# The Cadence Question

_Systematic Investing . 2026-05-05 . By Tanmay Kurtkoti. Educational, illustrative, not advice._

Pulled the rebalance log on RupeeCase Large Midcap this week. The strategy moved 131 times in five years. Average gap, 14.0 days. No drift from the advertised cadence.

Most active mutual funds rotate continuously. Every rotation prints STT, STCG and brokerage. Stack 1.65 percent TER on top, plus the distributor commission inside the regular plan, and the cost drag lands somewhere between 150 and 200 basis points a year. The plain-English version of the cost stack sits at https://rupeecase.com/compare

Most SmallCases sit on a quarterly cadence. Lower trading cost, but 90 days is a long time to leave a momentum signal to rot. A stock can break, recover and break again before the rebalance fires.

The 14-day cadence is the middle of the curve. Edge decay on the LargeMidCap 250 universe still has half-life over a fortnight. Cost is contained at 0.2 percent flat per leg of traded value, which works out to 12.9 percent of gross over five years on Strategy 11. The methodology that produced this is open at https://rupeecase.com/strategies/methodology

Strategy 11 is the cleanest evidence that the cadence pays for itself. Five-year CAGR sits at 40.85 percent versus 10.44 percent for Nifty 50 over the same window. Sharpe 1.71 versus 0.78. Max drawdown -19.30 percent, the shallowest of any pure-equity card on the platform.

The cadence does not make those numbers on its own. The universe and the momentum rule do most of the work. What the 14-day cycle does is stop the rule from rotting. Most of the alpha is the universe. Some of it is the cadence. None of it is luck if the methodology is on the page.

For the concept-level version of edge decay, half-life and rebalance cost theory, the explainer is at https://rupeecase.com/learn/

The full Strategy 11 page with the 131 rebalance history, the 14-day calendar, the next move on 11 May 2026 and the open methodology lives at https://rupeecase.com/strategies/large-midcap

Before sizing into a 21 percent volatility pure-equity card, the behavioural-fit gate is at https://rupeecase.com/risk-profile.html

Cadence is a methodology choice. Not a feature.