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I like this combo: SPMO 40%, SMH 30%, FMTM 20%, and EWY 10%.
Sell overvalued companies like $AMZN, $META, $MSFT. But undervalued companies like $INTC, $AMD, $EWY, and $NVDA
i think k-shaped economy means massive net worth gap between those who bought korea (EWY) last year vs those who didn't 😡😡😡
I made money on EWY and felt good about it but sold out with the Strait closed because they are hard-pressed for oil in South Korea. I did already miss out on some good gains since, but it is unclear when their problem will be fixed.
I mean….. my South Korea index fund (EWY) that I invested in 6 months ago has my greatest % gain in my entire portfolio over like a 5 year look back and it just hit another ATH today.
MU, SNDK, NBIS, KORU/EWY are the current big stock positions. In the past year, made a bunch on Google, AMD, and MU leaps.
VM, do you think EWY calls are cooked?
Going from EWY to MU cause of helium scare was my worst decision so far
I’m from the future. By the end of the week EWY tanking to $120, corn mooning to $82k, FIG to $25
I saw a YouTube about a memory shortage and went strait to EWY SND and APPL. When SND popped I saw WD was lagging and went into WD. Companies with major HD and memory allocations sorted those out years in advanced and would see higher profits.
This is ridiculous but getting medicated for ADHD-C has actually made me a trader that is outperforming S&P 500 rn. Basically, more tolerance for reading dry af documentation and better control over impulse buying = I can invest the money that I'd have spent on my recently paid-off student loans on viable startups. Anyways, I'm only beginning to fund my portfolio but here are some memorable trades from April: EWY: hm, I kinda want semiconductors. Blackrock South Korea ETF has a lot of Samsung and these bankers will manage it for me. And I heard on morning brew/wall st journal podcast/brew markets that SK imports all its energy. Bought 1 share at $126.71 in early April. IONQ: this is a stupid story but an outside recruiter contacted me for an accounting position with them. Being an accountant at a publicly traded startup that bleeds money and is in its infancy is risky, so I decided to pass. But I called up my data scientist auntie for her opinion on quantum computers and decided to buy 2 shares at 31.64 in early March. Then I bought 4 more shares at $44.05 on the day of the Nvidia announcement. Yeah, kinda overspent on this one but whatever. But I'm selling at the first sign of trouble to avoid being like one of those dupes that bought into wirecard. RVMD: bought this one after hearing the promising stage 3 clinical trial results. Should I have bought earlier? Hell no, I'm not a biotech expert, so I need to make sure this is something that actually works and will prob get regulatory approval. A $136.18 well-spent imo. MAIR: we'll see how it goes, but I have 6 shares bought at 31.62. I'm specifically interested in their ability to do clean rooms for biotech and manufacturing, although the data center angle is useful too. AMPX: I'm curious about their newer battery tech and their recent government contracting. The expansion into the chinese EV market is also promising. Anyways, bought 6 shares at $14.75, then gradually increased my stake to 11.725 shares. I suppose a 13.72% return on one stock in like a month is nice. Anyways, my YTD return pre-tax is 6.94%. Truly, the difference that ability to read dry documentation and actually retain the business podcasts I listen to at the gym is a life-changer lmao
This is ridiculous but getting medicated for ADHD-C has actually made me a trader that is outperforming S&P 500 rn. Basically, more tolerance for reading dry af documentation and better control over impulse buying = I can invest the money that I'd have spent on my recently paid-off student loans on viable startups. Anyways, I'm only beginning to fund my portfolio but here are some memorable trades from April: EWY: hm, I kinda want semiconductors. Blackrock South Korea ETF has a lot of Samsung and these bankers will manage it for me. And I heard on morning brew/wall st journal podcast/brew markets that SK imports all its energy. Bought 1 share at $126.71 in early April. IONQ: this is a stupid story but an outside recruiter contacted me for an accounting position with them. Being an accountant at a publicly traded startup that bleeds money and is in its infancy is risky, so I decided to pass. But I called up my data scientist auntie for her opinion on quantum computers and decided to buy 2 shares at 31.64 in early March. Then I bought 4 more shares at $44.05 on the day of the Nvidia announcement. Yeah, kinda overspent on this one but whatever. But I'm selling at the first sign of trouble to avoid being like one of those dupes that bought into wirecard. RVMD: bought this one after hearing the promising stage 3 clinical trial results. Should I have bought earlier? Hell no, I'm not a biotech expert, so I need to make sure this is something that actually works and will prob get regulatory approval. A $136.18 well-spent imo. MAIR: we'll see how it goes, but I have 6 shares bought at 31.62. I'm specifically interested in their ability to do clean rooms for biotech and manufacturing, although the data center angle is useful too. AMPX: I'm curious about their newer battery tech and their recent government contracting. The expansion into the chinese EV market is also promising. Anyways, bought 6 shares at $14.75, then gradually increased my stake to 11.725 shares. I suppose a 13.72% return on one stock in like a month is nice.
