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Korea Exchange is actively pushing a plan to extend stock trading to 12 hours a day. Beyond the current regular session from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., pre-market and after-market sessions are under review...
The phrase that shows up every year-end: the Santa rally. Come December, one word never misses a finance story — the Santa rally. “It is year-end, so it will go up.” “Santa...
A remarkable opportunity opens for Korean investors in foreign stocks in 2026. Sell foreign shares and invest long term in the domestic market and capital gains tax is waived in full, through the ‘Reshoring Investment Account (RIA)’...
There are two markets in Bitcoin. One is the **’spot market’** where coins actually change hands, and the other is the **’derivatives market (futures and options)...
Crypto derivatives volume passed $86 trillion in 2025. A market now bigger than spot, and why that is a structural change rather than a danger. The biggest story in crypto in 2025...
Three changes that come with Tesla FSD going mainstream: defending used-car prices, widening new-car demand, and building recurring revenue. 1. FSD moves from an ‘option’ to...
Bitcoin investor A opens the Upbit app the moment he wakes up. He clearly saw a story yesterday saying Bitcoin was moving sideways around $87,000, but in Korea...
2026 looks set to be the historic turning point when Tesla stops being simply an EV maker and becomes an **AI and robotics ecosystem company**. Up to now (the end of 2025)...
To begin: Bitcoin and risk assets move not after liquidity is actually released, but from the moment conviction forms that liquidity is coming back. Heading into 2026, the question market participants are asking is...
Does Bitcoin go up when the won weakens? Many investors have had this experience: “The Bitcoin news is quiet, so why did the price on Upbit rise?” At the heart of that question is the won...
The core driver of Bitcoin's price is the U.S. Federal Reserve's capacity to supply money. In 2026 the rate-cutting cycle that began in late 2024 enters a steady phase, and at the same time,...
To begin: a chart is the market's ‘map’. In a market as volatile as Bitcoin, trading on emotion is the shortest path to losses. A chart is the crowd's psychology turned into numbers....
Korea's crypto market has reached another structural turning point. A possible Naver-Upbit partnership, brokerages and platform companies expanding into crypto, and debate over bringing the industry inside the regulated system are...
The Trump administration, which took office in January 2025, has completed its first year. Over that year the stance toward the crypto industry has shifted from regulation-first to treating it as a ‘national strategic industry...
Crypto is claiming territory fast on the asset map of wealthy Koreans. Comparing the ‘2024-2025 Korean Wealth Report’ from the KB Financial Group Research Institute with the ‘2020...
Vitalik Buterin, the creator of Ethereum, recently cleaned out his wallet by selling small altcoin holdings. These were tokens that had arrived regardless of his own...
: Analyzing the Naver-Upbit merger scenario and the share price outlook. Woori Technology Investment's shares have been weak day after day. As a major shareholder in Upbit, the crypto market's roller coaster...
“What if Naver and Upbit merged?” That question is less a thought experiment about combining two companies than a question about what comes next for platforms. The arrival of AI has changed the nature of search...
Read crypto news for a while and you keep seeing “options expiry” and “billions of dollars of options about to expire.” And many investors feel the same thing. “Options expiry, they say…...
An important event is approaching in the crypto market ahead of the year-end holidays. More than $3 billion of options contracts on Bitcoin and Ethereum are set to expire at once...
Here are the most common misreadings in whale news. ❌ “When a whale moves, the price always falls” → Not true. Whales do not only sell; they also store, transfer,...
Whale news: how much of it should you believe? Follow Ethereum or Bitcoin news and you often see headlines saying “a whale moved” or “hundreds of billions of won changed hands.” But not every...
Why do the two readings differ so completely? In both cases a whale moved, but the meaning can be the opposite. Category Exchange inflow Staking transfer Near-term...
