If you traded SENSEX options today, expiry Thursday, and you are sitting with a red screen and a knot in your stomach — this post is not going to make you feel better with a story about a clever trade. We did not take one.
Thursday, 17 September 2026. Zero entries. Zero exits. ₹0 booked. That is the whole session.
Our machine does one thing. It maps the support and resistance levels on SENSEX, waits for a level to break with confirmation, and only then takes a position — with a fixed stop-loss, a scale-out on the way up, and a trailing floor behind the remainder. Every part of that sentence is a filter. If any one of them says no, nothing happens.
Today nothing happened. No qualifying break inside the entry window, so no order went out, so there is no trade table to show you. The log for 17 September is one blank row.
Think of a Test opener in the first hour. The ball is moving, the pitch has not settled, and four balls in a row come through the corridor outside off stump. The good opener leaves all four. He does not score. His strike rate for that over is zero.
Nobody calls that a wasted over. He is not there to hit every ball — he is there to still be batting at lunch. A trader who feels obliged to take a position every single session is a batsman chasing everything outside off, and we all know how that innings ends.
Context matters more than any single session, so here is every recorded day of September 2026 so far — winners and losers, nothing removed.
| Date | Day P&L |
|---|---|
| 01 Sep | −₹19,350 |
| 03 Sep | +₹38,723 |
| 04 Sep | +₹3,600 |
| 08 Sep | +₹11,192 |
| 09 Sep | +₹25,287 |
| 10 Sep | −₹26,200 |
| 11 Sep | +₹5,723 |
| 15 Sep | −₹19,800 |
| 16 Sep | +₹8,507 |
| 17 Sep | ₹0 — no trade |
| Month to date | +₹27,682 |
Read that column honestly. Three of the nine active sessions were losers, and two of them were big — ₹26,200 and ₹19,800 gone in a day. The month is positive because a handful of days were larger in the other direction, not because the losses were avoided. They were not.
SENSEX weeklies settle on Thursday. On expiry day, time value drains out of an option hour by hour, so a strike that is not moving is still losing you money just by the clock ticking. Direction has to be right and fast.
That is a brutal combination for anyone who entered because they felt they had to enter. The market does not owe you a setup on Thursday just because your subscription renews on Friday.
We are not claiming today was a smart escape — we have no idea what a trade we never took would have done. We are not claiming the method avoids losses; the table above shows it does not. And we are not telling you what to buy or sell, today or any day.
What we are doing is publishing every session, including the empty ones. A ₹0 row is less exciting than a ₹38,723 row. It is also the row that most retail P&L statements are missing.