Wednesday, 9 September 2026. The machine took two SENSEX trades. One of them did almost everything right. The other did almost nothing at all — and we are going to talk about both, because the second one is the more useful story.
No prediction. No astrology. No "SENSEX will go up today."
Before the session, it marks the levels where price has previously stopped — the ceilings and the floors. Then it waits. It only acts when price actually breaks one of those levels and stays broken. Every position gets three things attached at birth: a fixed stop-loss, a scale-out that books part of the position once the trade moves in our favour, and a trailing floor that follows the peak upward.
That is the whole method. Most of the day it does nothing, and doing nothing is the point.
A resistance level above the market gave way in the second hour. The machine bought the 75000 CE at ₹326.80.
Six minutes later it was out at ₹362.25.
But it did not sell everything at ₹362.25 — and this is where the money actually came from. Part of the position was scaled out earlier, once the trade had moved about 20 points in our favour. That partial booked ₹8,800 and it was locked, gone, un-losable. The remaining 460 quantity rode the trailing floor until the floor was hit at ₹362.25, adding another ₹16,307.
Total on trade 1: ₹25,107.
At 12:02 the machine bought the 75100 PE at ₹268.85. Three minutes later the position was closed at ₹269.05.
Twenty paise of movement. On 900 quantity that is ₹180 — roughly what a decent plate of pav bhaji costs. After brokerage and taxes it is a nothing trade.
We are reporting it anyway, because this is exactly the kind of trade retail traders never post screenshots of. The break did not follow through, the position was closed flat before the stop-loss was ever in danger, and the day moved on. A flat exit is not a failure. It is the system refusing to sit in a trade that has stopped making its case.
| Time | Instrument | Entry | Exit | Outcome | P&L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10:19 → 10:25 | 75000 CE | 326.80 | 362.25 | Scale-out + trail floor hit | +₹25,107 |
| 12:02 → 12:05 | 75100 PE | 268.85 | 269.05 | Closed flat | +₹180 |
| Day total | +₹25,287 | ||||
Five trading sessions have printed in September so far, and they have not all been green:
Month to date: ₹59,452. One red day, four green, and one of the green days was ₹3,600 — barely worth switching the screen on.
Two entries in a six-and-a-quarter hour session. One paid, one did not. There was no revenge trade after the flat PE, no doubling up, no "let me just take one more before close." The machine went quiet after 12:05 because no further level broke cleanly.
If you have lost money in F&O — and SEBI's own data says roughly nine out of ten of us have — it is usually not because the entries were terrible. It is because the exits were improvised and the number of trades was decided by boredom rather than by the chart.
Thursday is SENSEX expiry. Different day, different behaviour, same rules. We will report it exactly as it lands.