One number, invented for a printed chart service almost a century ago, still quietly tells you more about a stock than its own price chart does. Here's exactly how Mansfield Relative Strength works, where it actually came from, and how to read it without fooling yourself.
NIFTY opened at 24,292.7, dipped to a low of 24,250.0 by late morning on fresh short building, then spent the rest of the session grinding back up to close at 24,341.9, up 60.0 points (+0.25%) — a session that recovered almost all of its early damage without ever making a dramatic move.
A new SEBI mechanism, a decade of retail losses, a design most people never actually read the fine print on — and the real story of what changed, why, and what it means for anyone still holding an option into the close.
Every retail trader has a version of the same story — you spot a stock going up, you buy it, and it stops going up the moment you do. That's not bad luck. It's a timing problem with a name, and a fix that's been sitting quietly inside one indicator since 1996.
NIFTY opened at 24,399.5, pushed briefly to 24,430.0, then sold off the rest of the session down to 24,260.0 before closing at 24,281.9, down 147.2 points (-0.60%) — a close that landed below the day's own value area, continuing this week's pattern of failed pushes higher.
NIFTY opened at 24,540.0 and pushed to a new high of 24,573.5 within the first bars, then sold steadily all session down to 24,405.1, closing at 24,420.0 — technically up 85.5 points (+0.35%) versus Tuesday's close, but a session that gave back its entire opening strength and then some.
NIFTY opened at 24,176.0, dipped to 24,132.9 — exactly the weekly low — early in the session, then reversed into a sustained short-covering rally that carried price to 24,347.0, a whisker from the weekly high, before closing at 24,333.5, up 123.9 points (+0.51%). The mirror image of Monday's session, in reverse.
Two books, one pattern that took me longer than I'd like to admit to actually see on a chart — the Volatility Contraction Pattern, and why it's really about the exact moment risk gets small enough to act.
NIFTY opened at 24,341.5 — right at the weekly high — and was rejected almost immediately, selling all session down to 24,173.6, a whisker above the weekly low, before closing at 24,188.1, down 97.9 points (-0.40%). A full round trip from one weekly extreme to the other in a single session.
NIFTY opened at 24,325.0 — which turned out to be the high of the day — sold off through the session to a low of 24,254.0 right on S3, then clawed back to close at 24,288.0, down just 5.0 points (-0.02%). A round trip, not a resolution.
NIFTY opened at 24,236.1, jumped straight to a high of 24,352.0 on a genuine short-covering burst, held most of the gain through the session, and closed at 24,290.5 — up 172.9 points (+0.72%), the first clean up day after four straight sessions of lower shelves.
NIFTY opened at 24,152.05 — already below Tuesday's low — pushed to a high of 24,172.85, then ground down to a session low of 24,025.65 before recovering to close at 24,078.30, landing almost exactly on standard pivot S3, down 76.60 points (-0.32%).
NIFTY opened at 24,301.00, barely poked to a high of 24,308.0, then sold off in a straight line all session to a low of 24,209.7 — landing exactly on standard pivot S2 — before closing at 24,216.5, exactly on standard pivot S5, down 176.2 points (-0.72%).
NIFTY opened at 24,400.00, tagged the session high of 24,436.6 — landing almost exactly on the day's CPR Pivot — then a heavy opening sell program dragged price down to 24,288.0, precisely the week's low reference, before an afternoon recovery clawed most of it back into a close of 24,392.7, down just 56.9 points (-0.23%).
I was travelling this week, so this is the whole story in one sitting. NIFTY opened the week at 24,581.25 and closed it at 24,366.00, down 204.65 points (-0.83%) — a week that broke cleanly below July's old high and spent five sessions failing to reclaim it.
NIFTY opened at 24,672.00, briefly pushed to 24,707.00, then sold off through the session to a low of 24,601.00 before closing at 24,651.20, down 88.20 points (-0.36%) — the same "Long Unwinding into Short Build-Up" pattern that showed up earlier this week.
NIFTY opened at 24,687.00 and ground steadily higher through the session, absorbing a genuine midday selling stretch before pushing to a fresh high of 24,758.30 and closing at 24,738.60, up 90.30 points (+0.37%).
NIFTY gapped up to 24,715.00 and briefly ran to 24,740.00 before a sustained morning sell-off dragged it all the way to 24,565.00 — right onto July's old high — before a strong afternoon recovery closed the session at 24,647.70, up 92.10 points (+0.38%).
