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Nifty Future Premium Near The Highest Ever

What’s with the Nifty futures? With the Nifty closing at 5375, the futures were trading at 5441, a near 70 point premium.Measured as a fraction of the Nifty ...

MV Chronicles: Downside Protection and Understanding Margins

The last two MarketVision Chronicles have some awesome (we’re modest) pieces for you. (You’ll need to register, and it’s Free!) Sep 12: Protecting the ...

You Can Trade 91-day T-Bills Soon

Every regulatory body in the Indian market woke up recently and decided to allow Interest rate futures on treasury bills. SEBI said ok, and RBI said ok. What ...

Rupee Dollar Exchange Rate Woes

A reader mails in: While reading thru the financial page of a newspaper I read this – "The rupee surged to a six-month high against the dollar on ...

Stock Options Go European from Jan 2011

According to the NSE: (Thanks to @Prashant_Krish) In pursuance of SEBI circular no. CIR/DNPD/6/2010 dated October 27, 2010 regarding European Style Stock ...

How does Option “Exercise” work?

Reader M writes in: I read your article “Of Options and Choices” posted today. It would be helpful if you can through some more light on American Options ...

NSE changes Lot Sizes for F&O, Finally

After SEBI standardised lot sizes, the National Stock Exchange has not acted to change the lot sizes, resulting in the unhappy situation of my not being able ...

Strangle Strategy – 50% gain on a low frequency system

I wrote about a Straddle/Strangle strategy in the early part of the month, saying that if the spread narrowed I would pick it up, because we were ripe for a ...

Update: Ranbaxy up 3%

So since my last post, Ranbaxy’s September future has scaled up to 414, a 3% increase. I’m still holding; it seems to have some steam left. ...

Don't Override Your System; stay FAT

So today was a crazy day. We were long four stocks and short one – Cairn – as our system threw out the trades. Within a few minutes we noticed that ...