Curriculum
Three levels, eight tracks. Psychology and the data checklists thread through every level, because that is where you actually use them.
Market structure, what a lot size and expiry really mean, and the risk reality of F&O.
Before strategies, Greeks or option chains — what you are really buying when you buy a future or an option, and why the answer changes how you size every trade.
Beginner9 min readEvery option strategy that exists is a payoff curve. Learn to read one — breakeven, max profit, max loss — and multi-leg strategies stop being names to memorise.
Beginner12 min readThe three numbers that decide how much you are really risking — and why a position that costs ₹11,000 can behave like one worth ₹18 lakh.
Beginner10 min readWhat actually happens when a contract dies — cash settlement, physical delivery, assignment risk, and the expiry-day traps that catch people who did nothing wrong except forget the date.
Beginner11 min readFour numbers, one rectangle, two lines. Before any pattern has a name, learn to read the argument a single candle is making about who won the session.
Beginner7 min readLevels are not magic lines. There is a real mechanism behind them — and understanding it tells you which levels to trust and which to ignore.
Beginner9 min readHigher highs and higher lows sounds trivial until you have to call it live. Here is how to read structure objectively, and how to know when a trend has actually ended rather than paused.
Beginner9 min readFive patterns that describe something real, what each one is actually saying, and an honest account of how much weight any of them can carry.
Beginner10 min readTriangles, flags, double tops and head and shoulders — reduced to the two things that actually drive all of them, so you can read a pattern you have never been taught a name for.
Beginner10 min readYou are trading a contract that expires in days, so why care about a company's balance sheet? Because fundamentals decide which instruments are safe to trade and when the ground can move under you.
Beginner9 min readThe handful of lines on a financial statement that tell you whether a company is fragile — read in the order that matters, and skipping everything that does not.
Beginner11 min readSentiment analysis is not reading the news or gauging the mood. It is measuring where money is committed — and the difference between opinion and positioning is the entire discipline.
Beginner9 min readWhat to check before 09:15, in what order, and why each item is on the list. A routine you can run in fifteen minutes that removes most avoidable opening-bell mistakes.
Beginner10 min readIndian markets do not trade in isolation. Which overseas inputs genuinely move Nifty, which are noise, and how to tell the difference on any given morning.
Beginner9 min readPre-open, the opening auction, the dead zone, the closing hour — each part of the session behaves differently, and trading them the same way is a slow way to lose money.
Beginner8 min readFutures, option buying or option selling — the same market view can be expressed three ways, and choosing badly is why correct views still lose money.
Beginner10 min readWhy a trader with a mediocre strategy and good sizing beats a trader with a good strategy and bad sizing — and how to work out your actual position size in under a minute.
Beginner11 min readThe SEBI numbers are stark and widely quoted. This is what sits behind them — the specific, repeatable mechanisms, and which of them you can actually do something about.
Beginner11 min readOption chain and OI reading, the Greeks, spreads, and the data you check before the open.
Delta, theta, gamma and vega, in the order they will affect your account. Not the textbook definitions — the behaviour you will actually run into.
Intermediate14 min readOpen interest, change in OI, PCR and the volatility smile — what the chain genuinely tells you about positioning, and the popular readings that do not survive scrutiny.
Intermediate13 min readSelling one leg to fund another is the first real step past buying naked options. What a spread buys you, what it takes away, and when the trade-off is worth making.
Intermediate12 min readPremium selling works most of the time, which is exactly what makes it dangerous. The real economics, the margin reality, and the failure mode that ends accounts.
Intermediate13 min readVolume is the participation behind a move. It cannot tell you direction — but it tells you whether a move has anyone behind it, which is often the more useful question.
Intermediate11 min readThe most used and most misunderstood line on any chart. What an average can genuinely tell you, why crossovers disappoint, and the one job they do better than anything else.
Intermediate11 min readRSI, MACD and stochastics all measure the same handful of things. What they genuinely detect, why "overbought" is the most expensive word in technical analysis, and how many you actually need.
Intermediate12 min readMost breakouts fail. That is not a flaw in the concept — it is the concept working correctly, and understanding why tells you which ones to take.
Intermediate12 min readCatching a turn is the most attractive and most expensive trade in technical analysis. What a genuine reversal requires, and why "reversal" is usually the wrong word for what you are seeing.
Intermediate12 min readScheduled events are the one risk you can see coming. How options price them, why being right about the result can still lose money, and the decision to make before the date arrives.
