The focus of this blog is Scalping and everything related to it. I do believe that excellence at Scalping or trading, and anything that is performance based, requires a holistic approach. Through this blog I would also wander (quite often) in the areas of Performance Psychology, Productivity and Health.
Here’s some news, I have joined Capitalmind and would be working on a Trend Following strategy for a few months now. I would also be writing extensively about Trend Following as a strategy on NIFTY Futures. Something similar to what you see here.
More importantly, the series of posts that I am doing would take a DIY approach to model building.
Here’s the first post in the series which is free to access.
https://www.capitalmind.in/2020/06/what-is-this-trend-following-thing-anyway/
So here it is, a lot of followers of the blog had been requesting me to come up with a trend following Long-Short Positional strategy, which could either be traded in isolation or as a compliment to a Long only Equity Portfolio.
For sometime now, I too was looking at strategies on a larger time frame, I decided to work on something that could be easy to execute, with minimal oversight and could offer a decent risk adjusted return.
Here are the results and the trades taken by the strategy, you can bookmark the page as it’s going to be updated as and when I take trades on the system.
Click here for the Updated Google Sheet
Later in another post I will explain various hedging strategies, i.e. if you would like to trade this strategy in isolation.
With an impending recession, I do expect VIX and Volatility to be on the higher side, the strategy has been designed to benefit from it.
I am afraid I cannot reveal the exact mechanics of the strategy, but its no rocket science. The data of the trades is out there for you to see and its very easy for you to re-engineer it with some effort.
Note - I am not a SEBI Registered Advisor and this is not a recommendation to trade.
Over the past few months, we received several emails asking us to explain the whole idea of “Market Internals”, and in our attempt to explain things we typically had to start with the basics.
This series is a conversation, where Kavitha is asking all the basic trading questions you would ask and my response to them is an attempt to help you ease into what it means to trade the markets.
We are calling it Explainers, as the word suggests we would get down to the brass tacks of why the Market Moves. Our attempt to explain would be evidence-based and we would avoid conjectures as far as possible.
In the initial few topics you would have access to, is a three part explainer on trading indexes in India.
While we have a set of topics we think will add value, to both absolute novices and developing traders, understand the nuances of trading indexes, do suggest other topics that you think NiftyScalper should add to the mix.
Happy trading!
Here’s the first one from the series - What is an Index and how do we trade them?
Part 2 - Lead Lag Effect
I am excited to announce that Kavitha (K7) is joining NiftyScalper as a Performance Coach!
K7, a former Global Learning Manager in the financial industry, she played a huge role in embedding a coaching culture within the organization. She is a unique blend of a Coach who can also trade.
Drawing on her experience to ask tough questions and take NiftyScalper in a new direction and roll out Trading Performance focused offerings, I welcome her to join the team.
“Trading is such a performance oriented profession, but people focus a way too much on the mechanics to the extent of completely ignoring the role that one’s ‘mind’ plays.” - Kavitha (K7)
Content creation and curation is another forte that K7 will leverage at NiftyScalper. I look at K7 to re-create that performance magic for serious traders who would like take a more holistic approach in their journey to become better traders.
I am super excited to have her aboard. Welcome K7!
Making a an announcement about the upcoming workshop on the "Craft of Scalping". This is what I intend to cover in it
Pre-requisite and Disclaimers
Venue - Grand Mercure, Koramangala, Bangalore
Date & Time - 10:00 am to 5:00 pm on 10th of Feb'18
Early Bird Offer - Rs. 10,000 - Pay here - (Only 2 seats remaining as of now) if this gets filled your next choice is the the full fees - Rs. 15,000 - pay here
Ladies get a 50% discount on the full fees - Pay here
*Free for the physically challenged - Please contact me on mail or through the contact form.
For anything else feel free to reach out to me through the contact page or email.
