India, April 9 -- Zerodha co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) Nithin Kamath on Wednesday issued a stark warning for the Indian stock market amid the ongoing bloodbath in the backdrop of US tariffs, saying that investors might stay out of the market for years if it continued to fall sharply.

In a post on X, Nithin Kamath shared data chart to show the net flows into equity-oriented mutual fund schemes, which took a sharp fall between 2008 and 2014. He also highlighted how retail investors have consistently been the net buyer of equity in the last five years, since the Covid-19 lockdown.

Nithin Kamath wrote in his post, "One of the crazy things about the last five-odd years is that retail investors have consistently been net buyer...