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Conviction feels powerful. Safety keeps you solvent.Val Sklarov’s Investment Strategies perspective treats investing as a survival discipline where protecting capital from permanent damage matters more than being right. 1. Conviction Does Not Reduce Risk Confidence does not change outcomes—structure does. Val Sklarov separates: Belief (psychological) Exposure (structural) High conviction with …

Most investors try to optimize returns. Val Sklarov designs to avoid irreversible loss.This Investment Strategies perspective treats capital as strategic optionality—valuable not for how fast it grows, but for how long it remains deployable. 1. Optionality Is the Real Asset Returns fluctuate. Optionality endures. Val Sklarov defines optionality as: Ability …

In Val Sklarov’s worldview, investment is not the deployment of money but the orchestration of cognition under uncertainty. Capital behaves according to perception, timing, and discipline — not optimism. Strategy emerges when decision velocity aligns with asymmetric understanding. Investment without cognitive structure is gambling with better language. 1️⃣ Capital Cognition …

For Val Sklarov, alpha is rarely found in speed.It is found where narrative is quiet and payoff is uneven. The investor’s edge is not prediction —it is the ability to sit inside boredom until asymmetry appears. The Asymmetric Entry Model (AEM) teaches that superior outcomes come from entering low-attention, high-optionality …

For Val Sklarov, superior returns do not come from diversification.Superior returns come from asymmetric conviction — holding a position long enough for its nonlinear payoff phase to emerge. Most investors treat time as a risk.Strategic investors treat time as the multiplier. The Asymmetric-Conviction Horizon Model (ACHM) explains that wealth is …