1. How to Read Expiry Day Like a Pro - The Open Interest (OI) Method🧵

Expiry Day isn't about "Trends." It's about forced liquidations. Huge money is at stake as traders fight to keep the market above or below specific levels. Use OI method along with price action on expiries. 2. Total OI vs. Intraday OI Change

Total OI is the "Battle Plan" from yesterday. It shows where the big walls were built. OI Change is the live action.
Positive Change: Sellers are confident and adding more "weight" to a level.

1. How to Spot a Fake Breakout Using Open Interest (OI)? 🧵

The Trap 🪤
We’ve all been there. Index breaks a major resistance level, you buy the Call and 10 minutes later... it crashes. You just got caught in a Fake Breakout. 2. For a breakout to be real, the "Defenders" (Call Writers) must give up.
Price breaks Resistance
Call OI must FALL (Down ⬇️)
Call Premium must RISE (Up ⬆️)
This is Short Covering, sellers are panicking and running for the exits. This is the "Rocket Fuel" that sustains a move.

Open Interest 🧵

Most traders only look at Price Action. But if you want to know where the "Big Players" are trapped, you need to look at Options Open Interest (OI).

Here’s a simple breakdown of how to use OI. 👇(1/13) What is OI vs. OI Change?

OI: The total number of active option contracts that haven't been closed. Think of this as the "Total Stakes" on the table.

OI Change: The number of contracts added or removed today. This tells us where the current momentum and panic are shifting. (2/

🧵 Explaining ROE & ROCE with example of Ravi’s Juice Shop

1. Let’s start simple.
Before understanding ROE (Return on Equity) & ROCE (Return on Capital Employed), you need to know a few building blocks:

Revenue (Sales)

Expenses

Profit (EBITDA, EBIT, Net Profit)

Capital 2. Meet Ravi.
Ravi starts a juice shop 🍹.

He invests ₹2,00,000 of his own money.

Takes ₹1,00,000 loan from the bank.

Total capital = ₹3,00,000.

This mix of own money (equity) + borrowed money (debt) is the base of every business.

Retail Gets Trapped, Smart Money Gets Paid - How Liquidity Sweeps Actually Work? 🧵

Like, Repost and Bookmark this to read later - (1/ What is Liquidity?
Liquidity in Smart Money/Price Action Context:
This refers to clusters of stop losses or pending orders sitting above or below swing levels.
Institutions (smart money) often target these levels to trigger liquidity and enter or exit positions. (2/

If you are a swing trader, this 🧵 is for you.

There are three patterns that commonly form and can give you amazing buying opportunities in stocks after a big downtrend.

In this thread, you will find some great insights on price action. Bookmark it and read later. 💥 (1/18) First, try to understand the overall trend of the market by following the small-cap index.

You can check my YouTube video on how to track the index for more information. (2/

Trading For A Living By Dr. Alexander Elder summarized in 18 quotes 🧵 1. Important ✍️

Pullback Vs Reversal ⭐💫

In this 🧵, I will discuss the difference between a pullback and a reversal, and how to determine whether it is a pullback or a reversal. Like and repost if you find it helpful. (1/16) 1. Pullback:
A pullback is a temporary reversal in the direction of a prevailing trend and the price is expected to resume its direction after pullback.

Reversal:
A reversal indicates a change in the direction of the trend, a potential shift from upward to downward or vice versa

If you are a cash swing trader and want to know how to find momentum stocks, this thread is for you. Read on 👇(1/22) I am going to discuss a few ways you can find good stocks using price action. Also, join my Telegram channel for regular learnings and updates. (2/22)
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Chart patterns are a very common part of price action. You have all read about them and use them as well. They are easy to trade; you just need to train your eyes to find them. Today, I am going to share one of my favorite patterns that I trade in both Indices and Stocks. 🧵(1/ Not all textbook patterns work perfectly, so it's important to find out which ones work better and in which scenarios.

One of those pattern is -

Parallel Channels

There are two types of channels: the falling channel and the rising channel. (2/

There's always more to learn about Option Buying. Here's a🧵:
Low premiums make trading difficult but provide good opportunities for option buying at times. When the market is trending, option buying can yield good profits, but it is crucial to wait for the right entry. (1/22) As an options buyer, it is important to have the right mindset and a lot of patience to wait for your setup. If you find the right entry, you can make amazing profits. However, most people trade wrongly as they believe it has limited loss and end up buying frequently. (2/22)

Price action is always the king! 👑

Master this skill and conquer any market challenge. 💪

I've dedicated countless hours to perfecting it.

