Ideas
Long-term rule-breaker; buy dip, trim froth.
Palantir is a rule-breaker whose innovations improve productivity, so it should be held as a long-term investment. The recent selloff is driven by broad US growth-stock de-rating from a weak presidential second-year liquidity cycle and high 10-year yields rather than company-specific deterioration. The 200x multiple is expensive, but for investors who trimmed above, the current correction is a good opportunity.
US growth stocks weak until October.
US growth stocks are likely to remain weak until around October because the presidential second year historically brings weaker liquidity and the 10-year yield around 4.2% pressures multiples, especially growth stocks. Recent weakness in Palantir, Microsoft, and Netflix is more regime-driven than company-specific.
Quality stocks reduce beta for defense.
For investors shifting to defense after gains, quality stocks with stable earnings and blue-chip characteristics are a way to lower portfolio beta. They underperform when rule-breaker or AI momentum stocks lead, but they fall less in market drawdowns, as seen in the Dow during 2000-2002 and 2022.
Watch USD/JPY 150 break risk.
Watch USD/JPY around the 150 level. A break below 150 would resemble the July-August 2024 yen carry-trade unwind and warrant risk management. The chart is forming a bearish right shoulder, and the pair has already fallen to about 152.65.
Korean financials re-rating on value-up.
Korean financial holding stocks are re-rating: KB Financial's PBR exceeded 1 for the first time in 25 years, driven by record profits, value-up policy, and expanded shareholder returns such as KB's large dividend and buyback/cancellation plan. Sector PBRs remain around or below 1, and non-interest income is increasing, though interest-income peak and credit-cost risks remain. High foreign ownership means domestic pension funds should accumulate on crises.
Rates stay high; long 10-year yield.
Strong US jobs and comments about accelerating productivity, plus potential 6% GDP growth, mean the Fed will stay on hold and the 10-year Treasury yield cannot fall from around 4.2%. This keeps pressure on growth-stock multiples and is bearish for Treasury bond prices.
Samsung HBM roadmap drives AI leadership.
Samsung's next-generation HBM roadmap, including custom HBM with 2.8x performance, Z HBM stacking, 4nm base die, hybrid bonding for 16-high HBM, silicon photonics, and 3D S, can strengthen its AI memory leadership and address concerns about losing HBM4 to competitors. The speaker notes Samsung shares are rallying on this news.
Equal-weight ETFs favored for rotation.
With large-cap semiconductor stocks overheated and pausing, liquidity is rotating to undervalued, neglected stocks with good earnings. The KOSPI 200 Equal Weight ETF outperformed the cap-weighted KODEX 200 over the past month; historically after large-cap rallies, mid/small-cap rallies follow. The speaker recommends using KODEX 200 Equal Weight for the next 3-5 months. US equal-weight S&P 500 (RSP) is already outperforming, supporting the rotation theme.
Equal-weight ETFs favored for rotation.
With large-cap semiconductor stocks overheated and pausing, liquidity is rotating to undervalued, neglected stocks with good earnings. The KOSPI 200 Equal Weight ETF outperformed the cap-weighted KODEX 200 over the past month; historically after large-cap rallies, mid/small-cap rallies follow. The speaker recommends using KODEX 200 Equal Weight for the next 3-5 months. US equal-weight S&P 500 (RSP) is already outperforming, supporting the rotation theme.
Dawn-delivery easing lifts large marts.
Easing of dawn-delivery regulations for large marts is driving a rotation into undervalued domestic retail stocks. E-Mart and Lotte Shopping have already jumped about 40% this month, and the article expects the sequential rotation into good-earnings, neglected domestic names to continue.
Nuclear/data-center demand lifts Daewoo Construction.
Daewoo Construction and other builders are rebounding from long underperformance as nuclear power and data-center infrastructure demand spreads, part of the rotation into undervalued domestic cyclicals.
This Chesley Investment Advisory (체슬리투자자문) video, published February 12, 2026,
features Park Se-ik
discussing PLTR, IWF, QUAL, USD/JPY, 105560.KS, 055550.KS, 086790.KS, 316140.KS, 175330.KS, US10Y, 005930.KS, KODEX 200 Equal Weight ETF, RSP, 139480.KS, 023530.KS, 047040.KS.
11 trade ideas extracted by AI with direction and confidence scoring.
Speakers:
Park Se-ik
· Tickers:
PLTR,
IWF,
QUAL,
USD/JPY,
105560.KS,
055550.KS,
086790.KS,
316140.KS,
175330.KS,
US10Y,
005930.KS,
KODEX 200 Equal Weight ETF,
RSP,
139480.KS,
023530.KS,
047040.KS
