Futures and Options    

Nifty Market Profile Outlook: Failed Auction at 24050 Keeps the Upside Magnet Alive

Nifty has been in a short-term downtrend since 29th May, led by strong institutional selling and a failed auction...
Rajandran R
3 min read

Nifty at Weekly Exhaustion: Can the Market Build Immunity to Geopolitical Shock?

Nifty is entering a critical phase. The weekly chart is showing exhaustion just as global risk has intensified because...
Rajandran R
3 min read

Nifty March Futures Market Profile Sentiment Goes Extreme

Nifty Futures Market Profile sentiment has turned extreme amid geopolitical tensions, a surge in crude oil, and a sharp...
Rajandran R
4 min read

Nifty’s Bullish Setup Strengthens: Single Print Acceptance at 26,100

In my previous analysis titled "Nifty Attempting to Close around 27,000+ in December 2025 Series", I outlined the battle...
Rajandran R
2 min read

Learnings    

Why Overhype Gets Attention and Why You Should Avoid It

Social media rewards fear, urgency, outrage, and exaggerated promises because emotion drives engagement. But overhype may win attention today while slowly...
Rajandran R
3 min read

Why Every Trader Should Learn Partial Derivatives

Partial derivatives are the foundation of modern options trading, quantitative finance, and algorithmic trading. Learn how concepts like Delta, Gamma, Theta,...
Rajandran R
3 min read

Understanding Telegraphic Transfer for International Investments

If you have ever invested in global stocks through platforms like INDmoney, Vested Finance, Stockal, or Fi Money, you may have...
Rajandran R
2 min read

Python    

Building a Simple ORB Strategy Visualization with Stop Loss and Target Using OpenAlgo – Python Tutorial

Build a Python ORB strategy visualizer with OpenAlgo: fetch 1-minute data, compute opening range levels, add stop loss and target logic,...
Rajandran R
11 min read

What Traders Should Know About PyO3: When Rust Makes Your Python Faster

What is a thin PyO3 wrapper? A thin PyO3 wrapper is a small layer of Python-friendly code sitting on top of...
Rajandran R
3 min read

Setting Up a New Mac Mini with Python 3.14 using Homebrew

Learn how to set up a new Mac Mini for Python development using Homebrew. This step-by-step guide covers installing Python 3.14,...
Rajandran R
3 min read

Event Driven Backtesting and Event Loops for Traders

Event driven backtesting simulates trading the way markets actually work. Instead of calculating everything at once, it processes events step by...
Rajandran R
2 min read

Smart Money Concepts (SMC) Structures and FVG – A Python Tutorial

Smart Money Concepts (SMC) is one of the most widely discussed price action frameworks in modern trading. Unlike traditional technical analysis...
Rajandran R
14 min read

If Python Is Slow, Why Do Hedge Funds, Quant Firms, and Prop Trading Desks Still Use It?

Python is often criticized for being slow, yet it remains one of the most widely used languages inside hedge funds, quantitative...
Rajandran R
3 min read

[Free Python Course] – Learn Python Faster for Trading and Investing Using AI

This four-part live webinar series teaches Python in a practical, market-focused way. Instead of treating coding as a separate subject, Python is introduced...
Rajandran R
1 min read

NIFTY 50 Rolling CAGR Heatmap – Python Code

Are your equity investments actually beating Fixed Deposits? Most retail investors park their money in Fixed Deposits earning 6-7% annually, assuming...
Rajandran R
6 min read

Amibroker    

Gradient-Colored Trend Filter (2-Pole) for AmiBroker

The Gradient Colored Trend Filter (2-Pole) brings BigBeluga’s trend-smoothing concept to AmiBroker, giving traders a clear and intuitive way...
Rajandran R
5 min read

How to View Screener Fundamentals Directly Inside Amibroker

Most traders depend on charts to make decisions, but a quick look at fundamentals often shapes the final conviction....
Rajandran R
4 min read

What Is Look-Ahead Bias – Amibroker Tutorial

When you backtest a trading strategy, it’s tempting to use the closing price to make decisions. But doing that can...
Rajandran R
1 min read

AmiBroker 7.00 BETA Is Now an AI-Powered Coding Assistant

AmiBroker 7.00.0 BETA introduces a notable shift in how traders can work with AFL (AmiBroker Formula Language), thanks to...
Rajandran R
1 min read

Market Profile    

What Does POC Migration Mean? – Market Profile Tutorial

The Point of Control is the price at which the most trading activity has taken place during a session,...
Rajandran R
2 min read

