The Bear Market Ends!
The bear market ends!
PaprikaTV.
A republic of solo broadcasts.
Countless BJs thrived there.
From League of Legends to variety, mukbang, and more—every kind of content became a streaming topic.
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Among them was stocks.
With tension-ratcheting BGM blaring, one BJ launched into something unique.
"Buy order in. This has to go up, no matter what. If it doesn't, this is a fucking scam!"
Stocks.
The act of investing based on a company's value.
But that lukewarm style of investing wasn't the only game in town.
You rode the surge stocks.
There was a trading method that exploited the exploding volatility to snatch profits in a short window and get out.
— Sell order filled!
That was scalping.
BJ Gambling King's main content was day trading.
And within that, scalping was his core.
"The buyers' strength is fucking solid, but this shit keeps making me nervous. Huh? Huh? Sell? Hold? Hold. Huh? Huh? Nice, three hundred~~!!!"
Because the income was juicy.
Measured by profit per unit of time, no other job on earth could touch it.
Just one minute.
In that tiny window he made five million won.
He was running a hundred-million seed with margin on top, after all.
A quick in-and-out and he'd pocket a full month's salary.
But Gambling King wasn't satisfied.
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He fired up the BGM one more time.
That meant he'd hopped on another surge stock.
Something had snagged on his scanner.
'Up 25% already? Fuck, this is a limit-up chase special.'
Chasing the limit-up.
Out of countless tickers, at least one was guaranteed to print +30%.
Pinpointing which one was impossible.
But hitching a free ride? That was doable.
"Go up, go up, go up……. Why the fuck does it drop the second I buy!!"
He thought it would be easy.
His last trade had succeeded, after all.
— The Illicit Stock Manipulators are going berserk!
Double kill!
Triple kill!
This time he'd simply failed.
Calling it a 1-1 draw felt a little too generous given the situation.
『UV Motors』
9,170 ▲1460 (+18.93%)
[Chart of a stock that pumped then dumped.jpg]
In an instant −6% slammed home.
The 2.5 million he'd just earned had long since evaporated.
"……."
High risk, high return.
At a glance it looked like a land of milk and honey overflowing with opportunity.
'Fuck, looks like I'm getting wrecked again today.'
It was a Venus flytrap that lured in the bugs enchanted by that sweet scent and then ate them alive.
He'd been snared for a long time already.
"It's fine. The place I'm sitting right now is already hell."
He had to recover!
Attachment only summoned bigger losses.
They snowballed until they became impossible to handle.
We're talking hundreds of millions.
He'd gone full bankrupt, and properly.
An ordinary investor would have been locked out of the market entirely.
"Pizza hyung, thanks for the five thousand. For real…… I was starting to feel like ending it."
LoyalistShithead has been force-ejected!
For a BJ, it became content.
There were people who loved watching him lose money.
Are the Illicit Stock Manipulators running an operation just so I keep getting wrecked?
The thought crossed his mind.
Of course he was still grateful.
It was the only reason he could keep trading stocks despite lacking the skill.
But even counting the donations, he was still in the red.
He had a mountain of reasons to make excuses, take a break from stocks, or shrink his seed.
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The viewers wanted it, so he had no choice.
If he streamed anything other than stocks, the donations shriveled to pathetic levels.
'I can't not do stocks. And if I do them, I lose for sure.'
At least recently it had been a bull market.
Even the stocks he'd been bagholding would eventually give him an exit angle after a few days or, at worst, a few months.
UV Motors │ 9,890 shares │ −10.75%
Our Hand Food │ 6,178 shares │ −12.86%
Yuseong Heavy Industries │ 3,563 shares │ −7.50%
Wizen Energy │ 9,851 shares │ −21.09%
09Lady │ 291 shares │ −69.73%
Then the bear market began.
Tickers he'd thought were at the bottom punched through the basement and slammed straight into the Earth's mantle.
'If I can just get back to break-even, just break-even, a fucking Lamborghini will appear!!'
It was the cheapest base model with zero options, but two hundred million wasn't some random dog's name.
It was an enormous sum of money.
When would he ever recover?
Even the hope he'd once clung to was a thing of the past.
He could no longer picture a positive future.
"Hyungs, for real, what the hell do I do? Lately I keep wanting to call the suicide hotline."
The mindset of starting fresh every single day.
Today—starting today—he would make money!
Even self-hypnosis had its limits.
When money was being deleted in real time, staying positive was hard.
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Even the fans were in an uproar.
If the clown died, there would be no more entertaining streams to watch.
How could they keep him alive a little longer?
The viewers put their heads together for a brainstorming session.
The result:
A consensus formed that he should learn stocks properly.
Pa-san himself hadn't never considered it, but—
"No, for real, I want to ask. What am I missing? It really feels like just one thin edge."
Honestly, he had no idea.
Measured by how long he'd been in stocks, it wasn't short.
Two years.
He shoved and yanked several hundred million in trading volume every day, so the experience points should have stacked up.
'Is it because I have no patience? I take little when I win and lose big when I lose.'
As a stock BJ he had his pride.
He didn't want half-assed help.
Especially Stock Teacher.
Some of the viewers kept bringing him up.
Pa-san roughly knew who he was.
"Stock Teacher and I just don't mesh. That guy does value investing."
He was a stock YouTuber, they said.
He taught beginner investors stock mindset and methods.
'No, if I went back two years I'd have all-inned on Five-Star Electronics too!'
But this was a bear market.
Even that rock-solid Five-Star Electronics had turned into Four-Star Electronics by now.
"For real. In this market nobody can make money no matter who shows up."
Even if it rose, that was a problem too.
Making money that slowly and teasingly was something the viewers hated.
'How the hell do you do value investing on PaprikaTV.'
He was a BJ, not a YouTuber.
He had to run stimulating streams or the viewers wouldn't fire star balloons.
He was trapped in a Möbius strip.
For Pa-san, whose life-line was burning away day by day—
"Sonik-jwa? Is that guy a YouTuber too?"
An interesting story drifted in.
There was an unbelievable investor who had turned 500,000 won into 7 billion.
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'I heard Stock Teacher did something like that too.'
But the time frame was different.
Unlike Stock Teacher, who had nearly a decade of stock experience, this one had done it in barely a year.
He'd grown the money through day trading and scalping, they said.
If what the viewers claimed was true—
'Is a rescue even possible for me?'
He was in the mood to clutch at any straw.
Sudden news.
But it wasn't sudden at all.
'I saw it coming.'
In a bull market everyone is optimistic.
The hypocrite who tells people what they want to hear gets popular.
In a bear market they wake up to reality.
They desperately start hunting for someone who will teach them how to actually survive.
The Gambling King guy who'd proposed a collab was apparently in the same boat.
Being a stock BJ didn't automatically mean you were good at stocks.
'But this is a bit much.'
Every single bagheld ticker was a work of art.
You had to be spectacularly stupid to get bagheld at the top of pure trash stocks.
Strangely familiar.
Starting with 09Lady, then Our Hand Food, Wizen Energy, and Yuseong Heavy Industries.
'So this is the kind of bastard who bagholds for me instead.'
Out of conscience, he'd help.