Al SangmuOctober 2, 2026

R's Trading Station (1002 Fri)

What to look for
Explore Friday's RTS lineup, from weekly KOSPI and KOSDAQ charts and reviews of materials, parts and equipment stocks and individual stocks to interpretations of the US–China talks, a space special and an AI analogy.
Why it matters
Understanding how to review weekly charts, trading flows, foreign investor activity and margin borrowing can help you establish your own criteria for interpreting market review indicators.

On October (month 10) 2, Executive Director Al reviews the KOSPI's recovery to 7000 and weekly decline of 1%, alongside the KOSDAQ's surge of 5.7%, on RTS. He covers exchange rates, strength in materials, parts and equipment stocks, the entrenched top 10, CPI at 3%, rising interest rates and Micron's earnings. He interprets the US–China summit and the unilateral announcement of a South Korea–US investment agreement as diplomatic and geopolitical risks. Ahead of the release of a critical documentary about Musk, he examines the dream-driven share valuations of Tesla and SpaceX. He discusses foreign investor selling, increasing margin borrowing, individual stock charts, US big tech and the liquidity dam theory for quarter 4. He presents a space special that moves from Brad Pitt's filmography to Ad Astra. He reviews the history of the space race and the sharp decline in NASA's budget, then concludes with an AI analogy that likens AGI to Mars. All directional outlooks are the speaker's conditional judgments, not definitive predictions of short-term prices.

Timeline

12 segments

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