According to NextTrade, Korea's first alternative trading platform, the average daily transaction amount increased by nearly 3.8 trillion won within a month after completing the expansion of tradable items.
On the 6th, according to NextTrade, the average daily transaction amount from March 31, when the number of tradable items was expanded to 794, until the 2nd of this month was recorded at 3.7731 trillion won. Since its launch in March, NextTrade has continuously increased the number of tradable items from 10 to 110 and 350. The maximum number of tradable items is capped at 800.
After the final expansion of the number of tradable items, looking at the average daily transaction amount on a weekly basis, it surged from 2.8336 trillion won in the first week (March 31 - April 4) to 3.8364 trillion won in the second week (April 7 - 11), then slowed to 3.5780 trillion won in the third week (April 14 - 18). It rebounded to 4.2463 trillion won in the fourth week (April 21 - 25) and 4.5206 trillion won in the fifth week (April 28 - May 2). On the 25th and 28th of last month, the daily transaction amount exceeded 5 trillion won.
The market contracted due to the universal reciprocal tariff shock from the Donald Trump administration but has revived as transactions became more active, which has also led to a revival in the volume of transactions on NextTrade.
NextTrade's pre-market and after-market transactions are also becoming more active. The pre-market is open from 8 a.m. to 8:50 a.m., and the after-market is open from 3:40 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The average daily transaction volume in the pre-market increased more than 2.6 times from 277.4 billion won in the first week of the final expansion (March 31 - April 4) to 729.6 billion won in the fifth week (April 28 - May 2). During the same period, the average daily transaction volume in the after-market also jumped from 281.4 billion won to 740.1 billion won, an increase of over 2.6 times.
NextTrade's proportion of the overall transaction amount in the Korea Exchange (KOSPI and KOSDAQ markets) has also grown from the 10% range to 24.5% in the fifth week (April 28 - May 2).
However, the phenomenon of individual investors 'crowding' remains prevalent. By investor type, individual investors account for about 95% of the transaction amount on NextTrade, while institutional investors remain around 1%, and the proportion of foreign investors has risen to around 4%.