The year was 1943. The air in Bengal hung heavy—not with monsoon rains, but with despair. Rivers ran dry, fields cracked like shattered glass, and the skies withheld their mercy. The British Empire’s policies, coupled with war and exploitation, had turned India’s rice bowl into a graveyard. Over three million souls perished in what history…
W.D. Gann, a luminary in technical analysis, revolutionized trading with his geometric and cyclical theories. Among his most enigmatic concepts is the 2592-day cycle, a derivative of his “Square of 144.” While Gann’s methods often straddle the line between mathematics and mysticism, the 2592-day cycle stands out for its uncanny alignment with historical market reversals….
Introduction In Smart Money Concepts (SMC), price movement is not always smooth. There are times when the market moves aggressively in one direction, leaving behind gaps in price action. These gaps, known as Fair Value Gaps (FVG) or Imbalances, provide key insights into where institutional traders have aggressively bought or sold an asset. For SMC…
In the bustling city of Pune, just before the vibrant festival of Holi was about to paint the town in a myriad of colors, my future daughter-in-law, Priya, had completed her post-graduate studies. Faced with the challenge of transporting her beloved scooter back home, she decided to sell it on OLX. Priya listed her scooter…
Loss aversion is a psychological bias where the pain of losing feels much stronger than the joy of winning. In everyday life, this explains why people avoid selling a house at a loss, even if it’s a rational decision, or why they hold onto outdated technology because they “paid too much to replace it.” When…
By Vivek Krishnamoorthy and Udisha Alok Regression is a technique to unearth the relationship between dependent and independent variables. It is routinely seen in machine learning and used mainly for predictive modelling. In the final installment of this series, we expand our scope to cover other types of regression analysis and their uses in finance….
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As a review, an iron condor is an out-of-the-money put spread plus an out-of-the-money call spread. Contents Here is a typical iron condor on the RUT index with the short put and short call at around 15-delta. It started out with 49 days till expiration. Put spread: Sell one contract 2175 putBuy one contract 2150…
M&M Positional Traders can use the below mentioned levels Close above 2664 Target 2800 Intraday Traders can use the below mentioned levels Buy above 2664 Tgt 2680, 2700 and 2729 SL 2640 Sell below 2630 Tgt 2610, 2585 and 2555 SL 2650 DLF Positional Traders can use the below mentioned levels…
FII Activity: Bearish Sentiment in Nifty Index Futures with Fresh Short Positions Foreign Institutional Investors (FIIs) maintained a bearish stance, actively shorting 7,405 contracts worth ₹1,190 crore. This resulted in a net open interest increase of 3,839 contracts, signaling fresh short positions being built. Breaking Down FII Activity ✔ FIIs covered 684 long contracts, reducing…