The Stock Market Blog
The Stock Market Blog
Consider an instance where NIFTY trades in a range for 3 days. Prices don’t move much, and chart patterns show no movement at all. However, beneath all this, implied volatility is quietly beginning to build up gradually. And this steady…
The process of implied volatility monitoring on NIFTY options has already started. Now, it becomes possible to observe whether the indicator is increasing or decreasing. However, this is the end of what is currently possible. In fact, implied volatility does…
Equity traders encounter the same problem daily. There are more than 2,000 actively traded stocks listed on the NSE. One cannot monitor them all manually. This is where stock screeners help. But this is the question that gets confusing. Should…
It is 9:17 am. The market opened five minutes ago. Looking at your screen, you can see that 50 stocks are moving up, another 30 are moving down, while the remaining stocks are inactive. With only 15 minutes at hand,…
Imagine what it would be like if you had a single measure that tells you about the fear or greed of the markets. Imagine if you could determine the level of market optimism or pessimism through this single measure and…
A research published in the Journal of Futures Markets[1] makes clear that the activity of options trading is very instrumental in the process of price discovery. The study asserts that speculating heavily with options affects the prices even before technical…
Traders in today’s F&O market must create trading setups that they believe with high certainty before they start trading. Derivative markets show investor market positions and investor market sentiment, while technical indicators show possible future price changes, which they use…
India’s F&O market exploded to a record monthly turnover of ₹8,740 lakh crore ($1.1 trillion) in March 2024, according to ICICI Direct, yet SEBI’s latest data shows that 91% of individual traders lost money in FY 2024-25, with total losses…
The introduction of weekly options to F&O trading in India has created new trading possibilities that enable traders to profit from minor price changes. The process of identifying profitable trading opportunities becomes impossible because there are more than a thousand…
Have you ever observed that some shares usually fluctuate together while others go the other way? For futures and options traders, the detection of such relationships can lead to considerable enhancement in the accuracy of the strategies. Market connections are…