​Although Etsy was founded in December of 2012, it hasn't been well known to the public until recent years. It received some attention in 2018 but its big debut came with the COVID-19 pandemic. The service proves a market for self-employed crafters and artists wanting to sell their handmade products. This type of service is beneficial for 2 reasons:

1) With the cancellation of most events towards the beginning of the pandemic in March, people turned to sharpening their hobbies or spent time learning something new. Speaking from a personal experience, the trend started with making dalgona milk tea and spread out to making a variety of different things. Point is, personal development through craft, which ETSY is made for, has been a growing trend in the COVID-19 pandemic era.

2) ETSY is also an online market, something that is on the trending horizon. Even retail stores such as Target and Walmart have been moving towards having an online format for the purpose of retailing and reaching out to more people. Especially because COVID-19 disapproves of people going physically to retail stores, online stores such as ETSY seem to be our future.

Although I lost the option to buy it when the instability caused by the election dropped stock prices, I think it is a good time to buy ETSY stocks. Amazon is valued at $3000+ and Shopify, a similar service, is valued at around $1000. While I have heavy doubt that ETSY will reach the level Amazon has or even the level which Shopify has, I have strong belief that 1) the continuation of quarantine will expand ETSY's boundaries and 2) ETSY will remain popular even after the end of this pandemic. 

After much debate, I have decided to buy this stock, pricing in at around $129 per share. 

Please message me if you have anything you want to comment!

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Boeing is an airplane manufacturing giant that makes airplanes for some of the greatest airlines out there. These airplanes include the 737, 747, 767, and the 777. However, all that really matters is the following: COVID-19 has dropped this company's stocks and if life returns to normal, stocks will gain a huge rise. 

Boeing is also well-known in the field. Although I'm not experienced in the field of the aerospace to automobile technology in general, I am still familiar with the name Boeing for numerous reasons. Because of this reason alone in addition to the fact it holds a large portion of the airplane manufacturing industry, I have decided to buy this stock.

​Hence, I have decided to buy for about 159$ per share.

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Last time on this blog, I sold all of my stocks from JYP Entertainment. My first investment ended up bringing 70% in revenue, which I am greatly grateful for. As of now because I don't see any good opportunities in the South Korean stock market, I have decided to start investing in the American stock market.

I initially hoped to invest in the hotel or airline industry because of their huge stock decline due to COVID-19 but changed my mind as I am still inexperienced in this field. As of now, the giant tech stocks seem to be overpriced as the summer stock rise has made them out of reach for a high school trader. 

Hence, I decided on investing in the food industry. I originally planned on investing in McDonald's stocks as they had a nice valuation at approximately $190. However, while setting up eBest Mobile into the international platform where I can trade stocks from companies in America, China, and Hong Kong, I lost my chance and McDonald's stocks went up to 200-210 dollars. 

As a result, I decided to settle on Starbucks. Although it has pretty much a monopoly on the coffee retailing industry, it seems to have a low valuation in the general food industry. Most stocks (at least for the bigger companies) in that industry are valued at the low $100s but Starbucks is currently in the mid $70s.

I have decided to invest in this stock as a conclusion. I bought it on the 7th of August at $75. 

Please contact me if you have any comments!

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​It seems that I'll be investing in another Korean entertainment company stock: CJ ENM. 

To give background to this company, CJ ENM is one of the largest distributors of media in South Korea, producing countless music hits and award-winning movies. The company however was recently involved in a scandal regarding the Produce 101X series, dropping their stock prices down. 

The settings for this stock was in low 100,000KRW, and its mostly beed at exactly 105,000KRW for the past few months since the stock drops in early 2020. However, following that stock push in the first few days of July, it currently sits at 113,000KRWish, making it a stock that has good potential. The pre-COVID-19 stock price was in the 130,000KRW-160,000KRW, making it a stock that has good potential even if it returns to the normal listing. 

Moreover, with the current trends given by the Hallyu, or the Korean wave as they call it, I think CJ ENM is a good buy. Its film, Parasite, recently won big and Korean movies, following Korean music, seems to be on the horizon for success. I thus think that its a good time to buy its now. Korean movies will succeed especially more when COVID-19 ends with the return of theater-watching. 

Hence, earlier today, I bought shares of the stock at 113,900KRW.

Please let me know if you have suggestions or comments!

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​This Tuesday, June 30th 2020, the Korean entertainment industry as a whole got boosted. SM and JYP Entertainment (which went up 10% from when I bought it 4 days ago) both went up by approximately 2,000 KRW. 

I conclude from this that this is evidence that the companies are managing to come back after the devaluation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although SM Entertainment already went up by 10%, I think this is good evidence that stocks will return to at least normal cost. 

