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I believe investing is a game of keeping powder dry and waiting for layups. So many investors miss this lesson. They stay fully invested in middling situations for various reasons—often...
Last summer, I recognized an odd phenomenon. An obscure entity named Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC – USA) was slowly cornering the free float in Bitcoin. This was a result of...
For most of my career, oil demand has grown each year and supply has roughly kept up. Sure, it’s overshot in both directions. We’ve seen shortages and we’ve seen gluts....
At the depths of the COVID crash, I began writing extensively about the equity market ramifications of unlimited fiscal and monetary stimulus. To start with, I believed it was obvious that...
Ever since GameStop (GME – USA) pulled off a Melvinator, I have had various short vol GME option trades on. Often, this was some combination of deep out of the...
On Getting Stolen From… [This post was originally published January 15, 2021. The AT transaction closed in 2021. The author’s positions and the market situation described here are historical.] Last...
I have a friend who’s a reasonably competent trader. He’s the type who draws his voodoo lines everywhere on the charts. He caught the trendline break on Bitcoin around $9,200. He...
View from JOE’s WaterColor Inn Back in June of 2018, I wrote an initial piece on St. Joe (JOE – USA), owner of approximately 175,000 undeveloped acres along with assorted commercial real...
I have spent a lot of time on this site speaking about “Project Zimbabwe”  as this period is so poorly understood and if you get it wrong, I think you’ll get annihilated....
Let’s set some ground rules here. As far as I’m concerned, Bitcoin is a Ponzi Scheme. If you think Bitcoin is the future of money, a store of value or...
Roughly a month ago on the afternoon of Sunday, March 8th, Fed Chairman Powell had an (fictional) emergency staff meeting. Powell: I want the nuttiest money printing plan ever. What action...
Originally published March 23, 2020 It’s said that you want to buy when others are fearful. It sure seems that investors are currently losing their minds. Look, I get it,...
Two months ago, something rather monumental happened, which seems to have been lost to the news-cycle. In a world starved for yield, a company with trailing twelve-month free cash flow...
I have watched the publicly traded Canadian cannabis sector in stunned awe for the past few years. I really cannot think of a worse place to be invested. You have...
Friend: Kuppy, stop the car!! Me: Uggh, again? Friend: Let’s get out. Me: We have 177,000 acres to visit. We can’t stop at every damn acre. Friend: Yeah, but not...
I like to remind people that “when it comes to finance, most things are pretty obvious; it’s the timing that’s hard…” Through nearly three decades of investing, this concept has...
If you’ve spent any amount of time on Twitter, you’ve likely come across the hypothesis that AI will bring an extinction level cataclysm for white collar workers. Instead of having...
Every time tech has one of its periodic moonshots, the same email shows up in my inbox from one of my investors. Some version of: “Kuppy, why don’t we own...
Should we be positioned for Feudalism?? Not as a joke, but as the only mental model that explains why the macro world acts the way it does right now. Should...
Last month, I chose to strip away all the hubris around AI and ask one simple question, one that oddly no one had really bothered to ask; how much revenue...
I’ve been at this investing game a long time. Long enough to see cycles repeat themselves, cycles that I literally thought I would never again see. Yet in finance, everything...

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