Finally green on my EWY 185c's that I bought at the literal top right before the war
$EWY 153 - holy shit SPY 800 by May 31st.
MU fading yet EWY stays strong
EWY, i love you. you gorgeous bastard.
Depends when you get in, I guess. EWY for instance is up 44% ytd
You mean like which stocks? I'd say normal popular tickers: GOOG, MU, AMD, GLW, EWY, RKLB, etc.
I'm up 28% YTD. Was better before the Iran war. EWY is a big part of my portfolio.
Yes $EWY is great, samsung and sk hynix are its largest holdings, and samsung just reported insane growth in operating profit this past quarter
Is it better to buy call options on $EWY or just buy $MU?
EWY is pretty good but it's gone a lil too crazy rn. The Korean degens are pumping it up. Lots of options availability too. Alternatively, if you wanna go fill pure play on Memory and storage, just buy DRAM.
I dumped my position in $IGV. If it can only rally 1% w/ this news I'm not holding. I moved that cash over and BTD in AT&T. I like seeing $VVUS and $EWY both up over 4% today while everyone else ignores World stocks ex-US which have outperformed the $SPY for over 1 year now.
Yeah, the oil irsk is why I keep my EWY small.
well war is over, those problems probably wont matter EWY is up 7%
I've got flkr in my retirement accounts (low fees) and cash secured EWY puts in my fun account. So yes, I'm a fan. Just know that South Korea is basically a memory/ RAM play driven by AI demand. SK and Samsung will be a huge chunk of those ETFs, with Hyundai and Kia and some utility companies in much smaller amounts. If you're comfy with AI and tech driving the majority of your returns here, go for it. Memory is cyclical but there's highly visible revenue for years to come. Also the occasional scare from best Korea can influence their market, though this administration is attempting much better terms than previous.
I tried to post $VXUS holdings compared to $VT but the comment was flagged for pumping penny stocks since moderators can't tell diff b/w Novartis AG w $258B market cap vs some similar US stock. But anyway......if you use Yahoo finance or any stock ticker check you can go to holdings and it will list the Top 10 holdings for any ETF or mutual fund. I would look for World ex-US over World plus US. If you compare $VT vs $VXUS for example the US stocks are all in the top 10 b/c they are overweight US stocks, but they do include foreign world stocks as well. But $VXUS doen't have any US stocks, and is 100% foreign non US stocks. You can check the same for $EWY, $EWJ, etc. Hope that helps.
