I Hope You Panic
Investors,
Panic.
I dare you.
In fact, I hope you panic.
Because that’s opportunity for those of us who stay cool, calm, and collected.
I’ve been an investor for 13 years now, which I admit isn’t a long time.
In that time, I’ve been obsessed with one goal: making money in the market, steadily.
Thankfully, I’ve learned a few things along the way and continue to achieve my goal.
But almost all of my lessons and improvements came from errors, mistakes, and tripping over my own feet — particularly when I allowed emotion to control my capital management.
Right now, I think investors who panic in this environment will make a mistake.
But those mistakes will force you to improve.
Or you can just listen to my warning…
Two wrongs don’t make a right.
The investors who are panicking right now are, without any doubt in my mind, the investors who allowed greed and FOMO to take control over the past 2-6 weeks.
Their mistakes are my opportunity.
They saw that quick money was being made, saw that their portfolios weren’t doing the same, then FOMO’d into the high-flying memory/AI/space stocks, only to squeeze out a bit of upside, increase their confidence, and get stuck holding a bag.
And I genuinely don’t know what’s going to happen next — these stocks could easily recover and make new highs in the coming weeks/months.
But the irony is that I’m seeing investors translate the price action in niche areas of the stock market, which were clearly in exuberant phases, and conflate the belief that the stock market as a whole will do the same thing.
It’s literally what I’m seeing on the timeline.
People are actually putting the South Korean stock market (aka the KOSPI) in the same breath as the Nasdaq-100, insinuating that the Q’s can fall -10% in a day and will burst.
Listen, the Nasdaq-100 CAN fall -10% in a day.
I’ve seen it. I’ve invested through that environment. I survived that price action.
But to put these two in the same sentence is ludicrous to me, at this moment in time.
Why?
Give me the courtesy to break this down for you, for your own sake.
First of all, just look at the charts:
🟢 KOSPI Composite Index
🔵 Nasdaq-100 Index
One is an exponential growth curve that literally ballooned in mid-2025.
The other is a steady production of higher highs and higher lows, linearly.
They are apples and oranges.
But aside from the clear difference in their trajectories, let’s talk about fundamentals…
The KOSPI Composite Index has a clear difference in composition:
The two largest holdings in the KOSPI are Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, combining for an aggregate weighting of… get this… roughly 53%! FIFTY THREE PERCENT! Coming in at 28% and 25%, respectively. The third largest component, SK Square Co., has a weighting of 2.88%.
In order for the Nasdaq-100 to reach the same aggregate weighting, we’d need to combine the 13 largest holdings of the index, comprised of elite-level MVPs.
I mean, what are we even talking about here?
Like I said: apples and oranges.
This is why I feel so strongly about the need to stay composed and calm in this market.
Uneducated investors are citing this as an actual justification to be concerned about the U.S. stock market, which is absolutely hilarious to me.
Especially when we consider this…