If you traded SENSEX this morning, you already know the story: everything that was going to happen, happened before 10:30 AM. The machine took four trades between 9:52 and 10:24, closed all four, and then sat still for the next five hours.
The day finished at +₹20,705. Here is exactly how, including the part we are not proud of.
Our method is simple to describe and hard to sit through. We map the support and resistance levels on SENSEX before the session. We do not trade a level being touched. We trade a confirmed break of one — price closing through it and holding. Every position carries a fixed stop-loss from the moment it is filled, a scale-out that books part of the position into strength, and a trailing floor that follows the trade up and never moves back down.
At 9:52 the first break went down. We bought the 74,700 put. The trail caught it inside the same minute: +₹1,575. Three minutes later, at 9:55, the same level broke again, we bought the 74,700 put again, and again the trail took us out almost immediately: +₹2,070.
Two wins. Two very small wins. Both closed in under sixty seconds.
Then the market turned. At 10:18 the break was upward, and we bought the 74,600 call at 300.55. This one moved. The scale-out fired and booked ₹8,800 on the first slice. The remaining 460 quantity rode the trailing floor out at 314.30 for another ₹6,325. Total on that single trade: ₹15,125.
The last one came at 10:22 — the 74,700 call, out at 10:24 for +₹1,935. After that, nothing. No level broke cleanly for the rest of the day, so nothing was taken.
| Entry | Exit | Strike | Side | Exit reason | P&L |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09:52 | 09:52 | 74,700 | Put | Trail hit | +₹1,575 |
| 09:55 | 09:55 | 74,700 | Put | Trail hit | +₹2,070 |
| 10:18 | 10:19 | 74,600 | Call | Scale-out + trail | +₹15,125 |
| 10:22 | 10:24 | 74,700 | Call | Trail hit | +₹1,935 |
Three of the four trades made ₹5,580 between them. One trade made ₹15,125. That single position was 73% of the day.
Think of it like a T20 powerplay. You get six overs where the field is up and the scoring is available. Most balls give you a single. Occasionally one goes over the ropes, and that one ball is your entire run rate. You cannot know in advance which ball it will be. What you can do is be at the crease, swinging the same way, every time.
That is what the two tiny put trades at 9:52 and 9:55 are. They are not the point. They are the price of being present when the 10:18 break came.
Every exit today was a trail hit. Not one stop-loss was triggered. That is the pleasant reading.
The honest reading is that a tight trailing floor cuts small winners very quickly. Two of today's trades lasted under a minute. A floor that follows price closely protects you in chop and clips you in a trend. It is a trade-off, not a free lunch, and we log it as one.
Thirteen sessions of September are done. Ten finished green, three finished red. The month is at +₹1,28,015.
We publish the red days with the same word count as the green ones. 1 September lost ₹19,350. 10 September lost ₹26,200. 15 September lost ₹19,800. Yesterday was the strongest session on our record. Today was ordinary and green. That spread — a ₹26,200 loss and a ₹65,408 gain inside the same fortnight — is the strategy, not a deviation from it.
Tomorrow is Thursday — SENSEX weekly expiry. Different day, same rulebook.