You can find most of this info under holdings for ETF Indices. If you want foreign (non US stocks) you need a World ex US ETF otherwise World plus US is gonna be dominated by US stocks. $VXUS and $EWY are 2 of my top 5 holdings. $VXUS (World ex US) Top 10 Holdings (11.80% of Total Assets) [](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/2330.TW/) Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited**3.43%** [](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/005930.KS/) Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.**1.59%** [](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ASML.AS/) ASML Holding N.V.**1.29%** [](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/0700.HK/) Tencent Holdings Limited**0.92%** [](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/000660.KS/) SK hynix Inc.**0.91%** [](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/ROG/) Rogers Corporation**0.76%** [](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/9988.HK/) Alibaba Group Holding Limited**0.73%** [](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/NOVN.SW/) Novartis AG**0.73%** [](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/HSBA.L/) HSBC Holdings plc**0.73%** [](https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/AZN.L/) AstraZeneca PLC**0.71%**
Any advice? I'm up 43% in 2025 and 26% in 2026 while actively managing 5%-15% of my total net worth. I'm kind of a paranoid and overly risk-averse investor, though, so I keep roughly half of the actively managed portfolio in cash. This is probably due to losing 60% of my portfolio across 2023 and 2024, when I was fortunately only actively managing 1%-2% of my total net worth. My biggest gains have been bullish bets on EWY, IAU, oil ETFs, and SLV. My biggest losses have been on SQQQ and bearish bets on TSLA and CVNA. I've pretty much quit making significant bearish bets. I mostly trade options.
Yea I got balls but I don't got KORU balls. EWY options are pretty cheap rn, going longer term on a few of those is probably a safer bet with similar exposure
It looks like we might be hitting some resistance levels and slowing down. Since I am an idiot I will take some profits and sell some $GLD and $EWY that I BTD on heavily. Both are finding heavy resistance on either their 50 or 20 DMA. I'm still overweight both, but I don't need to die a hero here. Profits are profits.
Buy EWY at bull, KORU at bear. Thank me later while wiping your butt with dollar bills.
Buy Micron and EWY. They will get Helium. 80-90% recycle rate btw.
Binance about to introduce oil perpetuals. That’s your top signal. Silver & EWY tanked after perps launched
EWY loses 100 day ema. Hopefully my target price of 98 hits soon
What foreigners? Im from KZ and I swapped MU for EWY in December.
Nibbled at some MU, EWY, and ASTS
Konnichiwa Look at the chart on $EWY going back to 200. A 20% drop in $EWJ gets you back to dot com highs. There's a helluva lot more potential downside to the $SPY and $QQQ.
That's been the case since the Trump Tariff pivot lows in April 2025. It took me 6 months to notice; but I have been buying $EWJ and $EWY since. $VXUS is proyly the safer play thou. Now if the DXY breaks above 100 long term this trade might be over as it was also a USD devaluation trade that got hit hard the 1st week of March. But if I am looking at Gold outperforming US Treasuries today it makes you wonder why more people aren't hedging their ports w/ foreign stocks.
I agree with the empire builder point but i do not agree with your positioning. WTI prices might get supressed if Trump does any kind of export control (which is likely if prices at the pump keep increasing). IWM might stand to benefit from a strong US economy compared to rest of the world. US is energy independent they can control its cost. I personally think the best positions to express this view is Short EWJ and EWY
Fud. Buy Micron ($MU), buy ($EWY for SK Hynix and Samsung). \#JEVONSPARADOX
Huge put buys on EWY were coming through today
I've had puts on EWY for a few weeks now and they're printed nicely.
I think once the pressure of high energy inputs from the recent conflict subside, EWY will start a nice run to realign with the giant cap-ex spending from AI
I have FLKR which is essentially the same as EWY but with more holdings and lower fees, but with much worse trading volume/liquidity. I think this is bullish. I remember hyping up SK Hynix and Samsung back in Dec 2024, telling people to buy in to EWY. But a lot of people didn't want to hold the rest of the Korean market(concerns about demographics, tariffs, etc). Giving investors direct access to SK Hynix can definitely attract capital.
Just bought ingredients from Lotte to make gamjatang, trying to save my EWY calls
Fuk. It's not looking good. My EWY is down :(
EWY, BWET, IEZ are ok
Ouch, EWY got absolutely wrecked this week. Holding through the Korean market halt twice is rough, that's a tough lesson. Hope you recover soon man 🫡
I’ve noticed this too. There have been days when KOSPI index was down 3-5% but EWY is up 2-3%. Considering both KOSPI and EWY are heavily weighted towards the same top 3 holdings, I can’t find a good explanation for this.
