India’s IPO market has one reliable trade, and it belongs to whoever applies for the right issues, not whoever applies for the biggest ones. Across 182 mainboard listings from 2019 to 2023 (capped at 2023 so that 3 year returns…
Hendrik Bessembinder asked a deceptively simple question of US stocks: do they actually beat Treasury bills? The answer, for most of them, was no. We ran the same test on the Indian market with an equal weight assigned to each…
One of the most common questions investors ask is, “what percentage of your trades are winners?” It sounds perfectly reasonable. And honestly, it’s the same question I would have asked a few years ago. We’re wired to think in terms…
We tested 835 overlapping 5-year periods on Nifty 500 data. At every holdback ratio, the Buy the Dip SIP loses to a flat SIP. The more you hold back, the more you lose. The dumb SIP wins because it never hesitates.
We mapped every trading day since 2008 across Nifty 50 and India VIX. Volatility doesn't arrive randomly — it travels in waves. Here's what 4,458 trading days look like laid out in a grid.