Arun

Short bets on volatility. Positional Iron Condor and Option Wheel Trader. Full time drug hunter. MIT Alumni with a PhD.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

Option buying August:

It has been a good month for option buying. Made
a few updates to logic and algo mid-July.

It has had a positive impact.

Win rate: 45%
Avg profit: +1845.18
Avg loss: -739

Net P&L: +23948
Capital used: ~50000

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

@mayank_408 Working fine across 3 brokers.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

@pythontrader999 Absolutely.
And intraday trends being ruined by pullbacks.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

Another day, another counter gap.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

Efficient, logical are auto corrected to regulation and regulation in the Market Babu playbook

[Saketh R @saketh1998]

50:50 cash vs cash equivalent is honestly one of the most pointless rules you see in India.

Across global markets, derivatives trade just fine without forcing this kind of split. Liquidity is encouraged, but not forced in such a rigid way.

Even otherwise, linking cash requirements to portfolio VaR is a far more logical approach.

If someone is just holding something like Nifty BEES, asking them to park 50% in cash makes no sense, it’s just inefficient use of capital.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

@marwadimoney @MaganiGovardha8 Call their support number at 9.30am once to check.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

Is there any XTS broker giving out multiple APIs after April 1st?

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

Crude $70 to $106 in 10 days.

A 50% return.

Several of your investment gurus' 10-year portfolio just got outperformed by a shipping route.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

Yesterday: +285 pts rally.
Today: Gift Nifty signaling gap-down.
Same war. Same oil. Same macro.

Only thing that changed overnight:
Positioning.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

23300 PE vs 23200 PE.
Same underlying, same expiry, 100 pts apart.
23200 PE: normal trading.
23300 PE: locked at UC since morning. Only buyers, no sellers.

But sure, let's keep pretending exits are perfectly modeled in backtests.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

Of course it wasn’t market manipulation. Just a perfectly natural 10 AM ET liquidity sweep coincidence caused by gamma hedging flows, spot–futures basis arbitrage, and vol-neutral hedgers optimizing priority queue fill rates.
@PRAFULKULKARN18
Nothing to see here #sarcasm

[Bark @barkmeta]

Jane Street was running an algorithm that dumped Bitcoin every single morning at 10am. Every day. For months. Crashing the price. Liquidating retail. Buying back lower. Rinse and repeat.

The second they got sued it stopped. The 10am dump disappeared. Now Bitcoin just had the best day in months.

One trading firm... That’s all it took to suppress the entire crypto market for months.

Now ask yourself how much of the crypto price action is even real. How many people panic sold because the charts look terrible. How many people got liquidated. How many billions were taken from regular people by a single trading desk.

And this is just the first one to get caught so far… it’s about to get VERY interesting.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

@ZiddiBakra Forget all that, focus on the rope, which is barely holding the sacks from becoming part of your bonnet accessory.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

@ChatrapatiMavla Complete mix: intraday, positional, directional, non-directional. This week, next week, monthlies.
Short and long.
Essentially tried to take advantage of large moves and pinned expiries with reduced risk in others.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

Took a 2-week trading pause in Sep’25 to rebuild my strategy portfolio around new market realities.

Jan’s drawdown brought doubt. This week brought clarity.

Chug along. 💪📈

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

@PragmaticT6330 @_amitbehere A specialist doctor consultation at call.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

@pythontrader999 @Flattradein @AlgoOriginals @ectwoo @Jainmanish1991 @JayneshKasliwal I used to download the ledger separately, which shows net PnL after charges.
Then download daily PnL separately.
Then merge and subtract.
Not sure if there is a better way.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

@AlternateWalter covered call is not a income strategy. it shouldn't be deployed along with investments.
It can be deployed if its part of a bigger and more diversified strategy set

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

Meta buy price: $600

1. Sold Dec call 650 call
2. Meta closes at $500 end of Dec = 1.5% Profit
3. Sold Jan 550 call
4. Meta Closes at $600 end of Jan

Meta shares automatically sold at $550.

Covered call in loss, cash portfolio in loss

PS: Without even considering vol changes

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

I have a 2.5Cr positions on Meta. Now, I will collect 15-16% yearly rent on these stocks.

Here is how:-

1) I own 400 stocks of Meta. My acquisition cost on my last 200 stocks was around 600$

2) I will NOW sell a call option at 695 expiry. This is a 28 day call. For this, I will make 860$

3) That's roughly: 860$/60,000$ investment= 1.433% yield on 28 day basis.

4) This is 20%+ CAGR just through renting Meta.

5) Now: some of you would say: that covered calls is a risky strategy. What if the price hits 695$. And, you are forced to sell your stocks?

6) Two points:-

a. If my stocks get sold then also I am making pretty good profits (15.8% in gains + 1 month rent)

b. In case, I don't wish my Meta to get sold off, I can do
something called "rolling over" my positions.

What this means is that: if I don't want to sell my Meta stocks at 695$, I can cancel my rental contract (and kind of refund the premium with a penalty -- some loss on rent).

How much loss would happen in rolling over? It depends on a lot of things. But, in the above example: the loss is likely to be around (30-50% of that month's rent).

Now, the magical part is: that I can immediately create a new rental contract: and collect a new premium (let's say another 860$)

And, keep taking this bet.

Most people make losses on options because they don't make it part of their core portfolio. And, neither understand how to manage risks.

If you use it sensibly (especially in good markets like the US), you can make decent cash flows.

I teach this and much more on my global community: https://t.co/ObI3xJeWWu

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

@Nick_khandelwal Everyone has to take some sort of risk to make it big.

Traders with capital don't need to take capital risk.
Traders with good systems but with 20-50L of capital are forced to take capital risk with such people to try to get out of the rat race.

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

@Nomadslyf Less than 6% means a tax audit.
Check if you can continue to use presumptive next year if there is a tax audit because audit income will be filled in a different section

[Arun @IndNewbieTrader]

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