Need to consider Position size also during backtest trading systems

How many of us have ‘risk reward ratio’ considered while backtesting a trading system in options ?

Mostly we consider entry rules based mostly based on price action parameters or use various indicators like MA,RSI etc.etc.

However these could work out very well as long as the market volatility is normal and not during the time when volatility ranges are beyond the usual ranges below lets us say ~20 . As we know premiums of options spike to very high before a minor or major event like earnings, budget etc etc. and we would still be getting the best entry signals on such high volatility days but just by not considering the Risk Risk reward and 

In order to make it simple let us say we have 10 lakh capital and 1%  of that (10000/-) u are deploying for a strategy and say your risk for the trade is 1000/- (depending on where and how. you place your stop loss) meaning you would buy only as much quantity of traded instrument within 10000/- and would take loss per trade 1000/- . Now the stop loss could most likely be based on any of the indicators  or pattern high/lows etc and the option premiums for them keep changing depending on volatility in the market.. and same strategy could give signal but risk may vary with volatility. So you may end up taking > 1000/- risk or a cut of trade on 1000/-  both of which could go against you and could surprise your backtest result based assumptions.

Taking stop loss based on ATR indicator could be a solution but that may not be case always for all strategies.

Therefore Position size the entry well or rather ignore if they don’t fit into your risk reward then  all the back testing does not help as mostly the profits your made from your system could easily be taken away in few periods of such days where it becomes crucial to decide how much to sell or why not to trade?

Trading with abnormal premiums with all other signals right does not help trading psychology well and there Is every chance that you get out early or do all other mistakes possible.

Therefore having entry exit and stop loss rules alone does not make your backtesting complete but a plan to the volatility ranges to not trade or reduce position size as well.

Options Trading Facts 1

 

• If you like do intraday options trading probably you like to be more into the action part of trading and does not like sit idle much and eager to participate and see results quicker 

• While the fact is that you are less likely to be  more profitable than a positional/ swing trading unless you have higher capital or take higher risk or both.

• Being more active or less both are fine as long as it fits into your mindset  but what really matters is to maintain same consistently always. 

• Just like the option buying being profitable Is harder than option selling It is no doubt that decision making on either way on smaller timeframes is more harder than other way.

• Backtesting your rules gives you much more confidence than otherwise in order to stick to your rules in your real trade. But Truly how many retailers in options selling has backtested solid rules for every different market cycles and stick to it ?

• Do make sure plan to put that money into short/medium/long investing in good quality stocks on mutual funds or other liquid funds as per your risk appetite, time horizon and expertise so as to benefit from the  additional collateral benefit  for option selling capital from it by pledging them.

• Intraday option trading also gives risk like freak trades scenarios since hedging used only margin with far tom and stop loss may misfire

• Intraday volatility brings in high volatility without having enough lesser reflex action timeframe ignorer to judge and decide the bet adjustment options even with experience.

• No matter you look at open interest or volatility or chart levels or greeks  ,end of the day options trading is speculative and all the traders  skills narrows down to how much of your probabilities of your anticipated price range went right or wrong.

• If you have finally managed to learned the tricks of the game hard way over the years and also made small but decent money in options trading, in order for wealth generation.

ATH levels are back again. Has it run too much too fast? : Weekly Technical Market Analysis : Aug 9 2021

 

• Weekly wide range bullish green breakout candle on Nifty & nearly 5% move wide range green candle  for  Bank Nifty.

• Nifty broke out from a 7-8 week long consolidation making near 3% up move and retraced 0.8%  later while Bank nifty did made big moves and later retraced nearly 1,5% of it.

• Latest nifty daily candle has 3 inside bars forming kind of consolidation triangle pattern that may be indicating further up move while bank nifty latest candle is also inside candle and  kind of small body red candle looks almost like spinning top  both is not on the top of rally but during retracement.

• Nifty has the volatility expansion  while Bank nifty continue the Bollinger band volatility contraction and yet to break out.

• Nifty broke out of the  resistances faced earlier at 15850/15950 along with the rounding number psychological level of 16000 and made new ATH near 16350

• Previous resistances and swing low levels of  15850-15950 & 15500 - 15650 will now act as  support zone and then 15250-15400 levels below also could act as support levels  and 15000 level is seen if that is broken.

