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Nikhil Khandelwal.

@Nick_khandelwal

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A curious human, a merry traveler in this window of time. Managing Chaos as a Hobby. Using twitter as a Personal Notebook.

New Delhi, India
Joined March 2011
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
Easier said then done.πŸ˜…
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Tbh after all this years. If you ask me how to make money in markets. Its kinda simple component of few things. ( kinda alpha, but everyone knows it, yet unable to execute it ). Thread, kyun ki i am vella.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
One moment i feel like a genius, another like a dumb fuck. That's the kinda business we are in.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Money solves 99% of the problems.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
11 months
Wow @zerodhaonline is really shitting the bed. I dont even how, whats on the book right now. How do i even close the position on other broker. @Nithin0dha This is absurd risk. I cannot even try closing positions here, as it might lead to bigger shits
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
My broker is very happy these days. He was like Sir, you should add more capital, market is kind.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
I will be like good profits, maybe i can afford that coffee grinder now. Shreyas in the meanwhile, diversified into real estate from profits. πŸ˜…
@BandiShreyas
Bandi Shreyas
2 years
Havent added trading cap in years, only withdrawals to diversify allocation Built this office space last year and leased it out to a tech startup that does online sales of organic foods Apart from cap appreciation, The rental yeild is 8%, and completely unrelated to markets
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
Funny how a 0.5% range day can cause so much pain on a Wednesday.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 months
Considering the rise in taxes, I'm thinking about getting into farming.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
Today's report is about how much money was made or lost trading Non directional BN straddle. I keep track of many strategies to get an idea of how the market is doing I will try to share this information with you every day if not intraday then at least after the markets close.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 months
Life of a trader.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Liquidity is increasing on Finnifty as we punt Expiry/0dte on it. 26th Jul traded 65 lac contracts. 19th Jul traded 62 lac, 12th Jul traded 44 lac, 5th Jul traded 32 lac, 28th Jun traded 23 lac. Retail bhaiyo ki jai ho. @SarangSood @BandiShreyas
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
What's with this IIT, non IIT thing, the playing ground is neutral? IITian just get a head start because of the hierarchical advantage they acquire early in life. Post that i have seen jobless iitians, uneducated people hiring iitians. The game is won by hustling.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
26 days
Never discuss your trading edge in public or to anyone trading cap greater than you in private as well. Thats it.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 months
It just makes sense.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
Micheal burry shorts 1 billion$ of notional in puts. The whole finance community goes nerd.. Here, Chintu 21 years old with 9 years of exp. shorts that amount every 0dte, posting his detail verified by Abid. Please, Burry needs to try harder.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
I hate such day's, family came to my room to watch my screens like it's a T20 match. And whenever this happens my profit dips into red. I was up 0.5% instantly dipped to -0.2%. The only good thing was, the algo was managing positions. So i didn't fuck up.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
8 months
Anyone who lost/made money today. It wasn't you or your voodoo but market. Don't be too hard or elated of self. Just a reminder that markets are tough to crack. Some of the brightest minds are competing here for small change. Most success you see is just survivorship bias.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Sebi ki FY report ka to pata nai. Fintwit FY report has arrived. 100% participants made money. 99% beat FD returns. 90% in top 1%. GDP pata nai, but net Market returns been $5 trillion.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
10 months
At this rate, it will be a crime to be a man. Men would have tons more mental health issues due to family pressure. Why arent we safegaurding that?
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
20 days
Well i tried giving some legitimacy to this profession as a business and not a stint with @PRAFULKULKARN18 at @TradeWithGroww_ . Dropping tomorrow.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
People who made money today on short gamma side are beings from different realm. Would have needed some godlike execution and scalping skills. Looking at you @PRAFULKULKARN18 Big negative day, and days like this keep reminding me that i cannot execute well under pressure.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Next time my mom tells me to stop acting childish and that I am a grown man now. I am gonna cite this.
@ParikPatelCFA
Dr. Parik Patel, BA, CFA, ACCA Esq.
2 years
This man is worth $264 billion dollars
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Jio ne Logo ke hanth me internet pakadaya, Bacha hua kaam @BandiShreyas ne logo ko Non directional trading sikha ke kar diya. Ab pura desh. Tuesday and thursday ko sick leave leta hai.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
If you dont like the premiums, stop selling them. Its not some kinda breakfast, which if you skipped would lead to gastric problems.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Wanna survive in the trading business? Never seek anyone else's financial performance, never broadcast your own. You will take unwarranted decisions depending on how those make you feel, which has nothing to do with your performance. Been there done that.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
Scalped whatever I could. Out now. This is a scalper's market, no matter what you trade.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Once a discretionary trader gets a knack at it. It would become impossible to go completely systematic too many inherent discretion points. Though execution really needs to be automated else one will get become 80 at 40.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
Zerodha not allowing people to sell more than 25 lots on midcpnifty, not letting people to sell market on SSO, nudging left, right and center asking you, that you know what you are doing right? Zerodha is real Retail ka savior. Baki sab bana rahe hai, kya wo tum hi jano.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
10 months
Yesterday was a good reminder of why selling OTMs in India is dumb. Largest intraday loss of 2%. Sized like a degen on call ratio and called it quit at worst prices.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
That's so me, day in day out. πŸ˜‚
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
"It's not about making more profit, but making a peaceful profit." - @SarangSood
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
I have been all negative around trading lately. So here is a positives of being trader. If you really, really put the work in. I feels its is one of the most rewarding business to be in. Also you could be totally socially awkward and still make it super large here.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 months
