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...
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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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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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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.
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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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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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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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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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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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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...
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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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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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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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[Course] Building Stock Market Based Telegram Bots using Python

Learn how to build powerful Telegram bots for the stock market using Python. This hands-on course guides you through creating bots...
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Options Explosion: Why 45.5 Lakh Traders Are Betting Big on NSE

Hey traders! Ever wondered how you stack up against the crowd in the NSE? The Indian stock market is witnessing an...
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Understanding Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) Concepts in Python for Traders and Investors

Learn OOP in Python for traders and investors with stock market examples of classes, objects, attributes and methods to structure trading...
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Liquidation Breakout Failure in Nifty Futures – Sign of Positional Strength

The Indian stock market has been buzzing with activity, and the recent performance of the Nifty index has caught the eye...
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Short-Term Roadmap for OpenAlgo (Jul – Sep 2024)

At OpenAlgo , we are dedicated to revolutionizing the trading experience by providing a powerful, multi-broker trading terminal that supports both...
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OpenAlgo: Our Commitment to Open Source Algo Trading Platform

Marketcalls clarifies its OpenAlgo open source commitment: AGPL-3.0, free for retail traders, paid only for custom desk work, plus a 2026...
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How SEBI’s New Circular Will Impact Zero Brokerage Services: What Traders Need to Know

The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) has recently issued a crucial circular (CIRCULAR SEBI/HO/MRD/TPD-1/P/CIR/2024/92) that mandates significant changes in...
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How to Send TradingView Alerts to Telegram Without Any Coding or Third-Party Tools

Send TradingView alerts to Telegram without coding or third-party tools. Set up a bot, find your chat ID, add the webhook...
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How I Built a Trader-Friendly Stock Market Dashboard using Claude 3.5 Sonnet

How I built a full-stack stock market dashboard with Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Flask, yfinance and React: the exact prompts, the stack...
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From Record Longs to Record Shorts: A Behavioral Analysis of Retail Traders’ Dramatic Shift in One Month

In just one month, retail traders went from holding record-long positions to record-short positions in Nifty futures. This dramatic shift has...
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Increasing Risk of Short-Term Trading Inventory – Nifty Futures Market Profile and Technical Indicator Analysis

Since Election Day on 4th June 2024, the market has experienced a significant one-sided movement. The Nifty Futures have shown a...
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[Research] Youtube Thumbnail Indicator Similarity to the Magazine Cover Indicator

Sentiment indicators often provide contrarian signals that can help traders and investors make informed decisions. One such innovative sentiment indicator is...
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