• Bank nifty is taking support at previous support zone of 35650-35850 with below supports at 34400-34700 and resistances above are 36000/36500 and has further  previous resistances to clear 36500/37700

• Nifty RSI momentum shifted into bullish zones from sideways. The medium to long term momentum is intact in bullish area.

• The bullish momentum positive reverse divergence identified last week worked and moved the market up and continue in place..

• Bank Nifty momentum daily entered bullish zones but sipped back slightly into sideways during retracement and weekly got into bull zones  while monthly  momentum  maintains to be in bullish zones.

• Nifty ADX trend indicator trend is bullish and rising and with strength  picking up on daily but maintain trend bullishness on weekly and monthly timeframes.

• Bank nifty ADX trend indicator now showing rising strength in the bullish zone of trend on daily timeframes and weekly crossed over to bullish trend and monthly maintain the bullish trend as well.

• Open interest data for Nifty & Bank nifty showing a short buildup based on the futures contracts.

• Highest options call writing for 12 Aug expiry is seen at 16300 with 16400 also seen having more writing while 15500  levels shows highest support point for nifty with 16000 support is close by.

• Bank-nifty options open interest data shows highest call writing at 36000 levels while highest put writing seen at 35000  levels that could act as support for the expiry

• Put call ratio for nifty accordingly is seen 1.1 which is bullish while 0.83  for bank-nifty is  not bullish.

• India VIX  move up ~7% but  slipped ~8%  and settle at 12.6 and continue to be low levels last week after a spike.

• The Nifty IV 11.7 is above HIV 9.3  and  IVP remaining 3  levels which is at the low volatility regime. 

• IT sector index moved up ~4% last week and the bearish divergence seen weekly can not be negated. Therefore need slightly caution even though it is bullish. Dollar strength could be behind the bullishness.

• FMCG moved up ~2.5%  last week and gave up some if it later. Now there is a momentum bearish divergence on weekly  and therefore need cautiously wait for the momentum catch up again.

• Metal moved further more than 2% but has a indecisive doji in index. It had as anticipated the  bullish positive reverse divergence worked well and index shot up 10% previous week doing a clear breakout. Now a bearish momentum exit in the up move but could be cautiously bullish.

• Auto sector moved up 3.5% and later gave up 1% of it last week and continue consolidating  on daily for a potential up move breakout.

• Pharma Earlier after the anticipated weekly bearish momentum divergence that worked previous week to bring a correction of 6% as target and ,Now last week the  weekly bullish momentum reverse divergence could be working although a indecisive doji is seen on weekly but could take it back to further up move if divergence works.

• Last week FII bought > 2600 cr in cash.

• DII bought 896 cr last week

• The net longs on derivatives of FII/DII moved up last week.

• US markets formed bullish green candles weekly candle on all major indices.

• Dollar Index strengthened to near 1% or more at neckline resistance zone of W breakout pattern seen.

• Crude Oil dipped  near 6.5% last week which could be positive for economy.

• USD-INR currency pair was red forming second  spinning top candle on weekly falling below the previous support zone and  could now be dipping further to channel top side next week

• Gold corrected nearly 4% and taken support on previous price last week and could continue bullishness heading to the channel top but with slow momentum.

• India VIX continue at  low 12.6 levels and any spike could benefit vega positive strategies on options like double calendar.

• Therefore Nifty calendar spreads hedged is always bad idea for coming week due to v shape moves often.

• Markets broke out from consolidation and made big moves and all time highs although bank nifty continue to not have entered the volatility expansion.

• Overall bias is bullish on momentum and trend with possible consolidation near for some days since it did gained quite a lot in short span and should wait for further break out of bank nifty. 

• India vix are at difficult low volatile levels for option traders both buyers and sellers and non directional trades are only to be thought. Will there be immediate mean reversion spike or will it remain at this for long is uncertain.

• Positional long trades now can trail the stop loss to new support levels and could hold good until a clear signal of  breaking  of major support zones indicated earlier.

Will the breakout sustain?: Weekly Market Technical Analysis : July 19 2021

 

• Weekly bullish candle on Nifty & Bank Nifty.

• Nifty has 5 higher high candle formation entire last week.

• Nifty & Bank Nifty broke out from previous resistance zone. Bank nifty broke out of a inverse head & shoulder neckline.

• Latest nifty daily candle hammer-on uptrend at resistance

• Bank nifty has a open=high candle pattern on daily bearish

• Nifty & Bank nifty both shows beginning of Bollinger band volatility expansion from earlier narrow range.

