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...
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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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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
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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...
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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

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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Open Interest in Share Markets

Open Interest is the total number of outstanding contracts that are held by market participants at the end of the day....
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5 min read
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Sharekhan Investor’s Eye dated December 03, 2007

  #fullpost {display:none;} STOCK UPDATE Jindal Saw            Cluster: Emerging Star Recommendation: BuyPrice target: Rs1,018Current market price:...
Rajandran R
1 min read
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New Multibagger: Shiv-Vani Oil

Shiv-Vani Drilling is likely to become one of the prime beneficiaries of the near $ 3 bn Oil Exploration Budget of...
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1 min read

PASARI SPINNING. MILLS BROKE OUT

Finally long awaited break out took place Stock has broken its all time high and CMP is 23.90 Still one can...
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Kolte-Patil Developers Limited IPO Information

»» Public Issue Type : 100% Book Built Issue (Initial Public Offer IPO ) »» Maximum Subscription Amount for Retail Investor:...
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Deccan Gold Mines:A real goldmine for you

Deccan gold mines was suggested by me several times over the last 2 years.As i always say patience pays that got...
Rajandran R
1 min read
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ETC Networks:"A worthy merger story"

Industry Overview:Shifting consumer preferences, evolving technology and convergence of traditional and new media has brought resurgence…
Rajandran R
2 min read
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Info edge:Get a pie of the internet revolution

Info edge was suggested by me at 670rs last year.The prospects looks far more exciting and there can be tremendous upside...
Rajandran R
1 min read
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Mold-Tek Technologies:Spreading its wings

Mold-tek is the leader in Plastic Pail Packaging industry in the country.The company caters mainly to paints and lubes industry.It is...
Rajandran R
3 min read
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Grauer & Weil (India):Not just the land bank play

Some land bank stories still available at market.Let me present you them.When the market realises these stories,the value can be tremendous.It...
Rajandran R
1 min read
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Turnaround : Western India Shipyard Will Scale New Heights Again

Western India Shipyard (WISL) was incorporated in the Union Territory of Delhi May 1, 1992. WISL is a composite ship and...
Rajandran R
3 min read
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Next Multibagger : Himalya International adopted by Reliance Retail

Himalya International ( HIL) was incorporated in the year 1992. The company is promoted by Manmohan Malik and Sanjeev Kakkar.
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