Turns Out, I Buy Stocks Too
Every calculator on this site uses made-up numbers on purpose, so no one thinks the results are a promise. This page is different. These are the real stocks, the real returns, and the real thinking behind each decision, including the ones that went wrong. There are no rupee amounts here because that is not what matters. What matters is whether the thinking behind each decision actually makes sense.
Every number on this page uses the same base: the capital I actually put in, not trading turnover and not an annualised rate. This one is simply the two cards below added together, banked gains and current losses combined. It's the number that actually answers "how has the money done."
Profit banked across 28 closed positions, on the same capital base as the headline above.
What I'm holding today is below what I paid for it. Groww shows this as −6.7% against invested value.
The second number is the one most people would quietly leave off a page like this. It stays, because a track record that only shows the banked half isn't a track record. It's marketing.
These add up on purpose: +20.5% − 7.2% = +13.3%. Compounded over the roughly 17 months this covers, that's about 9% a year, or 8% once brokerage and STT are taken out. That annualised figure isn't shown up top, because it would break the arithmetic above it, and a number that doesn't add up to the numbers next to it isn't worth showing.
| Sector | Weight | Net return |
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Every stock, and why I bought it
Sorted by how each position has actually done, best to worst. The percentage is the move from my average buy price to the current price, so it's what the holding has done for me specifically, not what the stock has done this year.
Positions I've closed
The list above is only what I hold today. This is every stock I've bought and sold since I started: 28 names, 79% of them profitable. Some appear in both lists because I sold part of a position and kept the rest, or sold out and bought back later.
Each percentage is the profit measured against the most capital I ever had in that stock at one time, not against the sum of every purchase. That distinction matters a lot. Lumax Auto took 16 trades over nine months, and adding up every buy makes it look like +12.7%. But the most I ever had at risk there was about a third of that total, and the position returned +27.0% on it. Adding up repeat purchases counts the same money again every time it's recycled, which quietly deflates every number on the page.
| Position | Return on capital |
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Worth being honest about the shape of this: most are small single-digit gains, and the hit rate flatters the picture because winners got sold while several losers are still sitting in the list above. A high win rate is not the same thing as a high return. For completeness, the intraday trading added roughly +1.8% on the money it cycled through, which is a lot of activity for very little.
Did this actually beat the market?
The honest way to answer this is to compare like for like: same start date, same end date, same simple math on both sides. My first trade was on 11 April 2025, when the Nifty 50 closed at 22,828.55. As of the last trading session before this was written, 17 September 2026, it closed at 23,270.60.
Over the same window, the Nifty is up +1.9%, which is about +1.3% a year. That puts my +13.3% (roughly 9% a year) ahead by about 11 percentage points in absolute terms, or 8 points a year once both are annualised the same way.
What I got wrong
Three positions I'm still holding are down more than 19%. Here's what actually went wrong with each, not a vague "lessons were learned."
I got a little too excited about the KAVACH story. I saw the big orders and the growth ahead, but I didn't spend enough time thinking about how much of that was already expected by the market. I also made the position bigger than I should have.
I thought the Europe turnaround would happen much faster than it did. I liked the business and the improving margins, but I was too early and probably gave the turnaround more credit than it had earned at that point.
I got caught up in the whole “valuable Mumbai land” story. The land is obviously worth a lot, but I didn't ask myself hard enough whether the stock price already reflected that. Good assets don't always make a good buy at every price.
What I learned: I was pretty good at finding reasons to buy a stock. I was not as good at finding reasons not to buy it. That is something I'm trying to fix.
These are real positions in an account I invest through, tracked from my own Groww statements and reported by me, not audited by anyone. Percentages and ratios only, never rupee amounts. Returns shown run from my average buy price to the closing price on 8 Sep 2026 and will change. Nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation to buy or sell anything named. Past performance, mine very much included, guarantees nothing.