• Nifty nearer to a rounding number psychological level of 16000 and resistances can be expected.

• Earlie resistances now could act as support and levels of  15750 - 15900 are support zone and then 15500-15600 levels below acting good previous swing low supports and 15000 level are seen if that is broken

• Bank nifty has 3 previous resistances to clear 36500/37700 and has 34300-34650 levels as next supports below.

• Nifty RSI momentum climbed to bullish zones last week and retains it. Also the medium to long term momentum is intact in bullish area,

• Nifty weekly has a bearish momentum divergence that could pull it back to 15450 levels if it works out.

• Bank Nifty momentum daily climbed into bullishness but could not sustain it and slipped slightly back into sideways zone on  daily  .Weekly and monthly momentum  maintains to be in bullish zones.

• Nifty & Bank Nifty ADX trend indicator are in  bullish areas on daily, weekly and monthly timeframes

• Open interest data for Nifty showing a long unwinding and Bank nifty showing short buildup based on the futures contracts which is bearish.

• Highest options call writing for 01 july expiry is seen at 16200 with 16000 also seen having more writing while 15900  levels shows highest  support point for nifty with 15800 support is close by.

• Bank-nifty options open interest data shows highest call writing at 36000 levels while highest put writing seen at 35500  levels that could act as support for the expiry

• Put call ratio for nifty accordingly is seen 1.03 which is bullish while 0.71  for bank-nifty is not bullish.

• India VIX  fall more than 20%  to historic lowest levels of 10.5  and settled at 11.7 last week.

• The Nifty IV 11.6 is above HIV 6.9  and  IVP remaining 2  levels which is at the new low volatility regime. 

• IT sector corrected more than 2% and later gave up some of it  but bearish divergence seen weekly can not be negated. 

• FMCG is consolidating sideways last week forming a weekly doji and at  previous resistance zone and therefore need wait for the momentum catch up.

• Metal has the bullish positive reverse divergence seem to be working and market ended green last week. Momentum on daily is now in bullish zones and could expect a breakout.

• Auto sector formed a bearish inside bar and consolidating on daily and weekly and may take time to turn bullish again.

• Pharma moved up 2.5% last week and broke out into an all time high levels. but weekly has a bearish momentum divergence that could pull it back a bit on weekly basis. sector is bullish on all timeframes.

• Last week FII sold> 2500 cr in cash.

• DII bought 3200 cr last that kept the market up last week

• The net longs on derivatives of FII/DII moved up last week.

• India VIX has fallen to lowest 11.4 levels and any spike could benefit Vega positive strategies on options like double calendar.

• Therefore Nifty calendar spreads hedged is always bad idea for coming week due to v shape moves often.

• Markets broke out from major resistance zone but lost momentum end of week and Bollinger band started expanding while bank nifty need catch up with resistances, with the improved momentum and trend overall bias is bullish with caution since weekly bearish divergence and FII selling concern.

• India vix are at difficult low volatile levels for option traders both buyers and sellers and non directional trades are only to be thought of. Will there be immediate mean reversion spike or will it remain at this for long is uncertain.

• Positional long trades would hold good until a clear signal of  breaking  of major support zones indicated earlier, there is no point in exiting or shorting as of now.

Correction or Consolidation? : Weekly Technical Analysis : July 12 2021

 

• Weekly bearish spinning top candle on Nifty & gravestone Doji candle Bank Nifty.

• Nifty & Bank nifty shows a inverted V shape  ie moving up and then reversing last week on daily.

• Nifty& Bank nifty reversed from previous resistance zone.

• Nifty at a major previous swing low support zone and both indices at channel bottom.

• Latest nifty daily candle Doji-shows indecisiveness, 

• Bank nifty has a hammer  candle pattern on daily potential reversal up.

• Nifty & Bank nifty both has Bollinger band squeeze into narrow range and showing clear volatility contraction /consolidation.

• Nifty once again failed to conquer previous resistances tested tested multiple times of 15900 near an all  time high and rounding number psychological level of 16000 close by.

• It immediate support at  15600 and then 15500 levels below acting good previous swing low supports and 15000 level are seen if that is broken

• Bank nifty has 3 previous resistances to clear/35800/37700/36500 and has 34000-34500 levels as next supports below.

• Nifty RSI momentum has fallen further down and remain in sideways zone on  daily. However medium to long term momentum is intact in bullish area,

• Nifty daily both  bullish positive reverse divergences failed.

