Trade Recaps
Sensex 0DTE, 23-07: Paid by the Same Gap That Broke the Condor
₹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.
Risk Management
Sensex Condor 3: The Stop I Wrote Down and Didn't Use
Down ₹700 at the close on 22-07 with my finger over the exit, I chose to hope for a recovery instead. The next morning gapped down again and the condor went to its structural maximum: −₹3,400. Five times the loss I declined to take.
Strategy
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.
Psychology
The Bot Was Right and I Wasn't: Nifty Short, 22-07
A Rust bot fired a short signal at 09:20 with two exit conditions, neither of which was 'Rahul feels uncomfortable'. I booked ₹1,462.50 anyway and spent the rest of the day watching the trade I no longer had.
Risk Management
Nifty 0DTE, 21-07: Four for Four, and Why That Worries Me
₹3,204 on the fourth straight winning expiry, and the narrowest profit band yet — 287 points. Four wins, ₹16,921, and zero observations of the only outcome that can actually hurt this structure.
Trade Recaps
BankNifty Monthly Condor: The Exit That Actually Worked
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.