Sahil Purav

Most retail investors are just "exit liquidity" for the big players. I know, because for years, I was one of them. Chasing tips, burning hands in F&O, and watching capital erode. Since 2025, everything changed. I’m up ~40% in the cash market while the Nifty flatlined. 🧵

I respectfully disagree with the idea that an HNI should necessarily go full DIY or that professional managers are just a "barrier." While jurisdictional diversification is a solid macro hedge, managing 9Cr+ across three countries is a massive administrative and cognitive load. True wealth is the ability to buy back your time, not creating a second full-time job for yourself. Even for those of us who manage our own money through any style (like momentum investingin my case) to capture alpha, the goal eventually shifts from "doing the work" to "having the system." The smart middle ground is using systematic, rules-based experts who offer the transparency you want without the heavy "black box" fees of a traditional PMS. You get the professional edge of managers like @WeekendInvestng (Alok Jain) or @KrijunaResearch (E.g. smlc.se/TclLo), but the assets stay in your control. Can you learn to style your own hair? Yes! but if you’re busy building a career, you let an expert handle the execution.

A typical HNI has a liquid net-worth of above 9Cr. With that level of capital, think like a rich person. Here are the steps:- 1) Your #1 goal should be to access more investment options. 2) How? Get an investment account at least across 3 different jurisdictions (eg. India, Singapore, UAE etc). 3) This allows you to truly access the world markets. Else, you will always be curtailed. For eg. Indian government has put restrictions on India Mutual Funds to buy international stocks (above a certain threshold). Now? You can scan 2000 Mutual Funds. And, still your scope of investing would stay in India. You are still taking currency & geography risk. On top of this--with a PMS, you will pay "an additional" layer of commission. An Indian PMS should be telling you all this. But, their sole goal is to keep Indian money in India. Rich people should not simply rely on fund managers. They should at least understand the possibilities that their money creates. How do I know all this? because I am a HNI, who has executed all this. So I can actually share insights on this topic.

How to navigate your equity investments? 1) If you have any affinity towards the equity markets. Manage your own capital, it’s not that difficult if you follow a process. 2) If you have no business picking direct stocks. Just buy low cost index funds and asset allocate. It is GENUINELY THAT SIMPLE.

🚨 One Chart That Tells Everything For a long time, Nifty IT in $ terms closely tracked NASDAQ-100 (though NASDAQ led). Then ChatGPT launched Nov 2022 and the gap widened sharply. AI boom exposed it. Can Indian IT catch up? Or is this the new normal? #NiftyIT #NASDAQ #AI

@WeekendInvestng Stability is great, but a 145+ seat strength in the Upper House is the real game-changer. It removes the final excuse for avoiding the tough land and labor reforms the street has been waiting for.

With this kind of dominance, if we are not able to push faster growth, then it is never happening... PM Modi needs a new Reforms and Growth Ministry perhaps, one that can think out of the box!

@DhanValue Conviction kills accounts. Replace 'holding and hoping' with reacting to reality: Enter on strength, exit on weakness.

You hold a stock for years, convinced it will deliver big returns. The moment you get tired, book a loss, and switch— that very stock starts rallying.

The internet is crowded with P&L flexing, so this honesty is a breath of fresh air. You just earned a follower. The biggest takeaway here isn’t the returns, it is the asset allocation. By holding uncorrelated assets like Gold, US Equities, and Real Estate, you aren't just chasing gains, you are buying peace of mind. India has a massive growth story ahead, but no single market stays green forever. Diversification is the only way to ensure your equity curve stays smooth when volatility hits. This is exactly how I manage my own portfolio.

To be transparent to my followers Over the last 3-4 years, although I had biggest investment in stocks - highest returns are not from my stocks … Gold is the highest > 180% US stocks was next ~100% Real estate is doing okay … Next is mutual funds Follows by stocks & fixed investments I am continuing to invest heavily in Indian markets with hope of the future growth, but want to make sure I share things transparently as I kept sharing my investing journey from last few years

@ashumadan4 Yep! Market is currently betting on the idea that oil spikes are temporary and RBI has enough foreign reserves to defend the rupee. When the price of oil climbs, we needs more US Dollars to pay for it. If the Rupee is simultaneously weakening, it creates a compounding effect

Appreciation of Crude Depreciation of Rupee Don’t think market will get aligned to this. It will surely haunt us.

System doesn’t aim for the absolute top or bottom. It target the meat of the move. If stock goes from it’s bottom 100/- to a top 200/- as an example: - Enter at 120 (Confirmed strength) - Let the stock touch top (say 200) - Exit at 185-180 once the price weakens Learn more: x.com/systematicsahi…

@SystematicSahil @WeekendInvestng What does ‘system manages the ride’ look like?

