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The Short Bear Vault. Contrarian, systematic trading research from a trader profiled in Market Wizards: The Next Generation. Equity deep-dives with the data behind them, the setups I'm tracking, and the backtests that support them.

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Pyramiding

An in-depth guide and strategy from a market wizard. Entry sequences, dynamic EV, sizing, exits, the math behind it all and more

Market Wizards Q&A Nr.2

Expectancy, correlation and how big you actually get to bet

Wall Street's $16,000,000 Disappearing Act

How banks turn a $30,000,000 insurance capital bill into $14,000,000 overnight, without selling a single loan.

Trade overview: Semiconductor short

The great rotation part 2: two weeks later with executions

The $3.7 Billion rebalance trade

How two Millennium pods turned the dullest feature of passive investing into a $3.7 billion month, and why Tesla set the stage for SpaceX to do it all over again, bigger

Trade overview: The great rotation

AI is the only crowded trade left holding the market up, and the tape is starting to tell on it. Here's where the money goes when it rotates from a market wizard.

Market Wizards Q&A Nr.1

Switching strategies, Exponential bet sizing and The silver trade I never talked about

The story of Optionsellers ~$150mil blowup

The story of Optionsellers ~$150mil blowup.

Fundsmith Terry Smith

This will become the document that encompasses all the lessons I learned from Terry Smith

Misses following the 2021/22 bear market

A compilation of the best opportunities I had prepared for and missed.

Bill Ackman's 2,650,000,000 trade

How Bill Ackman turned $27mm into $2,650,000,000 betting on a downturn