Ever felt like expiry day moves are too wild to be real? Like someone’s hunting stop-losses?

Turns out, someone was.
SEBI just caught Jane Street allegedly manipulating BANKNIFTY to make crores.

🧵This is how they turned India’s market into an options casino.👇 Jane Street is a giant U.S. Quant Trading Firm (founded 2000, ~2,600 employees) known for lightning-fast, algorithm-driven trades across global markets.

In December 2020 it expanded into India, setting up 2 Indian arms and 2 foreign affiliates.

On June 6, 2025, the RBI dropped a monetary policy surprise announcing a 50BPS cut in the repo rate bringing it down to 5.50% and a 100 BPS reduction in the Cash Reserve Ratio to 3%.

That’s a big move! So, what does it mean for the economy and you?

Let's dig in! 👇 This frees up about ₹2.5L crore in bank liquidity and lowers the RBI’s lending rate to banks.

The RBI also shifted its policy stance to “Neutral” from “Accommodative” having eased aggressively, the central bank signaled it will now watch incoming data before cutting further.

🚨 Kotak Mahindra Bank Q3FY25

Here’s a detailed look at the #Q3FY25 Highlights 🔍
🧵 Let’s break it down

#KotakMahindraBank #Q3Results 1. Profit Surge

🔸 Consolidated profit up 10% YoY to ₹4,701 Crore.

🔸 Standalone profit also rose 10% YoY to ₹3,305 Crore, Matching estimates.

The bank posted a solid 10% YoY increase in both consolidated and standalone profit.

In the past years, I’ve seen and worked through many strategies and one of the most important things is to have realistic expectations.

In the same context, Let’s unroll some facts about Trading Strategies:

(A Thread 🧵) 1. Most trading strategies are unexciting as you have to do the same thing day in and day out, like a robot, without expecting any instant marvels.

🧵 Best thing I read on the internet today:

Nobody’s going to do your life for you. You’ve to do it yourself. Whether you’re rich or poor, out of money or raking it in,

The beneficiary of ridiculous fortune or terrible injustice.

Understanding Risk🧵

In trading & In life, most of us either underestimate or overestimate risk.

Trader’s work is to risk a certain % on each bet and let it play out.

If we are betting too small or too big, it’s going to be a bumpy ride. Somewhere, we know that if we keep betting too big, we might end up blowing our account.

Likewise, if we keep on betting too small, not only rewards will be frustrating for a profitable trader,

but out of frustration, we will be tempted to bet too big.

OVERCOMING TRADING RELATED SET BACKS 🧵

Trading is unique profession in the world, where easy money is earned the hard way.

In no other business, you can scale in so fast, and really stand a chance to make 100-1000x. But uncertainty, risk, emotional upheaval makes this business extremely risky and Probability of success making even 5-10x impossible for most of the beginners.

TOP 5 BASIC TRADING RULES:

~A Thread~ 1. Have a Trading plan with well defined Entry and SL.

A Thread on~ O V E R T R A D I N G

Sitting and observing the numbers flicker on the screen might be very exciting. But have you ever felt like you might've done better? Or you're just too tired of waiting that you punch an order right in?

That's a Bad Idea.

So, Let's understand the reasons behind it and try to find a way out.

#NYKAA IPO

Key points

IPO Open Date~ Oct 28, 2021

IPO Close Date~ Nov 1, 2021

IPO Listing Date~ Nov 11, 2021

IPO Price~ ₹1085 to ₹1125 per equity share

Minimum application amount~ ₹13,500

Maximum application amount~ ₹189,000 Summary of financial Information (Restated Consolidated)

20 Timeless Financial Lessons from the book:

"THE PSYCHOLOGY OF MONEY"

– Thread – 1. Our current relationships with money are based on our past experiences & We should avoid living in that illusion.

2. One can be wealthy without superior intelligence of financial education. You just need right behavioral skills.

COAL SHORTAGE~ A Thread🧵

To tackle Covid & it's widespread economic impact; Gods of the financial developed world, started printing almost unlimited money.

They printed more than ever, more than needed.

This created various asset bubbles including equity & commodities. Once economic activity resumed all across the world with fervor.

Consumption started at neck breaking speed.

If we look at GDP growth projections of India or China, it was unthinkable one year back.

Because of money available at 0 interest rates & thanks to complex derivatives

A Thread on~ R I S K M A N A G E M E N T 🧵

Risk is inseparable from return in the stock market arena.

If risk can be managed, traders can open themselves up to making money in the market.

It is an important but often overlooked pre-requisite to successful active trading Point being~ Anyone who has earned decent profit can lose it all in a split second without proper risk management.

So how do we develop the best techniques to curb the risks of the market?

TOP 10 TRADING MISTAKES THAT WE ALL MAKE 🧵

We all make mistakes but what's most important is to correct them at the earliest opportunity and learn from them. 1. NOT UNDERSTANDING TRADING AS A BUSINESS

Most of us treat trading just like a hobby~ When it's not or maybe even if it is, it's a pretty expensive one.

We can acquire knowledge acquire experience but the lack of professional business approach doesn't make it last long.

Trading Psychology 101 🧵

If you're new to the field and trying to make sense out of out, good.

The charm of seeing numbers flickering on your screen can be exciting and shattering at the same time.

The ability to hold these emotions from the beginning will give you an edge. When you're just starting, It's tempting. The thought of conquering it all in a day just gets imprinted on our brain.

Because of this, The risk of overdoing pops in. Stick with what works for you and keep adding in along the way.

#Afghanistan Humanitarian Crisis
#TalibanTakeover

My heart goes out to citizens of Afghanistan and personnel who are stranded and suffering in this endless conflict. US was going to withdraw from the region, it was known and negotiated for many months.

It's immaterial whether USA's assessment of Taliban's strength was wrong or deliberately misleading.