After 20+ years BHEL has broken out decisively. Such decadal moves can be very sharp . In just the last 5 weeks stock is up nearly 70%!!

@BRICSinfo It seems like every time the Nifty tries to take off the Middle East decides to pull the emergency brake.

JUST IN: 🇦🇪🇮🇷 Fire breaks out at UAE's Fujairah Oil Industry Zone following Iranian drone attack.

@tradertheory You need to be smart “enough” to build the trading rules and "dumb" enough to follow them for a long term

Your IQ has nothing to do with your losing trade.

Want to know how to actually make money in the markets? Stop overcomplicating it. Most traders lose chasing secret strategies and complicated indicators. You can make far superior returns by simply buying what’s going up and selling what’s going down. That’s it. The chart is the proof. Even in 2025, one of the bloodiest years for most of the traders, this simple approach delivered strong outperformance. #MomentumInvesting #IndianStockMarket #Nifty

@Akshat_World If you're paying 1-2% for "expertise" the only metric that matters is alpha over the benchmark at a total portfolio level.

At some point in your life, someone convinced you that you are an incompetent fool who can't manage money. You should simply work, earn, spend. Whatever is left: hand it over to a money manager for 1-2% fees. And, you dare NOT break compounding. No questions on:- - Valuations - Currency depreciation - Senseless IPO investing If you know nothing. You would bother with nothing. While 100% rich person spend time managing their own wealth (the more they manage, the more they learn). You were somehow convinced that money management is all about picking 5 Mutual Funds. Well, it is maybe step 2/10. There is a whole ladder you'd discover: once you upgrade your skills. Most people unfortunately quit at Mutual Funds.

@WealthEnrich Gambling for a dopamine hit isn't a strategy. F&O is the ultimate "easy come, easy go" trap for the impatient. I’d rather buy proven strength and let the math do the heavy lifting.

It is so very difficult to explain this concept to the investors of this modern world who are completely into instant gratification. The basic fact is ignored that "What comes easily & quickly also goes away as easily & quickly" !

@deepakshenoy FPI selling is a feature of global rotation, not a bug in India's story. If liquidity moves to Korean/Japanese semi-conductors, we don't need to whine, we need adapt. DIIs are finally the floor. Price is the only truth! if the trend holds, I stay long.

With these it's already the worst month for FPIs ever, at -191K cr effective FPI position in 2026. And it's just four months down.

Despite the massive Nifty and mid/smallcap moves in April 2026, FPIs continued selling at 60,000 cr. sales in equity: (Source: NSDL)

Survival is the only metric that matters. I cap risk at 1% of equity per trade so no single loss can derail the momentum engine. If the math doesn't work, the trade doesn't happen. Most traders guess. I solve for survival. For a portfolio of 20L, if I risk 20k to make 60k, I only need to be right 30% of the time to win. Math kills the emotion.

If one bad trade can destroy your account, stop calling yourself skilled. That’s not trading. That’s gambling with charts. Risk management is the real edge. Get Your Copy NOW: 👇 superprofile.bio/vp/risk-manage…

My 2-year-old just taught me a million-dollar market lesson today. I was telling him the classic Tortoise and the Hare story. The hare sprinted ahead, got overconfident, took a nap… and lost. The tortoise? Just kept walking slowly and won. My kid shouted “Tortoise win!” And it hit me! This is exactly how the Indian stock market works. While everyone chases fast money and quick tips, slow and steady compounding wins the race every single time. #IndianStockMarket #StockMarketIndia #LongTermInvesting #PowerOfCompounding #SlowAndSteady

@Cryptified_Soul You can! Use Broker API + Claude Code

What if we built our OWN stock market platform? → Fully custom dashboards → Your personal charts, your rules → Elliott Waves auto-plotted in real-time 🌊📈 It would be so cool Right?

@gurjota Markets climb a wall of worry, until they don’t US at 37+ CAPE is expensive, veterans are right to caution. But all-in India isn’t safe either. Stay invested, diversify, smart mix of both beats extremes. Never time the top. Spread risk instead.

Anyone who's making a strong case for "global investing" especially via US markets to Indian investors at current valuations is doing them a huge disservice. The US markets have already delivered very good returns and at 31x P/E, are trading at the most expensive valuations since 2001 (dot com bubble) and 2008 (GFC). So many veteran investors (Warren Buffett, Howard Marks, Paul Tudor Jones) have advised caution currently but we seem to have some snake oil salesmen who want to induce FOMO inside Indian investors. Nobody, including me, knows where markets will go from here, but just ask yourself this simple question - "Is the risk reward in your favor if you invest at current valuations?"