Tracks
Balance sheets, earnings and valuation — and where they matter for derivatives.
Market structure, what a lot size and expiry really mean, and the risk reality of F&O.
You 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.
9 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.
11 min readOption chain and OI reading, the Greeks, spreads, and the data you check before the open.
Scheduled 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.
12 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.
11 min readMulti-leg construction, volatility regimes, expiry behaviour, and surviving your own drawdowns.