LS Securities Expands Prize Pool for Long-Short Community Event

LS Securities announced on December 18 that it has changed the way it operates events for Long-Short Community users, expanding both the prize money and the pool of eligible participants.

The Long-Short Community is an interactive platform where users can gauge market sentiment and share their opinions by voting on the direction of the domestic stock market (long, neutral, or short). Since July, LS Securities has been holding periodic events, awarding prizes to customers who accurately predict market movements. The current event, the fifth round, will run until January 7, 2026.

Starting from this fifth round, the subject of prediction voting has been changed from KOSPI200 Futures to the KOSPI200 Index itself. The structure has been revamped to focus on predicting overall market trends rather than futures products.

The prize money for each prediction accuracy tier has also been increased from 3 million won to 5 million won. This aims to boost participation by raising the level of rewards.

The range of eligible participants has also been expanded. Previously, only domestic futures and options traders could participate, but from the fifth round onward, customers trading exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are also eligible to join the event and win prizes.

The Long-Short Community prize event divides customers into groups based on the total number of correct predictions: those with five or more, ten or more, and fifteen or more correct predictions. The prize money for each tier is distributed equally among customers in that group. In the previous fourth round, one customer who achieved fifteen or more correct predictions received the entire 3 million won prize for that tier, while ten customers who made ten to fourteen correct predictions each received 300,000 won.

Separately, all customers who succeed in their first long or short position prediction receive a commission voucher. Additionally, those who achieve ten consecutive correct predictions receive 300,000 won, and those with thirty consecutive correct predictions are awarded three don (approximately 11.25 grams) of gold.

Detailed information about the event can be found on the LS Securities Tuhon HTS and Tuhon MTS platforms.

Meanwhile, LS Securities is striving to provide a variety of services and benefits to customers, including the recent launch of the CountFlow service, which uses machine learning to provide institutional and foreign investor supply-demand data, as well as a commission discount event for OPEN API users.