped people out, and trading was halted twice. A hypothetical investor turns 180k with leverage, then into $600 after a margin call. Lessons: no shortcuts, understand what (and how concentrated) you invest in, rely on slow compounding, and distrust social-media success stories.
Show: lazy-investing
Concepts: leverage · index-investing · concentration-risk · compound-interest · survivorship-bias · fomo