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zerohedge.com - Big short michael burry deregisters scion hedge fund after warning sometimes we see bubbles
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."

cnbc.com - Michael burry of big short fame deregisters scion asset management
“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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