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...
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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
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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 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...
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19 min read
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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
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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
9 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
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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
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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
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Smart Money Concepts (SMC) Structures and FVG: A Python Tutorial

A smart money concepts Python tutorial that detects Break of Structure, Change of Character and Fair Value Gaps, plotted on Reliance...
Rajandran R
17 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....
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Understanding Micro Visual Structures in Market Profile

Learn the micro visual structures in market profile TPO charts: poor highs, single prints, tails, PPOC and halfbacks, and how to...
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5 min read

MCX to Revolutionize Gold Trading with the New 10-gram Gold Futures Contract

The Multi Commodity Exchange of India (MCX) is poised to make waves in the commodity trading landscape with its forthcoming launch...
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Tradingview Style Nifty 50 Heatmap Visualization using Python and Highcharts

Build a TradingView-style Nifty 50 heatmap with Python, Flask and Highcharts: box size shows market cap, colour shows each stock's move....
Rajandran R
7 min read

Understanding the 35 Trillion US Federal Debt: What Traders Need to Know

The recent headlines about the US federal debt hitting $35 trillion have caused quite a stir among traders and investors. There’s...
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2 min read

Fear of Heights: Why Retail Traders Are Uncomfortable Riding the Rallies?

A common phenomenon that many retail traders experience is the fear of heights. This term describes the anxiety and hesitation traders...
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Desi Ishtyle Guide to FPGAs: The Future of Lightning-Fast Trading

Picture this: You're at the bustling Zaveri Bazaar in Mumbai, hunting for the best gold deals. You spot a shop offering...
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2 min read

Bank Nifty Futures – Risk of Fresh Shorts as Inventory goes Short to too Short – Market Profile Analysis

In our previous analysis, we explored the dual momentum top and identified key resistance levels for Bank Nifty. Recently, a divergence...
Rajandran R
1 min read
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How I Built a Telegram AI Stock Assistant Using Llama 3 Groq Tool Use

In this post, I'll walk you through the process of creating an intelligent Telegram AI assistant, StockBot, using the Llama 3...
Rajandran R
1 min read

Nifty Futures Hourly Exhaustion Post Budget Announcement and Tax Implications: Budget 2024

Following the recent budget announcement, the market sentiment in the Nifty Futures has shown signs of seller exhaustion. As observed in...
Rajandran R
2 min read
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Resolving SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED in OpenAlgo (Windows)

If you’ve encountered the SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED error while using OpenAlgo on Windows, there’s good news. A user from the OpenAlgo community...
Rajandran R
1 min read
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Analyzing Bank Nifty: Dual Momentum Top and Market Profile Insights

The Bank Nifty chart showcases a fascinating pattern known as the " Dual Momentum Top ," indicating potential short-term bearishness.
Rajandran R
1 min read

New High-Risk Investment Opportunity (Asset Class) Proposed by SEBI – Discussion at Coffeeshop

Sebi has recently proposed a new asset class designed for investors willing to take on higher risks for potentially higher returns.
Rajandran R
2 min read