Shobhit Jain

The industry loves the "Invest and Forget" mantra because it keeps AUM sticky. But "forgetting" for 25 years often means forgetting to rebalance when equities are frothy. Look at the math: If you stayed 100% in Equities from Nifty 26,000 down to 19,000, you aren't "long-term investing"—you're just a passenger on a sinking ship. A simple 70:30 Equity-Gold split would have cushioned the fall and captured the recent 25%+ rally in bullion that most "expert" active managers completely missed

The industry loves the "Invest and Forget" mantra because it keeps AUM sticky. But "forgetting" for 25 years often means forgetting to rebalance when equities are frothy. Look at the math: If you stayed 100% in Equities from Nifty 26,000 down to 19,000, you aren't "long-term investing"—you're just a passenger on a sinking ship. A simple 70:30 Equity-Gold split would have cushioned the fall and captured the recent 25%+ rally in bullion that most "expert" active managers completely missed

People keep asking me if AI can help them make money from trading. My honest answer is not really. As long as there's a human in the loop, you're still dealing with the same creature driven by fear and greed, and that human will keep making the same mistakes. But beyond psychology, there's a bigger problem. There's no real informational edge left in markets. The odds are that everything is priced in. And even when it isn't, operating under that assumption is almost always a good idea. The people actually making consistent money in markets are high-frequency trading firms, market makers, prop desks etc that have built infrastructural and data moats over years, with significant investment of time and capital. Those are real edges. So, where does AI actually fit? It's a tool to help you behave better. Not to generate alpha. What it can do is help you build and test strategies, then execute them systematically, removing emotion from the equation. That means fewer panic sells, less revenge trading, and more consistency. What it can't do is turn a bad strategy into a good one or create a magic money tree. This is still an edge, just a different kind. AI can make you more disciplined, but not smarter. And if you think about where most trading losses actually come from, that distinction matters more than people realise.

Airtel just unlocked a $3.1 Billion beast within its ecosystem. 📡🏗️ $1 Billion in fresh funding for its data center arm, Nxtra, from giants like Carlyle and Alpha Wave. This isn't just a "telecom" story anymore—it’s a digital infrastructure gold rush. Here is why this deal matters for the Indian markets. 🧵