Stockport isn't a product built to a brief. It's what happens when you do three years of everything wrong, sit down with a tradebook, and realise the problem was never the stocks.
I bought my first stock on November 18, 2021 — 10 shares of Reliance at around ₹2,400. By 2023, I had grown that into a portfolio of 80 names across Smallcase buckets and direct equity. Monthly ₹1L SIPs. Large caps, mid caps, some tips from a cousin in the market. No thesis. No exit conditions. Just positions.
In 2024, I benchmarked myself against Nifty for the first time. My 30–35% returns looked fine in isolation. Against Nifty, they weren't. That stung. Then came the FOMO wave — Blackbox, Rategain, Aurionpro, Technoelectric, all bought near peak in mid-2024 on cousin's tips. Meanwhile, I'd done real research on the solar sector and built a large position in Alpex Solar. The bear market that followed turned a 25% gain into 2–3% across the portfolio. I stopped checking it.
"December 2025. Burnt out at my startup. I quit. I had about 1.5 years of savings and 40 lakhs in equity. I watched a Mohnish Pabrai video on compound interest and the Rule of 72. Something clicked. The math was on my side — but only if I stopped destroying the compounding with bad behaviour."
I ran a tradebook analysis. It wasn't the stock-picking that failed — some of my picks were up 100%+. The problem was I'd bought them in tiny sizes and sold them for small gains, while averaging down on the ones that were breaking their thesis. Behaviour, not research, was the gap. I cut from 80 stocks to 8–9, each with a written thesis. Then I built the tool I needed.
Stockport is a discipline system for the post-buy phase of investing. It is deliberately and permanently not many things.
I co-founded Vahak, India's largest digital freight marketplace. Building a company that grew to 2M+ users taught me that the gap between a good idea and a real outcome is almost always a systems problem. It took me longer to apply the same lesson to investing.
"My tradebook analysis in late 2025 was the honest moment. Some of my picks were up over 100%. But I'd bought them in tiny sizes and sold them for small gains, while holding on to the ones breaking their thesis. The stocks weren't the problem. I was."
Today I run a concentrated portfolio of 8–9 direct equity names in Indian mid and small caps — including Alpex Solar, Waaree Renewable, HBL Engineering, CDSL, CAMS, and PTC India. I invest with a 5–7 year horizon. I study Mohnish Pabrai, Rakesh Jhunjhunwala, Madhu Kela, and Howard Marks. I believe the biggest individual investor edge is not stock selection — it's the discipline to hold winners without flinching and exit losers before they become portfolio-killers.
Stockport started as an HTML artifact I built for my own Shilchar thesis — a risk-reward calculator, thesis doc, and exit conditions in one place. I realised it was a better way to track stocks than any tool available. So I built it properly. First for me. Now for anyone who invests the same way.
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