This is what happens when greed takes over. I was glad I exited my EWY positions at the end of February when it was Shrek dicking for a 55% profit.
Likely SK hynix go down with this news temporarily, not EWY.
EWY is so weird. Even factoring in the time difference, it just feels like it doesn’t align with the Korea stock market that much
Yeah I am big into EWY options. Just bought before the war so am in 50% loss now but do know by the end of the year will be in good profit. IV imo is still cheap on these options. My question was since sk Hynix will get us money by listing, will it eventually help EWY as its basically going into the company.
Memory historically is cyclical but if the AI bubble keeps inflating indefinitely then some say this time is different. In that case both Sk Hynix and Samsung will continue to do well. How this would affect a re-rating eventually I'm not sure. The real dark horse no one mentions yet is the third largest holding, Hyundai, as they are positioning themselves to benefit from the future of everything autonomous. Decent cars now but industry leading self driving vehicles, robots, autonomous factories, and more in the future, maybe sooner than later. Not sure if I answered your question but I'm considering switching from US only stocks to US+ a few from around the world + EWY as it's the only way I can find to even get exposure to those three SK companies.
Will this listing help EWY in any way? Like will EWY go up die to this news.
I recommend loading up on EWY instead.
AAOI LITE ACMR EWY ftw
EWY literally just doing 6% up 6% down every day 1 month looks like a sine wave function
$VT (world plus US), $ACWX (world ex US), $EWY (South Korea), $EWJ (Japan). I also bought $GLD but I'm less optimistic about Gold. I do believe Trump has done damage to the American brand despite my posts that many here are overreacting to DJT. So I am investing more money outside the US than w/i US.
I bought more $GLD, $EWJ, and $EWY at market open after buying all 3 near market close Friday. Is this a BS Trump tweet that changes nothing long term? Probabally. But there's money as the market has to cover all these overbought bearish shorts. Good Luck
Someone inform Korea, their market is saved, EWY way up 🙄
Are you kidding me? The EWY is up 29% YTD and 129% YOY!!! South Korea need at least a 10% correction 😂
how to buy calls on kospi ? Is it EWY ? last time this happened, it shot right back up the next day
Looks like international stocks and ETFs are getting hammered. I like EWY.
$ACWX, $GLD, $EWY, $EWJ I wanted 25% $TLT, 25% Gold, 25% World ex US, 25% Asia Pacific I'm still a gambler that believes in cycles. I like Asia Pacific growth. The best rock n roll is coming from Japan and South Korea right now. I am a big believer that economies that are growing spend & take more risks with money on the arts : ) I am looking at World plus US ETF and something like the $SPY next. Individual stocks cause too much stress. Life is too short. Good luck.
Hodlgang I’m long SNDK and WDC waiting for Korea to get back up because I’m in EWY/KORU too
I am as bearish as you are, But you have to have some skin in the game. Look at buying gold & a world ex-US etf if you don't want to buy these stocks. I bought $ACWX but there all basically the same. $ACWX and Gold are currently 50% of my port after BTD in both pretty heavy today and each is equal now to my 25% position in $TLT position. I do have big positions in $EWY and $EWJ but many here don't like my bet on Asia Pacific. You don't have to buy American overpriced stocks.
Dovish?? The man basically said "You are all on your own" with his tone. But I agree. The printing is NEVER gonna stop. I'm just not buying US stocks. I just bought $EWJ (Japan) and $INDA (India). I wanted to buy more $EWY but it didn't fall enough. But I have an open limit order there. The world is about to tell America "You are all on your own with your dumb war".
Bump! Guys I’m down 40k, I had stop losses set on EWY and KORU, now ofcourse it’s going up, but what should I do?
I too will buy a lot of EWY. I already have a decent position in it at very low prices since I bought (along with MU) before it started to moonshot in 2025, although its cost basis has risen since then as I sized it up.
Waiting for a nice dip to the Korean markets to buy tons of $EWY. I added 2k shares of $HIMX after potential news of them being stealth suppliers to nvda and tsmc. Taiwanese company and pays 5% dividend. I used to be all in US markets but started allocating more towards international markets last year
I was keep buying puts of CVNA and DRI and EWY whenever market pops. Then, I sold at the gains of 10-20% several times this year.
