01 / The problem

Most investing is guesswork.

Chasing trends. Reacting to news. Trusting a good story.

Without a way to test an idea against real history, even a careful investor is only guessing.

Show me the right way

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There is a better way

02 / The standard

There is a right way.

Own good businesses. Hold them for a long time.

That is how lasting wealth has been built. Wealth comes from businesses compounding, not prices moving.

the business the price

03 / The question

But how do you know it works?

You can actually test it. Run it through years of real history. See exactly what it would have made, year by year.

04 / The wall

And that is brutally hard.

Gather data on thousands of companies, decades deep. Clean it. Rebuild every measure, every company, every year. Construct the portfolios history would have built. Track them. Then test the same idea from every starting point you can find, so one lucky stretch does not fool you.

Did it actually work?

Almost no one can answer that honestly. Not alone.

05 / Krest

Krest does all of it.

Describe an investing idea. Krest tests it against history.

No code. No spreadsheets. Minutes, not months.

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The same workbench describes thousands of ideas.

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See what it finds
The signature insight

A range, not a number.

Every starting point gives a different answer. The truth is the whole range.

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

06 / The depth

Then it shows you more than you expected.

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

The one that matters most
06 · b / pain

Where did it hurt?

The worst stretch the idea ever put you through, and how long it took to come back. Seeing this before you commit is what lets you actually hold on when it happens.

-21.4%
worst stretch
14 mo
to come back

Drawdown vs benchmark

The headline view 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 The headline view. Quality with low debt. Ten years of history today.

The same answer, seen through many lenses

06 · a / consistency

Did it work consistently?

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

Rolling 5y Sharpe

06 · c / sorting

Does the idea sort cleanly?

Weakest to strongest on the idea. How each group did.

Decile staircase

06 · d / size mix

What size of companies?

Large, mid, small. How the mix shifted.

Size composition over time

06 · e / sector mix

What sectors?

Where it leaned, year by year.

Sector composition over time

06 · f / regimes

Through good times and bad?

Across growth, inflation, interest-rate cycles. How it held in each.

Performance by macro regime

What it actually held  ·  representative holdings, October 2024
22 names · rebalanced quarterly
Tata Consultancy Services5.8% Infosys5.2% Asian Paints4.6% Nestle India4.4% Pidilite Industries4.1% Hindustan Unilever3.9% Divi's Laboratories3.5% Bosch3.2% Marico3.0% Berger Paints2.8% Cummins India2.6% +11 more

06b / Across strategies

And it does not stop at one strategy.

Compare any idea against any other. Through the same lenses.

Risk and Return return above the market · against how bumpy the ride was
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Up and to the left is better: more return above the market, with a calmer ride. Each cloud is one idea tested from many starting points; the bright dot is its middle.

Example analysis Three ideas. Ten years of history today.

Quality with low debt 14.2% a year Steadiest Financially strengthening 17.6% a year Fastest Quality at a fair price 12.8% a year Safest
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And many more views, every strategy, every lens, behind the login.

07 / The category

Not a screener. Not a trading tool.

A screener
only shows what looks good today.
A price tool
only shows what the price has done.
Krest
shows what actually worked, across years of real history.

08 / The way in

The way investing was meant to be done.

See whether your ideas survive history. One free account. One door in.

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