Trap Bunnies or Hunt Stags
What entrepreneurs understand that traders miss
Last week, Naval Ravikant said something in his podcast that landed in a way it wouldn’t have five years ago.
“If each of us are hunting by ourselves, we can kill a bunny. But if the two of us hunt together, we can take down a stag. And then we can have a lot more meat to go around.”
Startup entrepreneurs grasp this intuitively: skilled teams collaborating in high-trust settings carry a material advantage over isolated individuals.
But traders and investors can be slower to learn this truth. The mythology of market speculation is a solitary one: the lone savant, the self-made millionaire, the romantic ideal of the deeply secluded obsessive.
I spent a large portion of my trading career inside that mythology and still trade this way at my prop firm. I take satisfaction in sharpening my sword week in and week out.
But trading together at Macro Ops—as The Collective—we achieve something else entirely.
We don’t trap bunnies. We take down stags.
Navigating the last two months of market turmoil is the clearest example.
In the first week of March, as the conflict in Iran escalated, we made a joint decision: flatten our equity book entirely. No heroics. Just out.
Here is what our Macro Ops Team Lead, Alex, shared with The Collective:
In the month that followed, we sidestepped deep corrections in tech and an overall risk-off skid across the indices.
Then, on April 4th, I spotted price action in the Russell suggesting strength was returning. I called it out in my weekly report.
Alex took the idea and ran with it.
He identified favorable positioning in the Russell, alongside a confirming Trifecta of data inputs, signaling an intermediate bottom in risk assets.
He framed the trade. Our Macro Ops portfolio went long the same day.
Six days later, our lead equity analyst Brandon—who had been tracking a starter position in Intel supporting the risk-on environment—opened a basket of AI and tech names for the portfolio.
The names added included Oracle, Intel Corp, Bloom Energy, and the AI & Technology ETF, CHAT.
Over the four weeks that followed:
The Russell moved from 2,550 to new all-time highs just shy of 3,000.
Oracle moved from 153 to 200.
Bloom Energy from 176 to 310.
CHAT from 70 to 89.
Intel from 52 to 130.
Our Macro Ops Portfolio surged to a high watermark of +61.2% YTD before settling at +50.9% YTD as of this writing.
This is what it looks like to hunt stags.
The collaboration extends beyond our core team.
Every week, members of The Collective share research, setups, and trade ideas from across specializations and geographies—ideas that would never cross an isolated trader’s desk, surfaced, vetted, and acted on together.
Discounted Korean corporates trading at 40% NAV discounts with active share buyback programs:
U.S.-based clean energy plays positioned to capture data center power demand:
The Macro Ops Collective is where private investors, CIOs, and individual traders come together to do what none of us can do alone.
Every member is entrepreneurial in spirit. Every member has come to understand that high-trust collaboration in markets isn’t a soft advantage—it’s a structural one. The kind that shows up in your returns at year end.
We’re building the next evolution of the Collective right now, arming every one of our operators with best-in-class tools, research, and infrastructure for the hunt ahead. As these features roll out, we’ll be raising the membership price. You can lock in the current rate by joining today.
Enrollment is open until this Sunday at midnight.
If you’re ready to stop trapping bunnies and start taking down stags, join us on the hunt.