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GuruSpeak | Spandan Vyas: a computer engineer using his skills to trade options

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GuruSpeak | Spandan Vyas: a computer engineer using his skills to trade options

Beginners should focus on maintaining a healthy lifestyle to avoid burnout and stress, which can affect their trading decisions. It's crucial to have a health stop-loss in addition to a monetary one.

GuruSpeak | Pankaj Himthani a chartered accountant who has a trading strategy for every market condition

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GuruSpeak | Pankaj Himthani a chartered accountant who has a trading strategy for every market condition

‘Wealth is generated out of investing, and capital for investing is generated from trading’

GuruSpeak| Sannidhya Agrawal - How an international chess player beat the market, despite a disastrous opening move

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GuruSpeak| Sannidhya Agrawal - How an international chess player beat the market, despite a disastrous opening move

Just as we moved from an outcry system to computerized trading, the same way algo trading is the next stage of the evolution cycle of capital markets

GuruSpeak | Gaurav Jain: A faraway event saw this full-time trader choose discretionary trading over systems

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GuruSpeak | Gaurav Jain: A faraway event saw this full-time trader choose discretionary trading over systems

This trader changed tracks after Brexit wrecked a trade, becoming a full-time momentum-based equity trader, using discretionary trading and practicing astute risk management

Guruspeak | How Kushal Jain worked his way through college developing and trading Algos 

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Guruspeak | How Kushal Jain worked his way through college developing and trading Algos 

As a trader, always focus on building a system that is ready to face the worst-case scenarios. This is the ideal way to be in the market for a long time. 

Guruspeak: How these professional traders managed to survive the market fall

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Guruspeak: How these professional traders managed to survive the market fall

Strategies to cope with choppy markets include downsizing positions, playing both sides of the market, being flexible and having the right psychology

GuruSpeak | Akshay Bansal -- a trekker's guide to option trading

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GuruSpeak | Akshay Bansal -- a trekker's guide to option trading

‘I would resort to revenge or recovery trading, which wasn't part of any system, leading me to take even more losses. This taught me the true meaning of greed, and I realized that trading is a mental game of composure and creating concrete values, and sticking to them religiously’

GuruSpeak | Joy Chakraborty’s journey from building bio-toilets to trading algos

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GuruSpeak | Joy Chakraborty’s journey from building bio-toilets to trading algos

" There are two main strategies that I have been following for the last 3 years, an algo-based option selling setup and the other one is a discretionary setup where I write iron condors in weekly Nifty contracts."

GuruSpeak| Virendra Pandey: how to trade with an investment mindset

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GuruSpeak| Virendra Pandey: how to trade with an investment mindset

Reversal trading is akin to coming down stairs and then climbing them back. The stairs that you have used to come down will be the same ones you will use to climb back up.

GuruSpeak | How a banker used his skills to design intraday strategies

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GuruSpeak | How a banker used his skills to design intraday strategies

Option Buying requires utmost discipline and a lot of skill to stay profitable, contrary to what social media portrays that it is the easiest form to make money

GuruSpeak | How this part-time options trader makes the most of data analytics

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GuruSpeak | How this part-time options trader makes the most of data analytics

Nayak says, ‘The basis of my trading is data and technical analysis, which I have termed as Dechnical analysis ……The method I follow for daily analysis has the acronym CHIDYA’

GuruSpeak: A 23-year IITian who broke the market code

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GuruSpeak: A 23-year IITian who broke the market code

After bootstrapping an education startup, this student deployed surplus capital in trading and adopts a dynamic strategy to be in sync with a changing market

GuruSpeak | This trader graduated from working in exchanges to trading on them

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GuruSpeak | This trader graduated from working in exchanges to trading on them

Aditya Chopra’s insights into how masses behave has helped him devise rule-based price action strategies that has led to a successful trading journey, applying life’s concepts to trading in options

GuruSpeak | Joy Mukherjee -- A call centre employee's journey to trading success

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GuruSpeak | Joy Mukherjee -- A call centre employee's journey to trading success

Every single trader incurs losses but losing like a professional is an art. If we can lose less, the reward ratio goes higher, always, says the ace trader

GuruSpeak: Nikhil Zelawat's journals the secret sauce of his successful trading recipe

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GuruSpeak: Nikhil Zelawat's journals the secret sauce of his successful trading recipe

His trading logs were a goldmine of information that this trader used to improve his trading skills, converting his learnings into businesses that help other traders. He’s also on a path of self-improvement

GuruSpeak| How simple stock-picking strategies helped Harini Dedhia generate alpha 

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GuruSpeak| How simple stock-picking strategies helped Harini Dedhia generate alpha 

'' Training myself to think like a business owner and not just a stock market owner has enabled me to digest volatilities with far lesser acidity. '' 

Can two high profile issues revive the IPO market? 

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Can two high profile issues revive the IPO market? 

Despite the poor sentiment, IPOs of small companies have been heavily oversubscribed, while private equity deals and private placements are continuing. But the IPOs of Mankind Pharma and Navi Technologies will be a test of the appetite for large issues 

Start-up valuation: a much-needed step by Sebi, but will it help? 

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Start-up valuation: a much-needed step by Sebi, but will it help? 

Few understand the process of valuing a profitable company, let alone a startup that will be burning cash during the first few years. Also, since most of the startups will be loss-making the rules for valuing these companies differ. 

GuruSpeak | Hitesh Eidnani's journey from a globe-trotting investment banker to a full-time trader

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GuruSpeak | Hitesh Eidnani's journey from a globe-trotting investment banker to a full-time trader

A trend-following trader who believes the return potential of directional trading is more than non-directional

GuruSpeak | The PhD dropout who became a full-time trader

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GuruSpeak | The PhD dropout who became a full-time trader

‘One of the secrets of my success is that I have developed the art of staying away from markets when my setup is absent.’  

GuruSpeak | Dinesh Nagpal’s inspiring journey from the metals business to stock trader in Ichimoku land

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GuruSpeak | Dinesh Nagpal’s inspiring journey from the metals business to stock trader in Ichimoku land

By 2014, I had narrowed my focus down to two schools of technical analysis: Harmonic Trading Patterns and Ichimoku. The latter has its origins in Japan. It is a total system that touches upon every aspect of the market a trader/investor needs instruction on.

Guru Speak | Meet this farmer’s son who made the jump to full-time price-action trading

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Guru Speak | Meet this farmer’s son who made the jump to full-time price-action trading

Ups and downs in stock trading have helped Shijumon Antony realise that one has to first be a disciplined person to become a successful trader

Guruspeak l Suraj Bathija — a CA dropout who swears by algo trading

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Guruspeak l Suraj Bathija — a CA dropout who swears by algo trading

One of the most quoted lines from Bruce Lee is “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.” The same holds true for markets. Rather than analysing 1,000 stocks once, analyse a few stocks 1,000 times. 

GuruSpeak | Striking it big at 22, this options seller has found his groove

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GuruSpeak | Striking it big at 22, this options seller has found his groove

Not finding a job of his liking proved lucky for Aditya Trivedi. He put his heart and soul into trading, took early losses in stride, adopting a strategy that’s put him in a league of his own

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