My Experiment With the Nifty Smallcap–Nifty 50 Ratio I recently came across an interesting strategy by M. Pattabiraman (Pattu) of Freefincal for reducing the risk of small-cap investing. The basic idea is to compare the relative performance of the Nifty Smallcap 250 TRI and Nifty 50 TRI using a normalized ratio. I want to be clear at the beginning: this is my own experiment, not an improvement or criticism of Pattu's method. I am simply testing what happens when the same idea is applied differently. My respect and credit to Pattu for the original idea and the detailed explanation. Pattu's original Freefincal article What is the ratio? I normalize both indices to the same starting value and calculate: Ratio = Normalized Nifty Smallcap 250 TRI ÷ Normalized Nifty 50 TRI A higher ratio means small caps have performed relatively strongly compared with Nifty 50. Pattu uses 1.30 as a trigger in his example. I tested two approaches 1. SIP-only I invest ₹10,000 every month. Ratio b...
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