Investor flows
KOSPI Trading Value
Daily trading value on the KOSPI main board in trillions of won. As a gauge of market energy and participation, it qualifies index moves: an advance on expanding turnover carries different weight from one on shrinking volume.
Latest
12.01 tn KRW
-5.36 tn KRW
KOSPI Trading Value latest observations
- Observed
- 2026-10-27
- Latest
- 15.29 tn KRW
- Change from previous
- ▲ +2.30 tn KRW
Check the observation dates in both the summary and chart; release and refresh times can differ.
At a glance
KOSPI Trading Value: latest value and prior change
As of 2026-10-26, KOSPI Trading Value is 12.01 tn KRW. It is 5.36 tn KRW lower than 17.37 tn KRW on 2026-10-23.
Within the default comparison window of 1,000 observations from 2022-09-20 to 2026-10-26, the latest value is at the tie-adjusted 58th percentile. Available history covers 1995-01-03 to 2026-10-26 with 8,073 observations.
- Observed on
- Default comparison window
- 2022-09-20–2026-10-26
- Observations · observed cadence
- 1,000 · Daily
- Data source
- Bank of Korea ECOS
A high or low percentile does not by itself make the indicator positive, negative, or a buy or sell signal.
2026-07-28 → 2026-10-26 · tn KRW
- First
- 36.07 tn KRW
- 2026-07-28
- Latest
- 12.01 tn KRW
- 2026-10-26
- Window low
- 12.01 tn KRW
- 2026-10-26
- Window high
- 49.57 tn KRW
- 2026-07-31
The horizontal axis follows observation order; calendar intervals may differ. High and low refer to observed values within this window, not intraday or all-time extremes. Ties show the first observation date.
Time-series chart
KOSPI Trading Value
1995-01-03–2026-10-26
Long-history series are stored as real provider observations. Index, FX, VIX, and ratio charts use historical backfill where providers expose it; Korean investor flow and margin-credit feeds expand as stable historical endpoints become available.
Recent observations and calculated changes
The ten latest chart observations. Change subtracts the previous observation; intervals vary with holidays, release schedules and missing data. A difference in rates or ratios is not an investment return.
| Observed | Value | Previous date | Difference (current − previous) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-26 | 12.01 tn KRW | 2026-10-23 | -5.36 tn KRW |
| 2026-10-23 | 17.37 tn KRW | 2026-10-22 | 2.46 tn KRW |
| 2026-10-22 | 14.92 tn KRW | 2026-10-21 | -3.53 tn KRW |
| 2026-10-21 | 18.44 tn KRW | 2026-10-20 | 1.39 tn KRW |
| 2026-10-20 | 17.05 tn KRW | 2026-10-19 | -2.95 tn KRW |
| 2026-10-19 | 20.01 tn KRW | 2026-10-16 | -0.94 tn KRW |
| 2026-10-16 | 20.95 tn KRW | 2026-10-15 | -7.69 tn KRW |
| 2026-10-15 | 28.64 tn KRW | 2026-10-14 | 7.25 tn KRW |
| 2026-10-14 | 21.39 tn KRW | 2026-10-13 | -7.06 tn KRW |
| 2026-10-13 | 28.45 tn KRW | 2026-10-12 | 5.58 tn KRW |
Source: Bank of Korea ECOS
Interpretation guide
KOSPI trading value: the market's energy meter
KOSPI trading value totals the won amount of shares changing hands on the main board each day, measured in trillions. If price is the market's direction, trading value is the force behind it — the same index gain carries entirely different credibility depending on how much money actually moved to produce it.
Four combinations to read against price
Trading value has no direction of its own, so it must always be paired with the index. Each combination of rising or falling prices with expanding or shrinking turnover tells a different story.
- When index gains coincide with higher trading value, check advancing counts and investor-category net buying. More executed trading alone does not establish new inflows or a lasting rally.
- Gains on shrinking turnover mean the buying base is thinning — vulnerable to even modest supply.
- Declines on surging turnover can be capitulation, but they are also where large-scale hand-changing happens.
The two extremes a spike can mean
Days when turnover doubles its usual run are days the market's energy discharges at once. The same spike near the end of a long advance suggests a blow-off top, while at the end of a long decline it suggests washout selling — position, not the spike itself, decides the reading.
- Exploding turnover late in a rally, paired with fading upward momentum, warns of a climactic top.
- Turnover bursting during a plunge while the decline shrinks hints that selling is being absorbed.
- Exclude turnover inflated by derivative events such as quadruple-witching days from any flow signal.
Connecting it to the liquidity gauges
Trading value measures executed trades over a period, not how much of the point-in-time deposit balance was used for new purchases. The same funds can support repeated trades, and several investor categories contribute, so state the period and coverage when comparing it with deposits.
- If the trading-value-to-deposits ratio rises, check the contribution from higher trading value versus lower deposits. The ratio is neither a new-inflow measure nor a definitive overheating threshold.
- When trading value and margin credit both rise, record their market composition and changes over the same period separately. Co-movement does not reveal the share of actual trades financed by credit.
- Long dry spells of bottom-range turnover mean attention has left — and, paradoxically, often form the backdrop for bottoms.