The best traders are all directional traders.

We should be investing our time into learning what the best traders are doing.

I have traded with @niki_poojary for the past year, who is an aggressive directional trader.

Here are my 10 learnings trading with her: 🧵

1. Learn directional trading

If you want to be the best, you have to be very good at gauging the direction of the market and then betting aggressively.

Practicing this style over a lot of years will give you an edge which will help you compound your account quicker.
2. Levels based trading

Premium-based sellers put an SL of double or triple in the system which has a very high probability of taking your SL.

Irrespective of premium price, just stick to the charts.

A simple understanding of S&R enables you to take trades on levels.
3. Patterns

Chart patterns are necessary to understand market trends and to predict further movements, which helps us in deploying our trades accordingly.

Eg: A symmetrical pattern means prices have squeezed a lot and an expansion is soon on the cards.

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Likewise, after a strong momentum, some consolidation can be expected.

Entry/Exit triggers can also be determined on the basis few patterns.

She focuses on:
1. Symmetrical Triangles
2. Rectangle breakouts
3. Flag breakouts
4. M or W breakouts
5. Range breakouts
4. Take high risks when you are winning

If you want to grow your account faster, you'll be required to take a lot of risks.

Conservative traders may make consistent returns, but not higher returns.

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Eg: A trader targets 1% a week.

Over 50 weeks, he'll win 40 weeks and lose 10 weeks if you take an 80% win rate.

Assuming, winning 40 times gives him 40%, and losing 10 times takes away 10%. (assuming a 1:1 risk-reward)

So, the Net ROC is 30%

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Despite trading conservatively, it's almost impossible to have all green weeks.

You're bound to lose a few times over a year.

If one wishes to grow his/her account then it's important to learn to trade aggressively.
5. Profit Money

One needs to first build a profit cushion by trading conservatively in the initial period.

Once the war chest is built, all you are doing is staking the profit money, so that your capital is intact.
6. Stop Loss

Earlier whenever I used to go long in futures, I never used to keep any SL as those were blue-chip stocks.

Instead, I used to sell CE's against my positions.

I used to end up holding them for at least 2 to 3 months and see huge red mtms.

SL helps psychologically.
7. No time wastage in a trade

Post trading on patterns, it's simply a target or SL.

So you get to know whether you are right/wrong pretty quickly.

Better to know early if it's wrong as you can bet elsewhere without getting stuck in a trade that isn't giving you returns.
8. Expiry Trading

The decay is extremely fast on an expiry day.

If you get your bet right on this day, you can potentially make very good money.

We take more risk on expiry days compared to other days.

Even next year, we will be focusing on expiry days the most.
9. Weekly Analysis

Weekly analysis helps in determining a range and helps us to gauge the strikes which have a high probability of expiry OTMs.

Accordingly, our trading blueprint is formed.

Without such weekly plans, we would just be selling CE's or PE's randomly.

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Here's a thread on how I learned to make a weekly trading plan from @niki_poojary

https://t.co/aVh21muOYi
Hope you discovered something new (because that's the point!)

If you did, share it with a friend

Hop back up to retweet the first tweet

See past threads here: @AdityaTodmal & @niki_poojary
If you liked this thread, here's another one I think you'll enjoy.
https://t.co/bv2mbhSaLn

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TradingView isn't just charts

It's much more powerful than you think

9 things TradingView can do, you'll wish you knew yesterday: 🧵

Collaborated with @niki_poojary

1/ Free Multi Timeframe Analysis

Step 1. Download Vivaldi Browser

Step 2. Login to trading view

Step 3. Open bank nifty chart in 4 separate windows

Step 4. Click on the first tab and shift + click by mouse on the last tab.

Step 5. Select "Tile all 4 tabs"


What happens is you get 4 charts joint on one screen.

Refer to the attached picture.

The best part about this is this is absolutely free to do.

Also, do note:

I do not have the paid version of trading view.


