34% of the S&P is 10 stocks making the same bet. We're basically all in a leveraged ETF with extra steps.
Alright degenerates, gather round. Korea just showed us what the endgame looks like and it ain't pretty. 1.2 million accounts margin called in a week. 350K liquidated to zero. 62% of those were millennials and zoomers. Their market dropped 10% in ONE DAY because someone said "hey maybe AI spending slows down." 50% of their entire market was just Samsung and SK Hynix. Two stocks. That's it. Now look at us. 34% of the S&P is in 10 companies and they're all making the exact same bet that AI capex goes up forever. NVDA, MSFT, GOOG, META, AMZN - basically running the same play Korea just fumbled. Half this sub is gonna say "bro it's different here, the Fed prints, 401Ks buy every dip, we're the reserve currency, AI actually works." The other half is gonna say leverage at ATH + concentration at ATH = we're about to get our cheeks clapped harder than '08. I genuinely don't know who's right. What I do know is some Korean Warren Buffett was probably sitting there with 600% margin on 3x leve
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