Join me on this epic trading journey and dive into my Master Thread. 🧵

Leave a Like and Retweet to show your appreciation! (1/18) It is very important to create a daily trading plan so that you do not feel lost in the live market. I post mine here daily. Additionally, I conduct live streams on Telegram every weekend for in- depth weekly analysis. Follow my channel. (2/18)

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I believe we are all aware that when the market gives a breakout following a consolidation, we have the potential for a strong trending market. However, despite this opportunity we often find ourselves missing out on maximizing our profits. Here's how I try not to miss it!🧵(1/23 When the market approaches an all-time high, we imagine different scenarios where it may struggle to break through and fall instead. We think about past situations with similar outcomes, like false breakouts, and consider various possibilities. (2/23)

Unlocking breakout trading secrets:

Here's a 🧵 that explains how to trade breakouts and the important factors to keep in mind.

To get best out of this thread, you must know the basics of price action. (1/19) There are numerous pattern formations on charts and we can identify and trade them as soon as there is a breakout. However, do you actually believe that it is that simple? (2/19)

Understanding Support/Resistance Forms Your Base of Doing Market’s Technical Analysis.
A 🧵for those seeking Support and Resistance knowledge: (1/21) It's common knowledge that the market never goes up in a straight line. It always continues its journey in a zigzag pattern or pauses for while before moving forward. When the price pauses temporarily at certain levels in its upward journey.. (2/21)

Breakouts are overrated. And mean reversion, reversal trades/pullbacks are underrated.
If you are an intraday trader, you must know how to trade reversals/pullbacks and not just rely on breakouts.
Let's find this out in a 🧵with a few examples: (1/21) To get best out of this thread, you must know the basics of price action.

Reversal doesn't just mean buying at support and selling at resistance. Beauty of reversal is that they give excellent RR. In different market environments, trades should be approached differently. (2/21)

How to execute positional trading/trend following through option selling?
When to initiate a trade?
What strike to choose?
When to roll over the strike?
And what should be the ideal position sizing to do?
Read On:🧵(1/22) In order to understand all of this, you should know the basics of price action. Here's how I do it; you can implement it if it works for you.

When to initiate a trade:

For initiating trades, you should know the trend at higher timeframes, like Daily and Weekly. (2/22)

If you are new to F&O, you can start with Vertical Spreads (Debit and Credit spreads) instead of buying options in Stocks and Indices.
Here are some ways how you can do it, when you can do it and the right position sizing for doing it... 🧵 (1/25) Traders who are trading in cash and want to explore options generally start with options buying without much knowledge. They buy OTM strikes and trade with wrong position sizing. With no idea about the perfect entry, they end up feeling that F&O is risky. (2/25)

While trading in stocks, how do you survive in a choppy market and make profits? Here's how I do it 🧵

Choppy markets are difficult to trade. When there's an uptrend like it was in mid-2020 and 2021, it's easy to find out stocks in different ways. (1/18) And when it is in a clear downtrend, we can simply avoid trading in cash scrips and can take the benefit of selling in F&O.
We don't know for how long the market will be choppy - could be a few days, 2 months, 6 months or a year. (2/18)

If you're a swing/positional/trend follower, then this thread is for you. In this one, I will be covering how to filter stocks, how to take entry and the exit plans. 🧵 (1/21) It's practically impossible to check all charts. However, you can use multiple scanners as per your setups to make things easy.
In trending market, even junk stocks give a good move. But in sideways and falling markets, you have to be very selective. (2/21)

Time to talk market stuff!

It's common knowledge that there are two categories in Stocks/Indices - Outperformers and Underperformers. Outperformers/Leaders always help the Index/Sectorial Index move higher. (1/10) Underperformers start moving when the Index gives breakout from their major resistance and sometimes they don't even perform.

Now let's say if you're in a bull rally, you need to focus on outperformers. Like in last rally, it was IT sector that outperformed every sector (2/10)