Practical lessons for Indian stock market traders — how to shortlist stocks, read the open, manage risk and review your trades. Every lesson ends with a routine you can use tomorrow.
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A repeatable routine to go from 2,000 listed stocks to a shortlist of three to five names before and just after the open — and what to reject.
Choppy range-bound sessions, pre-event hours, broken daily loss limits and emotional states — the seven situations where the best trade is no trade, and how to spot them early.
Why stocks that open sharply higher so often fade, how to tell a gap that holds from a gap that fills, and a waiting checklist for the first 30 minutes.
A seven-point checklist for confirming breakouts — the close, participation, the base, the market, room to run and the retest — plus three ways to enter and where the stop goes.
How to define the opening range, confirm the break, place the stop and target, which stocks and days suit ORB, and the range-bound conditions where it fails.
Why stocks gap down, the difference between a panic gap that recovers and a breakdown that continues, a waiting routine for the first 30 minutes, and why buying “cheap” gap-downs is risky.
What RSI measures, why “overbought” does not mean “sell”, how RSI ranges shift in trends, divergence explained simply, and the mistakes that make RSI lose money.
What VWAP measures, why it resets daily, how intraday traders use reclaims, rejections and pullbacks to VWAP, and why it fails on choppy days.
The pivot, TC, BC, R1 and S1 formulas with a worked Nifty calculation, what narrow and wide CPR suggest about the day, and how to trade around CPR without over-trusting it.
How the ATR-based Supertrend is built, what the 10/3 settings mean, how traders use it as a trailing stop, and why it fails in sideways markets.
Why shorting a stock just because it is overbought is a common losing habit, how short squeezes happen, and what traders look for before shorting strength.
The Heikin Ashi formula, why the candles look smoother than normal candles, how traders read trend strength with them, and why their prices must never be used for orders.
What each EMA describes, the “stacked” trend structure, EMA 20 pullbacks in momentum stocks, and why golden and death crosses lag — with calculated examples.
The four-step method professional traders use to size positions from the stop-loss, with worked rupee examples for intraday, swing and volatile stocks.
Why every trader has losing streaks, the math of drawdowns, the four reactions that blow up accounts, and a six-step recovery plan built on smaller size and better review.
A simple journal template built around plan, action and deviation, the numbers worth tracking (win rate, average win/loss, expectancy), and a 20-minute weekly review.
Three simple ways to measure whether a stock is outperforming Nifty, how to read the relative strength line, and why RS and RSI are completely different tools.
A three-tier watchlist system — master, active and today — with a copyable entry template, rules for adding and removing stocks, and a 20-minute weekly review.
What BTST means, how it works under India’s T+1 settlement, the short-delivery and overnight gap risks most beginners miss, and a checklist for choosing BTST candidates.
The four stages of a stock’s cycle, what defines a Stage 2 uptrend, how traders enter from Stage 1 bases, and why late Stage 2 and Stage 3 need caution.
Every column of the NSE option chain explained — calls vs puts, strikes, ITM/ATM/OTM, open interest, change in OI, IV, PCR and max pain — and how traders read support and resistance from it.
What open interest is, how it differs from volume, and the four price + OI combinations — long buildup, short buildup, short covering and long unwinding — with their limits.
What SEBI’s studies found, the five structural reasons option buyers lose — time decay, breakeven distance, IV crush, OTM lottery tickets and costs — and how traders reduce those odds.
Why premiums collapse or explode on expiry day, pinning near heavy OI strikes, gamma risk, settlement basics and a checklist for trading — or sitting out — expiry sessions.