Ashish Gupta

⚡ Trading | Mindset | Money
📈 Derivatives Trader | Psychology Obsessed
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[Ashish Gupta @AshishGuptaa__]

🧵 Struggling with conviction in trading? Read this:

I was trading not to win…
I was trading not to lose — and it was slowly destroying my confidence.

Here's how I flipped the switch from fear-based trading to conviction-based execution 🧠👇

[Manthan @manthanojha_]

Exactly! Moral Accountabilities!

I have seen home ministers resigning over riots, railway ministers resigning after accidents. They were not directly involved but “moral accountability” is a thing which we haven’t seen. Calm your ego down. You’re not father of this nation.

[Kirubakaran Rajendran @kirubaakaran]

Nobody has ever described me the way an AI did in 30 seconds. Not my friends. Not my family. Copy this prompt and see what it says about you:

Prompt:
Imagine I've died, and a stranger finds my phone. They ask, "Who did this belong to?"

Answer them. Based only on what you've actually learned about me in our conversations, tell them who I really was. Don't invent anything, and don't polish me into someone better than I am.

Talk about my personality, my work, my values, what I struggle with, what I'm chasing. The habits and small details that make me me. Be honest about my flaws, not just my strengths.

Write it the way you'd introduce someone whose story deserves to be remembered. Warm, human, unsentimental. Make the stranger feel like they lost someone they never got to meet.

Not too long. Not too short. Just true.

[Ashish Gupta @AshishGuptaa__]

Markets don't owe us the conditions that made us successful. Every generation of traders eventually has to reinvent itself. The ones who survive are usually the ones who adapt faster than everyone else.

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

1) If your portfolio is 10Lakhs or less: invest QQQ over Nifty 50

2) Portfolio goes to 25Lakhs+ : add 30-40% US tech individual stocks.

3) Portfolio goes 3Cr or above move your tax base abroad. And, pay 0% on capital gains and dividend tax.

Portfolio goes up 5Cr+ add US Options income. Sell covered call/cash secured puts on 30-40% of your portfolio. You can make 8-10% cash flows via this segment (low risk).

I've done every single one of these steps.
And, can tell you practically that this is how progressive overloading in finance is done.

Understand your portfolio size.
Make wealth your weapon.
And, position your moves accordingly.

If at 5Cr, you adopt 10L portfolio strategies, you're basically wasting your wealth.

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

We were sitting by the Lake. A family - A guy in his 40s, with two young kids, a son & a daughter, and his wife, arrived in a small motor boat, it was a fancy pink 4 seater, beige seats etc the understated luxury. The family calmly docked the boat, at a private bay, every family member knew the drill, the boy helped the little girl off the boat, the mother picked the rope, the father tied the stern line to the dock. None of them had any sense of amusement on their faces, it was as if they were driving to a supermarket.

They got down, had some food & drinks, (a glass of water cost 4.5 Francs) kids played around, and left in the same boat, into the sunset.

Generational wealth of your family, is not enough, your country should also have generational wealth. The former can give you such a lifestyle in any other country, but the latter decides that you do it all without a speck of emotion. Routine.

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

Hedging with Nifty options has gotten structurally harder, especially around events like the Iran-Israel-US conflict. Serious hedgers typically use contracts that are 30 days or longer. But thanks to weekly expiries, the OI profile of the market has changed dramatically.

In 2015 (Graph 1), the 0–7 day bucket was 18.8% of index OI. Today it's 60.4%. The 16–30 day bucket has fallen from ~30% to 12%.

The volume picture is even more dramatic. Total index options contracts surged from 564M per quarter in 2015 to a peak of 34.9B in Q3 2024, a 62x increase driven almost entirely by the sub-7-day bucket (Graph 2).

The market has structurally shifted from hedging to speculation. Liquidity has exploded, which is good. But genuine hedging has gotten harder because liquidity has dried up at the longer end. When volatility spikes, buying meaningful insurance is difficult precisely when people need it most.

This lopsided OI structure is a problem. A healthy market needs to offer solutions across different risk horizons, not just the next seven days. Serious participants need depth at the 30, 60, and 90-day tenors too.

So how do you fix this? Lower STT, lower exchange charges, lower brokerage for positions beyond 30 days is a reasonable start (Don't ask us yet, hold on 😃). Small price signals that make longer-dated contracts cheaper to hold should gradually draw volume back toward the tenors where real hedging happens.

[Ashish Gupta @AshishGuptaa__]

The formula is simple, but it isn’t easy:

Discipline + Consistency = Financial & Physical Freedom.

Show up when you don’t feel like it. That’s the only way to get what most people will never have. 💪💰

[Ashish Gupta @AshishGuptaa__]

Wealth and a top-tier physique are the only two status symbols that cannot be bought, borrowed, or inherited.

They are the ultimate "proof of work."

If you want them, you have to trade your comfort for discipline. 🧵

[Ashish Gupta @AshishGuptaa__]

3/ The Ultimate Filter: Delayed Gratification ⏳

We live in a world of "buy now, pay later."

To build wealth and health, you have to "pay now, play later." You trade the cheap dopamine of today for the ultimate freedom of tomorrow.

[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

Excellence requires you to say no to almost everything so you can say yes to the one thing that matters.

You can't be exceptional at your career and also exceptional at hobbies, social life, fitness, and five side projects. Excellence demands obsession.

[Ashish Gupta @AshishGuptaa__]

Time doesn’t reward intelligence. It rewards urgency

[Ashish Gupta @AshishGuptaa__]

Nothing changes until you do.
Life only responds to action

[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

Balance is a myth sold to people who want everything but aren't willing to sacrifice for anything.

The top 1% aren't balanced, they're obsessed.
They chose one thing and gave it everything.

You're trying to keep all your options open, which means you're committed to nothing.

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Highly reliable people are rarely interesting.

Very interesting people are rarely reliable.

[Ashish Gupta @AshishGuptaa__]

Your thoughts are magnets. Whatever you hold in your mind, you pull into your life. Guard your thoughts—because they shape your future

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

There hasn't been a consultation with any of the brokers to the best of my knowledge yet. SEBI always consults the industry players before big regulatory changes. All this reporting based on "sources" without basic verification is not good journalism.

[Ashish Gupta @AshishGuptaa__]

@SJosephBurns Perseverance

[Raj Shamani @rajshamani]

The top 0.1% didn’t stop when logic said quit, when support disappeared, or when nothing moved. That’s the only difference between them and the rest.