What Do We Actually Know About FII Index Futures Shorts?

FII index futures short positions studied over ten years of participant-wise OI data: the record net short streak, long...
Rajandran R
8 min read

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...
Rajandran R
6 min read

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...
Rajandran R
7 min read

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...
Rajandran R
3 min read
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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...
Rajandran R
3 min read
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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,...
Rajandran R
3 min read
Sealed envelope flying between two globes with rupee and dollar symbols: telegraphic transfer explained

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...
Rajandran R
2 min read
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Introduction to Nautilus Trader Part 3: Portfolio and Multi-Strategy Backtesting with OpenAlgo Historify

Nautilus Trader portfolio backtesting with six NSE large caps, two strategies and one shared cash account, using OpenAlgo Historify data and...
Rajandran R
14 min read
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Introduction to Nautilus Trader Part 2: Position Sizing, Order Types, Backtest Settings and Tearsheets

Nautilus Trader position sizing, order types, backtest settings and tearsheets compared on the same Keltner Channel strategy and SBIN data from...
Rajandran R
19 min read
Nautilus shell spiral made of connected modules showing event-driven trading architecture

Introduction to Nautilus Trader Part 1: Architecture and Event-Driven Backtesting with OpenAlgo

Nautilus Trader event-driven backtesting explained: its architecture, the order life cycle, and a Keltner Channel breakout backtest with OpenAlgo data.
Rajandran R
18 min read
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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...
Rajandran R
17 min read
Candlestick chart breaking out of an opening range box with target and stop lines: Python ORB visualizer

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,...
Rajandran R
10 min read
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What Traders Should Know About PyO3: When Rust Makes Your Python Faster

PyO3 for traders: how Rust makes Python faster, a tested rolling z-score example built with maturin, real speedup numbers and when...
Rajandran R
6 min read
Compact desktop computer with a terminal window and coffee mug: setting up Python 3.14 on a Mac Mini

Setting Up a New Mac Mini with Python 3.14 using Homebrew

Mac Mini Python 3.14 setup with Homebrew, step by step: PATH fixes, the externally-managed-environment error, TA-Lib in a venv and the...
Rajandran R
6 min read
Circular event loop carrying event cards around a price chart for event driven backtesting

Event Driven Backtesting and Event Loops for Traders

Event driven backtesting explained: how an event loop processes market, signal, order and fill events, a Python example, and when to...
Rajandran R
9 min read

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...
Rajandran R
5 min read

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....
Rajandran R
4 min read

What Is Look-Ahead Bias – Amibroker Tutorial

Fix look-ahead bias in Amibroker: why buying at the signal close inflates backtests and how to enter at the...
Rajandran R
4 min read

AmiBroker 7.00 BETA Is Now an AI-Powered Coding Assistant

AmiBroker 7.00 adds an AI code assistant to the AFL Editor that uses OpenAI, Gemini or local LLMs to...
Rajandran R
3 min read

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,...
Rajandran R
7 min read

What Does POC Migration Mean? – Market Profile Tutorial

Learn what POC migration means: how the point of control moves within a session and from day to day,...
Rajandran R
4 min read

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...
Rajandran R
5 min read

Understanding Point of Control (POC) and Prominent Point of Control (PPOC)

What the point of control (POC) and prominent POC mean in Market Profile, how POC migration works and how...
Rajandran R
7 min read

How to Draw Gap Zones in TradingView Pine Script

Draw gap zones in Pine Script v6 automatically and track whether each gap gets filled, using box objects and...
Rajandran R
10 min read

The 10-Point Trend Ignition System – Tradingview Pinescript code

The 10-point trend ignition system for TradingView: Pine Script v6 code that scores 10 non-repainting daily signals to catch...
Rajandran R
16 min read

Building an RRG Clone: A Real-World Test of Claude Sonnet 4.5’s Coding Capabilities

Free RRG indicator for TradingView in Pine Script v6, built with Claude Sonnet 4.5: how to use it, read...
Rajandran R
18 min read

OpenAlgo Charts: Open Source Charting Platform and Trading Terminal You Can Build On

OpenAlgo Charts is a free, open source charting engine and trading terminal under Apache-2.0 that traders and brokers can...
Rajandran R
6 min read

How I Got a Static IP from ACT Broadband for SEBI Compliance to run Algo Trading Systems

How I got an ACT Broadband static IP for ₹350 a month to meet SEBI's algo trading rule, verified...
Rajandran R
8 min read

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...
Rajandran R
2 min read

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Benefits and Myths of Technical Analysis

If there is one thing that bugs a lot of market participants is the credibility of the Technical Analysis and understanding...
Balaji
3 min read
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Know Everything About Effective Utilisation of your ATM card

Debit Cards give us the flexibility of not carrying too much cash wherever we go. But where transactions involve the usage...
Rachita K
2 min read

How to Create Your First Amibroker DLL Plugin?

This is a very simplistic tutorial which explains how to create your own Amibroker DLL Plugin using Dot Net for Amibroker....
Rajandran R
2 min read
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Amibroker Technical Analysis Workshop – Bengaluru – FEB 2015

Join Us at Premier Inn, Bangalore on 14th and 15th Feb 2015 to qualitatively spend the entire day enhancing your trading...
Rajandran R
2 min read
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Wealthcreator : Nifty Futures Novemeber Expiry Overview

Nifty Future November Series closed on strong notes on Friday’s trading session. After opening at 8420.50 it made lows of...
Mohit Jhanji
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Amibroker – Button Style Manual Trading Control for NEST/NOW

Here is a button style manual control to place One-Click Trading from Amibroker Charts. He had desinged the framework for sending...
Rajandran R
1 min read

CodeSnippets : Condition based Gradient Vertical Fill in Amibroker

Here is a simple Amibroker tutorial to build a good looking trading system. Just have a look into the charts provided...
Rajandran R
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Is Bank Nifty Signalling a Short Term Top?

The short term Market Sentiment(Index Futures) is ultra bullish and retail players are quite aggressive in nature in playing the index...
Rajandran R
45 sec read

Comex Gold and USDINR movement and Impact on Domestic Gold rates

Here is a simple example from Mr Jayant Manglik (Religare Online) explaining how the impact of Change in Comex Gold Price...
Rajandran R
19 sec read

Using Options as Investments Tool for any asset class.

is a type of contract between 2 persons where one person grants the other person the right to buy or to...
Lokesh Madan
9 min read

Tata Consultancy Services-PBT Technical analysis

Tata consultancy services is one of the few popular stocks in the service sector.But recently-it moved into a Range bound environment...
Balaji
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Commodity Investors should watch out! – Secular Bear market

Out with the old: Super Commodities such as Gold, Silver,Oil etc are in a so-called secular bear market that may stretch...
Balaji
2 min read