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15+ years in broking, trading and fintech, including Director of Growth at TradingView, and running his own macro book since 2014. Featured in FT Adviser, This is Money, the Daily Express and GB News. David writes the macro read and sets the themes each week.
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Joined FINK as a student in 2018, proved the system in his own portfolio, then joined the team in 2020. Tim runs the theme screens and the stock work behind Theme Watch and Stock in Focus, and keeps the community sharp. Living proof the method works.
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FINK Signal
Sent to subscribers · 25 July 2026
The Big Momentum Pivot™
The Big Read
The Big Momentum Pivot™ has been the story of the week - still.
Starting in Korea, it has shaped the headlines of the past 4 weeks (and has made for a very strange, boring and less profitable market.
Some data…
- Forced liquidations totaled ~2.3 trillion won from May through mid-July 14 (roughly May 707.7B + June 1.12T + early July 473.6B).
- July 1–10: 425.8 billion won (~$285–307 million) in forced sales tied to unpaid brokerage/consignment balances.
- July 1–13: reports of ~451.9 billion won in actual forced sales from unsettled trades.
- Estimated leveraged trading losses for retail investors: ~2.15 trillion won (~$1.45 billion) over roughly the prior month.
The leveraged trading part is super interesting to us.
Koreans had been seriously getting bulled up on SK Hynix and Samsung (which by the way, make up over 50% of the whole of the KOSPI) which is a double edged sword.
Yes, returns are amplified on the upside, but on the downside, losses are also amplified.
But the worse thing about the Korea situation is that these insane people were leveraging their leverage…
They were borrowing money to buy leveraged ETFs!
One trader (read gambler) used his entire student loan to buy leveraged ETFs…
We like the balls, but we don’t like the lack of foresight on risk management.
The effect of this has shifted across the world.
SoberLook has a great chart to see this.
Battered.
But where there is batterment, there is opportunity.
See there’s this thing in markets called dispersion.
It’s just the spread between the winners and the losers, how far the hot stocks are running away from everything else.
When that gap gets stupid wide, pure momentum strategies print money.
Buy the things that are already going parabolic, short the ones that aren’t.
Simple.
April and May of this year delivered some of the highest cross-sectional dispersion readings since the actual dot-com peak.
The stocks doing the heavy lifting were exactly the ones you’d expect… high-beta, high-momentum AI and semiconductor names, with a heavy Korean and Taiwanese flavour.
That is the fuel that sent the MSCI Momentum indices screaming higher relative to the market on SoberLook’s chart, the steep upward leg you can see starting around May.
The problem with extreme dispersion is that it also means the trade is crowded as hell.
Once the leadership breaks, the mean-reversion is violent.
The same names that were dragging the entire momentum factor higher suddenly become the ones dragging it lower.
You get the classic momentum crash where the relative performance lines on that chart don’t gently roll over, they fall off a cliff.
EM got hit the hardest because Korea (and Taiwan) were the purest, most leveraged expression of the whole thing.
So the Big Momentum Pivot isn’t some random rotation.
It’s the unwind of a period of historically elevated dispersion.
The forced selling in Seoul was just the most extreme, retail-levered version of the same process that is now washing through global momentum books.
Battered, yes.
But that is exactly when the opportunity shows up.
Extreme dispersion doesn’t stay extreme forever.
When the previous winners finally stop winning and the spread compresses, the next leg usually belongs to whatever was left behind.
The only question is whether you’re still staring at the wreckage of the last trade, or already looking for the new one.
This is a sample of what lands every Friday.
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