About this site

The Witch of Wall Street is an independent publication re-published in May 2026 - the brainchild of a 20-something Big 4 Deals Associate with a relentless obsession for the narrative behind the numbers.

An accountant by profession, finance bro in spirit, and dealer in practice, I navigate the markets with a healthy skepticism and one goal: to see if the math actually holds up once the marketing wears off.

Driven by a long-standing passion for the technical and strategic side of dealmaking, I believe that beyond technical excellence, an accountant's job is to be an anchor of financial and economic reality, grounding every deal in cold substance rather than the optimistic projections often found in a pitch deck.

Outside the office, I eat, breathe, and live the markets: exploring investment strategies and market anomalies to understand how value is truly created, captured, or lost. My investment philosophy is rooted in the wreckage that is the 2008 financial crisis, serving as a permanent cautionary tale of what happens when the ledger loses its theter. Fueled by a daily dose of WSJ and Bloomberg, I spend my nights auditing the gap between market hype and economic gravity. My process is a synthesis of the gospels: the behavioral economics of Robert Shiller, the valuation rigors of Aswath Damodaran, and the timeless, common-sense wisdom of best friends Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger.

When governed by impulse, you might find me pulling a weekender at the casino tables, predicting "cockroach roads" in baccarat or bluffing through a high-stakes poker hand.

"A hundred million? What are you? A banker or a drug dealer?! Because if you're a banker, you can f**k right off."

- Angry man at a pub in Buckinghamshire