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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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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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...
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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...
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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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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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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,...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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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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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When Does Nifty Break out of the Longer Consolidation?

The current sideways markets running in Nifty Futures is almost 48 days old. And consolidated between 10800 - 11145 levels most...
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Crude Oil Spike and Saudi Aramco Drone Attack

Geopolitical tensions escalated following the drone attack on two Saudi Aramco installations Abqaiq and Khurais. Yemen's Iran-allied Houthi rebels have...
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Nifty Futures : Whipsaws Ahead : Sep 2019 Short Term Outlook

Whipsaws are quite common in a nontrending market especially when the competition is poor from both buyers and sellers. This...
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Extreme Negative Sentiment in Nifty Futures

Extreme negative sentiment is witnessed around the closing of Tuesday's session. Nifty Futures is down by -2.3% with a late emotional...
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Nifty Futures – Market Profile Outlook September Series

Nifty Futures went into sideways mode for the last 5 trading weeks in a high volatile fashion between 10800-11200 majority of...
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Nifty Futures – Market Profile Analysis – Aug 2019 Expiry

Nifty Futures opened gap down on Friday morning trading session and went initially lower followed by the counter trend reversal of...
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Gentle Reminder: Once in a while, there will be a BlackSwan

This time it is Argentina Merval Index. On 12th Aug 2019, Merval Index collapsed more than 34% post-Argentine election surprise. ...
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[Community Webinar] Nifty and Bank Nifty Futures – 12th Aug – 16th Aug 2019 Preparation

Here is a community webinar (61 mins) where we discussed this week about the nuances of last week activity and the...
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Gold Trading above Multi-Year High and Psychological 1500 USD/Ounce

In the midst of ongoing trade war tensions gold, this week had captured the psychological mark 1500 USD and trading around...
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Nifty Key Levels to Watch before RBI Policy Announcement

Nifty Futures made a one-sided journey from 12000 levels to 10800 levels during July -August series. A day before RBI...
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Announcement : Speaking at Converge 2019 – Bangalore

This is the short post to let you know that I’ll be speaking at Converge 2019 conference on 18th Aug 2019...
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Is Smallcap Stocks Worth Paying Attention now?

Since the start of Jan 2018 Smallcap index had undergone a 40% drawdown which is one of the worst drawdowns next...
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