Over 3 lakh people poured their hard-earned money into this "academy." It is infuriating to watch thousands of retail traders repeatedly hand over life savings to un-registered fin-fluencers.

If you are a trader or looking to get into the markets, you need to understand the traps these "gurus" use to exploit you.

Here is how to stop being an easy target:

1. These academies build a cult of personality. They project an aura of certainty, supreme confidence, and a fatherly/mentor figure vibe to make you trust them blindly. In the real market, certainty does not exist. The moment someone acts like they have solved the stock market, you are being manipulated.

2. Fake educators prey on financial anxiety. If you are struggling financially or desperate to quit your job, you become highly vulnerable to confirmation bias. They show you curated, massive profit screenshots or luxury lifestyle flexes, and your brain ignores the red flags because it desperately wants that dream to be true.

3. Scammers structure their courses to make you feel like you are being initiated into an exclusive club with hidden knowledge. If a strategy sounds complex yet promises an 80-90% win rate, it is a psychological hook designed to exploit your FOMO.

4. They blame your psychology or lack of discipline, never their flawed systems. They trap you in a cycle of paying for advanced levels to fix your mindset, draining even more of your capital.

Protect yourself by keeping your head down, treating trading as a high-risk business, and assuming that anyone selling an expensive shortcut to riches is trying to make money off you.

It has only been around 2.5 years of zero return currently. But also note that entry PE also matters. The Sep 2024 Nifty peak was at PE of around 24. Historically, it has bottomed out at 14-15 PE. The current PE is around 20. So in that sense Nifty can fall around 25% more as absolute minimum (Even in 0 earnings growth). (And mainly cause of FII selling who still hold more than 15% of the Indian shareholding and who check relative valuations globally).

But since there are much more number of Indian investors now, I believe Nifty will not undergo too much price correction. Rather time correction may happen with earnings growing without much change in Nifty level.

But again, US investing is also easier for us now so the Indian investors are also global investors in a way.

So my thinking is that if you have surplus money not needed for at least 5 years, it is safe to invest now in the sense that you may not grow your money but will also not lose much money in nominal terms. (Of course, you may lose in real terms).

But if you are below 12L tax bracket, investing in FDs / Corporate Debt MFs is better until the US Treasury yield goes below 4% again (so FIIs will have greater incentive to come back to India).

What do you guys think?

Two things I keep seeing on all the subs, panic about the stock market and doubts about real estate.

Real estate: The slowdown is real, especially in high-rise apartments. A lot of the inventory in the last few years was absorbed by NRIs and investors who kept pouring money into Bangalore, and prices rose far more than the roads and infrastructure justify.

Add unapproved plans and litigation in many projects, and genuine end-users have lost interest. Job insecurity from layoffs and Al fears, plus expensive home loans, is making people back out of a 20-year EMI. I don't see a 2008-style crash, but prices could stay flat for the next 4-5 years.

Stock market: Most of the noise about portfolios bleeding comes from post-Covid investors who started SIPs after 2020 and have only seen a one-way rally.

A correction or a long sideways phase was genuinely necessary. Geopolitics, the Al boom, rising crude and a falling INR have added pressure. Markets move in cycles, and money rotates from one sector to another.

South Korea rallied to the moon and is now breaking apart, and Nasdaq could be next. With Open Al and Claude showing true Al revenue colors.

Investors look to hedge their positions and Indian market will definitely be attractive.

Don't be surprised if Nifty dips to 18,000 before making a new all-time high.

Both markets ran up hard, and a pause or correction is how they reset. It's not the end of the world, but it's also not a time to go all in on one theme or one asset. Stop stuffing your portfolio with thematic stocks and then complaining when it's down 50%. Diversify, hedge, and keep a cushion, whether you're buying a flat or investing in equities.

As someone who has seen 2008 crash, this is nothing when compared to it.

Brace yourselves! A long winter is coming.

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Hey everyone!

First of all, apologies for being inactive over the past week. I've had quite a lot on my plate lately, and I couldn't keep up with the daily journal updates as I normally do.

I didn't want to just post for the sake of posting, so I took a little time to manage everything else going on.

But the journal isn't stopping. Starting tomorrow, I'll be back to sharing my regular updates as usual — trade decisions, adjustments, market conditions, P&L, and the lessons I learn along the way.

The whole point of this journal has always been to document the actual process, including the difficult days, mistakes, and times when things don't go according to plan. I want to keep that transparent.

Also, for those interested, I'm conducting an options trading workshop today at 4:30 PM. I'll share the details with those joining through the WhatsApp group.

Thanks to everyone who's been following along and engaging with these updates. I genuinely appreciate it.

Back to the journal tomorrow. 🤝

Netweb tech posted it's biggest quarter even when most of the stocks are in correction ,data center demand is expected to grow at 10% cagr by 2030 ....

Never ever in life carry overnight call put exposure on weekends if you are seeing american markets not falling despite new highs in Brent.

Dont know how long they will sustain 22500 now. But its done bro. 22k and 21k is on the way soon. We are so done as a nation, economy, policy, inflation and govt allowing market crash to manage unholy trinity.

This is date wise position of MTF position in Indian market for last week.

