What Do We Actually Know About FII Index Futures Shorts?
FIIs have been net short Nifty futures for 333 straight sessions and traders are nervous. Here is what the...
NIFTY Market Profile Outlook: Sellers Remain in Control, but the Auction Is Approaching an Important Decision Zone
NIFTY Futures remains in a seller-controlled auction, with Market Profile showing lower value development and dominant short-term sellers around...
Market Profile and Slow-Rising Markets: How to Trade a Grinding Rally
Learn how market profile explains slow-rising markets, rising value, poor highs, falling India VIX, and short covering in the...
Nifty Market Profile Outlook: Failed Auction at 24050 Keeps the Upside Magnet Alive
Nifty has been in a short-term downtrend since 29th May, led by strong institutional selling and a failed auction...
Why Overhype Gets Attention and Why You Should Avoid It
Social media rewards fear, urgency, outrage, and exaggerated promises because emotion drives engagement. But overhype may win attention today while slowly...
Why Every Trader Should Learn Partial Derivatives
Partial derivatives are the foundation of modern options trading, quantitative finance, and algorithmic trading. Learn how concepts like Delta, Gamma, Theta,...
Understanding Telegraphic Transfer for International Investments
If you have ever invested in global stocks through platforms like INDmoney, Vested Finance, Stockal, or Fi Money, you may have...
Introduction to Nautilus Trader Part 1: Architecture and Event-Driven Backtesting with OpenAlgo
New to Nautilus Trader? Learn its event-driven architecture, how orders fill in a backtest, and how to backtest an NSE strategy...
Python Tutorial on Span Margin Calculator using Marginism
Marginism is a Python library that removes that dependency completely. You give it the exchange's daily SPAN risk parameter file and...
Building a Simple ORB Strategy Visualization with Stop Loss and Target Using OpenAlgo – Python Tutorial
Build a Python ORB strategy visualizer with OpenAlgo: fetch 1-minute data, compute opening range levels, add stop loss and target logic,...
What Traders Should Know About PyO3: When Rust Makes Your Python Faster
A thin PyO3 wrapper is a small layer of Python-friendly code sitting on top of high-performance Rust functions, letting you call...
Setting Up a New Mac Mini with Python 3.14 using Homebrew
Learn how to set up a new Mac Mini for Python development using Homebrew. This step-by-step guide covers installing Python 3.14,...
Event Driven Backtesting and Event Loops for Traders
Event driven backtesting simulates trading the way markets actually work. Instead of calculating everything at once, it processes events step by...
Smart Money Concepts (SMC) Structures and FVG: A Python Tutorial
Smart Money Concepts (SMC) is one of the most widely discussed price action frameworks in modern trading. Unlike traditional technical analysis…
If Python Is Slow, Why Do Hedge Funds, Quant Firms, and Prop Trading Desks Still Use It?
Python is often criticized for being slow, yet it remains one of the most widely used languages inside hedge funds, quantitative...
Gradient-Colored Trend Filter (2-Pole) for AmiBroker
The Gradient Colored Trend Filter (2-Pole) brings BigBeluga’s trend-smoothing concept to AmiBroker, giving traders a clear and intuitive way...
How to View Screener Fundamentals Directly Inside Amibroker
Most traders depend on charts to make decisions, but a quick look at fundamentals often shapes the final conviction....
What Is Look-Ahead Bias – Amibroker Tutorial
When you backtest a trading strategy, it’s tempting to use the closing price to make decisions. But doing that can...
AmiBroker 7.00 BETA Is Now an AI-Powered Coding Assistant
AmiBroker 7.00.0 BETA introduces a notable shift in how traders can work with AFL (AmiBroker Formula Language), thanks to...
Why Exact Reference Levels Can Reveal Short-Term Traders – Market Profile Tutorial
Exact reference levels can reveal more than simple support or resistance. By observing how price reacts around previous highs,...
What Does POC Migration Mean? – Market Profile Tutorial
The Point of Control is the price at which the most trading activity has taken place during a session,...
Short in the Hole & Late Momentum Trading: How Nifty Trapped the Bears Twice
On both 5th and 6th May, Nifty short-term traders pressed the sell side aggressively in the morning, only to...
Understanding Point of Control (POC) and Prominent Point of Control (PPOC)
The Point of Control (POC) is the fairest price at which business is being conducted. But what happens when...
How to Draw Gap Zones in TradingView Pine Script
Gaps are one of the cleanest visual signals in price action. A gap forms when today's price range does...
The 10-Point Trend Ignition System – Tradingview Pinescript code
A 10-point tradingview pinescript trend ignition system that catches market momentum before conventional indicators do. Uses statistical anomaly detection,...
Building an RRG Clone: A Real-World Test of Claude Sonnet 4.5’s Coding Capabilities
I recently challenged Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic's most advanced model for coding and real-world agents, with what seemed like...
OpenAlgo Charts: Open Source Charting Platform and Trading Terminal You Can Build On
OpenAlgo Charts is a free and open source charting engine and trading terminal with 102 indicators, 85 drawing tools,...
How I Got a Static IP from ACT Broadband for SEBI Compliance to run Algo Trading Systems
If you are an algo trading user trying to adapt to SEBI’s static IP requirement, getting a static IP...
We Built OpenAlgo for 2 Years. Today It Crossed 100,000 Downloads.
We spent two years building OpenAlgo as an open source, self hostable algorithmic trading infrastructure. Today it has crossed...All Stories
NASDAQ, S&P 500 and Dow Jones: A Guide for Indian Traders Following US Markets
Three major US market benchmarks can have very different performances on the same day, but news headlines will often imply that...
How to Build Survivorship-Bias-Free NIFTY 50 Historical Data Using Grokbot
Learn how to build survivorship-bias-free NIFTY 50 backtests using historical constituents, official index weights, effective dates, and NSE Indices data. See...
How the SENSEX Closing Auction Was Allegedly Gamed, and Why SEBI’s Swift Action Matters for Price Discovery
India's newly introduced Closing Auction Session was designed to improve price discovery and make the market close more transparent. Barely 10...
The Millisecond Journey: How a Zerodha Order Actually Reaches the Exchange
Ever wondered what happens in the milliseconds after you tap buy on Kite? Here is the full journey of a Zerodha...
CD Rates Are Rising. MTF Rates Could Be Next.
CD rates are rising sharply as liquidity tightens in the Indian banking system, and that could soon push Margin Trading Facility...
Stop Calling Jane Street a “Hedge Fund.” It’s an AI Lab That Happens to Print Money From Markets.
If you still think Jane Street is just another Wall Street market maker with smart traders and fast machines, you are...
How Experienced Traders Should Actually Prompt Claude to Build Strategies
Most traders who sit down with Claude to build a strategy walk away frustrated within the first hour. The code runs...
How Smart Beta ETFs Combine the Best of Active and Passive Investing
The debate between active and passive investing has divided investors for years. While active funds try to beat the market but...
Why AI Hallucinates, How to Catch It, and What Traders and Investors Must Know
AI hallucinations cost traders real capital through fake citations, wrong numbers, and subtly broken backtests. Here is how to catch them...
Open Source AI is Catching Up Fast. Gemma 4 Just Proved It.
The gap between proprietary AI models and open source alternatives has been shrinking for years. But with the release of Google...
Three Cups of Chaos: Inside a MacroView Conversation
In this Mumbai chai shop conversation, the trader, the investor, and the neutral friend are not merely debating markets. They are...