Curriculum
Option 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.
14 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.
13 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.
12 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.
13 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.
11 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.
11 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.
12 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.
12 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.
12 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.
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 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.
11 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.
11 min readBringing the sentiment sources together into one reading — and the reflexivity problem that makes every fixed threshold decay over time.
11 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.
11 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.
11 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.
11 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.
11 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.
11 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.
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