Thread : Trading Applications that I use on a daily basis🧵

1) After putting a detailed post on hardware & multi-monitor setup. Few asked for softwares I use for trading.

So I am listing softwares/apps which I find the most useful for trading & investing

2) Trading View or Kite app

I use trading view for intraday charts.

As I trade intraday, I use the 5 min time frame.

My chart is simple with 20 sma plotted on it along with CPR(central pivot range)

Price > 20 sma & CPR indicates bullish trend for intraday & vice-versa
3) Icharts

As I majorly trade option premiums(short volatility or theta decay strategies)

I keep a track of combined premium of strangle using @iChartsIndia

Combined premium should be trending down & below VWAP to create a strangle
4) QuantsApp

As I need to provide analysis on TV channel.

I need to analyse overall market breadth, futures data & option chain activitiy.

@quantsapp provides

Futures Data : Long Builtup/Short Builtup
Options Data : Max Call OI/ Put OI
Market Breadth : For overall sentiment
5) Spider

I used @SpiderSoftIn to scan momentum stocks for intraday.

Spider helps in identfiying :

stocks hitting 52 week high/ low
Stocks making day high/low
Stocks with large buying single orders
6) Bloomberg

Helps in quick real time news.

Bloomberg is useful only if you trade mutliple markets & need access to various data quickly.

Bloomberg is an expensive software costing around 25 L per year.

One can skip bloomberg as cost is too high
7) GreekSoft

I use Greeksoft for multi leg order execution. It allows you to punch 1000+ lots of strangles/ straddles as a single order.

One can put SL on combined premium, do order slicing & many more such things.

Needed only if you trade big qty multi leg option trades
8) Ranking System (Proprietary)

Use an inhouse ranking system based on simple concepts of momentum,trend & derivatives data across time frames.

It is available only to IIFL members under our franchise(for free). To know more can check below :

https://t.co/wqzN2OtJYL
9) Opstra by @Definedge

Opstra is useful in

-Creating option payoff

- Has historical result calendar with time

-Volatility Skew Analysis
10) Fundamental Data

a) @screener_in

Screener is useful in scanning stocks based on Fundamental parameters & also provides a quick overview of the company.

You can quickly find good companies based on fundamental parameters
10 b ) Stock Edge

@mystockedge is useful in

scanning bulk/ block deals
Checking top investor portfolios
Check company filings
IPO notes
Concall analysis
10 c) https://t.co/B2flmgzmGH

@drvijaymalik has built a great framework to analyse company in depth based on various fundamental parameters.

I personally use it to scan fundamental stocks.
11) I hope you found the above thread useful.

Goodluck on your Trading Journey !

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More from Sourabh Sisodiya, CFA

More from Screeners

Time for a new thread on the possibilities I am looking for.
Do read it completely to understand the stance and the plan.


1. The moving average structure - Many traders just look at the 200 ma test or closing above/below it regardless of its slope. Let's look at all the interactions with 200 ma where price met it for the first time after the trend change but with 200 ma slope against it


One can clearly sense that currently it is one of those scenarios only. I understand that I might get trolled for this, but an unbiased mind suggests that odds are highly against the bulls for making fresh investments.

But markets are good at giving surprises. What should be our stance if price kept on rising? Let's understand that through charts. The concept is still the same. Divergent 200 ma and price move results in 200 ma test atleast once which gives good investment opportunities.


2. Zig-Zag bear market- There are two types of fall in a bear market, the first one is vertical fall which usually ends with ending diagonals (falling wedges) and the second one is zig zag one which usually ends with parabolic down moves.

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