The Stock Market Blog
The Stock Market Blog
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…
Are you having a hard time identifying high-quality F&O opportunities in the fast-moving market? A lot of traders are aware of the setups they are looking for, but the challenge of finding them constantly across different contracts still persists. During…
Did you ever see futures prices change clearly and still be confused about the actual market direction? The movement of the price by itself often conceals the purpose behind it, particularly in derivatives where leverage and positioning are very important…
Have you ever seen an option premium and doubted whether it was really high-priced or just a part of the market situation? A large number of traders who do not keep in mind the volatility environment that affects option valuation…
Is the effort required to analyse the F & O market too much? A lot of traders do, and so, they very often toggle between different tools to gather information on prices, open interest, and volatility. The fragmented workflow slows…
Data from LiveMint indicates that many of the newly listed IPOs had a lot of price volatility right after the listing. Trend analysis of the IPOs has revealed that nearly 67%[1] of the 2025 IPOs that are trading are at…