Michael Blurry of Big Short Fame Quits-Liquidates Hedge Fund

We’ll begin with the famous quote from economist John Maynard Keynes: “The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”

It’s a reminder that even the smartest traders in the room, the ones who’ve built entire careers calling bubbles and shorting tops, can be steamrolled when markets detach from reality.

Scion Asset Management 13F revealed that roughly 80% of his put positions were concentrated in the high-flyers Palantir and Nvidia.

Burry sent a letter to investors late last month, noting: “With a heavy heart, I will liquidate the funds and return capital — but for a small audit/tax holdback — by year’s end.”

Almost admitting he is wrong: “My estimation of value in securities is not now, and has not been for some time, in sync with the markets.”

“Big Short” investor Michael Burry, known for his successful bets against the U.S. housing market in 2008, has deregistered his hedge fund, Scion Asset Management.

The Securities and Exchange Commission’s database showed Scion’s registration status as “terminated” as of November 10. Deregistering would imply the fund is not required to file reports with the regulator or any state.

Bets by Scion, which managed $155 million in assets as of March, have long been dissected for hints of looming bubbles and signs of market froth.

In a post on social media platform X on Wednesday, Burry said, “On to much better things Nov 25th.” Scion Asset Management did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Burry has stepped up criticism of technology heavyweights, including Nvidia
and Palantir Technologies
, in recent weeks, questioning the cloud infrastructure boom and accusing major providers of using aggressive accounting to inflate profits from their massive hardware investments.

“Burry’s decision feels less like ‘calling it quits’ and more like stepping away from a game he believes is fundamentally rigged,” said Bruno Schneller, managing director at Erlen Capital Management.

Burry has argued that as companies such as Microsoft
, Alphabet
-owned Google, Oracle
and Meta
pour billions into Nvidia chips and servers, they are also quietly stretching out depreciation schedules to make earnings look smoother.

Between 2026 and 2028, those accounting choices could understate depreciation by about $176 billion, inflating reported profits across the sector, he estimated.

“Don’t count him out, just expect him to operate off the grid for a while. He may simply pivot to a family-office setup and run his own capital,” said Schneller.

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I read that he still owns millions in PLTR and NVDA LEAPS puts that don’t expire until 2027. I think he still had a good chance of being right.

Hawkwin

Who will be taking a look at buying some of those puts too.

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That is too complex.

WEB was not primarily a short. He understood value.

Burry will not have a fund I would ever do business with.

Burry isn’t looking to manage your money and handhold investors. That’s why he’s closing his hedge fund.

He’s going to concentrate on managing his own money.

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I am against my investing in short funds. That is my principle. The risk is unnecessary.

Burry is a valuation master. He was 2 years early in the real estate collapse. Now he is betting on an AI bust.
I don’t have the guts to short stocks.
I stink at timing the market. So I’m keeping invested. I do expect a 50% decline in valuation. But when?
As long as I do not have to sell and can wait for a return to the former valuation I’m ok. Though that could take a year or two. And I purchased most of my holdings at lower valuations.
Having said the above; I haven’t invested any more money into the market this year. Just building my cash stash. That appears to be what Warren Buffett is doing now.

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Some names are already >40% off of their highs.

NBIS for example is ~40% at the moment.

Just a few more ticks down from here.

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