Buy Low, Sell High

Buy low, sell high.

The part stock investors surprisingly overlook.

"Buy low and sell high?"

"Yes."

"Seriously?"

"Of course."

"I paid a million won just to hear that?!"

Or they labor under the delusion that they already know it.

That buying low and selling high is simply obvious.

"You're the one who called me after I said I wouldn't come."

"Still, if you fucking showed up, you should at least teach me something!!"

Not many people actually stick to it.

Because humans are creatures of desire.

You get greedy, don't you.

No need to look far for proof. Just look at the stocks people are whining about being bagheld on right this second.

"I was trading this from under 20,000 won. You piled in at 80,000. Before you even start blaming the operators, isn't this just you getting bagheld because you were stuffed full of greed?"

"……."

Every last one of them had been day-trading the top and gotten stuck.

Of course, there was a somewhat understandable side to it.

Most pump-and-dump plays are already overvalued by the time retail notices them.

But not every operator stock works that way. Some names still have an exit left in them. Hell, even the genuinely overvalued ones — if you watch the volume carefully before you step in.

"Look at the spot where it hit 100,000 and started coming down. A heavy-volume red candle printed, right? That's the operators dumping their inventory. From that point on, this became a stock that could collapse at any moment without anyone being surprised."

"No, from the beginning—"

"Hm?"

"You could've just taught me the trading method like that from the start~."

At the very least, it raised the odds of an exit angle. Stocks, in the end, were a fight to stack the probabilities in your favor.

Nobody can hit a hundred percent. But you can still choose the fights with better odds.

"But even if you know this, you won't stick to it, will you?"

"Me?"

"Because you're stuffed full of greed. The second you see a stock going up, you want to buy it."

"……."

That was the basic mindset anyone trading stocks needed to carry. And it was also the one that, surprisingly, almost never got followed.

Blinded by immediate profits.

In stocks, profit was secondary. Especially for beginners — they should not be hunting it. Even if luck fed them a win once or twice, they would eventually spit it all back out. That was simply how the market worked.

"Teacher, it's not like I get bagheld every single time. I do my own research before I go in."

"Right."

"If you'd just teach me a little more of your method, I think I'd be fine."

"Hmm."

You built skill from a long-term perspective. You did not hitch your neck to short-term gains.

"Scalping is kind of like a high-level dungeon, you know?"

"It is. It's hard."

"If you keep dying in there, a beginner isn't going to level up, is he? It's almost funny that I even have to say this out loud."

"……."

Land a kill and you got loot drops and a pile of money. Beginners who watched that happen got greedy too.

So what? You still can't land the kill.

You earned zero experience. It was no different from a MapleStory thief peeking at Balrog in the Dark Site and crawling back home.

"Or you die sightseeing high-level mobs on the Orbis ship."

"Why do you keep saying I die?!"

"Better than dying in real life, isn't it?"

"……."

One wrong move and you really could die. All risk, nothing to gain.

Don't do that. Just buy low and sell high.

Take even a little profit. Then build the skill to reproduce it.

"Big caps are fine, mid and small caps are fine — just buy them cheap."

Getting that far took a long time. No — even with time, there was no guarantee you'd make it.

If it were that easy, every dog and cow would be ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠trading stocks.

But there was still a proper route. Ssa-sa-bi-pal. The best you could do was trade in a way that never violated that principle.

"So right now, while it's Forty-Grand Electronics, I should just keep buying?"

"No."

"Why not?"

"Check what the price was two years ago."

A hot topic currently buzzing among investors. Even Ohseong Electronics wouldn't baghold you if you bought it rationally.

Barely two years ago, it had been Twenty-Grand Electronics. Lately people were calling Forty-Grand Electronics a crisis — but even that was still more than double the old price.

"People actually buy more when the price goes up, you know? Look far enough ahead and you'll see folks who wouldn't touch Ohseong at fifty thousand buying it at ninety thousand."

"Come on, what kind of idiot does that."

In truth, it was inevitable. Once the press and the analysts gaslit you long enough through their mouths—

People forget even the most obvious facts.

—they bought Ohseong Electronics with zero thought, clinging to the dream and hope that it would rise someday.

"Teacher, do you think it's going lower than now?"

"Long-term, I'm looking at Thirty-Grand Electronics too."

"It's Korea's number-one market-cap company and the number-one semiconductor firm?!"

You were not supposed to make that trade. Even if the price eventually recovered, the memory of being bagheld made people cut at breakeven.

You carry the risk either way, and you still don't make the money.

You danced exactly to the operators' tune. Whether retail got wrecked or not was none of their concern.

"Guys like that are just scammers."

"Scammers?!"

"Anyone who actually knows stocks would never buy Ohseong Electronics right now. If they're telling you to buy at these levels, they're either a scammer or a stock illiterate."

Nothing built name recognition quite like picking a fight.

Teacher Ju.

"Oh, you're here?"

His YouTube channel, which always opened with that familiar greeting, was gathering explosive popularity among young investors.

Whatever was currently hot in the market, he packaged it quickly and cleanly and put it up. That was why.

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.

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The YouTuber's credentials were impressive too. A full-time trader who, in seven years, had turned 300,000 won into a full five billion.

Well, that part isn't a lie.

Teacher Ju smiled faintly as he scrolled through the YouTube comments. His credentials were genuine fact. Only one detail was different.

In truth, he had no confidence he could make money from stocks now. The bulk of his seed had been made six years ago, because an enormous opportunity had existed at the time.

Just following the LPs around was literally free money printing.

ELW LP loophole trading. The 2012 incident had rewritten his entire life. At the same time, it had become a shackle. He fretted constantly over whether he might lose the fortune that had ballooned so large.

That was why he had started YouTube. The bull market had pulled more and more people into investing.

Watching analysts who couldn't trade for shit still collect paychecks really pissed me off.

He was confident he could explain things more simply and more entertainingly. That prediction had landed exactly as advertised. Subscribers climbed by the day. Lately, YouTube revenue was on the verge of overtaking his stock profits.

The book he'd published not long ago was selling smoothly too. No more sweating over stocks that could drop at any moment.

His only real headache was the bear market. Ohseong Electronics had fallen further than expected, and a few people had started cursing him out.

Come on. If I could predict that, I'd be a god. Who the hell saw Forty-Grand Electronics coming.

Analysts missed constantly. Compared to them, his misses barely counted. And even if people were unhappy — so what? Retail had almost no other YouTuber left to lean on.

A spoiler had appeared.