We finished Tuesday, 25 August 2026 down ₹53,229. Seven trades. Three winners, four losers. The first thirty-four minutes of the session were our best of the week, and everything after 10:51 AM was a stop-loss.
We publish the red days the same way we publish the green ones. If you have ever followed a tips channel that only posts screenshots of winners, you already know why that matters.
The method has not changed. We map the SENSEX support and resistance levels before the session, we wait for a level to break with confirmation, and only then do we buy a weekly option. Every position carries a fixed stop-loss, a scale-out that books part of the position when the trade moves in our favour, and a trailing floor that follows the price up but never moves back down.
That is the whole engine. No prediction, no view, no opinion on where the index "should" go. A level breaks or it does not.
The opening went well. At 9:27 AM we were long the 77200 call at 425.40, scaled out part of the position, and closed the rest at 430 for +₹10,916. At 9:41 AM we flipped to the 77400 put at 285.05, exited at 296.30, and banked +₹13,975. A third trade at 10:00 AM, the 77300 put, added a thin +₹1,080.
Thirty-four minutes in, we were up ₹25,971.
Then the index stopped trending and started chopping. From 10:51 AM onward we took four call-option trades. All four broke back through the level within one to three minutes. All four hit the stop. Each one cost exactly ₹19,800.
| In | Out | Option | Entry | Exit | Result | P&L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:27 | 09:29 | 77200 CE | 425.40 | 430.00 | Trail hit | +₹10,916 |
| 09:41 | 09:46 | 77400 PE | 285.05 | 296.30 | Trail hit | +₹13,975 |
| 10:00 | 10:01 | 77300 PE | 276.70 | 277.90 | Trail hit | +₹1,080 |
| 10:51 | 10:54 | 77200 CE | 375.00 | 353.00 | Stop-loss | −₹19,800 |
| 13:55 | 13:57 | 77200 CE | 393.00 | 371.00 | Stop-loss | −₹19,800 |
| 14:33 | 14:34 | 77300 CE | 469.55 | 447.55 | Stop-loss | −₹19,800 |
| 14:53 | 14:55 | 77400 CE | 488.40 | 466.40 | Stop-loss | −₹19,800 |
Split the day by option type and it stops being random. Puts went two for two. Calls went one for five.
That is a genuinely useful thing to know, and we only know it because every trade is logged with a timestamp. A trader working from memory would remember "a bad afternoon". The log says something sharper: our upside breaks failed repeatedly after 10:51 AM while our downside breaks worked cleanly before it.
We are recording that observation. We are not changing the rules on the strength of one session — five call trades is a sample of five, and rewriting a system after one bad Tuesday is how most retail accounts die.
A batsman scores 34 off the first 20 balls, and the commentary calls him unstoppable. Then the field spreads, the ball stops coming on to the bat, and the next hour is a grind of dot balls and edges.
Nothing about the batsman changed between the two phases. The conditions did. Our morning and our afternoon were played on the same pitch by the same method, and one worked while the other did not.
Sixteen sessions in, August is at −₹47,773. The month has been violent in both directions: 17 August returned +₹59,934, 10 August +₹41,625, 12 August +₹39,182 — and 7 August cost −₹49,313, 6 August −₹43,605, and today −₹53,229.
Nine losing sessions, seven winning ones, and a month that is currently underwater. That is the honest number, and it is the number we will keep printing whether the next one is green or red.
The stops fired the way they are built to fire — each loser was closed within three minutes of entry, none was allowed to run. The trailing floor banked all three winners without giving the profit back. The plumbing worked exactly as designed.
The market simply did not hand us the second trend we were positioned for, and a level-break system in a chopping index pays a toll for every break that does not follow through. Tomorrow the levels get mapped again at 9:00 AM, and the engine waits.