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Sensex Expiry Day - Late entry

  Entry time : 1120 Exit time    : 1515 Day                : Sensex expiry day only (Tuesdays) Instrument:  Sensex Strike : Sell ATM CE & PE based on SPOT price Stop Loss:  65% for both ATM legs with adjust to cost i.e. if SL is hit for 1 leg then SL for other leg will be adjusted to its entry price MTM SL: 3000 per lot Slippage : 0.5% Capital:  2.84 Lakhs per lot Back testing (Updated as of 7-Feb-25) Actual trade based profit/loss (Started trading on 16-Aug-24 ) Note: I am not a SEBI registered advisor and sharing strategies for learning purpose only

Sensex Expiry Day Straddle - Early entry

Entry time : 0930 Exit time    : 1455 Day                : Sensex expiry day only (Tuesdays) Instrument:  Sensex Strike : Sell ATM CE & PE based on SPOT price Stop Loss: 50% for both ATM legs with adjust to cost i.e. if SL is hit for 1 leg then SL for other leg will be adjusted to its entry price Slippage : 0.5% Capital:  2.84 Lakhs per lot Back testing (Updated as of 7-Feb-25) Actual trade based profit/loss (Started trading on 24-May-24 ) Note: I am not a SEBI registered advisor and sharing strategies for learning purpose only

Nifty Expiry Day Straddle - Early Entry

Entry time : 0919 Exit time    : 1455 Day                : Nifty expiry day only (Thursdays) Instrument: Nifty Strike : Sell ATM CE & PE based on SPOT price Stop Loss:  40% for both ATM legs with adjust to cost i.e. if SL is hit for 1 leg then SL for other leg will be adjusted to its entry price Slippage : 0.5% Capital:  3.25 Lakhs per lot Back testing (Updated as of 17-Jan-25) Actual trade based profit/loss (Started trading on 26-Sep-24 ) Note: I am not a SEBI registered advisor and sharing strategies for learning purpose only

Nifty momentum Buy

This strategy is taken out of one of the video shared by Algo Test Instrument:  Nifty CE and PE weekly option based on SPOT which is trading near to premium of 50 point at 1045 Entry:  Enter into CE and PE when their premium becomes 20% more than that at 1045  E.g. say at 1045, 23300 PE is trading at 41 (closest to 100 point) and 23900 CE is trading at 52. So we will buy 23300 PE once it price reaches 1.2* 41 ~ 49.2. 23900 CE will be entered once it reaches 52 * 1.2 ~ 62.4 Stop Loss -  25% of entry price  Trailing Stop Loss - Trail stop loss by 0.75% for every 1% increase in profit Exit -  Exit at 1515 Capital Needed:  Assuming we will be buying option at average price of 60 and both CE and PE option can be traded at a given point of time so overall money need to buy the positions for 1 Lot of CE + 1 Lot of PE will be 60 * 2 * 25 = 3000. Now the maximum drawdown for this strategy is 8.2k so thrice of that will be kept as buffer so trading capital for ...

Nifty Expiry Day Strategy - Adjustment based

This is an expiry day strategy which takes up to 2 adjustments per leg.  Entry time : 09:22 Exit time: 15:15 MTM SL : 3600 per lot Capital: 4,85,000  Logic:  1. Enter into a short straddle i.e. sell ATM CE and PE based on SPOT Nifty with leg level target as 50% and Stop-Loss as 60% 2. If target hit in step 1 for any leg then again take the entry in ATM option (Sell) for the same leg with same target and Stop-Loss of 50% and 60% respectively. No further entry to be taken if target is hit in second entry in a given leg.  3. If SL hit for any leg in step 1 or in step 2 then sell the opposite leg closer to 50 Point with SL as 50%. E.g. if the Stop loss is hit in CE option then PE option near to 50 should be sold.  4. If SL hit in leg taken in option 3 then buy ATM option of same leg as taken in step 3 with target of 40% and Stop-Loss as 25%. E.g. in step 3, we are buying a PE near to option 50 and its SL gets triggered then ATM PE option needs to be bought.  S...

Sensex Journey 1DTX (1 Day to Expiry)

Sensex Journey strategy on Thu as detailed out by Stock Mock @   Stock Mock Sensex Journey This strategy is running in Algo Test Logic of the strategy is also described as below: On 1 day to Sensex expiry , at 0922 sell Sensex ATM CE/PE weekly options based on spot with SL of 60% on both legs In case SL is hit for CE option Sell ATM PE weekly option based on spot with SL of 25% If SL is hit for ATM PE sold in above step then buy an ATM put weekly option with Target as 40% and Stop loss as 25% In case SL is hit for PE option Sell ATM CE weekly option based on spot with SL of 25% If SL is hit for option sold in above step then buy an ATM put weekly option with target as 40% and stop loss as 25% Exit at 15:15 Keep a MTM SL of 5k per lot Back Testing Details (Updated as of 13-Mar-25) Actuals (Started trading from 4-Jul-24) Note: I am not a SEBI registered advisor and sharing strategies for learning purpose only

Algo trading platforms

In this blog post, I will be talking about the various trading platforms I have used in past 3 years of Algo trading.  Tradetron Tradetron was the first platform which I started using in Jun' 21 which was the start of my algo trading journey. Coming to the advantages of the platform, it is a no code platform which means you have lot of flexibility in setting up the strategies in the way you want. Even without knowing coding you can set up the Tradetron to execute your trading logic.  This platform can be used to set up simple time based straddles, strangles as well as complex strategies e.g. legs with varying SL, varying entry/exit times etc. During my start of trading journey there were lot of strategies floating on YT which were using Super trend. Was able to automate them using this platform but found that their returns were not as good as advertised.  It even provides the logic for stock options trading which is not usually available on other trading platforms. Along ...

Bank Nifty 10 Pt Strangle

  Entry time : 0918 Instrument : Sell Bank Nifty monthly CE and PE option which is trading at a price greater than or equal to 10 at 0918 Please note both CE and PE should be sold e.g. if BN 37200 CE is trading at 11 and BN 33100 PE is trading at 12, I will sell BN 37200 CE (Weekly) and BN 33100 PE (Weekly) Stop-Loss : 9 points on both CE/PE leg Exit : 1520 Slippage : 0.5% Capital: 97,000 Note ( 30-Nov-24): After weekly expiries ended for Bank Nifty, strategy now trades the Bank Nifty monthly options Back Testing (Updated as of 31-Oct-24) Actual trade based profit/loss (Started trading from 9-Jan-24) Profit/Loss for Aug '24 Reason for high slippage b/w actual and back testing Historical Trades Jul 24 Jun 24 May 24 Apr 24 Note: I am not a SEBI registered advisor and sharing strategies for learning purpose only

Sensex Expiry Day Iron Fly

Entry time : 0930 Exit time    : 1455 Day                : Sensex expiry day only Instrument:  Sensex Strike : Sell ATM CE & PE based on SPOT price and Buy OTM10 CE/PE as hedge Stop Loss: 50% for both ATM legs with adjust to cost i.e. if SL is hit for 1 leg then SL for other leg will be adjusted to its entry price. No SL for hedges (OTM10 CE/PE) Slippage : 0.5% Capital:  43k per lot Note (8-Jun-24): I am running this strategy from past month (May '24) without OTM10 hedges and results are more or less in line with back test.  May be this is more so as there were not many spikes in Sensex on expiry day in past 1 month. However in past there used to be spikes in Sensex index and there is a chance that because of that strategy wouldn't have given returns similar to what back test shows.  The absolute returns of this strategy are same in both hedged version and non hedged version. This is because on few days hedge...