180 FNO stocks, 177 positions. Me to myself: Karna kya chahta hai be...
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
@the_rich_trader No, game. In the game probabilities, there will always be a guy who converts 10k to 1cr in 9 months if the sample size is large enough. This is noise. I would be paying attention to Lindy people, who kept doing this for longer duration of time.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Heidenburg reached its target of 80% fall in like 4 freaking days.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Most successful people i know, took large risks early on in their career, You don't get to the top tier from the safety net. But the back story has a lot of survivorship bias.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Tell me you are fucked, without telling me you are fucked.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 months
Life is one big money problem. Money solves most controllable problems in life.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Dont remember when was the last time i saw something like this. Shreyas closed it at perfect moment. Call it luck, call it anticipation, call it RMS, but man used of his 9 lives today. πŸ˜‚ 5 back to back, red days. @BandiShreyas @SarangSood @PRAFULKULKARN18
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 months
We want to reduce speculation, so we will increase our sleeping partner takeaway, so that your losses are more and you quit earlier. - Tai.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
One thing i slowly understood in life.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
7 months
Friends have been talking about it being such a stressful quarter. I have traded 7 years now. I can concur. But then its the risk we get paid for. If you are doubting yourself, get back to first principles reasonings of what and why. Its just "Variance in the long run."
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
What happening with Russian index should be a alarming for anyone. Tails do happens, we might have no way to price them due to the occurrence size of them being so low, but they do happen and lot of you getting caught is sear luck. No free lunch.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Nifty is a derivative of BN and BN is a derivative of BN options and BN option chain is a derivative of BN atms and BN atms is a derivative of 9:20. In that way, everything can be explained through 9:20.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
Note, this guy is an Alien. He eats 10 rasmalias. Looking like that.
@PRAFULKULKARN18
PRAFUL KULKARNI
1 year
Empty gym + No music = ❀️🧘 I hate it when gyms play loud music. I don't know if it's just me, but it's like meditating with loud ass music in your ears, it's awful!
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
10 months
Fresh start after some break.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
Most of the trading, is trying your best to not do dumb stuff.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Let @PRAFULKULKARN18 hit the gym, else he will troll the shit out of twitter.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
8 months
At the moment i think Shoonya is better than zerodha and i save shit tons there as well.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 months
Funny that i am still getting the Jargons argument. Okay i will put a strong argument across. If what i am using seemsJargon to you. You are just too lazy to even read on your business. All you have learnt is from insta and youtube. Anyone serious here at least knows 101.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
@BandiShreyas Mine usually gets washed in the washing machine and gets torn. πŸ˜‚
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
People need to realise, when they are closing an option writing position, they are actually option buying. πŸ˜…
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
6 years
You’re not going to get rich renting out your time. You must own equity - a piece of a business - to gain ur financial freedom. Equity is wealth, capital money. Wealth is self generative, money deteriorative. @naval That's why i left the glamorous MNC job life. Still working on.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
The important thing I figured out with trading and investing is that real money lies in identifying a market regime early in transition and shifting the weight on your strategies and folio allocation accordingly. And what hinders one from it are his biases.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
8 months
That sharad uncle, gave some brutal truths yesterday towards trading. My power to him. @gaz_cap and me are fans now.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
People raising 100's of cr to punt on tailed Intraday leveraged beta. I wonder if people who finance those large AUM even understand the risks and even if they say the do, do they really?
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
This regime has literally tested everyone. Other than 0dte ( leveraged to the balls, or leveraged in tails to the balls ). I don't see anything making money. Tough time. Tell me about how it's going for you? What's working, what's not?
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
Agar aaj pura retail educate hogaye to saara edge chala jayega. πŸ˜‚
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 months
We built a Pnl graph extension straight over your Zerodha dashboard. Just a small project, we thought we would benefit from. Will release next week.
