WoSSCapital

Most people don’t struggle financially because they’re lazy or incapable. They struggle because they follow financial narratives that extract value from them — not build wealth for them. I’ve spent 25+ years in markets and personal finance, watching the same stories repeat — and the same mistakes follow. On this account, I share how to: • think clearly about money, markets and technical analysis • spot and avoid costly financial narratives • manage risk like a professional • become a more thoughtful, resilient investor and trader For my deeper analysis, start here ↓ open.substack.com/pub/wosscapital

Managing Risk in Distributions? You must understand the statistics based definitions of type I and type II errors. Want to know more? See last night's Investor & Trader Series article.

@2147mill Fine strategy if volatility drag risk is something you're willing to accept. I often see this framed as protection against market timing risk with the assumption naked long is risk-free. It isn't, it's risk different. Fine if you understand and accept those different risks.

A mindset that has helped me with investing is realising there is no need to ever cash out or sell. The plan is to eventually live on the income from my investments so removing the thoughts of selling really does ease the mind. Literally keep buying whenever I can and each buy gets me one step closer to being able to stop working at the fiat mine. Agree?

You're not choosing for life. You can absolutely use a cheaper platform during accumulation then transfer that account to a platform better for the drawdown phase before you get there. With a 20+ year time horizon that might not even be HL down the line. Best to optimise for the phase you're in currently, in my opinion, avoiding excessive fee compounding drag. SIPPs are fairly flexible that way.

@MarkDampier @hewantswealth @HLInvest For this reason I think I’ll stick with HL … others might have fancier tech, but when it comes to the crunch it seems that HL does deliver.

Let me know once you are in draw down of your experience with Trading212! 🙏

Explainer from yesterday's article on distributional thinking and risk management that encompasses the full range of probability. Narrative is great for engagement, risk management is great for returns. More in the full article.

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Managing the full distribution of probable outcomes is where institutional grade risk management lives. 'Conviction', whether bull or bear, ignores at least one tail, skewing distributions asymmetrically against you. Narratives entertain, but managing risk is profitable. 📈

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Understanding the show in your distribution is key to portfolio level risk management. Volatility Drag flattens the equity curve significantly. Understand more in tonight's article

Enjoy, and please do share with anyone else you think would benefit. Read and listen (Substack app) here open.substack.com/pub/wosscapita…

New article from the Investor & Trader Series this evening, focused on distributional thinking & how managing risk to avoid negative skew provides edge. Intermediate to advanced content as I flesh out the second of my three focus areas a little. —WoSS

You're making the assumption that everyone buys cap weight S&P500 and that short term returns are maintained across time horizons. Equal weight options do exist, and over the long run buying equal weight has proven to be a decent edge. Essentially, it's the Value versus Momentum decision.

The S&P 500 is a lie? It’s not 500 companies performing well. It’s 7 tech giants dragging 493 average businesses across the line. Microsoft. Apple. Nvidia. Amazon. Google. Meta. Tesla. They ARE the return. The rest is potentially dead weight. So why are we still pretending diversification into mediocrity is a strategy? Should we all just be buying the Nasdaq? Genuine question.

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Another explainer from this week's report. I include a few of these in every article to explain something I've referenced to keep them accessible to those not so experienced in markets. Interested in more? Check out the full article and my deeper dive body of work on substack

One of the explainer sections from yesterday's weekly report. Have you read/listened yet?

@AltcoinDaily Guy who makes money on commissions encourages people to drive up commissions. I, for one, am shocked at this revelation. Seriously, incentives and trade-offs, the heart of economics.

Tom Lee explains why you should still be bullish on crypto and stocks in 2026 despite the Iran War:

As the husband of a teacher, there are far bigger issues in the Scottish education system than homework and exams. I'd go as far as to say that removing even more accountability from parents exacerbates the problems teachers are seeing with basic hygiene, parental responsibility transfer and violence. Parents need to be encouraged to take more responsibility for their children and their education, not less. Schools aren't daycare centers responsible for raising other people's children, as many seem to treat them. Changes like this, without encouraging parental responsibility, risks making the problems in our schools worse.

🚨NEW: The Scottish Greens have called for primary school homework and secondary school exams to be scrapped [@heraldscotland]

@austinsilverfx Out of interest, against a backdrop of evidence to the contrary, what data suggests to you the war is nearing an end? Happy to listen if you have anything to corroborate the view.

People in my comments are ripping me for saying the war may be nearing an end… It almost feels like some want it to continue. That’s the scary part. Too many people are stuck in a doom-scroll cycle—fed constant fear, outrage, and worst-case narratives until it becomes their baseline. At some point, you’re not informed… you’re conditioned.

A lot of absolutes here for a world of probability. “Will”, “inevitable”, “locked in”, “10x–100x". Sounds like narrative to me, not analysis. In reality, markets move on liquidity, positioning, and risk conditions and those aren’t guaranteed here. In uncertain distributions like the one we have currently, capital tends to concentrate at the center, it doesn’t flood into high beta edges like Bitcoin, never mind alts and memes. Crypto can go higher, sure. But treating it as inevitable is how people end up on the wrong side of risk. Likely the same people who have been since November. Markets reward risk management though, not conviction. This isn't risk management.

The next 6-10 months will feel like a money printer. Bitcoin will break ATH, then ETH follows. Billions will flood into mid and low caps. Alts and memes will send 10x-100x. Total crypto market cap is heading for $8-$10T. Just hold. Whales will try to shake you out, don’t fall for it. The real money is in patience. Altseason and Memeseason are locked in. BlackRock isn’t getting our bags cheap. BTC to $200K-$300K is inevitable. Like this tweet, and I’ll share the alts and memes I’m buying. Follow me so you don’t miss it.

The “Gold to Bitcoin rotation” narrative is one of those ideas that sounds cool, but doesn’t survive even the lightest of scrutiny. In reality, Gold and Bitcoin don’t sit in the same part of the risk spectrum, so they’re not competing for the same capital in the way people imply in these theories. Gold is accumulated as a hedge against financial repression, geopolitical risk, and policy credibility. But Bitcoin, today at least, still trades as a high beta risk asset with flows driven by liquidity conditions and risk appetite rather than reserve management decisions. That’s just the reality of where these assets sit in portfolios. Including mine. When Gold moves higher and Bitcoin doesn’t, it’s not because capital is “choosing” one over the other. That's a category error. They're just responding to different drivers. Calling that a “rotation” like so many posters do assumes a shared capital pool that largely doesn’t exist between these assets. It also assumes institutional allocators treat Bitcoin as a substitute for Gold. They most certainly don’t, not yet at least. I think that in a fully developed portfolio they’re complementary, not competing. Gold protects in repression where Bitcoin participates in debasement/liquidity expansion. Different regimes and different roles, which is why I allocate to both and manage them individually based on their individual risk profiles. I've been out of Bitcoin since November and will be mostly out of gold on tomorrow's open. The rotation narrative, for me and plenty of others I respect certainly, is just an attempt to force a simple story onto a far more complicated system that’s driven by conditional liquidity and risk-weighted capital allocation.

It's going to be an interesting opening. The CME Gap is at $70.1K. I would assume we'll see a bounce upwards, and Oil going to go down. Gold to bounce upwards soon too, for a short bounce, before $BTC takes the momentum.

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From this week's report. Overall Risk Status has increased to "Severe" and Valkyrie has reduced further to cash as it continues to position for distributional skew. Want more detail, read or listen to the full report.