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What did it return?
Every start date its own portfolio, the range not one number
RETURNS BY START DATE
Did it keep working?
Every five year window in history, and how the risk adjusted return held up
ROLLING 5Y SHARPE
Did the strongest companies actually do better?
Weakest to strongest on the idea, and how each group did
DECILE STAIRCASE
What sectors?
Where it leaned, year by year
SECTOR COMPOSITION OVER TIME
Through good times and bad?
Across growth, inflation and rate cycles, and how it held in each
PERFORMANCE BY MACRO REGIME
Where did it hurt?
The worst stretch it ever put you through, and how long it took to come back
DRAWDOWN VS BENCHMARK
…and many more
KREST TESTED DECADES OF DATA
5,000+companies
25years
Every crash,
every boom.not one lucky start
On fundamentals, not just price.
Excellent on paper. Could still be wrong for you.
Krest lets you invest based on your own situation.
Your option
AmountHorizonYour cap
YOUR LIMITCALMERDEEPER FALL, MORE EARNED
Earning and risk
Believed, a year
Worst fall on record
Came back in
Where your money goes
Strategies Index Fixed
In your money, strategies
The shares to buyopen the list ›

01 / Why tested

But what do you usually get instead?

A friend who did well. A channel you follow. A fund with stars. A licence on the wall.

Each of them comes with a name, and the name becomes the reason to trust it.

The idea itself? Almost never tested.

02 / The answer

So Krest tests them.

Every strategy in the library. Every starting month. Every crash.

Then a Strength Rating, to separate the few that are genuinely strong from the many that only look good.

02A / Why you can trust the test

Why these results deserve your trust.

25 years · 5,000+ companies · every price, every dividend, every set of accounts

Twenty five years of data behind it. Your free trial runs on the most recent ten.

Here’s what we did to keep them honest.

We test the market as it was, not as it looks today.

Companies disappear all the time. They get bought, they merge, or they go under. A test built from only the companies that still exist today has quietly kept the survivors and dropped the rest.

why this matters ↻

Keeping only the survivors flatters the result.

The companies that vanished were real investments at the time. Leaving them out makes the past look safer and richer than it really was. Krest includes every company that was trading on each date, even the ones that no longer exist.

A number can be exactly right and still mean nothing.

Financial data is messy. A missing figure that ranks as a winner. A loss making company that sorts to the cheapest in the market. A tiny base that turns a small gain into “three thousand percent a year.” Each one is arithmetically correct. Each one is meaningless.

why this matters ↻

We remove these before they can rank.

A ratio with a negative or near zero denominator. A growth rate off a base close to nothing. A blank cell read as a zero. Any of these can reach the top of a ranking and quietly ruin a strategy. Krest spots them and leaves them out, so a company is scored only when the number truly means something.

We only use what was known at the time.

Every decision is based only on the information available on that date, nothing that came later. A test can quietly use information that did not exist yet: a result before it was public, or a value known only later.

why this matters ↻

Hindsight makes any strategy look brilliant.

So we never allow it. A company’s results are used only after they were actually announced. Each choice is judged only on what an investor could genuinely have known at the time.

A price chart is not the same as your return.

A split or a bonus can make a normal day look like a crash. Years of dividends never show up on the chart at all. What you actually earned is a different number.

why this matters ↻

We calculate the return you would really have received.

Krest adjusts every price for splits and bonuses and adds back every dividend, so the figure is the actual money you would have taken home. It is then compared against a benchmark that also counts its dividends. A fair comparison.

There is always one start date that looks amazing.

Pick the right month to begin and almost any strategy looks great. Show only that single run, and the number means nothing.

why this matters ↻

So we test every start date, and every holding period.

Krest runs the strategy from every starting month across the ten years, and from each start it measures how you would have done over one, three, and five years. You see the full range, the worst outcome beside the best. If a strategy only works from one lucky month, or over one convenient period, you see it here.

03 / The second half

And it asks about you.

A few questions about your situation, not your mood.

Then it shows what fits you, and what does not.

04 / What fits

More return, or less downside? You choose.

Your limitSet from your answers. Nothing above it is open to you.
The rungsCalmer at the bottom, more aggressive at the top. You pick one.
Closed to youFell further than your limit at some point in history.

← May earnBoldest ↑Has fallen →
Closed to you
Your limit, from your answers
Safest ↓
Where your money goes
The shares it would buy

05 / What you get

Then look closer.

How reliable it was. How painful it got. What it actually owned. Where it worked, and where it didn't.

Then see what you would actually own.

The one that matters most
the fall

Where did it hurt?

Seeing this before you commit is what lets you actually hold on when it happens.

-21.4%
worst stretch
14 mo
to come back

Example analysis. Quality with low debt. Drawdown vs benchmark, over the free trial's ten years.

06 · a / consistency

Did it keep working?

Every five year window in history. How risk adjusted return held up.

Rolling 5y Sharpe

What happened to ₹100 growth of ₹100 · all variants · Jun '16 onward
Variant All
Return & growth
14.2%
a year, median
Reliability
1.18
risk adjusted
Worst stretch
-21.4%
peak to trough
Sorting strength
0.34
weakest to strongest
Names held
22
rebalanced quarterly
D10 (signal) 5.7x Top 30 5.4x Top 10 3.4x Benchmark 3.6x

Example analysis What happened to ₹100. Quality with low debt. The free trial's ten years, of twenty five behind it.

05A / The range

The same idea, started in a different month.

A strategy that looks incredible from one starting date can look very different from another. Krest runs every one of them.

Rolling Performance · CAGR by start date · Quality with low debt
Horizon 1Y 3Y 5Y

Example analysis Quality with low debt. Ten years of history today.

Median 5Y return
21.2%
a year, across 53 starting points
Best start
38.0%
a year, if you had started at the low
Worst start
11.4%
a year, if you had started at the high

That’s why Krest shows the entire range of outcomes.

Tested against history. Sized to you.

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Everything above already happened. None of it is a promise.