2/ Free Multiple Watchlists

Go through this informative thread where @sarosijghosh teaches you how to create multiple free watchlists in the free


3/ Free Segregation into different headers/sectors

You can create multiple sections sector-wise for free.

1. Long tap on any index/stock and click on "Add section above."
2. Secgregate the stocks/indices based on where they belong.

Kinda like how I did in the picture below.
A THREAD ON @SarangSood

Decoded his way of analysis/logics for everyone to easily understand.

Have covered:
1. Analysis of volatility, how to foresee/signs.
2. Workbook
3. When to sell options
4. Diff category of days
5. How movement of option prices tell us what will happen

1. Keeps following volatility super closely.

Makes 7-8 different strategies to give him a sense of what's going on.

Whichever gives highest profit he trades in.


2. Theta falls when market moves.
Falls where market is headed towards not on our original position.


3. If you're an options seller then sell only when volatility is dropping, there is a high probability of you making the right trade and getting profit as a result

He believes in a market operator, if market mover sells volatility Sarang Sir joins him.


4. Theta decay vs Fall in vega

Sell when Vega is falling rather than for theta decay. You won't be trapped and higher probability of making profit.
MASTER THREAD on Short Strangles.

Curated the best tweets from the best traders who are exceptional at managing strangles.

• Positional Strangles
• Intraday Strangles
• Position Sizing
• How to do Adjustments
• Plenty of Examples
• When to avoid
• Exit Criteria

How to sell Strangles in weekly expiry as explained by boss himself. @Mitesh_Engr

• When to sell
• How to do Adjustments
• Exit


Beautiful explanation on positional option selling by @Mitesh_Engr
Sir on how to sell low premium strangles yourself without paying anyone. This is a free mini course in


1st Live example of managing a strangle by Mitesh Sir. @Mitesh_Engr

• Sold Strangles 20% cap used
• Added 20% cap more when in profit
• Booked profitable leg and rolled up
• Kept rolling up profitable leg
• Booked loss in calls
• Sold only


2nd example by @Mitesh_Engr Sir on converting a directional trade into strangles. Option Sellers can use this for consistent profit.

• Identified a reversal and sold puts

• Puts decayed a lot

• When achieved 2% profit through puts then sold
Google Chrome has over 137,000 extensions.

But 95% of Traders are unaware of the best extensions for trading.

10 Google Chrome Extensions that will accelerate your trading ( all free ): 🧵

Collaborated with @niki_poojary

1. Pulse by Zerodha

Latest financial and market news from all major Indian news sources are aggregated in one place.

🔗
https://t.co/jQ5Lu1P1r3


2. Full Width Zerodha Kite Trading Platform

This extension will make your Zerodha kite trading app full-width for large-screen desktops and laptops.

Also adding some tweaks will help you stay more focused on trading.

🔗 https://t.co/HSmVxLxPNv


3. Zerodha Scrip Plus

Zerodha fullscreen trading with brokerage calculator and analysis options

- Brokerage Calculator
- Full screen trading
- Marketwatch and Holdings scrips analysis

🔗 https://t.co/ZOmAcvamRh


4. Jarvis - Zerodha Trading helper

Jarvis helps in managing your risk by giving you a consistency of pre-determined stop loss % and risk per trade.

Once you set these values in the plugin then it automatically sets the quantity of the trade.

🔗 https://t.co/qn2MvDkCdR

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One of the most successful stock trader with special focus on cash stocks and who has a very creative mind to look out for opportunities in dark times

Covering one of the most unique set ups: Extended moves & Reversal plays

Time for a 🧵 to learn the above from @iManasArora

What qualifies for an extended move?

30-40% move in just 5-6 days is one example of extended move

How Manas used this info to book


Post that the plight of the


Example 2: Booking profits when the stock is extended from 10WMA

10WMA =


Another hack to identify extended move in a stock:

Too many green days!

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