SK Hynix Joins Trillion Dollar Club As Korean Stocks Echo Nasdaq's 1999 Meltup
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Korean tech stocks are in melt-up territory, with KOSPI up ~100% YTD and SK Hynix hitting a new record high on the back of SOX +5.5% and MU's +19% surge, amplified by the launch of 14 leveraged 2x ETFs. The 1999 Nasdaq parallel is explicit — a late-stage momentum signal with leveraged instruments piling in is a classic setup for a violent mean-reversion.
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Wrong ifMU could rip further if AI-driven HBM demand guidance surprises to the upside in the next earnings call — a positive pre-announcement or data center capex acceleration from a hyperscaler would squeeze this short violently given the already-crowded long base.
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