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

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

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

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

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
11 min read

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...
Rajandran R
3 min read

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

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

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

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

[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

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

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...
Rajandran R
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,...
Rajandran R
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,...
Rajandran R
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...
Rajandran R
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...
Rajandran R
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,...
Rajandran R
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...
Rajandran R
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Nifty Futures Short Term Overview – July 2020 Series

Markets are trading calm compared to the Month of March, Apr, June 2020. Volatility cooled off and trading ranges get smaller...
Rajandran R
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How to Design a 1:2 Risk Reward Ratio Trade using Bear Put Spread?

While trading the debit strategies measuring the risk-reward ratio matters a lot for the options trader. Though you might have a...
Rajandran R
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What is Unified Stamp Duty?

New unified stamp duty rate to be charged to traders and investors at the time of trading in stocks, currency derivatives,...
Rajandran R
1 min read

EMA Crossover High-Low Breakout Strategy – Amibroker AFL Code

This is a simple prototype Amibroker AFL Code for those who want to design a level based breakout system when the...
Rajandran R
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Sector-Wide Selling in Banking Stocks with Engulfing Pattern

Bank Nifty Futures today had a bearish engulfing day with the sector-wide sell-off. Since May 18th Bank Nifty futures...
Rajandran R
1 min read

What We Can Learn from the Sideways Market – Part 1

The sideways market occurs when markets are not dominated by the large players and instead traders attempt to dominate the market...
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[Free Course] Market Profile Vs Price Action – 4 Part Series

This is an Introductory webinar series for those who want to get their expertise in Market Profile and Price Action. It...
Rajandran R
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How to Design a 1:2 Risk Reward Ratio Trade using Bull Call Spread?

While trading the debit strategies measuring the risk-reward ratio matters a lot for the options trader. Though you might have a...
Rajandran R
1 min read

NSE to discontinue NSE NOW Trading Platform Instead Offering Trading APIs to Brokers

Back in 2008 NSE started offering NSE NOW as a digital trading platform to all its members or brokers. NSE NOW...
Aniket Kale
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How to Execute Multi Legged Option Strategy Orders for Reduced Margin

The New Margin Framework is in place from 1st June 2020 onwards. Now even small traders can start benefiting from the...
Rajandran R
1 min read

Bearish Option Strategy: Nifty Hedged Puts – June 2020 Series

Structurally June 2020 series is having a monthly gap and that is a bearish odds which brings the possibility of Nifty...
Rajandran R
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How to get Free Pancard or e-PAN using Aadhar within minutes

Finance Minister officially launched the instant PAN (Permanent Account Number) facility on 28th May which makes getting a new PAN card...
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