Current revenue of 8.4 billion won… Gamestop shares haven’t been sold yet
In the US stock market, it was confirmed that individual investors who led the revolt against the gamestop short-selling forces lost a significant portion of their profits due to the plunge in stock prices.
The New York Post announced on the 3rd (local time) that Keith Jill (34), who campaigned to buy GameStop through the Internet site Reddit and YouTube channels, opened a stock account that lost $13 million (about 14.5 billion won) in one day. It reported that it was released online.
Jill flew 5.2 million dollars (about 5.8 billion won) on the 1st of the battlefield.
The reason for this loss is that Gamestop’s stock price plunged 30.8% on the 1st and 60.0% on the 2nd.
Jill has 50,000 GameStop shares and a call option, the right to buy shares.
The valuation value stamped on his stock account at one time amounted to $33 million (about 37 billion won), but profits declined as the gamestop stock price plummeted.
However, he said he still earned 7.6 million dollars (about 8.4 billion won) from his investment in GameStop.
However, even after the stock price plunged, it was said to have not realized profits by selling shares.
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’.
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 GameStop.
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