The criticism

That the channel’s shifts reflect mood rather than method: bearish in early 2022, bullish later, urgent titles in between.

His answer

Kevin’s account

The single biggest misconception about me is that I flip-flop. To fix that, I now use a bear-bull scale: 10 is all-in on margin, 1 is sell everything and go all cash. Right now I sit in the upper-8 range, still advocating no debt, but bullish on the economy at the moment. 1

What a risk framework looks like here

He does not publish position limits, stop-losses or hedging rules for leveraged or short positions, and he says he does not take such positions. His ETF hedged with cash and bonds rather than shorts. The discipline he does describe is the absence of leverage: no margin personally, no mortgage at the company, so a wrong call costs return rather than solvency.

The record

The early-2022 sell-everything call was wrong on timing, by his own later admission on the channel. It remains public. Whether the pattern since is discipline or drift is a judgment the archive lets a viewer make. 2

In his own videos

• June 2023: he sold 99.6% of his portfolio in January 2022 and went 5% short the market. So he has taken a short position, once, by his own account; the Q&A’s point is that he does not hedge with shorts as a practice. 3

From the September 29, 2026 Q&A

Kevin’s account

Kevin does not trade stocks; he only invests in stocks for the long term. He does trade sold puts, bullish, and very small amounts on prediction markets. Kevin does not short companies. 4