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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
What Traders Should Know About PyO3: When Rust Makes Your Python Faster
What is a thin PyO3 wrapper? A thin PyO3 wrapper is a small layer of Python-friendly code sitting on top of...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
[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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...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...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
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...
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...All Stories
Upthrust in Gold: The Pause After the Euphoria
After weeks of relentless ascent, Gold finally flashed an Upthrust Bar — a classic Volume Price Analysis (VPA) pattern that signals...
Investing in US Stocks from India: Hidden Costs, Real Risks, and Smart Routes
Thanks to the RBI’s Liberalised Remittance Scheme (LRS), every Indian resident can invest up to $250,000 (around ₹2 crore) abroad per...
Gold-Oil Ratio Revisited: The Fear Returns
The Gold–Oil ratio has surged past 68, marking one of the steepest climbs since the pandemic crash of 2020. In simple...
UV: The Python Package Manager That’s 100x Faster Than Pip
UV is a blazingly fast Python package manager and project manager written in Rust. Created by Astral (the team behind Ruff),...
Indian Weekly Market Wrap up – September 4th Week
The Indian equity markets witnessed a sharp correction during the September 4th week, marking the end of a three-week winning streak....
The Long Road to Machine Intelligence: From Early AI Winters to Modern Neural Networks
The journey of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been a winding path of groundbreaking discoveries, periods of disillusionment, and remarkable comebacks. From...How I Migrated 5 Years of Website Infrastructure Using AI (and Saved 50% on Hosting)
For five years, MarketCalls ran on the same server setup. Like an old car that still runs but makes concerning noises,...
The Current State of Nifty – September 2025 Futures
Nifty has been in a constructive phase this September, and multiple layers of technicals, sentiment, and market structure point towards a...
Agentic Coding and Dopamine Hits: Chasing Quick Wins vs. Building Lasting Skills
Agentic coding feels like magic. One prompt, and whole blocks of code appear on your screen. The dopamine hit is real,...
Why OpenAlgo is Licensed Under AGPL-3.0 (and What It Means for Brokers and Traders)
OpenAlgo is more than just a broker API wrapper. It is a self-hosted, open-source trading infrastructure designed for traders, brokers, and...
What is “TACO” negotiation strategy
The so-called “TACO” negotiation strategy—short for Trump Always Chickens Out—emerged as a satirical label for Donald Trump’s trade tactics. The pattern...