Intermediate12 min readWhat P/E and its relatives actually measure, why cheap stocks keep falling, and the narrow set of situations where valuation matters to someone holding a contract that expires.
Intermediate11 min readThe two pools of institutional money that move Indian markets, why they often move in opposite directions, and how to read the daily numbers without over-reading them.
Intermediate11 min readVIX is not a fear gauge, a direction signal, or a forecast. It is the price of expected movement — and reading it as a price rather than an emotion changes what you do with it.
Intermediate11 min readBringing the sentiment sources together into one reading — and the reflexivity problem that makes every fixed threshold decay over time.
Intermediate11 min readPre-market preparation is done. Now the market is open — here is the short list of things worth monitoring, and the much longer list that will only make you trade more.
Intermediate11 min readWhich scheduled releases actually move Indian markets, which are noise, and the difference between the number and the surprise — which is the only part that matters.
Intermediate11 min readThe days before expiry have their own character — accelerating decay, rising gamma, rolling flows and pinning pressure. What changes, and how to adjust before it changes for you.
Intermediate11 min readBudget day, policy day, election results. How these sessions actually behave, why the first move is so often wrong, and the plan to make before the day arrives.
Intermediate11 min readThe mechanism that turns a manageable loss into a terminal one — how to recognise it while it is happening, and the circuit breakers that actually stop it.
Intermediate11 min readWithout records you are not learning from experience — you are learning from memory, and memory edits. What to log, what to ignore, and how to actually review it.
Intermediate11 min readMulti-leg construction, volatility regimes, expiry behaviour, and surviving your own drawdowns.
Straddles, strangles, condors and butterflies are not names to memorise — they are four legs assembled to express one specific view. Here is how to build the shape you actually want.
Expert14 min readAsking "is volatility high?" is meaningless without a reference. IV rank gives you one — and it turns the buy-or-sell-premium decision from a guess into a reading.
Expert12 min readExpiry is not an intense version of a normal day — it is a different market with its own physics. Gamma, pinning, the decay cliff, and why most traders should be flat before it.
Expert13 min readMost option education stops at entry. But every outcome is decided at the exit — and "adjusting" is where good traders repair positions and bad traders hide from losses.
Expert13 min readTimeframes routinely contradict each other, and that is not a problem to resolve — it is a hierarchy to use. Context from above, timing from below, and the mistake that ruins both.
Expert12 min readCharts stop working under specific, identifiable conditions. Knowing those conditions is worth more than any additional pattern — because it tells you when to stand aside.
Expert12 min readWhat the evidence actually says about chart pattern reliability, why published hit rates are inflated, and how to find out whether a pattern works for you rather than in a book.
Expert12 min readMoney moves between sectors in patterns that are readable and frequently over-read. What drives rotation in Indian markets, how to see it, and why the textbook cycle disappoints.
Expert12 min readExtremes are where sentiment retains real signal — and where acting on it is most dangerous. How to recognise one, and why being right about it is not the same as making money from it.
Expert12 min readEvery screen you have seen was designed for someone else's process. Here is how to build one for yours — and why the discipline of deciding what to leave out is the real exercise.
Expert12 min readCalendar patterns are the most over-claimed idea in market analysis. What survives scrutiny in Indian markets, what does not, and why most seasonal statistics are artefacts of small samples.
Expert12 min readEvery strategy has losing streaks. What separates traders who continue from traders who stop is entirely what they do during them — planned in advance, while nothing is at stake.
Expert12 min readIn a probabilistic game, a good decision can lose and a bad decision can win. Judging yourself by results teaches you the wrong lessons — here is what to judge instead.
Expert11 min readTracks
F&O runs through everything. The other seven tracks exist to make your decisions inside it better.
The spine of the course. Contracts, margins, expiry, and every strategy built on top.
12 lessonsPrice, volume, structure — reading what the chart is actually saying.
8 lessonsCandlestick and chart formations, and honest odds on each one.
5 lessonsBalance sheets, earnings and valuation — and where they matter for derivatives.
5 lessonsFII/DII flows, PCR, India VIX, and reading positioning rather than opinion.
5 lessonsThe exact pre-market and intraday checklist, in order, with reasons.
5 lessonsWhich market, which session, which hour — and why expiry day is its own animal.
5 lessonsDiscipline, tilt, position sizing and the mental side that decides outcomes.
6 lessons