For SM Entertainment, that is usually in the 34,000KRW and assuming I buy it now at around 24,000KRW, I still have an upwards chance of getting a boost of 40%. Moreover, the reasons I stated for JYP Entertainment and why that's a good buy still stands for this stock. But most importantly, although this is only known by K-pop fans or Korean people, SM Entertainment is the blue-chip in this industry. This is the Microsoft of Korean entertainment and is embedded deeply in Korean culture. 

Hence, today, July 3rd, I have made the decision to buy SM Entertainment in the morning at 24,200KRW. 

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​After debating for over 3 years on what stock to buy, I have decided on my first stock: JYP Entertainment. This is for numerous reasons.

1) I am a personal fan of the music that JYP Entertainment produces. I remember reading a book that talked about how small kids in the late 1900s invested in stocks they liked, such as Disneyland and McDonald's, only because they liked the company; they must be rich now. As a result, I'm buying the stock for the same reason; I like the company.

2) Looking at the graph though, I do think that now is a good time to buy. Unlike the American stock market, which seems to go up endlessly, the Korean market over the past few years have had a certain minimum and maximum it faces. In the case of JYP Entertainment, the minimum seem to be around 17,000-18,000 KRW. The stock listing is changing but it's in the low 19,000KRWs right now.

3) As you all know, the recent development of K-pop has been unbelievable. It's experiencing popularity in trends never seen before and I do think its a good time to buy for that reason.

4) Because of the COVID-19 pandemic as well, I think the music industry will prosper. I think the companies are struggling to change from a concert-based system to an online format but once that change occurs, I think that they'll profit once more and experience a higher valuation in the markets.

5) Putting everything aside, I think that history of the company as well as its leadership is excellent. Even when the Burning Sun scandal of 2019 (the biggest scandal in K-pop industry in which countless stars were found to be involved in illegal activities) occurred, JYP Entertainment artists were not included. Other entertainment companies listed on the market were found to have some involvement in major scandals (including but not limited to the Burning Sun scandal).

Hence, I have decided to buy stocks in JYP Entertainment. I'm not sure yet if it's correct to open up how much I spend buying stocks but I have bought it at 18,900 KRW on Friday, June 26th.

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​Hello again everyone! Welcome back to my journey on investing at 16! Here are a couple of updates that I have decided on before I get started.

1) I have decided to use the eBest Mobile trading platform to trade in the Korean market. It turns out that my parents keep most of their usable money in the bank that owns the system and it seems to be easy to use. 

2) For now, I'm going to push back on investing in the American market. Obviously, things aren't exactly stable because of the number of people who have been getting COVID-19 in the US and stocks seem to be unpredictable for a new trader like me.

For now, I'll only be investing in the Korean market. 

Please message me if you have any suggestions!

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With the end of the AP exams, I'll be trading stocks officially, buying my first stock soon! Unfortunately, because school is not over yet, I'll most likely wait until June to make my first trade.

​Hello everyone! This is a new passion project I have decided to undertake to pursue my passion for the stock market. I've been interested in investing money into the stock market ever since I was 13 but due to age constraints, parental disagreements, and lack of knowledge in the market, I have been pushing this off until now. However, I have been studying the markets over the past 3 years; specifically, I've been studying the giant tech markets in Silicon Valley and the Korean entertainment industry.

I recently began discussing with my parents on how I can invest as the legal age to start investing is 18. From what I could tell through research, there are ways for younger teenagers to invest utilizing a system where a parent looks over their kid's account. However, the easiest way, and the way I plan on doing it, is to just use my dad's account. Although this means that the money invested legally and officially has no binds to me, I found this to be the most efficient way to try out investing!

For now, I'm still setting up numerous accounts with my dad to see which one to utilize. I plan on investing in both the South Korean and American market, meaning I need to find a trading platform that allows for both. I've checked out the more common ones such as Webull, Fidelity, TD Ameritrade, and Robinhood (for the American markets) so far and plan on settling on Robinhood for now. As for the Korean market trading platform, I plan on utilizing eBest Mobile, which is a platform that's connected to a Korean bank.

I have yet to buy my first stock and I'm looking over. Because of the amount of research I did over the past 3 years in the Silicon Valley tech startups and the Korean entertainment industry, I plan on buying stocks in one of those two categories for now. 

Please message me if you have any suggestions!

Hello everyone! Welcome to the start of my blogs channel! I'm so excited to be able to start this initiative to

Over the past 6ish years since 5th grade, I've been researching and studying the stock market to one day enter the field as a trader. After much deliberation, my parents agreed to let me start trading over this pandemic. 

​Obviously right now, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the sudden drop in stocks recently, I can't buy stocks because of the general instability in the stock market as of now. However, I have a feeling that because the stock market has always returned, we'll most likely return to normal life eventually. I believe as a result that the stock market will move back up and that this is an important opportunity.

I'll be  updating on this blog as I go and update every time I make an important decision in my stock trading journey. 

I look forward to sharing everything here with people! 

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