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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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...
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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
Megaphone blasting fireworks beside a calm glowing lantern: why traders should avoid overhype

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
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...
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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
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
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...
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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...
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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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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,...
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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...
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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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Nifty Hourly Charts for 31st Dec

Nifty at this point of time looks overbought. Though it is in a buy signal. So Book timely profits if you...
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Nifty Hourly Fibonacci Resistance

Charts Shows the Fibonnaci Resistance levels drawn between the recent high 3110 and the recent low of 2813. And Here are...
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Bullish Gold – Breaks 200 MA

Gold Breaks 200 day MA which shows the long term bullishness in gold segment.Buy god before it runs up 25% or...
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Nifty Hourly charts and resistance zone

Nifty Hourly charts shows resistance at 2940-2960 Source: www.marketcalls.in
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Tracking Nifty Using 5 EMA and RSI-2

RSI-2 bounced back from 4.78 to 55 levels. But still 5 EMA Resistance is not yet broken 2932 as of now....
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Twiggs Money Flow indicator warns a trend reversal in Sensex

Chart shows 4 year chart of Sensex with Twiggs Money Flow indicator. Twiggs Money flow indicator(13 Week) shows that a drop...
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How to add Market Calls Feed in Orkut

Aru you an orkut user? Would you like to integrate marketcalls with your orkut account? Then to Read Marketcalls Recent Posting(feeds)...
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High Pole Warning in Nifty (P&F Charts)

← high pole warning (more than 50% reversal) The high pole warning is given when a chart rises above a previous...
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Trin Warning for Nifty

10 day SMA of Trin is greater than 1 as of 24th Dec 2008. It is a warning for the Nifty...
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6 sec read

Warning from 2- Period RSI

Weekly 2-Period RSI Warns a major selling pattern if nifty closed below 2920 on coming friday. Nifty at this point of...
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11 sec read

Nifty Hourly 5 day – 5 EMA Charts

As you know if candle close price > 5 EMA then Buy And if candle close price < 5 EMA then...
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8 sec read
Watercolor illustration of a laptop with options payoff curves for an options analysis tool

OptionsORACLE – Stock Options Analysis Tool

OptionsOracle is a free options analysis tool to build and test option strategies with payoff graphs, Greeks and volatility, plus how...
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