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Retail Traders Face Margin Calls in South Korea
South Korean retail traders, known as 'the ants,' faced significant losses with 1.2 million facing margin calls, representing over 3% of the adult population. This highlights the risks associated with high leverage in speculative trading.
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It was a bad week for “the ants,” as South Korea’s army of retail traders are known colloquially. 1.2 million of them were clobbered with margin calls. That’s more than 3% of the country’s adult population, illustrating the feverish extent of stock market speculation and the danger of leverage.
2026-07-17 09:36 UTC