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Back to EpisodesMichael Burry's 2026 Portfolio Doesn't Exist: Steal His 3-Step Method Instead
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What is really inside Michael Burry's 2026 recession portfolio?
Nothing you can see.
Burry deregistered Scion in November 2025, so his book is now invisible.
In this episode of Making Billions, I explain why the portfolio every video claims to reveal probably does not exist, and show you Burry's actual method instead and how to run it in private markets where you operate.
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Instead of copying a portfolio you cannot see, I show you how to steal the method. Burry did not forecast a recession in the big short. He read the loan documents, found the exact reset date millions of borrowers could not survive, then bought a defined downside instrument with asymmetric upside.
Read the contract, find the date, buy the asymmetry, define the downside. That is the whole edge, and he ran the same playbook again in 2025.
The translation for private markets: you cannot short a buyout fund, but distress shows up as a date on which someone is contractually forced to transact.
For fund managers, allocators, family offices, and institutional investors, this is the framework for reading the calendar instead of the news and making sure you are still solvent when your date arrives.
Watch to learn why being right does not pay, but being right and solvent does.
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[THE HOST]: Ryan Miller is a fund manager, capital strategist, and former CFO turned angel investor in technology and energy. He is the founder of Fund Raise Capital and Aequor Capital Partners, and has mentored over 1,000