NIFTY opened at 24,684.80, briefly poked to a marginal new high of 24,697.00, then reversed violently — falling all the way to 24,500.00 before closing at 24,552.30, down 97.10 points (-0.39%), erasing about half of Monday's advance.
Running daily PnL log for the live automated strategy across NIFTY, BANKNIFTY, and SENSEX options — updated each trading day.
NIFTY opened at 24,601.50 and never looked back, running to a session high of 24,689.20 before settling at 24,649.40, up 196.80 points (+0.80%) — one of the strongest single-session moves in recent weeks.
Six stocks, ₹30.7 lakh, bought between 2016 and 2017. I don't own any of them anymore. This is the honest math of what staying invested would have done — and the real story of why I didn't, and why I'm not sorry.
Most people are told to pick a side — index and forget it, or trade for a living. I do both, on purpose, with a hard wall between them. Here's the actual framework, with real July numbers to show what each side is doing for the other.
NIFTY opened at 24,407.50, ran to a fresh session high of 24,490.00 — clearing Thursday's weekly-high resistance decisively — before a violent afternoon sell print gave much of it back, closing at 24,452.60, up 94.60 points (+0.39%).
For a while the algo ran unattended on a platform crunching huge 1-minute data. This July I decided to watch every entry and exit myself — here's why, what a month of doing that taught me, and why I'm keeping it up for at least three more months.
NIFTY opened at 24,265.60, dipped to a low of 24,250.00 in the first minutes, then ran hard to a session high of 24,397.00 — tagging the weekly high almost to the tick — before fading back to close at 24,355.00, up 43.50 points (+0.18%).
NIFTY gapped up roughly 245 points to open at 24,228.00, barely dipped to a low of 24,222.40 despite a violent midday selling flush, and closed at 24,303.00 — exactly at the R4 resistance pivot — up 317.65 points (+1.32%), the strongest close of the recent advance.
NIFTY opened flat at 23,998, pushed to a new high of 24,040 extending the two-day rally, then reversed hard on a wave of afternoon selling to a low of 23,947.60 before closing at 23,983.20, down 44.80 points — the first red close after back-to-back gains.
NIFTY gapped up to open at 23,928, dipped briefly to 23,891 in the first half hour, then spent the rest of the session grinding higher to a high of 24,011 and closing at 23,995 — the second straight day of gains after Friday's low sweep and reversal.
NIFTY gapped down to open at 23,710, extended the week's breakdown to a fresh low of 23,640, then reversed hard — reclaiming Thursday's broken support and closing at 23,830, near the day's high. The first close-near-the-top session in five days.
NIFTY opened at 23,880, rallied to 23,996 early, reversed hard to a fresh low of 23,808 — below every level this week's breakdown had established — then recovered back to close at 23,886, essentially flat on the day despite a 188-point round trip.
NIFTY opened at 24,134 — almost exactly where Tuesday's support had held — and it didn't hold this time. A session-long slide broke clean through Monday's 23,993.10 flush low, bottoming at 23,945 before closing at 23,983, down roughly 202 points.
NIFTY opened at 24,280 and never traded a point higher. From there it was a session-long slide straight into last week's carried-over support band, bottoming at 24,135 before a partial recovery into a 24,185 close — down 151.1 points on the day.
Every book on this shelf teaches you what to look at. This is the only one that bothers to ask why you keep looking away from it at the exact moment it matters most.
Anna Coulling's book didn't teach me anything technically new after Williams and Wyckoff — what it did was make the whole volume-reading habit finally click as one coherent instinct instead of three separate frameworks I was toggling between.
The question Friday left hanging — does 24,339.8 hold as support or does the breakout need a retest — got answered the hard way. NIFTY sold off sharply to a session low of 23,993.10, then reversed in a clean V to a fresh high of 24,364.90, before settling back to consolidate near 24,269.
Giovanni Trapani's book on reading the footprint directly — the missing piece between "I understand Market Profile" and "I can actually read a delta print in real time."
Every indicator on your chart is a derivative of price. Volume is the one witness in the room that isn't — and Volume Spread Analysis is the discipline of actually cross-examining it instead of taking its word for it.
Jim Dalton took Steidlmayer's Market Profile and made it teachable. This is the book I'd actually hand someone learning to read a TPO chart for the first time.
