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'decimal point trading' is popular among the younger generation who want to invest in stocks but do not have much seed money. It is to buy stocks in smaller units than one share. Currently, you can only buy overseas stocks like this, but next year, you can buy domestic stocks as well.



Reporter Kim Hye-min looked to see if there was anything to be careful about.



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University student Hong Joon-young has been steadily investing 100,000 won a month in overseas stocks for the past year.



The reason you can invest in blue-chip stocks within 100,000 won is because of 'decimal point trading'.



[Hong Joon-young / Decimal-point investment college student: I didn’t have enough money, so I tried it for the first time, so it’s safe to try, and even if it fails, it’s not too much… .]



Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Class A is priced at 500 million won per share, and Tesla, the most traded stock, is priced at over 1 million won per share.



Among the MZ generation with little seed money, fractional trading, which invests in such overseas stocks, is very popular.



Of the 1.115,000 individual investors who engage in 'decimal point trading', close to 70% are in their 20s and 30s.



Currently, only overseas stocks can be traded through two securities companies, but the number will increase to 20 in the first half of next year.



In addition, from the third quarter of next year, domestic stocks are also expected to be able to trade with decimal points.



As much as the benefits of increasing investment accessibility, there are some points to be aware of.



When investors place a small-unit trading order, the brokerage company collects them and submits the order at once, but there is a time lag, which makes real-time investment virtually impossible.



Also, for minority stocks, the method of exercising rights, such as exercising voting rights, may be different from that of one-share stocks.



[Gimdaejong Professor / Sejong University School of Business: it is disadvantage if that to the point deals not one shares Securities Depository fails to reflect the physician as a self shareholders due to the shareholder rights events -



each by securities tradable stocks or minimums, etc. It is also important to note that different and transaction fees are usually more expensive than regular transactions.



(Video coverage: Lee Seung-hwan, video editing: Choi Hye-young, VJ: Jung Min-goo)