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Nifty 0DTE, 11-08: Trading Around the New Closing Auction
NSE's new Closing Auction Session put a discontinuous jump right where the usual tent trade lives. So the tent stayed off, and a farther-out strangle sold on afternoon decay booked +₹2,311 instead.
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Killing the Condor: What 11 Months of Backtest Said
I ran the Sensex weekly condor against 11 months of data on two platforms. It came back negative-to-marginal. A plain short strangle over the same window came back better. So the condor is retired — and I want to be honest about why the number, not my attachment, gets to decide.
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Positional Bull Put on the 125-Minute EMA: First Trade of a New System
A slower system than anything else in the journal: one signal on the 125-minute chart, a credit spread, and a hold measured in days. First trade closed +₹2,213 — booked early, on purpose, because the system is still on trial.
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Nifty 0 DTE Expiry Execution: Managing Volatility with Hedged Ratio Straddles
The Setup On the July 7, 2026 weekly expiry, Nifty opened with initial morning volatility. Once the…
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Opening the Journal: Rules Before Trades
Opening the Journal: Rules Before Trades I have been reading about options for a long time and…