Curriculum
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.
9 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.
12 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.
10 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.
11 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.
7 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.
9 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.
9 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.
10 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.
10 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.
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 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.
10 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.
9 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.
8 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.
10 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.
11 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.
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