# The card that finished 2025 green

_Strategy Spotlight . 2026-06-27 . By Tanmay Kurtkoti. Educational, illustrative, not advice._

Saturday morning, I had the RupeeCase marketplace open, sorted by CAGR like everyone sorts it. The Large Mid Multi Asset card sits near the bottom. 37 percent, where the cards above it print 43, 48, even 58.

Easy to scroll past. So I did the thing the sort does not let you do. I looked at how each card finished 2025, the year the broad market actually corrected.

That one column changed the whole picture.

2025 was the test year. The fast cards took it on the chin. Mid-Smallcap closed down 8.7 percent. Allcap down 4.1. Even the broader multi-asset card finished slightly red. Out of every strategy on the shelf, exactly one closed the year green. This one. Plus 10.1 percent.

The recipe is almost identical to its broader twin. Forty large and mid-cap names, ten percent in LiquidCase debt, ten percent in GoldBees gold, rebalanced every two weeks. The only real difference is a narrower equity universe. And that single change is the whole story: you give up 6.45 points of CAGR and in exchange you get a 3.74 point shallower drawdown. The worst hole stops at 17.61 percent, where the pure-equity cards dig past 22.

Here is the part the return ranking will never show you. The win is not in the year you sprint. It is in the year you do not lose. A card that finishes plus 10 in a bad year compounds off a higher floor than one that finishes minus 8. Run that across a couple of cycles and the slow card quietly closes the gap on the fast one, at Sharpe 1.74 and the highest win rate on the shelf, 64.75 percent.

The marketplace sorts by the number on the way up. Your nervous system sorts by the hole on the way down. The card you can actually hold is the one where those two lists shake hands: https://rupeecase.com/strategies/largemid-multi-asset

Past performance is backtest only and never a guarantee.