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...
Rajandran R
5 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
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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 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...
Rajandran R
16 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

A thin PyO3 wrapper is a small layer of Python-friendly code sitting on top of high-performance Rust functions, letting you call...
Rajandran R
3 min read
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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,...
Rajandran R
3 min read
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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...
Rajandran R
2 min read
Candlestick chart with structure-break arrows and a teal fair value gap zone: Smart Money Concepts in Python

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…
Rajandran R
14 min read
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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...
Rajandran R
3 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

When you backtest a trading strategy, it’s tempting to use the closing price to make decisions. But doing that can...
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1 min read

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...
Rajandran R
1 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,...
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7 min read

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,...
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2 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)

The Point of Control (POC) is the fairest price at which business is being conducted. But what happens when...
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4 min read

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...
Rajandran R
7 min read

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,...
Rajandran R
12 min read

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...
Rajandran R
15 min read

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,...
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4 min read

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...
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5 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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Nifty at Weekly Exhaustion: Can the Market Build Immunity to Geopolitical Shock?

Nifty is entering a critical phase. The weekly chart is showing exhaustion just as global risk has intensified because of rising...
Rajandran R
3 min read
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Understanding the Petrodollar: A Complete Masterclass

Learn how the petrodollar system works, why oil is priced in US dollars, how petrodollar recycling sustains US financial dominance, and...
Rajandran R
8 min read
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Nifty March Futures Market Profile Sentiment Goes Extreme

Nifty Futures Market Profile sentiment has turned extreme amid geopolitical tensions, a surge in crude oil, and a sharp rise in...
Rajandran R
3 min read
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Crude sentiment has changed from soft outlook to supply panic

The Strait of Hormuz may sound like a distant geopolitical term, but when this narrow sea route is disrupted, the impact...
Rajandran R
4 min read
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Why Price Alone Is Not Enough in Trading

Most traders believe price is everything. A breakout above resistance feels bullish. A sharp red candle feels bearish. But price alone...
Rajandran R
3 min read
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How Sahi Processes Stock Market Data from the Exchange

Discover how Sahi processes real-time market data, builds ultra-fast charts, and stores aggregated candles using ScyllaDB for instant trading insights.
Rajandran R
2 min read
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Prop Desk Funding Tightened: RBI Shuts Leverage Door On Broker Proprietary Trading

In a significant recalibration of how India’s capital markets are funded, the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has introduced sweeping changes...
Rajandran R
2 min read
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Understanding Exogenous Price Action Using Today’s Nifty Market Profile Case Study

Market Profile helps traders understand exogenous price action by explaining how markets reprice value after major news. In the recent Nifty...
Rajandran R
2 min read
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Market-Generated Information vs News-Based Trading

This article explores the crucial difference between Market-Generated Information (MGI) and news-based trading, and why Indian traders who rely on price,...
Rajandran R
2 min read
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[Free Python Course] – Learn Python Faster for Trading and Investing Using AI

This four-part live webinar series teaches Python in a practical, market-focused way. Instead of treating coding as a separate subject, Python is introduced...
Rajandran R
1 min read
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NIFTY 50 Rolling CAGR Heatmap: Python Code

Are your equity investments actually beating Fixed Deposits? Most retail investors park their money in Fixed Deposits earning 6-7% annually, assuming...
Rajandran R
6 min read
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Nifty’s Bullish Setup Strengthens: Single Print Acceptance at 26,100

In my previous analysis titled "Nifty Attempting to Close around 27,000+ in December 2025 Series", I outlined the battle between Dominant...
Rajandran R
2 min read