What Type of Investor Are You?
Answer eight questions about time horizon and how you might respond to a loss. The result is a discussion prompt, not a suitability assessment or allocation recommendation.
Educational self-reflection tool. Your answers do not measure actual financial capacity or emotional control.
The stock market crashes 20% in one week. What do you do?
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What the quiz can and cannot tell you
Your goal date, income, emergency reserve and ability to absorb a loss all matter when considering investments. A short questionnaire only records the answers you chose today. It does not measure your finances or predict how you would behave during a real market decline.
Use the result to ask practical questions: When will you need this money? What would a 20% decline mean for that goal? Do your existing funds and shares overlap? Would a product still make sense after fees and tax? Your answers can change when your circumstances change.
How to interpret the four labels
- Safety-First: Your answers gave more weight to preserving the amount and access to it.
- Balanced Builder: Your answers considered both possible growth and stability.
- Growth Seeker: Your answers suggested a longer horizon and some comfort with volatility.
- High-Risk Warrior: Your answers accepted more uncertainty; this does not establish that a concentrated or leveraged portfolio is suitable.
Test a loss scenario
A hypothetical 20% loss turns ₹1,00,000 into ₹80,000; recovering to ₹1,00,000 then requires a 25% gain. Consider that scenario against the date you need the money. Neither past index returns nor a score from this quiz can tell you which product will recover by that date.
Compare any investment with its current official documents and your wider finances. For a plan tailored to you, consult a qualified, SEBI-registered adviser. Our portfolio risk guide shows how to calculate concentration from actual holdings.