The book from the man who invented Market Profile — dense, occasionally philosophical, and the reason POC and Value Area mean anything more to me than two lines on a chart.
Three sessions I owe you in one sitting. NIFTY spent Wednesday going nowhere near Tuesday's weekly low, gave back a strong morning rally on Thursday afternoon, then broke the whole range open on Friday with a close at 24,344 — the best print since early July.
Not a book so much as a formula that escaped from a trading floor — Nick Scott's mean-reversion pivot math, still doing quiet work on every chart I read.
No bounce, no relief rally, just steady negative delta from the open. NIFTY slid roughly 180 points off Monday's close, closed near 24,071.5, and finished the session testing the weekly low zone at 24,009-24,030 with cumulative delta sitting deep in the red.
Tom Williams took Wyckoff's volume principles and turned them into something you can classify, bar by bar, without needing a decade of tape-reading intuition first.
The opening bar looked like the start of a bad day — 11K volume, -3.76K delta, the ugliest print of the session. NIFTY spent the rest of Monday quietly proving it wrong, closing flat at 24,250 with cumulative delta grinding higher into an unresolved Poor High at 24,280.8.
Stan Weinstein's stage-analysis classic, and the reason I stopped asking "is this stock going up" and started asking "is it going up faster than the index it's supposed to belong to."
Running daily PnL log for the live automated strategy across NIFTY, BANKNIFTY, and SENSEX options — updated each trading day.
A 9.6K-volume opening drive at 66.49% buy set the tone, and even a violent -1.27K noon sell bar couldn't undo it — NIFTY built its entire Friday value area (24,196.8–24,253.6) clean above Thursday's range (24,026.4–24,125.8), settling near the point of control after a choppy but net-positive session.
The book that finally showed me how to tell a No Demand bar from an ordinary quiet one — and how much of what I'd been calling "consolidation" was actually one side quietly losing.
NIFTY opened with a 12.17K-volume, +5.53K-delta short-covering surge — the single largest bar of the week — pushed to a fresh Poor High at 24,138, then spent the rest of the session grinding lower, closing at 24,007.6 after an afternoon sell bar erased more than a third of the day's buying effort.
NIFTY opened well under Tuesday's close and never mounted a real recovery, cutting through three separate Poor High shelves from earlier in the week before a two-bar, 30K-volume collapse in the final ninety minutes dragged the close to 23,892.7, within striking distance of the untested weekly low.
A blue-lit face against a black sky, eyes closed, completely unbothered by the crowd underneath. One frame, and a few minutes of standing still.
I keep talking about the algo without showing the receipts. Here's five years of NIFTY backtest data — 1,264 trades, a 92.6% win rate, and a net P&L that climbs in almost every single month — and the actual argument for why a framework beats a feeling every single time.
The original course material, from the man himself. Dense, dated in places, and still the theoretical bedrock everything downstream of it is quietly built on.
NIFTY pushed back up into the 24,515 weekly high — the same level that turned Monday away twice — got rejected again, and then handed back the session's gains on the two largest sell bars of the day, both landing in the final half hour.
Everyone says algo trading removes emotion from the equation. That's technically true and also the most misleading thing you can tell a beginner — because the emotion doesn't disappear, it just changes address.
NIFTY pushed twice into the weekly high near 24,515 on the session's two biggest buying bars, got turned away both times, and settled the day using Friday's untested Poor High as support instead of resistance.
A Modern Adaptation of the Wyckoff Method. I picked it up looking for a cleaner way to read volume — I didn't expect it to rewire how I see every chart, structurally, from that point on.
NIFTY rallied on short covering toward a fresh Poor High near 24,448, then gave almost all of it back on two flagged stacked-imbalance sell bars, closing essentially unchanged near the session low.
I love this temple. Here's my take on why, and what actually makes Tiruvannamalai different from every other temple town I've visited.
This is the book that's on my desk more than any other trading book I own. Here's why I keep coming back to it.
Two flagged sell attempts failed to dent a large resting-size cluster near the old Poor High, and NIFTY ground steadily into a fresh, unresolved Poor High by the close.
Indicators lag. Price action doesn't. Here's the framework, run every morning before NSE opens, and why it holds up where lagging-indicator systems break down.
Three frames from an early morning at Lalbagh — a path, a canopy, and blossoms over still water.
Wasn't planning to shoot anything that evening — just went for the food. Three frames I didn't expect to take.
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