Lost 20 on silver and 20 on EWY welcome to the retard club
If you don't own HIMD and MU/SnDK/EWY at this point you deserve all the red tbh.
On days like today I think it's good to look and see what is green in your port or what you wanted to buy. Or what stocks are significantly off their opening lows. For me green today is $EWY, $SONY, $OC, $XHB, $WEAT, and $SOYB. Today is the 2nd straight day that $SONY opened in the Green but sold off and bleed out all gains to EOD and opened Green above yesterdays open. I am going to buy more $SONY close to EOD today. Find your own method but spread a wide net. And if the market doesn't feel right, sit this one out.
EWY Apr10 145c then straight to the lambo site picking out colours They clear the strait this could fucking rip
Trimmed $EWY to buy $IPI. I love volatility. Do not follow my trades here.
EWY is definitely a wild ride right now because of the geopolitical risk and currency stress hitting the Korean Won. It surged 126 percent over the past year thanks to the memory supercycle but it is essentially a high beta leveraged play on semiconductors. The recent dip is more about risk off sentiment from war fears than a drop in actual AI demand since Samsung and SK Hynix already sold out their 2026 production. You can use apps like trylattice to set generative market alerts so I can stay ahead of these currency fluctuations and institutional outflows in real-time.
I am shorting KPopa and Korean BBQ. Bought a few $EWY $125p weekly
EWY is gonna jump 25% overnight one day
Hey don't put any ideas of shorting the only tech related stock/ETF I own... My eyes are wide open on the risks to $EWY. Diversification.
depends what you are shorting. Ya dont short IGV but I have build up a decent short position on EWY, has a lot of room to fall
1. My chart religions shows $GGB is approaching its 200 DMA & I'm hoping for a bounce. 2. Brazil is a BRICS nation so I'm hoping that all the USD currency volatility that is hitting my $EWY and $EWJ ETFs is not as pronounced. 3. $GGB has a variable dividend and they will pay out a higher dividend when times are good over buying back their stock. 4. It worked during 22021-23 if we do go down that road. This is all a guess based on my wacky chart religion in cycles. Viewer discretion advised.
Full port rotation Long CVI CORN GLNG Short EWY JETS KRE
I think we are pretty screwed. I usually have 5% long puts and bear spreads but I am creeping up to 10%. My barbell is evil; oil and fertilizer companies. I think some of the shippers will make bank with higher fees, but they aren't trading like that now. There is a bid for fertilizer stocks. We will have 20% less fuel and fertilizer until this ends. For me, this means OILK, NTR, VLO, CF. Hopefully I won't have to own these for long and they will tank overnight when the war ends. Why things are bad: This talk about missiles and drone launches happening infrequently are one thing. However, Iran has artillery. Lots of it. They can fire mobile artillery in the mountains, move and hide, do it again. This doesn't give the precession to hit a ship you can't see, but Iran can carpet bomb the narrowest choke point of the SoH. While the Trump WH is saying they will escort ships, many, many, many ships have allegedly asked for escorts and have been refused for a reason. That's because they run the risk of artillery shots getting lucky. I don't know that an escort will play out this way, I don't have a military background, but this is my base case. This is a modern war that is most like the war between Russia an Ukraine. Think lots of trenches, new secret holes being bulldozed out of mountains in undergorund missile cities with infrequent drone and LR missle attacks. I think boots on the ground is probably what it takes to prevent Iran's capability of raining down projectiles. But, still net long, though carrying cash and shorts. Jamie D's comment on BAC the other day means I'll probably take out super long duration bear spreads on them the other day. He knew that banks had a private capital problem and he hinted at it without saying something that could get him sued. Jamie D warned us about private capital in his particular way that prevents him from being sued, and he just did that with BAC. It is clear that Trump is TACOing and laying blame on Rubio and Hegseth and Hegseth will probably be the next to go, thank God. But, it takes two to TACO. Assassinations and decapitation strikes are illegal under US law. Only congress can declare war under US law. Assassinating the entire leadership of a country is certainly a declaration of war, full stop. The decapitation strike **could not have gone worse.