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Eleven rounds of testing failed to stop a momentum portfolio losing money in bad years; swapping in the twenty calmest liquid names did it, though the headline Sharpe of 1.84 is inflated by survivorship and unexecutable prices.
Six rounds of testing on a ten-year panel of Indian stocks, net of fees, evened out a lumpy strategy - but only by removing its signal, and the returns that remain rest on survivorship and prices nobody can trade at.
A decade-long test of intraday short-selling on Indian equities found the largest raw edge in the hardest-to-trade names, which is exactly where costs swallowed all of it and more.
Drawing the calmest names from the full Nifty 500 rather than the most-traded hundred turned a lumpy backtest into ten positive years and a Sharpe of 1.86 — at a level the study itself says survivorship inflates.
India VIX ran 2.5 percentage points above the movement that actually arrived, but only the defined-risk version of the trade kept its worst loss inside the limit, and the whole study rests on a proxy rather than real option prices.
Our first run said an outside momentum recipe was overstated. It was our data that was wrong: on dividend-adjusted prices the rule scored a Sharpe of 1.10 against the Nifty's 0.66 — on a universe of survivors.
Rebuilt on dividend- and split-adjusted prices, a low-volatility book kept a Sharpe of 1.93 and still managed 1.76 when restricted to large caps, while momentum's apparent strength leaned on the part of the market most likely to flatter a backtest.
A test of retail-executable fund-house algorithms on the Nifty from 2007 to 2026 found that a monthly switch between the index, gold and cash scored a Sharpe of 0.76 against 0.25 for buy-and-hold, and held up in every sub-period it was cut into.
Strota tested small fixed intraday targets five different ways. Every one lost. A fixed 0.0824% round trip, plus a 0.340% penalty on stop-triggered entries, swallowed effects worth 2 to 16 basis points.
Across 9,760 signals over six years of Nifty 500 data, the breakout the screen publishes nightly averaged -0.29% as it would actually be traded — and the friendlier long-horizon numbers answer a different question.
Gold and silver both rose on the MCX on Friday, but reports locate the mechanism in a squeezed physical silver market: global stockpiles under pressure and industrial buyers absorbing metal, against a backdrop of easing oil prices and U.S. rate expectations.
Cheaper instruments, delayed entries, sweep-and-reverse chart patterns and stacked indicator filters were all tested on Indian equities. None cleared costs, and three failed for reasons that had nothing to do with their signals.
Over the tested history, a long-only book buying Nifty 500 names that opened 5-7% down returned about 10-13bp per calendar day at Sharpe 1.1-1.5 — with survivorship, tail risk and a hard capacity ceiling attached.
Crude slipped on Thursday after reports of a fresh Iran-Oman understanding over the Strait of Hormuz, easing inflation worries from Tokyo's bond market to Mumbai's open. A stalling AI rally pulled the other way.
Economic Times reported a firmer start on Wall Street as Middle East tensions cooled and crude slipped, while Indian benchmarks pushed a handful of familiar names to fresh 52-week highs. Here is what those two green screens actually tell an ordinary investor - and what they do not.
Foreign institutional holdings in Indian listed companies fell to a fourteen-year low in the June quarter, according to a report from Economic Times, even as promoters raised their own stakes to a two-year high and domestic money absorbed the exit.
Brent slid to $83.56 a barrel on Monday after President Trump paused strikes on Iran to chase a nuclear deal, according to Economic Times. Gold went the other way. Somewhere in between sits an ordinary household's fuel bill.
According to a report from Chosun Ilbo, South Korean police have arrested a group accused of running a cryptocurrency fraud worth 12.3 billion won. The report is a single line long, yet the shape of the loss behind it is one savers anywhere would recognise.
Chevron cleared analyst expectations and Exxon's profits climbed as crude prices jumped, according to a report from Investing.com India. The bigger story is the short, direct line between a war risk premium, a household fuel bill and a very good quarter for Big Oil.
Three separate police and press reports in one news cycle sketch the same industry from different angles: a fake Flare Network page that drained investors' XRP, a European ring taken down, and a Rs 34.33 crore case in the Northeast.
From unlocked smartphones to AI-generated news anchors, investment scams have mutated into a global industrial operation that now rivals the GDP of small nations—and no demographic is safe.
From a 76-year-old's $1.6 million life savings to a $25 million crypto seizure in the U.S., investment scams have mutated into something far more ruthless—and far harder to escape.
From Oracle's dawn layoffs to Meta's AI-driven cuts, the tech industry has normalized mass terminations as a strategy—leaving workers scrambling for lost stock and severance while companies pour billions into automation.
A volatile earnings season reveals a market torn between explosive chip rallies and growing fears that tech's massive spending may not pay off.