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 🧵
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 🧵
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.
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.
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.
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.
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: windmillcapital.smallcase.co…