Marketcalls

Futures and Options

Nifty at Weekly Exhaustion: Can the Market Build Immunity to Geopolitical Shock?

Nifty is entering a critical phase. The weekly chart is showing exhaustion just as global risk has intensified because...

Rajandran R
Mar 16, 2026 3 min read

Nifty March Futures Market Profile Sentiment Goes Extreme

Nifty Futures Market Profile sentiment has turned extreme amid geopolitical tensions, a surge in crude oil, and a sharp...

Rajandran R
Mar 10, 2026 4 min read

Nifty’s Bullish Setup Strengthens: Single Print Acceptance at 26,100

In my previous analysis titled "Nifty Attempting to Close around 27,000+ in December 2025 Series", I outlined the battle...

Rajandran R
Dec 19, 2025 2 min read

Nifty Attempting to Close around 27000+ in December 2025 Series

Nifty is at one of those junctures where the Market Profile is telling a compelling story — but it's...

Rajandran R
Dec 11, 2025 3 min read

Learnings

Understanding Telegraphic Transfer for International Investments

If you have ever invested in global stocks through platforms like INDmoney, Vested Finance, Stockal, or Fi Money, you may have...

Rajandran R
Apr 4, 2026 2 min read

Three Cups of Chaos: Inside a MacroView Conversation

In this Mumbai chai shop conversation, the trader, the investor, and the neutral friend are not merely debating markets. They are...

Rajandran R
Apr 3, 2026 12 min read

What is “TACO” negotiation strategy

The so-called “TACO” negotiation strategy—short for Trump Always Chickens Out—emerged as a satirical label for Donald Trump’s trade tactics. The pattern...

Rajandran R
Sep 6, 2025 1 min read

Python

Setting Up a New Mac Mini with Python 3.14 using Homebrew

Learn how to set up a new Mac Mini for Python development using Homebrew. This step-by-step guide covers installing Python 3.14,...

Rajandran R
Apr 2, 2026 3 min read

Event Driven Backtesting and Event Loops for Traders

Event driven backtesting simulates trading the way markets actually work. Instead of calculating everything at once, it processes events step by...

Rajandran R
Mar 26, 2026 2 min read

Smart Money Concepts (SMC) Structures and FVG – A Python Tutorial

Smart Money Concepts (SMC) is one of the most widely discussed price action frameworks in modern trading. Unlike traditional technical analysis...

Rajandran R
Feb 24, 2026 14 min read

If Python Is Slow, Why Do Hedge Funds, Quant Firms, and Prop Trading Desks Still Use It?

Python is often criticized for being slow, yet it remains one of the most widely used languages inside hedge funds, quantitative...

Rajandran R
Feb 16, 2026 3 min read

[Free Python Course] – Learn Python Faster for Trading and Investing Using AI

This four-part live webinar series teaches Python in a practical, market-focused way. Instead of treating coding as a separate subject, Python is introduced...

Rajandran R
Jan 7, 2026 1 min read

NIFTY 50 Rolling CAGR Heatmap – Python Code

Are your equity investments actually beating Fixed Deposits? Most retail investors park their money in Fixed Deposits earning 6-7% annually, assuming...

Rajandran R
Jan 3, 2026 6 min read

Nifty 50 – Heatmap – Python Tutorial

In this tutorial, we'll build a real-time stock market heatmap that visualize all 50 stocks from the NIFTY 50 index. The...

Rajandran R
Dec 16, 2025 5 min read

Python Roadmap 2026 – A Strategic Guide for Traders and Investors

Python has become the foundation of modern retail algorithmic trading, especially as 2026 brings tighter regulations, clearer expectations and more powerful...

Rajandran R
Dec 7, 2025 4 min read

Amibroker

Gradient-Colored Trend Filter (2-Pole) for AmiBroker

The Gradient Colored Trend Filter (2-Pole) brings BigBeluga’s trend-smoothing concept to AmiBroker, giving traders a clear and intuitive way...

Rajandran R
Nov 30, 2025 5 min read

How to View Screener Fundamentals Directly Inside Amibroker

Most traders depend on charts to make decisions, but a quick look at fundamentals often shapes the final conviction....

