A short strangle is a position where you sell an OTM call and an OTM put both to receive some credit. The trade will benefit from either of the two — a) the range bound movement of the underlying and you get the daily theta burn and b) the volatility…

I have one word answer to all the people who ask me about how to become a full time trader — Don’t. If I am pushed on it the response becomes a little more elaborate, from one word to two — Fuck no! Throughout this blog I will refer to…

If you are following me on twitter, you would already know that I pay a lot of emphasis on position sizing and I believe it to be the single most important thing to be kept in mind if you are selling options. It doesn’t matter what trading style you have…

Breakouts happen all the time and there are many ways to trade breakouts like buying equity or future, selling put or put spread, buying call or call spread. Every trader has their own approach. Usually when stocks are breaking out or are trading higher, the calls are in demand resulting…

‘Analysis’ ka Nanga Naach In my last part (read here) I talked about the fascinating journey of con artists that are twitter ‘traders/trainers’ and how they use MTM screenshots to dupe retail/ traders new to the scene. In today’s part I want to talk about another tactic they use a lot — ‘Analysis’ and…

MTM Screenshots After my last blog on how some twitter ‘trainers’ were conning traders who were relatively new to the scene, I have been meaning to write about some of the tactics these people use to bait and reel their ‘marks’ in. TLDR for those who missed my earlier blog (Link) —…

I was not surprised by the inadequate and deflecting replies that I got from Subhadip Nandy on my back-test results. (For people who missed my previous blog on the subject, read here: Previous Blog ) Except for one system, no data was given to support or refute any of the…

Money control churns out 52 stock market trainers a year — someone jokingly said to me the other day commenting on the fame the site is giving some traders by selecting one almost every week. While publishers like them might feature a trader (not even sure if they do a…