@Souvik131
TradingAlgo
3 months
PNL chart on zerodha kite. Publishing chrome extension soon, stay tuned. #kite #zerodha #pnl #chart
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
5 months
Lagta people quit 0dte.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
"You get paid for the risk you take." Keep re-reading that till it hits you.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
The only purpose of life is to enjoy your existence, love your day, and make memories. Everything is gonna go in a blink of an eye. Make sure it was worth.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 months
0dte literally has had almost no VRP since many months.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
4 months
Well lesson to learn, low probability doesn't mean there isn't any probability to it.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
4 months
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@SachaSucha
Kairos
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QT with your desk aesthetics Everything darkmode, including the office.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 months
First the brokers break, then the exchange, then the whole freaking world. And you feel like you are in control.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
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0dte Month closed.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
Kamath brothers today.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Pre and Post Expiry.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 months
Trading partner.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
Most of my improvements in trading vol last year came from listening to these US vol guys and talking constantly to @SarangSood . Two completely different approaches to the market, but applying them together. Apart from that IRCTC fuck up, i really had an amazing run.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
5 months
Whenever you feel like this cannot happen. Remember crude went negative.
@alifarhat79
Not Jerome Powell
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Never forget
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
I see my parents enjoy their relationships with their friends, distant family, themselves so much these days. Makes me think, i don't have many. Geting old will be lonely Af at this rate.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
29 days
At 20x leverage on 0dte the probability of bankruptcy(risk of ruin), almost goes to 100% in 20 years.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
Religion was the worst invention of human civilization. Kids who have not yet been sold the idea are dying, before they could even realise how beautiful life really is.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
@saketh1998 15 years and more knowledge. Its really hard to give up something after spending 15 years on it, its like admitting that you wasted 15 good years of life, takes good mental strength to do so. I dont think, its the trade, but admitting defeat thats the issue here.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
4 months
At least the workplace improved.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
Never add size to a losing position. Never. And the chances of surviving in this business goes up massively. Call me a Degen if you see me doing it.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
I have never been able to spend on luxuries, my mind just doesn't allow me to, irrespective of the fact that most of the things i consider are not much of a cost to my pocket.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
- 99.99% of Fintwit knows nothing, if your ideal are punting, you will not be able to punt better than them. They are result of survivorship bias. You might not be. ( Fintwit ko ghanta kuch nai aata, inc. me, i bet if you hustle a bit, you can surpass most )
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
Damn ran the spaces for some 4 hours i guess. Really getting comfortable with it. Compared to how it used to be earlier.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
11 months
Run Air purifiers, cry over pollution all month long and then go burst crackers. 🀦
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Most importantly treat trading as a business and you will be okay. Bass abhi itna hi likh sakta hun. almost 12 and already 2 coffee in. Will add more as my head clear.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
A very good day. May such days come frequently. - Said my broker.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
19 days
There you go! I tried my best, to make it simple, understandable for everyone while also trying to make it like a storyline where everyone can take few things home & probably can put into there trading. @PRAFULKULKARN18 @TradeWithGroww_
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
How amazing is OPEX flows. Even though the news on ADANI broke out 1 day before. People waited 1 day to completely hammer Adani and let the positions expire for Jan. Days like this makes you fall in love with markets.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
11 months
Riks management and psychology is the most abused set of words on Indian fintwit. Ask them anything. The answer is Riks management and psychology. My bullshit meter goes through the roof when i read those words.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 months
I can attest to that. I ran behind money all my life not for money but for the zest to be perceived as a winner in life and then lost at a lot of places where i was already a massive winner. Taught me a lot over the years.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
Just for once, I will disclose this. I had a bunch of buy 3300puts feb on adanient, that i booked on wednesday. Thinking i was a genius making 1:4.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
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@CANehaNiharika I am sorry, but its one thing to make bad moves another thing to be stuck in that filter bubble. I am sorry but you have no idea what you are doing, and doesnt seem like you are open to know the blind spot. Hence the meme.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 years
That feeling of getting old has really started to hit me hard. From solo travelling euro to not even having the energy to head to Himachal. Shit needs to be taken care of fast, else life is not gonna work out.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
6 months
People who say, kal se 0dte band and will be the first one selling the sensex option at opening the candle. @gappullback @PRAFULKULKARN18
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
4 months
I openly say it and still do, fintwit became worse after @BandiShreyas decided it was worth sharing limelight to a bunch of people for taking down Kar. That was absolutely not worth it but whatever. Though i am completely out of the community, the tickle still passes down.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
2 months
Full excitement in the last 3 days of trading Vol, to end with near 0 in Pnl. πŸ˜‚ Next level scam....
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
Today i am reminding myself that most people later in life realise they didn't really need as much as they think, to be happy. Do what you wish to, be who you want to. Time, age, energy lost won't come back. A house full of love (relationships) is all that matters.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
Finnifty expiry report about how much money was made or lost trading Non directional straddle. Ended up with 12 points loss, could have been more or less. But this highlights why you want to trail aggressively, and how theta isnt an edge but a payoff to being short gamma
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
1 year
Thinking if i should start OF's.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
One Piece. Cannot believe we are inching towards the end. What a saga it has been! 20+ years.
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@Nick_khandelwal
Nikhil Khandelwal.
3 years
Niece is watching the Harry Potter series and cannot stop telling me how much she hates Snape. I almost cried. Snape is my favourite, he was the real hero of Harry Potter. After all this time? "Always"
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