Ten years ago, algorithmic trading was something only institutions and proprietary desks could access. Today, a retail trader with a laptop and a broker API key can run automated strategies from their bedroom. SEBI’s 2026 rules have now stepped in to regulate that access — and if you’re trading with an API, or thinking about […]
You can hand two traders the exact same strategy, the same stop-loss rules, the same entry signal — and one will be profitable while the other blows up their account within a month. The difference isn’t the strategy. It’s what happens in their head the moment the trade goes against them. The Skill Nobody Talks […]
The Trade Every Trader Knew by Heart Is Gone Ask any Indian options trader what happened every Wednesday for the better part of a decade, and they’ll tell you without thinking: Bank Nifty weekly expiry. Sell a strangle in the morning, manage it through the day, collect the decay by 3:30 PM. It was practically […]
Your Options Strategy From Last Year Might Not Work Anymore A friend of mine had been running the same Bank Nifty weekly expiry trade for two years. Small size, tight stop-loss, consistent enough to pay his phone bill every month. Then one Wednesday, the trade just… wasn’t there anymore. No weekly expiry, bigger lot size, […]
The Question Everyone With Spare Money Eventually Asks You’ve just received a bonus, a maturity payout, or you’ve simply saved up a decent amount. Now comes the question every Indian investor faces at some point: do you invest it all at once, or spread it out over time? Most articles on this answer with a […]
The Buy Button Isn’t Just One Button Open any trading app and you’ll see it: a simple “Buy” or “Sell” button, and right below it, a dropdown you’ve probably never touched — Market, Limit, SL, SL-M, GTT. Most beginners pick whatever the app defaults to and move on, without realizing that dropdown is one of […]
IPO Basics: How to Apply, Allotment, and Listing Day Explained Everyone Talks About IPOs. Almost Nobody Explains Them Properly You’ve seen the headlines — a company “oversubscribed 40 times,” another one “lists at a 60% premium.” It sounds exciting, and it makes IPO investing look like something you should be doing too. Then you actually […]
A Rulebook That Hadn’t Changed Since 1992 Think about how different the stock market looked in 1992. No internet trading. No demat accounts. No apps on your phone placing orders in milliseconds. Yet the regulations governing your broker were written for that world — and stayed largely unchanged for 33 years, even as the market […]
The Stock That Just… Stopped You place a sell order. It doesn’t fill. You refresh. Still nothing. The price on your screen hasn’t moved in an hour, but there’s a queue of orders stacked up at that exact number and going nowhere. Your first instinct is that something’s broken — your broker, the app, maybe […]