• Bank Nifty momentum daily continues to be in sideways zone and falling  .Weekly and monthly momentum  maintains to be in bullish zones.

• Nifty ADX trend indicator continue in  bearish areas on daily timeframe with flat strength while weekly and monthly trend remain bullish with flat strength 

• Bank nifty has ADX trend indicator crossed over back to bearish  zones  on daily timeframe. The trend continue to be in bullish side on medium & long term timeframes with flat strength.

• Open interest data for Nifty showing a long unwinding and Bank nifty showing short buildup based on the futures contracts which is bearish.

• Highest options call writing for 01 July expiry is seen at 16000 with 15800/15700 also seen having more writing while 15600  levels shows highest  support point for nifty with 15500/15000 support is close by.

• Bank-nifty options open interest data shows highest call writing at 36000 levels while highest put writing seen at 35000  levels that could act as support for the expiry

• Put call ratio for nifty accordingly is seen 0.66  which is not bullish while 0.74  for bank-nifty also is not bullish.

• India VIX  fall near 20%  to historic lowest levels of 11.1 and settled at 12/9 last week.

• The Nifty IV 12.8 is above HIV 7.4  and  IVP remaining 3.1  levels which is at the new low volatility regime. 

• IT sector corrected near 3% but continue with bullish divergence seen weekly with strength in momentum and trend on short/medium/long term charts. 

• FMCG also corrected 1% but continue bullish with momentum bullish divergence seen weekly and could regain momentum to move further up slightly dipped on short term momentum as of now.

• Metal did ok last week but still sideways on short term but medium to long term is bullish and so need wait till momentum pickup and breakout. Currently consolidating.

• Auto sector corrected 4% and lost momentum it gained last week and now is sideways in short / medium term and bullish only on long term.

• Pharma correct 2.5% last week and slipped back to sideways on daily but higher time frames are bullish and could breakout as discussed previous weeks

• Last week FII sold> 2000 crore in cash.

• DII also turned sellers last week after 14 days continuously in cash and sold all bought last week.

• The net longs on derivatives of FII/DII had dipped.

• US markets ended green last week and show hammer pattern on weekly indicating further up move.

• Dollar Index at resistance inverse happen up 92.1 level.

•  USD-INR currency pair at resistance near channel top a Doji on weekly but bullish divergence on weekly.

• Gold continue bullishness and at channel top but with slow momentum and any further moves could make it bullish.

• India VIX has fallen to lowest 12.9 levels and seems to remain at these at least for next week where iron condor weekly may be applied with view that 15900 remain resistance and 15500 may not break for now.

• Therefore Nifty calendar spreads hedged is not bad idea for coming week.

• Markets narrow range bound and at neckline support zone with uncertainty as to how long it could consolidate here and which side it would break down. Therefore trade with caution.

• India vix are at difficult low volatile levels for option traders both buyers and sellers and non directional trades are only to be thought. Will there be immediate mean reversion spike or will it remain at this for long is uncertain.

• Momentum  is sideways and Trend is bearish for short term on both indices and bias is negative.

• Positional long trades would hold good until a clear signal of  breaking  of major support zones indicated earlier, there is no point in exiting or shorting as of now.

Was it just a shake out ?Weekly Market Analysis :June 21 2021

 

• A bearish candle after 5 continuous bullish weeks ,still made another higher high and all time high.

• Weekly spinning top candle is bearish

• Latest Daily candle hammer-could be slightly bullish on confirmation since during a small downtrend. 

• Nifty -moved up 2 days and did 3 days of 450 point correction with a harsh one on Friday to dip it to 15450 support levels last week before recovering back some of the momentum and settling to close to 15683.

• Bank nifty 15o0 point correction before it recovered 650 of it to still closing below previous close 

• Bank nifty has a spinning top bearish candle pattern

• Bank nifty also has 2 days of up-move and 3 days down.

• Last week Nifty broke the support at 15600 levels from where is bounced up and where it also had  at 20 day moving average and  previous resistance too but closed above it.

• Nifty Fibonacci 23 retracement level of 15500-15300 levels is in confluences with the previous resistance that has turned to be support now.15000 would be next level below it which had previous resistance

• Nifty 15800 levels has previous resistances and 16000 would be psychological round number and Fibonacci extension 50 support area.

