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One of the most common questions Turkish retail investors ask is whether to buy gold, stocks, or USD. Borsafolio's Asset Comparison tool answers this with concrete TRY-denominated return data. You can compare the BIST 100 index, gold in grams, USD/TRY, EUR/TRY, the S&P 500, Bitcoin, and our six factor portfolios (Momentum, Value, Low Volatility, Vol + Trend, Dividend + Quality, ML Ensemble) across 1-month, 3-month, 6-month, 1-year, and 5-year windows.
In a high-inflation environment, knowing which asset delivers real return is critical. Gold is historically considered an inflation hedge, but in Turkey the Borsa Istanbul equity market has sometimes outpaced both gold and foreign-exchange pairs over the long term. Borsafolio uses CBRT CPI data to compute inflation-adjusted real returns, showing nominal returns alongside their real counterparts for every asset.
Evaluating assets in isolation is not enough — their correlations with each other matter. The long-run negative correlation between BIST 100 and USD/TRY offers a diversification opportunity; the low correlation between BIST and the S&P 500 highlights the benefit of global diversification. Gold often shows low-to-zero correlation with most assets, helping improve a portfolio's risk-return profile. The tool produces a daily-return correlation matrix across your selected assets so you can see which combination delivers the best diversification.
Inside the tool there is also an investment simulator: pick a start date, enter how much you invested in each asset, and calculate today's value. Questions like "If I had 10,000 TRY five years ago, should I have bought gold, Bitcoin, or tracked the Momentum portfolio?" get immediate answers. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results, but these simulations help you understand how different assets behave under various scenarios and ground your decisions in historical data.