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Burry Asymmetric Contrarian skill

Use when evaluating Michael Burry-style contrarian, asymmetric, unpopular trades: deep mispricing, short theses, complex assets, forced consensus errors, and catalyst-driven downside/upside.

$npx skills add questflowai/investorskills --skill burry-asymmetric-contrarian
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Install Burry Asymmetric Contrarian

Pick your agent. Every command is ready to paste.

$npx skills add questflowai/investorskills --skill burry-asymmetric-contrarian

The open skills CLI detects your agents (Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and 70+ more) and installs to the right folder. Add -g to install globally.

01

Install it

Run the command above, or upload the folder in Claude.

02

Ask naturally

Describe the task. Your agent loads burry-asymmetric-contrarian when the request matches its description.

03

Name it if needed

If it does not trigger, say “use the burry-asymmetric-contrarian skill”. In Codex, type $burry-asymmetric-contrarian.

The skill itself

SKILL.md

GitHub

Burry Asymmetric Contrarian

Use this skill to apply Michael Burry-style contrarian research: read primary sources, find a non-consensus mispricing, define the exact mechanism that makes the market wrong, and structure a trade with large asymmetry and explicit time/carry risk.

When To Use

Use this skill when the user asks for:

  • Contrarian long or short analysis
  • Complex asset mispricing
  • Bubble, fraud, credit, mortgage, or capital-structure review
  • A Burry-style short thesis or deep-value thesis
  • Whether a hated or ignored asset has asymmetric payoff

Trigger phrases include Burry, Big Short, contrarian, asymmetric, bubble, short thesis, credit default, deep value, and unpopular trade.

Process

  1. Define consensus and why it may be wrong.
  2. Verify with primary documents, not summaries.
  3. Identify the exact mispricing mechanism.
  4. Define catalyst, time horizon, carry cost, and path risk.
  5. Size small enough to survive being early.
  6. Exit if facts invalidate the mechanism, not because the trade is unpopular.

Output Format

# Burry View: [Asset]

## Verdict
Asymmetric Long / Asymmetric Short / Watch / Too Early / Pass

## Consensus Belief
## Variant Perception
## Primary Evidence
## Trade Structure
## Catalyst And Timing
## Carry / Path Risk
## Invalidation

Guardrails

  • Do not be contrarian for its own sake.
  • Do not ignore borrow, carry, margin, or timing risk.
  • Do not use secondhand summaries when primary docs exist.
  • Do not size so large that being early becomes fatal.

Questflow Use

In Questflow, this skill is best used as a contrarian asymmetry module for deep research, shorts, complex assets, and Fund risk reviews.

Tips for Burry Asymmetric Contrarian

  • • Start a fresh session after installing so your agent picks up the new skill.
  • • It is part of a pack with 40 skills. Install only the ones you need with --skill to keep triggers precise.
  • • If two skills overlap, mention the one you want by name.

Questions about Burry Asymmetric Contrarian

What does the Burry Asymmetric Contrarian skill do?

Use when evaluating Michael Burry-style contrarian, asymmetric, unpopular trades: deep mispricing, short theses, complex assets, forced consensus errors, and catalyst-driven downside/upside.

How do I install Burry Asymmetric Contrarian?

Run "npx skills add questflowai/investorskills --skill burry-asymmetric-contrarian" in your project. The skills CLI installs it for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and 70+ other agents. In Claude on the web, upload the skill folder as a ZIP under Customize > Skills.

Does Burry Asymmetric Contrarian work in Cursor and Codex?

Yes. Burry Asymmetric Contrarian uses the open SKILL.md format, so it works in Claude Code, Claude, Cursor, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot and other agents that support agent skills.

Is Burry Asymmetric Contrarian free?

Burry Asymmetric Contrarian is open source on GitHub under the MIT license. It is free to install; check the license before commercial use.

Who made Burry Asymmetric Contrarian?

Burry Asymmetric Contrarian is published by questflowai in the questflowai/investorskills repository, together with 39 other skills.

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