Short in the Hole & Late Momentum Trading: How Nifty Trapped the Bears Twice

On both 5th and 6th May, Nifty short-term traders pressed the sell side aggressively in the morning, only to...
Rajandran R
5 min read

Understanding Point of Control (POC) and Prominent Point of Control (PPOC)

The Point of Control (POC) is the fairest price at which business is being conducted. But what happens when...
Rajandran R
4 min read

Why Price Alone Is Not Enough in Trading

Most traders believe price is everything. A breakout above resistance feels bullish. A sharp red candle feels bearish. But...
Rajandran R
3 min read

Tradingview    

How to Draw Gap Zones in TradingView Pine Script

Gaps are one of the cleanest visual signals in price action. A gap forms when today's price range does...
Rajandran R
7 min read

The 10-Point Trend Ignition System – Tradingview Pinescript code

A 10-point tradingview pinescript trend ignition system that catches market momentum before conventional indicators do. Uses statistical anomaly detection,...
Rajandran R
12 min read

Building an RRG Clone: A Real-World Test of Claude Sonnet 4.5’s Coding Capabilities

I recently challenged Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic's most advanced model for coding and real-world agents, with what seemed like...
Rajandran R
15 min read

OpenAlgo    

How I Got a Static IP from ACT Broadband for SEBI Compliance to run Algo Trading Systems

If you are an algo trading user trying to adapt to SEBI’s static IP requirement, getting a static IP...
Rajandran R
5 min read

We Built OpenAlgo for 2 Years. Today It Crossed 100,000 Downloads.

We spent two years building OpenAlgo as an open source, self hostable algorithmic trading infrastructure. Today it has crossed...
Rajandran R
2 min read

Nifty 50 – Heatmap – Python Tutorial

In this tutorial, we'll build a real-time stock market heatmap that visualize all 50 stocks from the NIFTY 50...
Rajandran R
5 min read

All Stories

The Millisecond Journey: How a Zerodha Order Actually Reaches the Exchange

Ever wondered what happens in the milliseconds after you tap buy on Kite? Here is the full journey of a Zerodha...
Rajandran R
6 min read

CD Rates Are Rising. MTF Rates Could Be Next.

CD rates are rising sharply as liquidity tightens in the Indian banking system, and that could soon push Margin Trading Facility...
Rajandran R
4 min read

Stop Calling Jane Street a “Hedge Fund.” It’s an AI Lab That Happens to Print Money From Markets.

If you still think Jane Street is just another Wall Street market maker with smart traders and fast machines, you are...
Rajandran R
8 min read

How Experienced Traders Should Actually Prompt Claude to Build Strategies

Most traders who sit down with Claude to build a strategy walk away frustrated within the first hour. The code runs...
Rajandran R
7 min read

How Smart Beta ETFs Combine the Best of Active and Passive Investing

The debate between active and passive investing has divided investors for years. While active funds try to beat the market but...
Rajandran R
2 min read

Why AI Hallucinates, How to Catch It, and What Traders and Investors Must Know

AI hallucinations cost traders real capital through fake citations, wrong numbers, and subtly broken backtests. Here is how to catch them...
Rajandran R
8 min read

Open Source AI is Catching Up Fast. Gemma 4 Just Proved It.

The gap between proprietary AI models and open source alternatives has been shrinking for years. But with the release of Google...
Rajandran R
11 min read

Three Cups of Chaos: Inside a MacroView Conversation

In this Mumbai chai shop conversation, the trader, the investor, and the neutral friend are not merely debating markets. They are...
Rajandran R
12 min read

Why a Short Term Trend Reversal in Gold Looks Possible Now and Why Gold Fell During War

Gold has gone through a sharp and emotional correction. After a powerful rally into record highs, the market sold off aggressively,...
Rajandran R
4 min read

Understanding the Petrodollar: A Complete Masterclass

Learn how the petrodollar system works, why oil is priced in US dollars, how petrodollar recycling sustains US financial dominance, and...
Rajandran R
8 min read

Crude sentiment has changed from soft outlook to supply panic

The Strait of Hormuz may sound like a distant geopolitical term, but when this narrow sea route is disrupted, the impact...
Rajandran R
4 min read

How Sahi Processes Stock Market Data from the Exchange

Discover how Sahi processes real-time market data, builds ultra-fast charts, and stores aggregated candles using ScyllaDB for instant trading insights.
Rajandran R
2 min read