The Complete Options Trader
Contract mechanics, moneyness and payoff diagrams, then pricing and the Greeks, spreads, volatility and Indian market mechanics.
30 chapters + 3 appendices
Foundations to advanced
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Options
Foundations through advanced volatility, adjustments, the chain and events.
Options Adjustments
Five common option structures, how each behaves as the market moves, and the adjustments traders use.
12 chapters + 1 appendix
Options
Option Chain Analysis
Open interest, put-call ratio, skew, max pain, dealer gamma and the expected move, built into quantitative models.
14 chapters + 1 appendix
Options data
Event and Earnings Trading
The results calendar, implied-volatility crush, gap behaviour, and when events are better left alone.
9 chapters + 1 appendix
Around scheduled events
Trading styles
Ways to hold a position, from days to years, and how to read price.
Momentum Trading
Breakout, moving-average trend, 52-week-high, relative-strength and pullback approaches on NIFTY and Indian stocks.
10 chapters + 1 appendix
Weeks to a few months
Momentum Investing
The academic momentum factor on a long-horizon Indian portfolio: 12-1 ranking, dual momentum, sector rotation, costs and taxes.
10 chapters + 1 appendix
Months to years
Swing Trading
Multi-day continuation and mean-reversion approaches, and how they differ.
10 chapters + 1 appendix
Days to a few weeks
Techno-Funda
Combining fundamental quality screens with technical timing.
10 chapters + 1 appendix
Fundamental screen and technical timing
Price Action
Market structure, auctions and the value area, failed breakouts and the Indian session clock.
12 chapters + 1 appendix
Intraday to swing
Relative Strength and Breadth
Ranking stocks against the index, sector rotation, and how many stocks take part in a move.
12 chapters + 1 appendix
Top-down
Systematic and risk
Process, selection, testing and survival, across every style.
Risk Management and Position Sizing
Sizing, stops, drawdown and the mathematics of ruin. Applies to every other book.
9 chapters + 1 appendix
All horizons
Quant Trading
Systematic strategy ideas, backtesting pitfalls and the path from backtest to live.
10 chapters + 1 appendix
Systematic
Systematic Trading Framework
The end-to-end process for building a rules-based approach, not a single strategy.
10 chapters + 1 appendix
Process
Stock Selection Methods
Value, momentum and multi-factor selection on the NSE, with portfolio construction and validation.
10 chapters + 4 appendices
Months to years
Fundamentals
What to measure in each sector, and where the data lives.
Tools
Reading price, using the platforms well, and building your own screens.
Charts and Chart Types
Line to Renko, Point and Figure and Kagi: what each chart shows and what it hides.
11 chapters + 1 appendix
Reference
TradingView Masterclass
Workspace, templates, alerts and Bar Replay: the platform's actual workflow.
10 chapters + 1 appendix
Platform
TradingView Pine Screeners
Eight scanners written in Pine Script v6, from valuation to multi-timeframe trend, with the code.
12 chapters + 1 appendix
Platform
Screener.in Guide
Reading a company page, writing screen queries and building custom ratios on India's fundamentals tool.
10 chapters + 1 appendix
Platform
Swing Screener in Python
A beginner's Python project that scans the NIFTY 50 for swing setups and writes a daily report.
10 chapters + 1 appendix
Platform
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