Windmill Capital

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Same fund. Same six years. Identical returns.
One investor enjoyed the ride. The other found it unbearable.

The thing that separated them? A habit so small it sounds trivial.

1,585 days of Nifty 500 data tell the story 🧵

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This isn't a bull market. It's 100 stocks and 9,900 bystanders.

Durable as long as earnings hold. If AI capex stalls, the narrow leadership unwinds with nothing to cushion it.

Concentration is a feature right now. It could become a risk.

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South Korea's top 5 stocks gained 152% YTD. Samsung and SK Hynix are riding the AI chip supercycle.
Taiwan & Korea's broader markets rose too: their entire supply chains plug into AI, not just one or two names.

The US, Germany, France? Only the names at the top. The rest shrank.

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Nvidia alone: $5.21 trillion.
FTSE 100 (all of UK): $3.60 trillion.
CAC 40 (all of France): $2.90 trillion.
DAX (all of Germany): $2.32 trillion.

Europe's largest stock markets fit inside a single balance sheet.

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The US market rallied. The average US stock lost value.
53 names added $7.4 trillion. The broader US market declined 3.2%.

The S&P gains you read about fit inside roughly 50 company names.

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$12 trillion in global market cap was created this year.
100 companies accounted for $11.4 trillion of it.
The other 9,900? $600 billion. Combined.

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This isn't broad optimism. It's one theme: AI.
Information Technology alone drove 66% of all gains globally. Energy, industrials, and communications are in the top 100 because they power the AI buildout. Not because the economy is booming.

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The lesson isn't to ignore your investments.

It's that discipline around how often you check can improve your investing experience.

Without changing your returns by a single rupee.

[Windmill Capital @windmillcapHQ]

Same fund. Same six years. Identical returns.
One investor enjoyed the ride. The other found it unbearable.

The thing that separated them? A habit so small it sounds trivial.

1,585 days of Nifty 500 data tell the story 🧵

[Windmill Capital @windmillcapHQ]

Psychologists call this myopic loss aversion.

Losses hurt about twice as much as equivalent gains feel good.

Even in a rising market, daily noise creates stress that frequent checkers absorb. Unnecessarily.

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Windmill Capital's Mutual Fund smallcases do exactly that.

A focused basket of 3–4 funds within a category. Monitored against ten factors with consistent predictive power. Rotated when the evidence shifts.

The second decision, handled: https://t.co/rI7fh4evmY

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Every mutual fund investment is actually two decisions.
The first: which fund to buy. You research, compare, and choose.

The second: whether to still own it, three years later.
The first feels like a decision. The second feels like nothing, which is exactly the problem.

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The shift that helps:
Stop asking which fund has done well.
Start asking which fund is positioned to do well from here.

It's a question you have to keep asking. Not once. Continuously.

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Bottom line:

India didn’t fall.

The scoreboard changed.

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India “fell” from #4 to #6 in global GDP rankings.

Sounds like bad news.

It isn’t.

Here’s what actually happened 👇

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Even within GDP, the mix changed.

Some sectors look bigger.
Others look smaller.
That’s not decline. That’s recalibration.