Over the past 5 years, I've read 50+ books on trading.
The truth is — most of them added nothing.
Skip the noise.
Read these 8 and you'll save yourself years ↓
In 2014, Modi promised you 100 smart cities.
Today, 100 of the hottest cities in the world are in India.
100 of the most polluted cities in the world are in India.
This was not the case a decade ago. There were consistent efforts to fight pollution and rising temperatures.
Today, the BJP's agenda is only one thing, win elections. Not by governance, but by creating social divisions and manipulating the electoral system. That’s where their focus is, not on improving your quality of life.
Today, ask yourself honestly: has your quality of life improved?
Is the air cleaner?
Are cities more liveable?
Are summers more bearable?
Because "smart city" was never meant to change how you live. It was always a slogan.
You, your whole life, your future has always been reduced to a slogan.
And all of you who continue to support Modi and BJP must understand, you are destroying the future of your children and the future of this nation.
It's never too late.
Wake up.
GYM trains your body.
STUDY trains your mind.
TRADING tests both.
Weak Mindset = Weak Execution.
Strong Routine = Strong Trader.
Which one do you need to improve most?
Gym, Study or Trading? 👇
Look at this map.
Nagpur 45°. Ahmedabad 44°. Prayagraj 43°. Delhi 42°. The entire country is a single dark red mass. This is not a heatwave. This is a country that was told its forests were fine.
And this is April. Not May. Not June. The hottest months have not even arrived yet.
The past few days have been hell. So I did what I always do when something bothers me. I went looking for answers.
What I found was a policy con job that has been running for over two decades.
But before I explain what happened, let's clear some definitions.
A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest.
A forest is a living system. Soil, water, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, decades of accumulated complexity, specific to its land and climate. It cannot be designed. It cannot be harvested. It regulates water, cools land, shelters hundreds of species. It takes decades to become what it is.
You can plant a forest. But it will take decades to become one.
In 2001, India's forests were disappearing. The Indian state, led by the Vajpayee government, faced a choice. Protect what remained, or change what the numbers said.
It chose the numbers.
The Forest Survey of India quietly changed the definition of what a forest means. Any land with 10% tree canopy cover and more than one hectare in area was now a forest. Your mango orchard. A coconut plantation in Tamil Nadu. A tea garden in Assam. Lodhi Garden in Delhi.
All forests, on paper.
The FSI will tell you that 10% canopy cover follows international norms. The FAO also uses 10% as its threshold. But the FAO's definition comes with a crucial exclusion that India's FSI quietly dropped.
The FAO explicitly states that fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards, and agroforestry systems are not forests. The World Bank says the same. India adopted the number but discarded the exclusion.
It took the cover of international legitimacy while gutting the standard that gave it meaning.
The government will also tell you this was never hidden. That it was publicly stated in every report, disclosed in Parliament. That is technically true. But a disclosure buried in a technical government document is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency.
I did not know any of this until I went looking. Neither do most Indians whose forests, whose land, whose air this directly concerns. The con is not in what was hidden from experts. It is in what was never explained to the people it was done to.
This is not a technicality. This is the con.
It was a trick as old as power itself. If you cannot fix the problem, fix the measurement.
For ten years after 2001, Congress governed India. Two terms, two environment ministers, including Jairam Ramesh, one of the more serious ones. They saw the numbers. They knew what the numbers meant.
They did nothing.
Because the lie was convenient. India looked good in international climate negotiations. The fiction of a greening India served everyone in power, so everyone in power kept it. Congress did not create this lie. It simply chose, year after year, to live inside it.
The BJP is different.
When they returned to power in 2014, they came with something Congress never had. An absolute majority, and no coalition compulsions. They did not merely inherit the lie. They built on it. And in 2023, they legislated it.
The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 removed legal protection from "deemed forests." Forests that existed outside the official definition but were ecologically real.
Forests that Adivasi communities had lived in and depended on for generations. Forests that cooled land, held water, sheltered species. They were not on the right list. Since the amendment, forest destruction on Adivasi land has accelerated.
The people who knew these forests best, who had protected them longest, now watch them being cleared. Legally.
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If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with triumph and disaster
And treat those two imposters just the same;
- one of my favs by Rudyard Kipling #WorldPoetryDay 🔥🔥
Now Lets understand What type of Setups to look for in Reversals especially in tough phases.
Recipe of Strong setups :
1. Recent Strength and young in trend.
Don't exactly go by the below chart but try to understand the significance.
Recent earnings made a strong price action and now the stock broke out also. Even technically stock seems highly likely to continue from flag but as the market fell it also fell hard. So, such setups become a reversal opportunity as it was a also fresh BO.
But i would say having Fundamental understanding will help you better as that will bring you to high potential setups.
Another example
Now here it did not fell along with market instead held tight within EMAs.
So both type of setups can be visible but its always healthy to look at fundamental valuations also as it helps in gauging the real strength.
2. Counter tried to Breakout of base but failed due to market pressure:
There will be some names which tried to BO on the weak market day so failed. Those becomes interesting to study as if there is good reason behind them (Fundamental trigger) then they may BO again once market cools off.
Examples:
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