My day trading process honed over years where I made all the mistakes in the book, got frustrated, learnt and then have come down to this process. This is my process, yours may differ. Take what suits you and discard the rest.
1. Having a end of day / higher time frame view. I create a view based on eod and 55 min charts, study COi , options chain , do some data analysis.
Net : bullish or bearish or neutral(kuch samajh me nahi aa raha hai)
If neutral : no daytrades till 10 am, position size / risk is 25% of normal risk.
( btw, I am talking from the POV of an options buyer)
I have stopped commenting on the various daily shitshows on twitter where someone or the other is targeted on a daily basis and abused due to any small perceived indiscretion which they have done. But this attack on @vivbajaj takes the cake. Seriously.
Tens of thousands of traders have benefitted from his free content and his economically priced very robust app which has gone from strength to strength. He posts one pic with another trader with his PnL and the hell breaks loose, he is the ultimate villian.
Interestingly, majority of the 'messiahs of retail' leading these attacks have launched and failed with their own various products, from advisories to algos to trainings.
And @vivbajaj is successful. So the old case of sour grapes ?
The whole range since Aug 21 got broken and closed below it in a single day price action coupled with sharp rise in COI ( COI has seen strong short buildup even before results)
View : massive distribution has taken place, more pain ahead
ICICIBANK results this weekend. Chart flashing warning signs, no clues from COI yet. Will be closely watching COI behaviour till Friday
Interesting setup on ITC. Early signs of negative divergence but no confirmation from prices yet. COI suggests strong long buildup. Playing this with a closing SL of 262, target may be 300
"A real conversation always contains an invitation. You are inviting another person to reveal herself or himself to you, to tell you who they are or what they want."
- David Whyte.
On Twitter, conversation is limited to set number of characters. Within that too, people who practice the art of conversation immediately grab my attention. Two names which immediately come to my mind are @KatariyaPran and @SarangSood . Their writing style attracted me.
I too fancy that I am good with words, so rather than writing mundane I attempt to bring in some interesting twist when I tweet ( mom being an English teacher has a big influence)
The most important question now on the mind of all analysts and traders. Is this a bear market rally or is this the start of a bull move. Retweeting this as I will need a few tweets to explain my view
Everyone knows the HH-HL or LH-LL as per Dow theory. This can be a bit confusing on how one marks the Highs and Lows. Long back, I picked up this trick from one of the neo-Dow theorists on what to do in scenarios like this
Simply plot a 5 period exponential moving average on a different panel. A 5-EMA simply shows you a running weekly perspective and kind of smoothens the price where a single spike high/low is not of that much importance
A bit drunk. But need to get this off my chest publicly.
A few months back a large trader came to kolkata. Wanted to speak to me personally regarding some trading issues ( not models or methods, mainly psychology). He was a student of mine a few years back.
We spoke, issues I am not at liberty to discuss. Suggested some pointers.
What I noticed was his size, probably 20-50 times more than mine.
Being from a middle class family, a school teacher mother and the experience of blowing up earlier, I was obsessed / fanatical about risk mgmt
So my size was small/managable at a max 0.25% max risk of my capital at any given trade