‘Blacksmith Ant’ who led the GameStop rebellion “I want to build a house first”

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kim Yong-rae = Keith Jill, a YouTuber with a two-year-old daughter and individual investor, who led the’ant investor revolt’ in response to the speculative short selling of a large hedge fund by GameStop, a video game retailer in the United States (34) to be.

He was a long-distance runner until college, said in an interview with the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) on the 29th (local time) that he would build a house with an indoor track in his hometown with the money he earned.

After the stock market close on the 21st, a WSJ reporter said that his online trading account, which he looked into with his permission, contained about $33 million (about KRW 37 billion) in options, stocks, and cash.

GameStop’s market cap from $1.3 billion (about 1.5 trillion won) at the end of last year has risen to more than $20 billion (about 2.2 trillion won) as a result of the war fought by Jill and other ant investors against the speculative short selling of hedge funds. .

Jill started investing in GameStop in June 2019. In the first half of this year, GameStop was struggling repeatedly, preparing for the fifth CEO appointment within a year.

Jill hasn’t played many video games other than the usual Super Mario, but decided that GameStop has the potential to attract new customers based on the latest game console. The stock price of GameStop, which was only around $5 at the time, is now reaching $325.

Jill introduced himself as a person who believed that he could find value in undervalued stocks, although he didn’t know the situation would grow this far.

Congress, the Fed (Fed), hedge funds, securities companies, and ant investors said that he did not start this job to attract the attention of hundreds of thousands of investors, but he is already a celebrity in the social network service (SNS) Reddit’s stock discussion room,’Wall Streetbets’.

Last summer, he opened a YouTube channel called’Roaring Kitty’ and is active. Reddit and YouTube were powerful weapons that allowed him to lead a’war’ against the short selling of huge hedge funds.

Many individual investors agree that with his initiative, the ant investor was able to unite strongly enough to inflict a big blow to the giant hedge fund.

One Reddit user said, “Your leadership has convinced you to buy and hold stock of (GameStop).” “Your example has changed the lives of thousands of ordinary people. Thank you. You deserve all that money.” There is” he wrote.

Until recently, he worked as a marketing staff at Massachusetts Life Insurance, who said he was a long distance runner until college. He was awarded at the National Athletics Championships while in college, and after completing his studies in accounting in 2009, he also obtained the CFA qualification.

The GameStop incident completely changed life overnight, but he said he has not yet made plans for the future.

First of all, I plan to build a new house while continuing to operate the YouTube channel as it is now.

He said he always wanted to build a house with an indoor track or field in his hometown, Brockton, Massachusetts, and that “I think I can really achieve it now.”

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