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Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #26: Grasim 2025 — Stopped Out Before the Trade Really Began

This is the twenty-sixth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

7 min read · July 14, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #25: Kopran 2024 — A Win I Can’t Fully Explain

This is the twenty-fifth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

8 min read · July 14, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #24: EPL 2024 — A Confirmed Setup, an Unanswered Question

This is the twenty-fourth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

7 min read · July 14, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #23: Dabur 2024 — Revenge Trade | Re-Entering a Trade That Had Already Told Me No

This is the twenty-third post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

4 min read · July 13, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #22: Cyient 2024 — A Win With a Gap in the Analysis

This is the twenty-second post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

4 min read · July 13, 2026

Stock Deep Dive

Lodha Enters Key Triangle Zone After Reclaiming Its Base | Week 29 Deep Dive

Lodha: Inside the Triangle Setup We’re Watching Closely Lodha has been on our radar for a while, and…

4 min read · July 13, 2026

Market Pulse

Week 29 | Market Pulse | July 2026

Nifty enters this week attempting to reclaim its key moving averages after a sharp corrective move that took…

5 min read · July 12, 2026

Swing Watchlist

Week 29 | Swing Watchlist | July 2026

This week’s list draws heavily on Realty and Pharma, in line with the sector leadership above. A few…

5 min read · July 12, 2026

Sector Radar

Week 29 | Sector Radar | July 2026

Nifty 50 closed the week at 24,206.9 (INDEXNSE:NIFTY_50), and beneath that headline number the real story continues to…

4 min read · July 12, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #21: GHCL 2024 — Chasing a Stock That Was Already Up 8%

This is the twenty-first post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

4 min read · July 10, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #20: HONAUT 2024 — Getting Out Before Greed Took Over

This is the twentieth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

4 min read · July 9, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #19: BASF 2024 — Entering on an Alert, Exiting on Nerves

This is the nineteenth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

5 min read · July 8, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #18 Titan 2023 — Watching a Profit Turn Into a Loss

This is the eighteenth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

5 min read · July 7, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #15 Coal India 2023 — Right Instinct, Wrong Frequency

This is the fifteenth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

5 min read · July 5, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #17 Parag Milk Foods 2023 — Reading Weak Hands Before the Chart Confirmed It

This is the seventeenth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

5 min read · July 4, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #14 RITES 2023 — An Exit That Was Actually Justified

This is the fourteenth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

5 min read · July 4, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #16 AGI Greenpac 2023 — A Big Win, and a Question I Left Myself

This is the sixteenth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

6 min read · July 3, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #13: Ashapura Minechem 2023 — A Win I Nearly Talked Myself Out Of

This is the thirteenth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

6 min read · July 2, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #12 Cochin Shipyard 2023 — A Win That Broke My Own Rule

This is the twelfth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

5 min read · July 1, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #11: JSW Energy 2023 — Selling at the Exact Wrong Moment

This is the eleventh post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

5 min read · June 30, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #10 Birla Cable 2023 — A Real Win, With a Lesson Attached Anyway

This is the tenth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

5 min read · June 29, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #9: Glaxo SmithKline 2023 — Wrong Entry, Same Day Exit

This is the ninth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

5 min read · June 28, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #8: Pennar Industries 2023 — Entering at the High, Paying for It

This is the eighth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

5 min read · June 21, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #7 Action Construction 2023 — Chasing the Third Breakout

This is the seventh post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

5 min read · June 14, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #6: HBL Power 2023 — Stopped Out, Then Stopped Out Again

This is the sixth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

5 min read · June 7, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #5: Engineers India 2023 — The Same Mistake, Two Days Later

This is the fifth post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

5 min read · May 28, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #4 Mazagon Dock 2023 — FOMO, a Late Entry, and a Signal I Ignored

I want to write about this trade a bit differently than the last few, because this one isn’t…

4 min read · May 21, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #3: Adani Power 2023 — When the Breakout You’re Waiting For Never Comes

This is the third post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

5 min read · May 14, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #2: PNB Gilts 2023 — Testing How Gap-Up Stocks Behave

This is the second post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

6 min read · May 7, 2026

Trade Risk Management

Same-Day Trades Need Their Own Risk Framework

Most trading checklists, whether built formally or just carried around as habit, are designed around a certain amount…

7 min read · April 28, 2026

Trade Risk Management

Scaling Out of a Position: Why a Fixed Split Isn’t a Strategy

Scaling out of a position, selling in parts rather than all at once, is one of the more…

7 min read · April 21, 2026

Trade Risk Management

Risk-Reward Math: Why It Has to Happen Before Entry, Not After

There is a specific habit that separates traders who consistently apply a risk to reward standard from traders…

7 min read · April 14, 2026

Trade Risk Management

Position Sizing and Stop Distance: One Calculation, Not Two

Most traders treat position sizing and stop loss placement as two separate decisions. First you decide how many…

7 min read · April 7, 2026

Trade Risk Management

Using ADR or ATR as Your Stop Loss, Instead of a Fixed Number

Most traders start out placing stop losses one of two ways. Either a fixed rupee amount that feels…

7 min read · March 28, 2026

Trading Psychology

Confirmation Bias: Seeing the Signal You Want, Not the One That’s There

There is a strange thing that happens once you decide, even loosely, that a stock is about to…

7 min read · March 28, 2026

Trading Psychology

Overconfidence After a Win: The Discipline Lapse Nobody Plans For

Nobody sits down after a great trade and consciously decides to start cutting corners. That is part of…

7 min read · March 21, 2026

Trading Psychology

Outcome Bias in Trading: Why a Winning Trade Can Still Be a Bad Decision

There is a specific trap that only shows up when things go well, which makes it harder to…

7 min read · March 14, 2026

Trading Psychology

Sunk Cost Thinking: Why Your Second Entry Is Never as Clean as You Think

There is a specific kind of trade that feels completely rational while you are making it, and only…

7 min read · March 7, 2026

Trading Psychology

Loss Aversion in Trading: Why Losses and Shrinking Gains Feel Identical to Your Brain

There is a particular kind of bad decision that traders tend to explain away as bad luck, and…

7 min read · February 28, 2026

Trading Psychology

Analysis Paralysis: The Trade That Beat Me By Doing Nothing

Most conversations about trading mistakes focus on doing something wrong. Entering too early, exiting in a panic, ignoring…

7 min read · February 21, 2026

Trading Psychology

FOMO in Trading: How It Disguises Itself as a Breakout Every Time

Most traders think they know what FOMO looks like. A stock is up thirty percent in a week,…

7 min read · February 14, 2026

Trading Psychology

Trailing Stop Loss Discipline: The Psychology Mistake I Made Four Times Before I Saw It

I keep a trading journal for every position I take, win or lose, and I go back through…

8 min read · February 7, 2026

Trade Risk Management

Trailing Stops: The Specific Rules That Actually Work

Trailing Stops: The Specific Rules That Actually Work Most traders understand the general idea behind a trailing stop.…

10 min read · January 14, 2026

Trade Risk Management

The Gap Between Your Stated Stop Loss and Your Actual Exit

There is a specific and common gap in trading that rarely gets discussed directly, mostly because it does…

7 min read · January 7, 2026

Real Trade Series

Real Trade Series #1: Avanti Feeds 2022 — A Trade I Almost Shouldn’t Have Taken

This is the first post in my Real Trade Series, where I go through actual trades from my…

7 min read · September 24, 2022