The First 30 Minutes After the Open Decide the Battle: Practical Trading Method for Picking the Day's Leading Stocks; How to Respond to the 2026 Korean Stock Market, a Market Good for Making Money | Daewang Gaemi Hong In-ki

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Watch on YouTube ↗ | February 07, 2026 at 09:30 | 28:10 | 815 Money Talk (815머니톡)

Speakers

Hong In-ki — Author and short-term trader

Summary

Hong In-ki, a short-term trader, explains that the Korean equity market still offers abundant liquidity and is favorable for day trading despite index volatility. He describes his process of checking top trading value around 9:30, identifying the leading sector and leader, and using intraday program and institutional flow data. He illustrates the approach with Hanwha Solution and Hanwha System trades and says he prefers large caps over small caps. He also highlights the late-January KOSDAQ inflow episode as a template for trading KOSDAQ themes.

Market liquidity is high, with KOSPI above 5,000 and daily turnover near KRW 30tn.
The first 30 minutes are used to confirm the day's direction and leading theme.
Top trading-value screens help identify the strongest sector and its leader.
Program trading and institutional flow revisions can signal next-day follow-through.
Large-cap stocks are favored over small caps for flow visibility and predictability.
Hanwha Solution and Hanwha System are presented as recent examples of leader trades.
A KOSDAQ surge followed KRW 1tn-plus foreign and institutional net buying.
He avoids acting on unconfirmed early theme strength and waits for 9:30-10:00 confirmation.

Ideas

Hong In-ki Author and short-term trader 1:01

Korean equities offer abundant liquidity for trading.

He expects the Korean equity market to remain favorable for short-term trading through 2026 because KOSPI above 5,000 and daily market turnover around KRW 30tn provide abundant liquidity, and domestic equities are absorbing most asset-market flows rather than sharing inflows with real estate, overseas stocks, and crypto as during the COVID liquidity boom. Even if the index does not rise, a strong leading theme can generate profit, and he says he made more money in the volatile 5,000 area than during the prior index rally.

Hong In-ki Author and short-term trader 4:28

Hanwha Solution saw bullish flow reversal.

After Hanwha Solution reported earnings the prior day at 2pm, program and institutional flows reversed from persistent selling to strong buying: program selling around 600k shares flipped to about 700k shares bought, and institutions flipped to net buying roughly 500-600k shares in about 1.5 hours. Since afternoon institutional buying often continues the next day, he expected the next-day surge and traded Hanwha Solution as the solar theme leader from the morning to an upper limit.

Hong In-ki Author and short-term trader 4:34

Hanwha System led aerospace theme.

On February 3, when KOSPI rose by more than 6% and the aerospace theme was strong, smaller aerospace names hit limit up early because they were light, but Hanwha System was the true leader with large trading value and led the theme. He confirmed the move around 10am, bought near KRW 108,000, and sold the next morning around KRW 120,000-plus for over 15%.

Hong In-ki Author and short-term trader 16:02

Large caps offer better short-term trading odds.

For day trading, he prefers large caps over small caps because large caps are driven by foreign and institutional flows, which gives an additional observable variable and raises the success rate; small caps have more unpredictable variables and reverse suddenly. Recently, large caps have both large volatility and better predictability, so he trades mostly large caps.

Hong In-ki Author and short-term trader 18:20

Foreign flows guide KOSPI day direction.

He treats foreign investor net buying and selling in KOSPI and futures as the first filter for the day's market direction. Formerly, more than KRW 1tn of net selling signaled a weak day and more than KRW 1tn of buying signaled a strong day, but because individual liquidity is now so large the threshold should be multiplied by 3-5x. If foreign and institutional flows are very bad, he becomes cautious; if very good, he trades themes aggressively.

Hong In-ki Author and short-term trader 20:24

KOSDAQ rallies follow huge institutional buying.

When KOSDAQ sees foreign and institutional combined net buying above KRW 1tn, followed by KRW 2-3tn in subsequent days, the index tends to close strong and KOSDAQ-related themes such as robots and Kakao Pay can be traded aggressively. He used this signal in late January to focus on KOSDAQ themes.

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Speakers: Hong In-ki · Tickers: Korean equities, 009830.KS, 272210.KS, Korean large-cap stocks, EWY, KOSDAQ