Stop-loss on the minds of JAMNAAUTO investors as it performed worse than the broader market

JAMNA AUTO IND LTD showed weakness on Friday. It delivered -0.41% to close at 60.8 which is it's 52 week low, down -39% from it's 52 week high.

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Buy-and-Hold investors in JAMNAAUTO experienced a maximum drawdown of -22.05% over the last three months. It delivered -13.33% during this strong bearish trending period. There were both Long and Short signals during this period, where the short signals were significantly more profitable than the long signals.

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JAMNAAUTO has been underperforming the NIFTY-50 index in recent time. It showed significant outperformance (compared to the NIFTY-50 index) from 29 Feb, 2016 to 2 May, 2018. Over the last 3 years and 1 month, JAMNAAUTO outperformed the NIFTY-50 index on 49% days. Which indicates that on days JAMNAAUTO outperforms the NIFTY-50 index, it's performance is marginally better than on the days it underperforms the NIFTY-50 index.

During the last three months JAMNAAUTO was mostly loss making and delivered on average -0.21% per day. It's best return during this period (of +5.33%) was on Thursday, 20 Dec, 2018. While it's worst loss in the same period (of -4.69%) was on Monday, 26 Nov, 2018. The longest stort-term trend during this period was 7 losing days, which started on 12 Nov, 2018 and ended on 20 Nov, 2018. This bearish trend lost -10.21% of investor capital.

The last 12 months saw JAMNAAUTO's investors making profits in 3 months and incurring losses in 9 months. JAMNAAUTO was less consistent in delivering monthly returs than NIFTY-50 index. JAMNAAUTO significantly outperformed NIFTY-50 index in Apr 2018, when it returned +16.67% compared to +6.56% returned by NIFTY-50 index during it's best month in the last one year - Jul 2018. JAMNAAUTO had a longer winning streak of losing months than NIFTY-50 index. It went down in 6 straight months (from Aug 2018 to Jan 2019) during which period it delivered -37.57%. It is interesting to note that both JAMNAAUTO and NIFTY-50 index significantly outperform during months when quarterly/annual results are announced.

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JAMNAAUTO is currently seeing overall fall in volatility. In comparison, the NIFTY-50 index is seeing decrease in volatility. During the last three months, there was a significant fall in JAMNAAUTO's volatility from 12 Dec, 2018 to 11 Jan, 2019. While there was a significant fall in the NIFTY-50 index's volatility from 31 Oct, 2018 to 5 Dec, 2018.

Advanced/professional short-term investors should note that JAMNAAUTO has significant negative skewness in it's return distribution. This indicates that JAMNAAUTO is very risky for short-term investment and can significantly underperform for long durations.

JAMNAAUTO has more chance of extreme outcomes than the NIFTY-50 index. Therefore, JAMNAAUTO must receive a lower allocation than NIFTY-50 in your portfolio. NIFTY-50 index usually has shorter drawdown period than JAMNAAUTO.

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