• Bank Nifty fall off from the 20 moving average support and currently at 34600 level closing above FIB 23.it has 33300/33600 support levels which is in confluence with Fibonacci 38 and previous resistance. Any breaking of FIB 61 levels of 32000 could mean a major downtrend.

• Bank-nifty first resistance at 35600/35800 levels of previous resistance from where it dipped last time and above that resistance at previous swing high of 36500 and then all time levels of 37700 levels would be resistance points.

• Last week Nifty broke the support at 15600 levels from where is bounced up and where it also had  at 20 day moving average and  previous resistance too but closed above it.

• Nifty Fibonacci 23 retracement level of 15500-15300 levels is in confluences with the previous resistance that has turned to be support now.15000 would be next level below it which had previous resistance

• Nifty 15800 levels has previous resistances and 16000 would be psychological round number and Fibonacci extension 50 support area.

• Bank Nifty fall off from the 20 moving average support and currently at 34600 level closing above FIB 23.it has 33300/33600 support levels which is in confluence with Fibonacci 38 and previous resistance. Any breaking of Fib 61 levels of 32000 could mean a major downtrend.

• Bank-nifty first resistance at 35600/35800 levels of previous resistance from where it dipped last time and above that resistance at previous swing high of 36500 and then all time levels of 37700 levels would be resistance points.

• Nifty momentum still daily/weekly/monthly within bullish zones

• Nifty Momentum daily had a bearish divergence on daily chart where price is rising and momentum slowing down that pulled it down to the 15450 levels but managed to recover the momentum and take support in bull zones again.

• Nifty daily now has a bullish positive reverse divergence that could still potentially take it back to all time high on confirmation if it goes above Friday candle high.

• Nifty ADX trend indicator cross to bearish areas on daily timeframe and is rising with reasonable strength while weekly and monthly trend remain bullish.

• Bank Nifty momentum daily continues to be in sideways zone and falling. Weekly is struggling to hold the bullish area while monthly momentum is still taking support at 60 in the bullish zone.

• Bank nifty has ADX trend indicator is in bearish side and rising with strength turning upwards on daily time frame. The trend continue to be in bullish side on medium & long term timeframes with flat strength.

• Open interest data for Nifty showing a short covering while bank-nifty is showing a short buildup based on the futures contracts

• Highest options call writing for 17 june expiry is seen at 16000 with 15800 also seen having more writing while 15000 levels shows major support point for nifty with 15500 support also ahead of it.

• Bank-nifty options open interest data shows highest call writing at 35000 levels while highest put writing seen at 34000  levels that could act as support for the monthly expiry

• Put call ratio for nifty accordingly is seen 1.01 which is mildly bullish while 0.71 for bank-nifty is not bullish.

• India VIX remain flat at very low levels of 14.8.Implied volatility is above HIV with IVP remaining 2.4 levels which is at the new volatility regime.

• IT sector is bullish with strength in momentum and trend on short/medium/long term charts. The FMCG sector was performing despite market bearishness last week.

• We discussed Metal as showing bearish momentum divergence on weekly and it  did correct well. It could take momentum 40 support and consolidate for some period.

• Auto sector bullish momentum divergence failed on daily and it dipped into sideways last week and could be back to bullishness after few weeks if the momentum does not fall into sideways on weekly.

• Pharma and Infra on short term turned sideways but medium and long term momentum is intact.

• Last week on Friday when market corrected and did the v shape recovery In the cash market. Earlier in the week itself they had sold near 2500 crore over 3-4 days. DII also turned into buying moderately after couple of days of selling last week.

• FII were buying 3100 crores is positive with June net buying from FII is 5800 crores while DII where net selling 2300 crore same month till now. They are net longs on derivatives of FII/DII have dipped bit this month so far.

• US markets had the major Fed meeting last week and outcomes jittered all markets including our to certain extend and then recovered soon enough. Both Dow and S&P showing bearish weekly candles.

• Dollar Index gained strength and showed bullish momentum o move from 90 to 92 levels last week and continue heading up resistances seen at 92.5 and 93.5 levels.
• We discussed and suggested that going long on  USD-INR currency pair was not a bad idea in last weekly analysis and it did exactly same and gained near 1.5% last week closing near 74.3 levels at a previous resistance. 

• Gold crashed more nearly 6.5% last week after it was seen consolidating earlier and currently seen back into the weekly channel from where it had done a false breakout earlier. currently at a support zone of previous resistance and close by another support zone 100 point down and consolidations could be happening for some period until momentum picks up again. Probably good time to invest in for medium term.

