Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30: downtrend since September 2026

Today

Of 15 earlier downtrends in Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30 that lasted 6 weeks or more, 60% went on for at least another three months and 20% for six. Across strategies and factors indices (since each launch): 46% and 15% of 191.

Trend

Downtrend since September 2026score 8 of 100; four weeks ago 8

Momentum rank

8th of 34in strategies and factors; 41st of 133 markets overall

The 10-month rule

in cash since September 2026month-end price against its 10-month average

The 200-day rule

in cash since September 2026daily close against its 200-session average

Trend over time

The trend score each week since 2010, and the trends it marks: an uptrend from the week the score reaches 70 until it falls to 30, and a downtrend the other way.

Against its peers

Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30 ranks 8th of 34 in strategies and factors on momentum; thirteen weeks ago it was 28th of 34. Momentum here is the return over cash at 1, 3, 6 and 12 months, each ranked, then averaged.

Strategies and factors, ranked by momentum on 14 Oct 2026. "13 weeks ago" is the rank then, among the members live then.

What followed each trend

Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30 has had 18 uptrends and 18 downtrends since 2010. A year after an uptrend began it had risen by a median +16.5% (16 cases); a year after a downtrend began, +11.1% (16). From any week, the usual year was +12.9%.

Median return of Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30, total return, over the 3, 6 and 12 months after the week each trend began, and the share of cases that ended higher. The last row is the same measure from every week, the yardstick for the other two.

Every uptrend and downtrend in Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30, newest first. Returns are from the close of the week each began; a trend still going is measured to 14 Oct 2026.

After big moves

Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30 has fallen below its 200-day average 19 times. A year later it was higher 77% of the time, with a median return of +8.4%; from any day, 78% and +12.7%. The deepest fall within that year had a median of −8.1%, against −4.8% from any day.

What Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30 did after each kind of move since 2010: the median total return over the next 3, 6 and 12 months, how often it was higher a year later, and the median of the deepest fall within that year. A move counts once: a cross of the 200-day average after 20 sessions on the other side, a fall of 10% or 20% from a high (counted again only after a new high), a 52-week high after three months without one. The last row is every day, the yardstick.

Every such move in Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30, newest first. Blank where the period has not yet passed.

What the trend rules did here

₹1 lakh put into Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30 in October 2010 and held would be ₹7.0 lakh today after costs and tax. The better of the two simple rules, the 10-month average, would have left ₹4.3 lakh. Each rule holds Nifty500 Flexicap Quality 30 while its signal is up and sits in a liquid fund otherwise, deciding at one day's close and trading at the next.

₹1 lakh from October 2010 to 14 Oct 2026, when all three rules had enough history. Costs: 0.10% of each trade and fund running costs. After tax: Indian capital-gains rules as they stood on each date, at the 30% slab, everything sold at the end. The ensemble trades a little every day, which no one would do in a taxable account, so it has no after-tax figure. The worst three years compare the rule's return a year with holding's over the same three years.

Each rule against buying and holding over the same dates, over the full history and, where it is three years or more, since NSE launched the index.

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