Ssa-sa-bi-pal
Unbelievable news.
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Of course the stock communities were going berserk. Everything about him had been wrapped in mystery.
Turning 500k into 7 billion doesn't make any damn sense
I figured someone was just running a bit
Sonik-jwa.
He had appeared less than a year ago. That was more than enough for his presence to swallow the entire community whole.
He posted exactly one thread a day. After the market closed, he would drop a screenshot of his account and verify the day's profits.
The competing signal rooms all died around then T_T
There's a multi-month gap in the middle. Rumors say he went off to trade crypto.
The beginning had been pathetic.
Five hundred thousand won. Whether you called it small or large, it was snack-sample money from a supermarket tasting counter. Nowhere near enough to generate real returns.
Then the magic of compounding unfurled, and the sum ballooned into something astronomical.
There had to be like five of those trolls at least
Followers multiplied. As an investor, the returns inspired pure awe. But the man himself was a mystic — famous for never even leaving a simple reply.
He had agreed to appear on a famous streamer's broadcast. Among stock investors, it became the hottest topic of the week.
On a normal day, it wouldn't have drawn this much attention. Stocks? Who cares about that crap?
They had learned otherwise. In a bear market, every investor was desperate.
Even a rotten rope looked worth grabbing. If someone out there could pull them from the wreckage, they would take the hand.
The stream bait worked, but……
Kim Pa-san, the man actually streaming, was thinking the exact same thing. Of course he had his reasons as a streamer. Broadcast bait. Invite a celebrity and viewers flood in beyond the usual numbers. Even if only a fraction stick around as regulars, pure profit.
But more than those cold calculations, a single investor's desperation came first.
If he can just get me out at break-even, I'll never ask for anything again!
The feeling of being bag-held in stocks defied description. And honestly, there was greed too. If this full-time trader called Sonik-jwa really had some special method—
"Chat, I already know that better than any of you, for fuck's sake."
If we get close, maybe some crumbs fall my way?
Then it might actually be possible. Not just recovering the losses — going beyond. Becoming an investor who actually made money.
He had been floating on dreams and hope.
Internet streaming.
From the present moment, it might look strange. Talking economics on a live stream?
Later it would become completely ordinary. Even the high-flying investors of Wall Street would become streamers. More precisely — streaming. Unpacking their market views in real time on broadcast.
"Hello. I'm a nameless full-time investor. Some communities apparently call me Sonik-jwa."
Even now, famous hedge fund CEOs ran Twitter accounts, so it wasn't that strange. The platform simply changed.
And investors wanted it.
The modern stock market. Every kind of information poured through the internet. Paradoxically, that made it harder to know which information was right. Too many choices. Among all that noise, people came to want someone they could trust — someone who would pick out the correct signal for them.
Cash Balance: 6,720,006,974
Cumulative P&L: ＋7,000,108,892
For now, account verification would be enough to satisfy them. Wow, he made that much money — he must know something.
Except he doesn't.
Stocks were ultimately a probability game. When millions of retail traders charged in, a few lucky ants inevitably emerged.
"Whoa~! Bros, I'm literally comparing it against his ID card right now and it's really him!"
"Looking at the trade history would be more definitive than the balance alone."
He had money. But he himself knew he had no ability to grow that money again.
That's why they sell books and sell lectures — to make a living off the past.
What could you learn from people like that? The fastest way to learn there was nothing was to experience it yourself. The stock market only cared about ability. That you were great in the past, that you launched a Water Rocket — none of it meant a thing.
"You traded 09Lady too."
"Yes."
"Weizen Energy as well. I'm bag-held on that one."
"I see."
"Yuseong Heavy Industries and Woori Son Food too……"
"When there are idiots willing to take the bags, making money gets pretty easy."
"You son of a bitch!!"
Investors would come to understand that truth as well. You couldn't trust the ones who only looked polished on the surface.
What could be more trustworthy than a broadcast where a man puts his own name and his own fund on the line in real time?
That was why hedge fund CEOs would start streaming. There was no better way to grow client deposits. It was the flow of the era. Later, choosing a fund by watching live streams would become the trend.
"How nice would it be if we ate together. Why'd you take it all yourself and leave me holding the bag!"
"It's fine."
"What's fine about it! I want to take a dump so bad right now I could die."
The reason I appeared on Gambling King's stream. It wasn't only pity because he was bag-held in stocks I had already eaten.
I needed to build name recognition.
To move a market, you needed two things. Money, and influence.
Money I was confident I could pile up whenever I felt like it. I also knew that by itself meant nothing. I had learned that in my bones in a previous life. No matter how much money I had, there were always more people with more.
"From now on, you don't have to worry."
"About what!"
"Because I'm here."
"?!"
But name recognition was a different story. No matter how much money you had, there was a hard ceiling.
Trust is built by a person's track record.
The first step of a legend. I had already spent the past year carefully laying the groundwork.
"Honestly I don't think it's my fault, but I do feel a little bad, so I'll help you out."
"Isn't that why you came on?"
"Normally I don't teach anyone."
The stage to detonate it had already been prepared. A bear market was excellent for concentrating the public's attention.
That didn't mean it was easy.
Reality. Most ordinary investors bought stocks because they wanted to make money easily. Complicated theory? They neither had the ability to understand it nor any desire to know.
You had to keep the approach simple. And still make it efficient, with real impact.
"You don't need to overthink stocks. Just remember one thing."
"Oh I like that! I've looked up a bunch of stuff on YouTube but it's all hard blah-blah-blah."
Conveniently, the man in front of me was exactly that type. Dumping hundreds of millions of won with zero plan.
Surprisingly, there are a lot of people like this.
Precious friends who supplied the liquidity. Today, at least, I would make sure he took money instead of losing it.
"So what's the one thing?"
"Ssa-sa-bi-pal."
"Is that a four-character idiom? What does it mean? My education's pretty short, so……"
The easiest way to make money in stocks.