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Cooling DownSnapshot Window: 2026-07-20 20:10 UTC · ← Back to Crypto Overview
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Why tf would you use leverage when you can use other people’s money on @ridemarkets [Spoken audio]: On the day I suffered my biggest loss, I literally couldn't breathe at first. Lee Sung-ho watched the $200,000 stock trading fortune he built with a 500% margin loan evaporate in just four weeks in May. My capital had been steadily building up and then it suddenly disappeared all at once. First, there was this emptiness from that, and then there was this huge pressure from feeling like I could no longer maintain the kind of life I had been living. been living. The 24-year-old South Korean university student had briefly turned for $13,000 he saved during mandatory military service into a 15-fold windfall. It all came from capping a button on his trading app that instantly unlocked five times leverage. Margin trading isn't something that requires 100% collateral anymore here. It's basically something you can do with just one click. So for domestic investors, honestly, if you want to make high returns at a young age, leverage feels like a pretty reasonable method. Then the market turned. Violent swings in South Korean stocks triggered a cascade of forced liquidations by his brokerage, wiping out the gains. Within weeks, his account had fallen below his initial investment, leaving him under a cute strain. His ability to take on a 500% margin loan and the spectacular boom and bust that followed captures the risks at the heart of South Korea's deeply leveraged retail investing culture. It's a trend that has regulators frantically sounding the alarm to contain what they see as an increasingly dangerous trade in frenzy. The Cosby, which recently reigned as the world's best performing stock index after more than doubling in just six months has since lurched violently, plunging more than 10 percent several times in a matter of weeks. For many young South Koreans, the allure of leverage is rooted in a harsher reality beyond the trading screen. With sole apartment prices averaging about 14 years worth of salary, young graduates feel locked out of traditional wealth accumulation, leaving the high-leverage stock app as one of the few markets they they feel they can enter. My monthly allowance was $338. I felt like we're now living in an era where you really can't purchase property. The stock market was the only path to...
I just sent my letter to @Larita_NFT A story about a simple girl. 10K on ETHEREUM. Letter NO.0008 Team waiting New collab
AI visual note: A letter addressed to 'Dear Larita' from 'cemanuttcrypto' references an NFT project about 'a simple girl' with a 10K supply on Ethereum, featuring a pixel heart stamp marked '10K - ETH' and postmark '2026-07-20'.