My honest assessment is things look very ugly as on date. US troops are likely to do ground invasion of Iran this week. Huge casualities are being feared. Lot of critical infrastructure are being severely attacked across the entire gulf region.
Houthis, backed by Iran, have taken control of Bab el Mandeb strait in red sea. This further chokes the movement from gulf with Strait of Hormuz already under Iran's control.
Iran is being actively helped by both Russia and China. The more America try to destroy Iran, Iran would focus on destroying Israel and entire gulf region. Gulf can be rendered useless and uninhabitable.
We don't know when and where this conflict would stop. If it intensifies, getting sufficient crude, gas, fertilizers and many other essentials for modern life would be a huge problem for the entire world.
This would lead to run away inflation where poor suffer much more than rich. Interest rates would spike across the world. US and other developed countries would find it very difficult service their ballooning debt. Many years of global recession cannot be ruled out.
This is the worst being envisaged. There is no point even getting into scenario where nuclear warheads may be used. It would be extremely catastrophic.
War can end as ordinary Americans are strongly opposing this. Trump and MAGA are becoming so unpopular which may lead to loss of midterm elections later this year by Republicans. If Democrats get the control, there are huge chances that Trump may be impeached.
If sense prevails on America and they stop attacking Iran and withdraw from the war, US is unlikely to enjoy hegemony once it used to enjoy. Thanks to Trump, countries have completely lost trust in US. Be it Europe, Russia, China, Japan, India and even gulf countries - everyone is finding it difficult to trust and work with US.
Even if things get better, it may happen only after much more damage is caused.
Hold on to your existing investments and continue SIPs. Don't deploy emergency or safe money into markets. No one knows whether things would recover in few months or few years.
Focus on your career, ensure you are employed, develop skills which can keep you employable and wait for good times.
Mentally get ready for a period of pain. If it doesn't happen, well and good for us. If it happens, we are emotionally ready to handle the same.
@arindam___paul I have been using your water purifier for the last few days. Just a feature request - can you add the filling % status in the app. And also can you add some status which I can tell whether water is being supplied to the purifier or not. We face this challenge daily.
Financial agents are the hottest thing in tech right now. Every major AI lab is shipping agent capabilities as fast as they can, and last week, Claude Cowork literally wiped 6% off the entire Indian IT index in a single session. The market is realizing these agents can now do what entire analyst teams used to do.
Autonomous agents that reason about financial data, pull live context from the web, and take actions through broker APIs are not a future concept. They work today, and the Indian stock market is one of the best places to start building them because the infrastructure is mature and in many cases completely free.
So instead of talking about it, I built one. A simple financial agent that connects to NSE, pulls real market data, and uses Claude to analyze any stock and return a structured investment opinion. The full code is on GitHub; clone it and run it this weekend. It's a very simple one so keep your expectations low.
GitHub Link: https://t.co/hrX5K7c1ei (Steal it & build on top of it)
Why AngelOne?
Zerodha's Kite Connect costs ₹2000 per month just for API access. AngelOne's SmartAPI gives you the same capabilities for free. Live NSE and BSE data, historical candles, full option chains with Greeks, WebSocket streaming, and order placement. Zero subscription.
What does the agent do?
It connects to AngelOne, pulls 30 days of OHLCV data for any stock, and sends it to Claude with a prompt to analyze it as a financial analyst specializing in Indian equities. Claude identifies the trend, maps support and resistance levels, reads volume patterns, and returns structured JSON with a plain-English summary. Fifty lines of Python.
The enhanced version in the repo also pulls the full option chain and asks Claude to cross-reference what the options market is pricing in versus what the stock is actually showing. When there is a divergence between unusual options activity and flat price action, your agent catches it in seconds.
The real value is the pattern.
Pull data, feed it to Claude with the right context, get structured output, and act on it. Once you see this, you can build anything. A screener that filters stocks every morning based on fundamental triggers. A research agent that reads quarterly results and compares them against street estimates. A portfolio monitor that tracks your holdings and flags when your thesis is breaking down. Same architecture, different inputs, different prompts. Start with one agent, one job, then layer more as you go.
And when you connect them together, that is where it gets interesting.
I am putting together a detailed playbook for architecting a full team of financial agents operating in a hierarchical structure. A CIO agent making allocation decisions at the top, research agents running fundamental and technical analysis, a macro agent tracking sector rotations and policy shifts, a risk agent enforcing exposure limits, and a rebalancing agent executing changes at the bottom. Every layer feeds into the next, all orchestrated through Claude.
Your own AI-powered investing desk, running autonomously. The document is coming soon, slightly busy with @10minutegita. Follow me for early access.
I made payment through ola wallet for the ride. But it didn't show up in driver app. Driver asked me to reach customer service. It took me one hour through support function in ola app that I finally decided to raise it on twitter.
@ola_supports@Olacabs@bhash@kunalkamra88
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FII withdrawal from the equity market both primary and secondary. Does this trend mean that we are heading downward trend in equity markets?
In the last one month nifty is already down 2.5%.
@kmr_dilip@SoumyaKan from Clovia Fashion. She has been with us from the beginning. While building the Nutri Ninja D2C brand we faced a lot of challenges. She kept on guiding us throughout.
@Olacabs@ola_supports I am unable to login into my account from last few days. I have submitted this detail on your website also but no response so far. Please help to login.
After login call verification, there is no movement.
#help
@arindam___paul@atomberg_tech is transforming Fan industry for the good of it.
Can't wait to see Atomberg expanding to surrounding industry and transforming.
Onwards and upwards 💯