He Shorted The Company In 2018. He Was Right. It Collapsed In 2020. He Lost Money Anyway. He Wants To Describe What Being Right Feels Like When You Lose.

Victor Osei shorted Vertex Capital Holdings in March 2018 after publishing a forty-page report detailing its overvaluation and concealed credit losses. Although he was correct, the company collapsed twenty-nine months later, costing him four hundred and twelve thousand pounds when his position expired eleven months earlier.