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After borrowing from a securities company and investing in stocks, if the market price plummets, the brokerage company forcibly disposes of the stock to recover the loan. It happened.
This is reporter Jung Da-eun.
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Last July, Mr. Choi received a loan from a securities company and bought about 90 million won worth of stocks.
The stock price started to fall from the day of the investment, and in the end, within two days, a brokerage company was forced to sell the stock to avoid loss of loans.
[Mom Choi / Stock Investor: I was thinking that I would lose about 4 to 5 million won (due to the falling stock price), but I lost 13 million won because I sold too much.]
Until last July In 10 domestic securities companies, an individual investor made about 60,000 transactions against the provision of credit, or more than 480 billion won.
In particular, in February and March, when stock prices fluctuated repeatedly due to a surge in US Treasury yields, the magnitude was large.
In particular, it is highly likely that young investors, who have been in 'debt investment' or 'young-chul' because they do not have many assets, have suffered losses from trading against credit extension.
[Kim Sang-bong / Professor of Economics at Hansung University: There are not many ways to recover when a loss occurs in the case of young people. Rather, it leads to a more risky product.]
With the size of credit transaction loans exceeding KRW 25 trillion, there are many risk factors that threaten the stock market, such as the possibility of US tapering and domestic interest rate hikes.
(Video editing: Wonhee Won)