Trading Journal

Two short-put breakout trades the same session — MidcpNifty for ₹2,100, Nifty for ₹1,600. ₹3,700 booked, and a reminder that two green trades pointing the same way are one bet, not two.

The breakout idea, run by hand instead of by the Rust bot. Sold a MidcpNifty put off a chart read, booked ₹1,944 — and now have to ask whether a discretionary version of a system I built to remove discretion is a good idea at all.

Sixth in the series, and the first one taken deliberately into low VIX. ₹1,087.50 of net debit, ₹3,887 of profit, a 285-point profit band — and a clear look at what falling volatility does to a structure that lives on movement.

₹668 of net debit, ₹4,540 of profit, and the uncomfortable detail that this trade made money from precisely the move that took my weekly condor to maximum loss on the same morning.

A condor whose exit signal lives on the combined-premium chart, not in a rupee figure. When Trump started rambling on the 8th it got me out for ₹1,200 while BankNifty went on to fall another thousand points. Re-deployed on the 10th and closed this morning for ₹7,200 — not on the signal, but on an expiry-week margin call I had never written a rule for.

₹221 of net debit, ₹3,744 of profit, and a realised move barely half the size of the week before. Third in the series, and the first one where the shrinking numbers start telling a story.