Korean retail investors trading cryptocurrencies and US stocks are really just like gamblers, wildly leveraging, completely addicted to high-stakes betting, and utterly insane.

According to the latest data from the Korea Financial Investment Association, as of last week, the amount of outstanding margin loans for Korean retail investors reached 21.6 trillion won, a high point in nearly a year.

Korean retail investors especially like Circle and betting on expiration date options in the US stock market, while their trading habits in the cryptocurrency market appear to be more normal, focusing on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and SOL.

With leverage maxed out, it's either heaven or hell; this high-stakes philosophy in Korea is hard to imitate.