The time has finally arrived to simplify how we use the volume indicator on our charts. With a Tradingview script at the end, here is a thread🧵 on what “simple” volumes are, & how to use them: 👇

Kabhi kabhi mujhe lagta hai ki sar par ek junoon sawaar ho, only then can one live his life to the fullest. Everything becomes easy then, from waking up early to showing up daily & putting in that extra effort to create what once seemed impossible. Then everything else in life seems like a distraction; friends, family, profession, even health. The mind is consumed by one purpose, one mission, one focus. Jaise wo Arjun jise keval machhli ki aankh dikhai deti thi. Ultimately, there seems to be no meaning or purpose of anything in life. But such phases of passionate creation are what produce the greatest achievements of one's inconsequential life; the student who came first, the athlete who won gold, the author who wrote the bestseller. Every moment, every day, every year that passed unnoticed was when you were not consumed by the desire to create, to achieve, to excel. I agree that you cannot operate at 100% capacity all your life, but there come times when you do, & those are the times to look back upon, smile, & close your eyes. You did well. Jab zindagi ki worthlessness ko aap truly accept karte hain, then only can you make some parts of it truly worthy. So get up, sit straight, sprint if you have to. Abhi time hai aapke paas.

Market Quadrant 24/2026 A hard-money environment with mostly choppy action. Many leaders of the recent lockout rally have now broken below their short-term moving averages & would need considerable time to set up & start another upmove. The past few weeks have had the Trigger-Happy, Enter-Anywhere Traders Running for Exits (THEATRE phenomenon). The market that rewarded sloppy trading in April is now in a mood for punishing the same, with same-day squats & next-day failures. Strong action on the last day of the week has rekindled hopes of finding good setups for the coming week, but zooming out a bit reveals that we are still in the same place as we were one & a half months back. ⦿ Bias → Bear Over the past month, more than 50% of stocks have remained below their 200-day SMA. Hence, we stay in a bear market. ⦿ Trend → Sideways The 52-week Net New Highs have not remained consistently negative or positive for the past three days. Less than 50% of the stocks are trading above their 50-day moving averages. ⦿ Swing → Neutral The MBI keeps changing colors faster than a politician changes his affiliations. It finally ended the week in green with strong 4.5R numbers. The XP score, after staying below 10 all week, managed to end at 11. We need a couple of strong follow-through days to enter a swing-friendly market. ⦿ Momentum → Positive & improving Media, Pvt banks, Defence, Chemicals & Realty indices are leading. Commodities & PSE are negative & worsening. That's all for this week.

Market Quadrant 23/2026 A relatively hard-money environment with choppy undertones. Many conventional pullback setups are breaking out & some of them are sustaining, while others are giving up most of the gains. Aggressive swing traders with swift profit booking & faster churns are making the most of this volatile & weak upswing. ⦿ Bias → Bear Only 36% stocks above their 200 SMA ⦿ Trend → Uptrend NNH positive >50% stocks above 50MA ⦿ Swing → Upswing (weak) MBI weak green <50% stocks above 10MA EM barely 15 ⦿ Momentum → Positive but worsening Media & IT ve & improving

Transient skill is luck. Persistent luck is skill.

After a long time, finally getting some traction in the portfolio. Now about 50% invested with around 0.2% open risk.

Market Quadrant 22/2026 A relatively easy-money environment with many conventional pullback setups that were forming the right side of their respective structures, breaking out & many of them sustaining. Aggressive swing traders should have already started participating this week to make the most of the volatile upswing while it lasts. ⦿ Bias → Bear only 36% stocks above their 200 SMA ⦿ Trend → Uptrend NNH positive indices above 50MA ⦿ Swing → Upswing MBI green indices above 10MA EM>15 ⦿ Momentum → Positive but worsening Auto ve & improving

A flowchart for beginner traders.

As of now, kafi sari cheezein next-to-impossible (improbable would be a better word) lagti hain mujhe. Mainly due to a lack of desire. Jise kuchh chahiye hi nahin, wo kuchh karta bhi nahin hai, aur use kuchh milta bhi nahin hai. If i look like this, then it seems that desire is the main driver for life. Then people want to reach a state where there are no desires left. Maybe reaching there too early, too fast is not good. Koi nahin, dekhte hain zindagi kahan le kar jati hai humein…

Market Quadrant 21/2026 Another hard-money week with still very few conventional breakout/pullback setups. Many setups that look good at EOD are squatting the next day or giving up their gains fast. What’s showing urgency is getting further extended. While many potential leaders have broken their 20 & even the 50MA, some of these are still holding their 10 & 20 MAs & are the ones to be looked up to next week. Conservative swing traders still need to keep on waiting patiently. Aggressive swing traders are still better off with intraday trades only, as entering & holding new names in this environment is most likely to give them nothing but choppy action. ⦿ Bias → Bear only 34% stocks above their 200 SMA ⦿ Trend → Uptrend NNH positive indices above 50MA ⦿ Swing → Early Upswing MBI weakly green >50% stocks above 10MA ⦿ Momentum → Positive but worsening No index ve & improving That’s all for this week.

I don't like to trade when earnings are due within a week. You are betting here for the price to shoot up like a rocket, giving a cushion to hold through earnings, or it's just a quick hit & run. This is expecting 'chaar din mein chamatkaar' when aage hai earnings ki maar.

What's the catalyst here? 😄

Changing your mindset from "will-this-stock-work" to "if-it's-a-leader-it'll-work" places the burden of performance on the stock & frees yourself.

A good setup is the cake, while sectoral strength is the cherry on top. The kitchen/restaurant is the market environment. So if I have a choice, I'll prefer the one with the cherry. But if only plain cakes are being served, then I'd not like to stay hungry.

Market Quadrant 20/2026 A hard-money environment with almost no conventional breakout/pullback setups. Many uptrending names from the past weeks are now forming the right side of their respective structures. While some of these might fizzle out, the remaining ones have the potential to give conventional swing traders some solid entry points. Aggressive swing traders are now better off with intraday trades only, as entering & holding new names in this environment is most likely to give them nothing but choppy action. ⦿ Bias → Bear 33% stocks above their 200 SMA ⦿ Trend → Uptrend NNH positive indices above 50MA ⦿ Swing → Downswing MBI weakly green indices below 10MA Swico zero ⦿ Momentum → Positive but worsening Pharma still ve & improving That’s all for this week.

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Bookmark this anti-FOMO manifesto that I'm giving you for free & read it every morning till the last trading day of your life. ⦿ I have made peace with the fact that I have neither the capacity nor the need to capture every upmove in the market. ⦿ I like to trade only proper constructive setups, & not enter here-&-there in the name of what kind of structures are trending currently. ⦿ If the stock goes up without giving me a tradable setup, let it go; it was never mine in the first place. ⦿ I will allow myself to feel FOMO only when I actually miss a setup that met my tradability criteria, either due to a deficiency in my scanning or in my execution. The result is immaterial. Even if the stock had later hit my stoploss, and it was a setup worth trading (under appropriate market conditions), it was a miss on my part. ⦿ I don't care what this world thinks about me, because I don't think anything about it. I judge myself not by the quantum of money I earned, but whether my approach was process-driven or not.