‘Blacksmith Ant’, who led the game stop short selling rebellion, invested 60 million won and 45 billion won… 75 times increase-Reporter Myung-Soo Kim

[김명수 기자] According to Yonhap News, an individual investor who led a revolt against the gamestop short-selling forces in the US stock market authenticated a stock account with 39.8 million dollars (about 45 billion won).

Market Watch reported on the 2nd (local time) that Keith Jill (34), who engaged in a game stop buying campaign through the Internet site Reddit and YouTube channels, released her account online.

The value of his GameStop stock was $19 million (about 21.4 billion won), and the value of Gamestop related options reached $8.9 million (about 10 billion won).

In addition, it was confirmed that he has a separate stock account of 11.9 million dollars (about 13.4 billion won) in cash.

The total amount stamped on the account amounted to 39.8 million dollars.

He invested 53,000 dollars (about 59 million won) in GameStop in June 2019.

Afterwards, Jill led the rebellion of ants against the short selling of hedge funds in Reddit’s stock discussion room’Wall Street Betz’ and her YouTube channel’Roaring Kitty’.

Investment performance in other stocks is unknown, but it is analyzed that Gamestop alone has generated tens of millions of dollars in profits.

In mid-February, as Gamestop stock prices stopped rising and plummeted, he was also faced with a situation where $10 million in a day disappeared from his account.

However, the recent rise in GameStop’s share price appears to have led to profits.

Jill, who played an active part as a long-distance runner while attending college, recently told The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) her dream of building a house with an indoor track in her hometown with the money earned from Game Stop.

While Keith Jill earned 75 times the profit from GameStop, not all ants who participated in the short selling rebellion realized profits.

Among the ants who belatedly participated in the news of the short-selling rebellion, there are only a lot of people who have suffered great losses. On January 27, GameStop’s stock price plunged from $347 to $63 on February 5.