Friday's session gave us two trades. Both were small. Both were green. Total for the day: ₹3,600 on 900 quantity, which works out to four SENSEX points banked across roughly eleven minutes of actual exposure.
That is the whole story. No hero trade, no disaster. If you came here expecting a screenshot of a ₹2 lakh day, this is not that post — and the reason we publish the boring days too is that most trading days are boring, and anyone who only shows you the loud ones is showing you a highlight reel, not a record.
The machine's job is narrow. It maps support and resistance levels on SENSEX before the session, waits for price to confirm a break of one of those levels, and only then buys an option in the direction of the break. Every position carries a fixed stop-loss, a scale-out rule, and a trailing floor that ratchets up as the trade moves in favour.
On Friday it found two confirmed breaks.
| Entry | Exit | Instrument | Entry ₹ | Exit ₹ | Qty | Exit type | P&L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11:24 | 11:28 | 76700 CE | 540.80 | 542.80 | 900 | Trailing floor | +₹1,800 |
| 12:07 | 12:14 | 76800 PE | 406.50 | 408.50 | 900 | Trailing floor | +₹1,800 |
Read the two rows together and something odd jumps out. The first trade was a call — a bet that price breaks upward. Forty-three minutes later the second was a put — a bet that price breaks downward. Same day, opposite directions, both profitable.
Neither trade was closed by a target and neither was closed by a stop. Both were closed by the trailing floor — and understanding that mechanism is the most useful thing in this post.
Think of an auto-rickshaw meter running in reverse. When you enter, the floor sits well below your entry price — that is your stop-loss, the maximum you have agreed to lose. As the option gains, the floor climbs behind it. Once the floor climbs above your entry, the trade can no longer lose money. It can only give back some of what it made.
Then price ticks back into the floor, the floor is hit, and you are out. That is exactly what happened twice on Friday.
Two points captured per trade is thin. The floor did its job — it protected the gain — but a two-point exit means the move it was riding did not extend. On a day where a break runs 30 or 40 points, the same rule keeps you in and the number at the bottom looks very different. On Friday, the breaks did not run.
There is also a size fact worth stating plainly: 900 quantity is 45 lots of SENSEX at a lot size of 20. Two points on 900 quantity is ₹1,800. Two points on a single lot is ₹40. Same trade, same skill, wildly different rupee headline. When you see a P&L number anywhere online — ours included — the first question is always on what quantity.
Three sessions have produced trades this month. The first was negative at −₹19,350. Wednesday the 3rd was +₹38,723. Friday added +₹3,600. That is +₹22,973 month to date — and note that a single strong day is carrying it, with a loss day and a small day either side.
Tuesday the 2nd does not appear in that list at all, because the machine took zero trades. No level broke with confirmation, so nothing was bought. A blank row in a trade log is not a failure; on most days it is the cheapest decision available.
We publish these every session the market is open, win or lose. Monday's log will be here whichever way it goes.