• If your view is mildly bearish could go for a bull put spread on nifty with strike selected at support resistance zones we discussed for this expiry could work if consolidation and not major bearish moves does not happen next week and same time if market moves up also it could of benefit.

• A 34000-35000 bank nifty strangle with hedges at break even points can give near 1:1 risk reward with the view that this index has resistance at 35K and supports near 34000 on oi and charts.

• Markets did a shake out of weak hands last week and got back into business and probably it was a healthy correction.

• Nifty will hit 16000 sooner but may be consolidating before that.

• The daily charts continue to show that it is at momentum support and a potential bullish divergence move up.

• Nifty Trend crossover to bearishness and Bank nifty falling of 20 moving average support with sideways momentum and trend is reason for a caution but indications of a consolidation ahead and not crash is what could be seen.

• Positional long trades would hold good until a clear signal of  breaking  of major support zones indicated earlier, there is no point in exiting or shorting as of now.

• Intraday even with low volatility regime for some reason is giving choppiness and furious corrections which probably part of bull run behavior.

Expiry Trade : June 17 2021 : IRONFLY

 

  charts courtesy opstra/quantsapp

• IRONFLY at 15750CE and 15750PE sold and hedges bought at 15700 and 15900  is a low risk strategy for this expiry on July 17 2021.Reason for trade is open interest shows likely to expire at 15700 and risk reward is favourable. Trade at your own risk and discretion .

Heading further high without Banks? : Weekly Market Analysis : June 14 2021

• Nifty made yet another (6th consecutive weeks) all time high at 15835.55 and closed with a weekly spinning top candle while the last nifty candle is a Doji indicating indecisiveness.

• Daily candle had been walking on the or close by the bands of Bollinger band with enough volatility expansion.

• Nifty did a small correction to dip to 15566 levels last week before climbing back to gain the momentum in the rally.

• There is a support seen for nifty at 15600 levels from where is bounced up and where it also had a  previous resistance too.

• Fibonacci 23 retracement level of 15430-15330 levels is in confluences with 20 day moving average and also the previous resistance that has turned to be support now for nifty.

• 16000 would be psychological round number and Fibonacci extension resistance area for nifty.

• Nifty momentum on daily/weekly/monthly is intact within bullish zones.

• Nifty Momentum on daily had a confirmed 6 bar bullish positive reverse divergence and nearly met the targets too during last 2 days of the week. However currently momentum  has a bearish divergence on daily chart where price is rising and momentum slowing down that could potentially take it back to previous dip below 15600 if it works out.

• ADX trend indicator strength is rising again and is sufficiently bullish on all timeframes be it short/medium/long term.

• Bank nifty on the contrary o nifty , had 650 point from correction before it recovered 600 of it to still closing below previous close with a bearish near hammer weekly candle patterns. Except on expiry day bank-nifty had bearish candle on all other days.

• The momentum of bank-nifty daily dipped into sideways zone. However on weekly the momentum is showing a range shift from the sideways to bearish zone if it manage to bounce up in the coming week while monthly momentum  is  still taking support at 60 in the bullish zone.

• The ADX trend indicator has crossed over to bearish side on bank-nifty daily timeframe although the strength of it is not rising. The trend continue to be in bullish side on medium and long term timeframes with flat strength.

• Bank-nifty has taken a CIP(change in polarity) bounce from previous resistance area of 34300/34600 levels which is in confluence with Fibonacci 50 and currently taken support at the 20 day moving average at 34800 levels above FIB 38 .The 33500 levels near FIB 61 and previous swing low could be support if above levels are broken next week.

• On the upside Bank-nifty has first resistance at 35800 levels from where it dipped last time and above that we have resistance at previous swing high of 36500 and then all time levels of 37700 levels would be resistance points it has to break if it rallies.

• Open interest data for nifty showing a long buildup while bank-nifty is showing a short buildup based on the futures contracts.

• Highest options call writing for 17 jun expiry is seen at 16000 and then 15800 levels both of which could be major resistance point for nifty rally. call unwinding seen for 15700 levels.

• Bank-nifty options open interest data shows highest call and put writing at 35000 levels which could critical to watch on next week. Large call writing seen at 355000 levels too and supports can be seen below at 34500/34000 levels.

• Put call ratio for nifty accordingly is seen 1.35 which is bullish while 0.73 for bank-nifty is not bullish.

