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Six minutes in the market: Friday's SENSEX session, trade by trade

18 September 2026 · AlgoRishi
010409111618 Month-to-date cumulative P&L (signals book, 900 qty virtual) +₹39,832
Tracked on real market prices · virtual capital · past performance is not indicative of future results.

Rohit, if you have ever sat in front of a screen from 9:15 to 3:30, watched a trade go your way, waited for "a little more", and then watched it come back to zero — this session will read strangely to you.

On Friday, 18 September 2026, our SENSEX engine was inside the market for a total of six minutes. Three trades. That was the whole day.

3trades taken
6 mintotal time in market
₹12,150day P&L
₹39,832month to date

What actually happened

The machine does one thing. Before the session it marks the price levels where the SENSEX has repeatedly turned around — the ceilings and the floors. Then it waits. It only enters when the index confirms a break of one of those levels. Every entry carries a fixed stop-loss, a planned scale-out, and a trailing floor that ratchets up as the trade moves in favour.

Here is the full book for the day, nothing hidden:

InOutOptionEntryExitMoveP&L
09:3409:3474500 PE487.85488.10+0.25+₹225
10:2810:3374500 PE450.35454.40+4.05+₹3,645
11:5912:0074400 CE535.00544.20+9.20+₹8,280

Our model book is 900 quantity, so every one-point move in the option premium is ₹900. Check the arithmetic yourself: 0.25 × 900 = ₹225. 4.05 × 900 = ₹3,645. 9.20 × 900 = ₹8,280. Nothing is rounded, nothing is smoothed.

₹12k ₹0 09:15 12:00 15:30 +₹225 +₹3,645 +₹8,280 Flat from 12:00 to close — no fourth trade qualified the level-break test.
Cumulative P&L through Friday's session. Three steps up, then a flat line for three and a half hours.

The part most people get wrong

All three trades exited on the trailing floor, not on a profit target. That distinction matters more than the number at the bottom of the page.

A target means we decided in advance where to get out. A trailing floor means we never decided — we simply kept raising the line under the trade, and when the price fell back to touch that line, the position closed. The market chose the exit. We only chose where we would refuse to give more back.

Think of it like a cricketer taking the single that is available instead of swinging for the boundary that might be. Three singles ran up ₹12,150. Nobody got out trying to hit a six.

And the honest footnote: the planned scale-out did not fire on a single trade. None of the three moves ran far enough to reach the first scale-out step. Trade one — the 09:34 put — made ₹225. That is a rounding error, effectively a scratch. On a 900 lot, it barely covered the cost of being there. We are not going to dress it up as a win.

Where this sits in the month

Ten sessions have been recorded in September so far. Seven were green, three were red. The red ones were not small: −₹19,350 on the 1st, −₹26,200 on the 10th, −₹19,800 on the 15th. That last one stung particularly, because the same level that lost money on one lane made money on another.

A single ₹12,150 day tells you almost nothing about a system. The −₹26,200 day is just as much a part of the record, and any month can end red. We publish both because a track record with the losses removed is not a track record.

Month to date the book stands at ₹39,832 across those ten sessions. Averaged out that is about ₹3,983 a session — a number nobody would put on a poster, and exactly the kind of number that is worth trusting more than a screenshot of one spectacular afternoon.

The unglamorous conclusion

The machine was idle for 99.7% of Friday. It sat through the entire post-lunch session without taking a position, because the index never confirmed a break of a marked level after 12:00.

Doing nothing is a decision too. Most of the damage in an F&O account comes from trades taken to relieve boredom rather than because a condition was met.

Six minutes of exposure. Three entries, each with a stop-loss already sitting in the market before the trade was live. Three exits handed to a trailing floor. That is the whole method, and it is deliberately boring.

Disclosure: AlgoRishi publishes signal tracking on real market prices using virtual capital, for information and education only. Nothing here is investment advice or a recommendation to trade. Futures & options trading involves substantial risk of loss. Past performance is not indicative of future results. AlgoRishi is not a SEBI-registered investment adviser or research analyst.