** The father and wife and other family members of the new Ayatollah were assassinated and he survived with injuries. He is described as being more religious than his father. Can you imagine a Catholic being described as more religious than the pope? That's how bad a short straw we drew. The IRGC is its own independent organization that will only go along with the Supreme leader if they choose violence, all three parties, the clerics, the army, and the IRGC (40% of Iran's economy is IRGC jobs) are aligned. They can do massive economic damage. THey can curtail oil production. This world still runs on oil. Hopefully, I'm wrong, and then I'll take a day or two of steep losses with my hedges and then it is back to groundhog day, MU, EWY, are still my favorite stocks. I will overweight before earnings. I don't think the market really understands the battlefield. I don't think the market really understands Iran. I think people are overconvident, but I will be long and hedged all they way down to the bottom. They, hopefully, I will only be straight long, no barbell, no chaser. This is a high-risk regime though. It is more important to hold onto money you made then to make money when the bears are out. But don't go full Forest Gump and sell everything.
I hear you. I've been swing trading $EWY and $EWJ like South Korea and Japan were meme stocks. I guess we shouldn't be surprised when Silver traded as a meme stock 2 months ago and crude oil is trading like a meme stock this week. It really makes you wonder about the value & stability of the denominator or USD.
These World Stocks have had half their recent gains b/c they are/were a part of the short USD trade and half their growth due to repatriation of USD held abroad being invested back in their home economies. This trade was working great until Trump bombing Iran. Crude Oil is sold in USD so when crude oil prices go up then countries need more USD to buy the higher priced oil. The Asian Pacific area is mostly an energy importer not exporter so they get sucker punched again. With all that said I agree with you and I am in this trade and have been buying $EWY (South Korea) and $EWJ (Japan) for months now as I started buying $ACWX (World ex-US) this week. I believe we are in a new long term cycle where financials, industrials, and manufacturing outperform technology. The countries that started repatriating their USD and investing that capital back home are not going to stop due to recent events such as the Iran war. If anything they are going to be more convinced that they need to speed up that process. And these foreign economies are not as tech heavy as the US so they aren't investing the same high percentage of GDP on tech as the USA. The US markets (the $SPY and $QQQ) are indeed too tech heavy in market cap concentration and those that believe technology can't be replaced as market leaders haven't read history or studied cycles. With all that said a simple World ex US ETF doesn't have the US problem with market cap concentration in just a few stocks or sector so you wouldn't just have to bet on just the Asia Pacific economies. I would consider these recent events as an opportunity to buy although may be diversify and go 50% Asia Pacific, 50% World ex-US. I moved my 401K into a similar World ex-US mutual fund 6 months ago. My 401k really only had 1 option that wasn't US stocks and didn't offer World plus US. Now this is a riskier investment strategy as there will be more volatility as we are seeing these past 2 weeks. The US economy for all its faults and over reliance on tech is sheltered b/c the US economy is a net energy producer.
DXY is moving lower. Bought more $EWJ and $EWY. Bears will have to wait at least one more day for the oil rig zombie apocalypse : )
Buy $EWY and $DE next. I have the uncanny superpower to buy market tops. In all seriousness I'm in the process of moving to 20% $TLT, 20% $GLD, 20% $VT, and 20% $ACWX, 20% individual stocks/ETF mix. I was previously 50% $TLT, 25% $GLD, 25% in stocks. This volatility this week has everything out of whack thou & is very messy. I haven't started my 20% goal towards $VT since that cash is currently all over the place and I have all this cash from selling quite a bit of $TLT yesterday.
I'm bullish on Samsung and SK Hynix. The drop was a buying opportunity. And probably the only one anyone will ever get. I bought extra shares and sized up my EWY position.
My EWY average is 140 😭
Sorry to everybody who just bought EWY an hour ago.