• India VIX fall 7% last week to reach yet another low level of 14.48.Implied volatility is above HIV with IVP remaining 0.4 levels which is the new volatility regime.

• Currently form the futures and options data and charts and indicator it is evident that Bank-nifty continues to be bearish and not supporting the nifty up move.

• Very low volatility regime is not much in favor of option seller while any mean reversion from these levels rising up could benefit option buyers.

• The IT/Metal/Energy/Auto/Infra/FMCG/Pharma are all roaring in bullish momentum.

• Metal sector shows a weekly as well as daily momentum bearish divergence and so caution when u try to be long when it is rally and a buy on dip could be done later on. Pharma has a bearish divergence on momentum currently while Auto has momentum positive reverse divergence on daily and a momentum range shift on weekly which could make bullish moves coming days or weeks.

• .In the cash market FII were buying 3 days except large selloff on Wednesday while DII were buying except on Monday and Friday and June has net near 3000 crore buying so far is positive. They are net long on derivative too.

• US markets are positive now .Dow Jones also taking a momentum support and heading up while S&P and Nasdaq in bullish zone and heading north.

• Dollar Index gained strength and taking momentum support above 90 levels and heading up. USD-INR currency pair taken support at 73 levels with 4 green candles last week and going long on it may not be bad idea.

• Gold is consolidating after the channel breakout on weekly and is at momentum support levels and is likely to move up next week if could hold above the 20 day moving average .

• To wrap up , Selling put options at nifty 16000 levels with hedged spread positions could benefit as swing trade for next week due to fact that nifty may find it not easy to cross it with little support from bank-nifty. However if banking stock especially HDFC kind of index stocks join the party then 16000 would be very close 200 point target that could be covered on any single day gap up itself and so caution and defined risk options strategies need to be implemented. Power sector stocks like ntpc/powergrid/pfc/coalindia are all having a result week and earnings trade on option could be planned .option sellers could benefit from the volatility crush after the event.

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IRONFLY ON EXPIRY TRADE JUNE 10 2021

 

Iron fly is an options strategy where u have a straddle option position with ATM put and call sold along with a hedge position bought on either side with far OTM put and calls.

On the expiry all premiums within the range of strikes will expire in zero price and this theta decay on the last day is what you benefit from. 

For the risk reward to be favourable the hedge positions need to be bought at beak even point strikes.

options gamma effect could come into play in the afternoon so an entry by 10 am and exit before 1:30 is ideal and target not more than 30-40% of max profit.

Position size lots as per your capital and risk appetite. 

No need to put stop loss as risk is defined .

The margin benefit are another reason for going with such option strategies as against naked option selling or straddles but need to be care full to exit sell positions first before exiting buy position to avoid peak margin issues exit.

This post is not a recommendation and only for educational purpose .This options strategy works most time if done properly. you could backtest yourself on stockmock.in and consult your financial advisor before you put your money on it. 

Bulls continues to be here : Weekend Market Analysis : June 7 2021

                                                             

• Nifty hit new all time high last Monday and then retraced couple of days but to again move even higher to make another all time high at 15734.Banknifty price action was similar but has resistance ahead before breaking all time high of February.

• The last candle on nifty is small body red candle similar to a spinning top on the top of a rally which normally is bearish but may be ruled out after the current long consolidation and breakout rally it has just begun.

• Immediate support levels are below at earlier resistance zones from where is broke out ie 15430-15330 levels and below that near 150000 levels and then50/100  moving average levels near  14800.

• A 15900 could be targeted as per FIB projections for nifty.

• Bank nifty has supports at 34300 levels and resistance are at 36500 and 37700 levels.

• Bank nifty closed with a bearish red candle after a momentum divergence on daily timeframe worked out on Friday and met the target levels.

• Nifty momentum is intact on bullish zones on all timeframes of short/medium/long term.

• Bank nifty currently has a 5 bar bullish positive reverse divergence that could take it to 35800 levels.

• Also make note that on long term monthly timeframe it has a bearish divergence that could cause correction to 30K levels if it works out along with the 100 day moving average continuing above 50 dma on daily timeframe.

• Trend indicators are strong bullish on all timeframes of nifty and trend continues to be rising and bullish for bank nifty as well.

• Nifty and Bank nifty futures data shows short build up on Friday. Nifty options open interest data shows highest resistance at 15700 followed by 16000 and 15800 levels and supports are at 15500 for the 10th June expiry.

