76 Super Tips to make killer profits doing Option Buying in #BankNifty

On the occasion of our 76th Independence Day.
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76. BankNifty's move depends on moves of mainly 5 banks - HDFCBank, ICICI Bank, SBI, Kotak & Axis bank: track OI buidup & PA of these daily.

75. Open charts of each of these banks daily & see which is near an important resistance or support, that can affect BankNifty's movement immensely the next day - track that bank closely the next day.

74. HDFCBank (26%) & ICICIbank (23%) are the biggest contributor in BankNifty : give more importance to these two.

73. SBI, Kotak & Axis bank each contribute around 11%, but if two of them align with each other & HDFCBank & ICICI are neutral, they'll decide the direction.

72. SBI being the major PSU bank, can move opposite to these giants & create a turbulence, keep it in mind.

12 Free but Extremely powerful Indicators in Trading View.
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1. All patterns
This will read all the candlestick patterns forming in your chart. You can initiate trade when your favorite pattern forms.
Also contains description of every pattern.

2.Elder's Force Index (EFI)
It measures the power behind a price movement using price and volume. Can also be used to identify potential reversals and price corrections. It's Divergence indicates a reversal, see in the image attached.

3. Chande Kroll Stop
Denotes the SL for either a short or long position.
Red line represents the SL for a short position, whereas the green line represents the SL for a long position. It's calculation is based on Average True range.

4. Choppiness Index (CHOP)
It determines if the market is choppy (trading sideways) or not choppy (trading within a trend in either direction).
Higher values equal more choppiness (bad for directional traders), while lower values indicate directional trending.

There is a powerful Free app for Traders which is much more efficient than many paid apps combined.
Read on to know -

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Let's see glimpses of what this app does.

- Unusual Volume Live Scanner:
Stocks showing a sudden influx of volume are scanned here in realtime, both bullish & bearish. Great candidate for further follow up moves.

- Futures OI buildup :
Realtime info of Long & Short buildup along with short covering/ long unwinding in stocks is shown to you.
You can customize this to see data from a preferred sector too.

- Market meter :
Gives a live snapshot view of the market movers, both bullish & bearish. Very useful for intraday trend trades.

- Opportunity Finder :
You can give your range for P/E , Market Cap , YTD Returns etc. It'll not just tell the results, with extra details like - 52wk high/low, DMAs, % above avg volume etc.
A great tool to find stocks meeting your criteria.

61 Top Trading mistakes of Option Buyers -
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- Buying options when IV is falling.
- Buying options when the market is stagnant.
- Not waiting for confirmation of a breakout.

- Not taking care of proper position sizing.
- Thinking of only the rewards, ignoring the risks.
- Jumping to trade without waiting for proper setup formation.

- Not putting SL in the system.
- Not calculating SL beforehand.
- Not having an exit strategy beforehand.

- Not giving importance to Greeks.
- Buying OTMs near to expiry, coz they are cheap.
- Buying OTM in large quantities, coz they are cheap.

Here's a super setup with a ~70% win rate & very high R:R for Options Traders.

Name of this setup is - FSC.

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Principle - The First 5/15 min candle of the day is very important. It gives a good indication of what is going to happen with that Index/stock in intraday.
One of the many types of candles is 'Strong' candle.

A strong candle is the one that either has no wick or has a wick on the downside (for green candle) or on the upside (for red).
Now if this candle forms in the first 5 min of the day, it's called FSC - First Strong Candle.

Entry Criteria - Enter at 9:20 am on the Stock forming FSC in 5 Min TF. Go long if FSC is green, short if FSC is Red.

Instruments - Can go with Options, Futures or even cash. Remember this is an Intraday strategy.

SL - low of FSC.

Trailing of SL - using PA-based pivots. You can use VWAP too.

Top 13 websites providing extremely useful Data for Options Traders -

1- Go charting
For Orderflow data along with other useful stuffs.

2- Trendlyne
For it's customisable scanners.

3- icharts
for all present & historical data related to Stock as well as Index options.

4- Opstra
for it's accurate payoff diagrams & strategy builder.

All patterns that a Trader must know -
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(Free PDF inside)

Hammer

- bullish signal, consisting of a short upper body and longer lower wick.

- forms because the prices bounced back even after selling pressure.

- hammer at the bottom of a downtrend indicates that the trend has changed to bullish.

Hanging Man

- A hammer formation at the top of an uptrend.

- It is a bearish signal indicating the end of the uptrend.

- The long lower wick indicates that the buyers have tried to keep the prices up but the sellers are gaining control.

Inverted Hammer

- If it forms at the bottom of a downtrend is a bullish trend reversal signal.

- It indicates that the buyers were able to resist selling pressure as sellers were not able to take the price down much.

- View confirms by a green candle afterward.

Shooting Star

- inverted hammer formation at the top of an uptrend.

- It is a bearish trend reversal signal.

- The long upper wick indicates that the buyers were not able to take the prices up, as sellers are gaining control.

- confirm by red candle afterwards.

Top 51 Tips to do Option Buying in Nifty.
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1. Always remember Banks constitute a major portion of Nifty (~25%) so keep an eye on BankNifty also while trading in Nifty.

2. Reliance (11%) Infy (7.5%) TCS (5%)& HDFC (5.80 %) are other major contributors, have all info about them to get an idea about Nifty's next move.

3. Adanient will enter in Nifty50 from 30th Sep, so watch this one also very carefully. It has very high Beta.

4. While preparing for the next day in Nifty, look at the OI & PA data of these contributors & Nifty itself.

5. Nifty is comparatively less volatile than BNF, but that doesn't mean you can forget about risk management here.

6. Always set daily maximum loss limit beforehand, depending on your account size.

7. Have a loss limit per trade, around 1/3 or 1/4th of your daily loss limit.

8. The quantity you take in each trade will be decided After you decide the SL, not before.

Super thread on Trendlines & Two High-Quality Setups based on them.
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"A trendline is a line drawn on our charts that connects the swing highs and swing lows during a Trending Market."

In this thread, we'll learn about -
1. Features
2. Method to draw
3. Uses
4. Two Specific setups
5. Five crucial Tips

Features of Trendlines -
- Trendlines act as Support & Resistance (S/R).
- Break of Trendline shows a possibility of a Trend change.
- Risk : Reward is favorable when you initiate a trade from Trendlines.

How to use Trendlines
A. Use them as S/R lines and trade according to any of the Price Action strategies like Breakout, Pullback, BOF etc.

B. Use in any of these two specific Price action based setups -
1] Trend Trading
2] Reversal trading

1] Trend Trading using Trendline :-

For this, we need to learn about "Area of High Confluence" - 
They are ...

25 Hard-hitting truths every Trader should know -
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1. Trading is serious business - if you don't put in the efforts it deserves - it will bankrupt you.

2. The best traders are not born, they create themselves - through hard work & persistence.

3. If you give a single trade the capacity to destroy your account - eventually it will.

4. Forming a view is easy - acting on it is hard.

5. If you are not able to take losses gracefully - you won't ever make big profits.

6. Without data, your views are just opinions - the market will send them to 'trash' in a second.

7. Market will take 'Guru Dakshina' - lots of it - before teaching you the skills.

8. Unless you find your 'edge' you won't survive here.