He began circling. Buying derivatives. Shorting the parent company. Leveraging positions across three offshore accounts. Within two weeks, Volkov Capital had a $400 million bet against the entire sector.
“Regret is for sheep,” he said. “I ran with the wolves. And I’ll run again.” volk iz uoll strit
He served four years in a federal prison. Upon release, no bank would touch him. No fund would hire him. So he did what wolves do when the pack is gone: he went north. He began circling