An investor has posted his funding journey on social media platform X (previously often known as Twitter), claiming that he grew his portfolio from ₹5 lakh to ₹1.30 crore over a interval of seven years.
Recognized solely as “R”, with the deal with @AlphaWizarDD on X, the investor mentioned his investing journey started in 2018-19, with ₹5 lakh. He referred to as himself, self-learned utilizing books, YouTube, webinars, articles, including, “no shortcuts”.
At time of writing the publish was viral with greater than 59,000 views. Livemint couldn’t independently confirm the investor’s claims.
“From 5 lakh to 1.30 crore”: Investor shares how…
- Based on R, he started the primary 12 months by “copying stock tips from the “20-20 shares” suggestions and shorting them on opening. Made some cash, brokerage ate most of it”.
- He then moved into futures and choices (F&O) “when only a few merchants have been on this area. Principally I’ve carried out choice shopping for”.
Notably, F&O are by-product contracts that permit merchants take positions on future value actions of belongings equivalent to shares, indices, commodities, or currencies to hedge danger or commerce market tendencies, in response to Angel One. It’s best to seek the advice of an skilled earlier than making any investments.
- He added {that a} finfluencer video on YouTube “modified my mindset — from purchaser to vendor of choices”.
- He added that to fund his funding in choices, he took a mortgage which failed, saying, “Promoting choices wants greater capital. Took a ₹10 lakh mortgage from a good friend. Failed. Repaid the mortgage anyway”.
- His approach to success began with systematic backtesting, R mentioned. He started on StockMock — “testing time-based short straddles, adopted the foundations with strict self-discipline. This time it labored. closed 2020 with 86% return adopted by 83% return in 2021.” He additionally gained Zerodha’s 60-day problem — 17 in a row, throughout this era, his publish added.
Based on a Binance article, backtesting means making use of a buying and selling technique to historic market information to see how it might have carried out, utilizing technical evaluation instruments and clear entry and exit guidelines.
‘Require self-discipline and tedium’
The investor mentioned that from his expertise, “Profitable trading requires self-discipline and tedium.” He added that buyers must “resist temptation to commerce” and really useful studying about investing, including that books equivalent to Joel Greenblatt’s ‘The Little E-book That Beats the Market’ opened him as much as systematic investing.
“That concept has been backtested throughout markets by a number of research, not simply India. Used it to construct my very own systematic investing method to pick out shares for investing. Every time I make a revenue from F&O, I filter shares by means of my system and make investments that revenue in equities,” he added.
R mentioned that previously two years, returns have been muted, “as a result of Nifty itself gave little”, however his backtested system returned ~50% CAGR. “Over 7 years, my precise CAGR is near 48%. Two engines now — systematic buying and selling + systematic investing. Mixed goal: 50% CAGR,” he added.
In one other publish on the location, R mentioned that he began 2025-26 with ₹1 crore capital — of which ₹83 lakh was invested in small caps and later elevated this to ₹97 lakh. “To handle danger in portfolio, I applied a hedging technique,” he added.
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