Rajandran R
Nov 16, 2025 4 min read

What Is Look-Ahead Bias – Amibroker Tutorial

When you backtest a trading strategy, it’s tempting to use the closing price to make decisions. But doing that can...

Rajandran R
Oct 30, 2025 1 min read

AmiBroker 7.00 BETA Is Now an AI-Powered Coding Assistant

AmiBroker 7.00.0 BETA introduces a notable shift in how traders can work with AFL (AmiBroker Formula Language), thanks to...

Rajandran R
Jul 17, 2025 1 min read

Market Profile

Understanding Point of Control (POC) and Prominent Point of Control (PPOC)

The Point of Control (POC) is the fairest price at which business is being conducted. But what happens when...

Rajandran R
Apr 11, 2026 4 min read

Why Price Alone Is Not Enough in Trading

Most traders believe price is everything. A breakout above resistance feels bullish. A sharp red candle feels bearish. But...

Rajandran R
Feb 22, 2026 3 min read

Understanding Exogenous Price Action Using Today’s Nifty Market Profile Case Study

Market Profile helps traders understand exogenous price action by explaining how markets reprice value after major news. In the...

Rajandran R
Feb 3, 2026 2 min read

Market-Generated Information vs News-Based Trading

This article explores the crucial difference between Market-Generated Information (MGI) and news-based trading, and why Indian traders who rely...

Rajandran R
Jan 21, 2026 2 min read

Tradingview

How to Draw Gap Zones in TradingView Pine Script

Gaps are one of the cleanest visual signals in price action. A gap forms when today's price range does...

Rajandran R
May 2, 2026 7 min read

The 10-Point Trend Ignition System – Tradingview Pinescript code

A 10-point tradingview pinescript trend ignition system that catches market momentum before conventional indicators do. Uses statistical anomaly detection,...

Rajandran R
Apr 27, 2026 12 min read

Building an RRG Clone: A Real-World Test of Claude Sonnet 4.5’s Coding Capabilities

I recently challenged Claude Sonnet 4.5, Anthropic's most advanced model for coding and real-world agents, with what seemed like...

Rajandran R
Sep 30, 2025 15 min read

OpenAlgo

How I Got a Static IP from ACT Broadband for SEBI Compliance to run Algo Trading Systems

If you are an algo trading user trying to adapt to SEBI’s static IP requirement, getting a static IP...

Rajandran R
Mar 29, 2026 5 min read

We Built OpenAlgo for 2 Years. Today It Crossed 100,000 Downloads.

We spent two years building OpenAlgo as an open source, self hostable algorithmic trading infrastructure. Today it has crossed...

Rajandran R
Mar 4, 2026 2 min read

Why OpenAlgo is Licensed Under AGPL-3.0 (and What It Means for Brokers and Traders)

OpenAlgo is more than just a broker API wrapper. It is a self-hosted, open-source trading infrastructure designed for traders,...

Rajandran R
Sep 8, 2025 5 min read

The Millisecond Journey: How a Zerodha Order Actually Reaches the Exchange Ever wondered what happens in the milliseconds after you tap buy on Kite? Here is the full journey of a Zerodha order, from login and Cloudflare to AWS, leased lines, OMS, RMS, and the... Read More

CD Rates Are Rising. MTF Rates Could Be Next. CD rates are rising sharply as liquidity tightens in the Indian banking system, and that could soon push Margin Trading Facility or MTF interest rates higher across brokers. As funding costs increase for banks... Read More

What Traders Should Know About PyO3: When Rust Makes Your Python Faster What is a thin PyO3 wrapper? A thin PyO3 wrapper is a small layer of Python-friendly code sitting on top of high-performance Rust functions, letting you call Rust from Python as if it were... Read More

Short in the Hole & Late Momentum Trading: How Nifty Trapped the Bears Twice On both 5th and 6th May, Nifty short-term traders pressed the sell side aggressively in the morning, only to find themselves trapped in a steeply positive afternoon. This is what Jim Dalton calls "short... Read More