• Bank nifty has highest call writing at 35500 followed by 36000 and 36500 levels while supports are at 34500.

• The put call ratio of nifty has dipped to 0.99 which is not very bullish while bank nifty has PCR of 0.65 indicating bearishness for the expiry.

• FII were buying last most  days of last week with good volumes is good news while DII did large selling on last day of week.

• India VIX fall 6.8% last and settled at 15.94 on Friday which is in favor of further up move.

• Implied volatility is above Historical volatility but IV percentile is lowest in recent times of 0.4 in favor of option buyers.

• Sectors of IT,Energy,Metals,Auto,Infra,Services,Midcaps are all in bullish zones.

• US market are rising after a correction and heading to bullish zones.US Dollar index has maintains 90 levels while USDINR pair also taking support at 73 levels. Gold continue to be bullish.

• To wrap up we could see that markets are in a bull run with  5 weeks of higher high and could continue doing same although it may not be doing it slowly that would mean interim corrections after making every new highs.

• So trend is clear and buy on dips is the way to go and with the volatility at lower levels directional trades using option spreads could work out well. Intraday can be played based on price action support resistance levels on options.

Bulls are here: Weekend Market Analysis : May 29 2021

• Market rallied more than 2% last week after the breakout on previous Friday and settled few points above the last previous all time high with two consecutive small body candle days indicating tough presence of both bulls and bears. Bank nifty also moved more than 2% but ended in red end of week.

• Nifty corrected around 8% in around 3.5 months from previous swing high before reaching back there last day. Bank nifty corrected nearly 20%  and yet to go back there

• Nifty which has close above all time high has Fibonacci extension projection from previous swing low indicate it an up move happen it could move up to at least 15900 levels.

• A double bottom breakout W pattern is clear visible like last week on both indices  indicating there is a good breakout potential from current levels.

• Nifty has a small gap support between last two candles could work out well if there is minor retracement before moving up further.

• 15050 is the best support downwards from where it had broken out earlier. If by any chance that is broken there is 50/100 moving average to support at 14750 levels.

• Bank nifty has not yet reached all time high which is more than 2500 point away but could face hurdles both at 36400 previous swing high levels and 37700 all time high levels before that.

• Bank nifty has support at 34300 levels from where it broke out earlier and below that it could find support near 33000-33250 levels at the moving averages and trendline channel.

• RSI momentum is on bullish zoned on all timeframes (short/medium/long term)for both indices.

• Daily timeframe(short term) is showing how a momentum range shift into bullish zones worked out well on bank nifty.

• The monthly candles(yet to close) are very bullish green long for nifty and bank nifty.

• However  could come out with a potential bearish momentum divergence on monthly candle depending on close of Monday if momentum is not moving up from current which may indicate correction up to 30400 levels but on a longer term basis  only if it works out. 

• Trend indicator ADX/DMI has turned up and rising on all timeframes for both indices indicating clear bullishness ahead.

• Futures open interest is bullish long build up on both indices.

• Open interest on nifty options shows that 15500 has higher call writing while 15300 could be good support for next expiry.

• Bank nifty open interest data shows 35500 as resistance level while 35000 has highest support level seen although a large writing is still seen there which could mean next week may see more bull bear tug of war before decisively conquering it meanwhile 34500 is immediate support below it.

• Put call ratio is bullish for nifty 1.32 but not bullish for bank nifty at 0.75

• India VIX fall more than 16% last week alone and has reach 17.4 pre-pandemic levels. This is further confirmation that bullishness may be continuing ahead. The covid case rate and sentiments has brought down VIX probably.

• Implied volatility is above historic IV levels and IVP has fallen from 70 to 0.8 low levels indicating only 0.8% of time in past year has been lower  than current IV. Currently IV is sharp falling phase  and premium \of option also may be less.

• IT,Energy,Auto,Infra are other sectors seen in the bullish zones.

• FII where buying good last week except for Thursday. 

• Dollar index has regained the 90 price level and seems reverting while USDINR trades with rupee strengthened to 72.4 levels and look like bottom may have been hit and could hover around there or revert from there. Gold continues the rally up after the trendline breakout.

• Overall market having a nice round patter with potential for a very good breakout after a fair correction and going short is out of question while the nature of  further up move could be a slow trending rather than an upright breakout to hit 16K.Therefore credit/debt directional spreads based long trades on option could give results while directional momentum breakout trades with stop loss intraday could be effective as well.