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Context / Profile

  • Presenter/Source: Carrie (Korean short-term “scalper” / day-trader)
    • Reported trading capital reportedly scaled from:
      • End of 2022: ~50 million KRW trading capacity (“500 League” mentioned)
      • 2023: hundreds of millions KRW
      • End of 2023 / now: tens of billions KRW
    • Typical entries of about ~1 billion KRW during large-event timing
  • Interviewer: Kim Gaemi, assistant manager at Kiwoom Securities

Key Trading Methodology / Framework (Order-Book Driven)

Carrie emphasizes that profit depends more on “which stocks to avoid” and order-book execution dynamics than on simply buying at breakout signals.

Core step-by-step ideas

1) Stock selection: what to avoid matters as much as what to trade

  • Don’t simply pick high-volume or news-attention stocks.
  • Actively filter out names that don’t behave well after breakout (i.e., fails to continue upward).
  • Her “shouldn’t trade” category targets stocks where the breakout is quickly overcome by crowding/absorption dynamics—turning the trade into gambling.

2) Primary tool: the order book (higher priority than charts)

Carrie’s rule of thumb: the order book precedes the chart—execution/flow comes first.

She evaluates:

  1. Execution speed
    • How fast the book updates/moves
    • Especially noticeable right when news hits
  2. Large volume / aggression relative to the displayed book
    • Platform visual thresholds mentioned:
      • >100 million KRW highlighted (yellow)
      • ~500 million KRW highlighted (red)
  3. Order-book “support” (bid vs. ask structure)
    • She warns against simplistic folklore such as “empty bids always mean downside.”

3) Breakout monitoring

Even if price “breaks,” she stresses ongoing verification:

  • Do buy orders keep arriving?
  • Is sell supply being absorbed?
  • Does price defend even if it dips?

4) Probabilistic mindset (not deterministic patterning)

  • She rejects the idea that order-book “pattern rules” are fully standardizable.
  • She uses a probabilistic approach. For example:
    • If large inflows (amounts exceeding ~100 million KRW repeatedly) correlate with up-moves more often than not, treat it as a useful signal—but not certainty.

5) Price level focus (important convergence zones)

  • She watches major large “convergence” levels where volume clusters.
  • Example mentioned:
    • Around 20,000 KRW (round-number area), where bids can become especially heavy and create “special price levels.”
  • Order-book + breakout logic can be used as potential entry points.

Explicit Recommendations / Cautions (Risk & Trade Management)

  • Avoid trading stocks that don’t fit your criteria, including after a breakout
    • If you trade things you “shouldn’t,” you lose the edge and profits collapse even if the stock looks strong initially.
  • Stop-loss management changes with size
    • With small capital, she could cut quickly (e.g., “sell immediately if it doesn’t go up a little”).
    • With larger size, she becomes more cautious:
      • Instead of reacting to every micro bid tick, she uses overall flow/structure
      • Stop-loss is anchored to a broader framework, not only the exact entry price
  • Break-even discipline—but psychological trap
    • Many traders hold due to psychology:
      • Even if price later returns to/near profit, they avoid selling
    • She emphasizes using the true break-even zone as the benchmark.
  • Layered entries
    • For large trades, she avoids “all at once” entries unless the book is thick.
    • She buys in installments:
      • initial entry after checking the order book, often 2–3 ticks in her description
      • adds when bullish behavior continues (requires strong conviction)
  • Trading frequency
    • She trades 30–40 stocks per day (last check ~50)
    • Up to 500–800 a month (including duplicates)
    • Key point: not all touched stocks are profitable
      • Only a few generate significant profit
      • Others are “shouldn’t trade” cases that must be cut to small losses or exited near break-even.

Key Numeric Details and Thresholds Mentioned

Capital / sizing

  • ~50 million KRW start (end of 2022)
  • Hundreds of millions (2023)
  • Tens of billions KRW by end of 2023 / current
  • Typical “entry with about”: ~1 billion KRW (during perceived opportunities)

Volume visualization thresholds

  • 100 million KRW → highlighted (yellow)
  • 500 million KRW → highlighted (red)

Price levels / ticks

  • Important bid/level clustering around ~20,000 KRW (example)
  • Installment entry timing reference: 2 or 3 ticks

Examples / instruments

  • Stock ticker mentioned: CCS
  • Thematic context mentioned: “superconductor-related stocks”

Instruments / Tickers / Sectors Mentioned

  • Ticker: CCS
  • Thematic/Sector: Superconductor-related stocks
  • Price references: 20,000 KRW (round level), and an example of “1–2% during breakout zone” for buys

Disclosures / Disclaimers

  • No explicit “not financial advice” disclaimer is included in the provided subtitles.

Presenters / Sources

  • Kim Gaemi — Assistant Manager, Kiwoom Securities (interviewer)
  • Carrie — trader featured in the interview (Trader Carrie / “scalper”)

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