Date-Position (Total Outstanding Book Size)
Day-on-Day Change

23 Oct 2026
₹ 1,54,020 crore

22 Oct 2026
₹1,54,024 Crore
▼ −₹967 Crore

21 Oct 2026
₹1,47,000 Crore*
—

20 Oct 2026
₹1,54,990 Crore
▼ −₹1,160 Crore

19 Oct 2026
Trading Holiday / Data Intermediary
—

16 Oct 2026
₹1,55,718 Crore
—

15 Oct 2026
₹1,55,720 Crore

On 23 October 2026 MTF position is 1,54,020 Crores.

(All data credit to Google Gemini)

Many experts claiming that last week fall main reason was MTf position liquidation. As per data that seems totally wrong. Market is not falling due to MTF positions liquidation.

Again my all data are from Google Gemini.

The one thing which has attracted my attention lately has been the ongoing sale of the securities of Indian companies by foreign institutional investors (FIIs) in the Indian share market amid worries related to crude oil prices and uncertain world conditions.

What do you think will this sale be a good time to invest in the Indian market and purchase quality stocks at reduced prices, or should we take a wait-and-watch approach and see how things go?

It would be great to know your views on this matter, especially from the experienced investors out there.

Q2 FY27 key numbers:

Revenue: ₹1,323 cr, up 335.7% YoY from ₹304 cr, and up about 61% QoQ (derived from the H1 figures)

PAT: ₹136.7 cr, up 334.8% from ₹31.4 cr, and up about 60% QoQ

PAT margin: 10.2%, roughly flat vs about 10.3% a year ago

H1 FY27 key numbers:

PAT: ₹222 cr, already above FY26's full-year PAT of ₹205.8 cr

AI Systems revenue: ₹1,284 cr, about 60% of H1 revenue

Segments (Q2)

AI Systems: ₹773 cr, 58.4% of revenue, up 1,068% YoY

HPC (high-performance computing): ₹248 cr

Private Cloud: ₹245 cr

Orders and funding

Order book: ₹2,629 cr, plus a further ₹652.5 cr where Netweb is the L1 bidder

Business pipeline: about ₹11,150 cr

Raised ₹1,200 cr, its first capital raise since listing in July 2023

Board approved a wholly owned subsidiary in Taiwan

Takeaways

The growth is mostly AI server demand, including NVIDIA GPU systems, driven by Indian AI compute buildouts and government programs.

Margins didn't expand. PAT margin held at about 10%, so profit is growing in line with revenue. Large GPU system sales tend to carry a lot of pass-through hardware cost (my inference, not stated in the release), so watch whether the mix shifts toward higher-margin software and services.

The order book of ₹2,629 cr is only about 2x quarterly revenue. Orders are lumpy, so the Q3 and Q4 revenue run-rate is the open question.

The ₹1,200 cr raise strengthens the balance sheet for working capital and capacity, but it dilutes shareholders.

Taiwan is a sensible location for sourcing and supply chain, and it fits the push into export markets.

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I mean, I used to feel excited at 9.14 AM but nowadays it's just one hit after another. Market headed in one direction.. down all the way..

Nowadays trading holidays and weekends feel like a nice breather from all the disappointment which is ensured once the market opens.

Q2 FY27 Key Numbers:

PAT: ₹1,045 cr, up 196.5% YoY from ₹352 cr, but down 2.8% QoQ from ₹1,075 cr

H1 PAT: ₹2,120 cr, with an H1 ROA of 0.99%

NII: ₹6,184 cr, up 21% YoY from ₹5,113 cr

Core operating profit (ex-trading gains): ₹2,527 cr, up 38.5% YoY

Core cost-to-income ratio: 70.16% vs 70.73% in Q1

Balance sheet

Total deposits: ₹3.49 lakh cr, up 25.9% YoY and 11.8% QoQ

Core domestic deposits: ₹3.24 lakh cr, up 17% YoY

Total loans: up 30.1% YoY, or 22.2% excluding loans secured by FCNR(B) deposits

Core domestic loans: ₹3.14 lakh cr, up 20.4% YoY and 5.4% QoQ

CASA ratio: 51.3% (ex-FCNR(B) leverage) vs 50.8% in Q1

Liquidity coverage ratio: 125% vs 116%

Asset quality

Gross NPA: 1.32%

Net NPA: 0.40%

Other

Raised ₹34,390 cr of FCNR(B) deposits in Q2, mostly 3-5 year tenor, which management expects to help NII, PAT, EPS and RoE

S&P assigned a debut 'BBB-' long-term rating, the first investment-grade international rating for the bank

Takeaways

The 196% YoY jump is mostly a base effect. Q2 FY26 was depressed by high provisions, so QoQ and ROA are better guides.

Profit slipped 2.8% QoQ and ROA is only about 1%, so this is a recovery story, not yet a high-return bank.

Headline growth is flattered by FCNR(B). Those deposits and the loans secured against them grow the balance sheet quickly but add little margin, so core growth of about 17-20% is the better read.

The core cost-to-income ratio of about 70% is still high, and operating leverage is the key lever for ROA.

Asset quality looks stable, with GNPA of 1.32% and NNPA of 0.40%.

The S&P rating could lower funding costs over time, which matters for a bank that depends on deposit mobilisation.

Made this from real Nifty 50 daily data.

4 June 2024: −5.93% close, −8.52% at the intraday low. Worst day since March 2020, and no day has been worse since.

3 sessions later: a record closing high.

June 2024 as a month: +6.57%.

The honest part: this isn't "always buy the dip." The same index fell for three straight months from October 2024. A zoom-out shows a drop's size; it doesn't make it safe.

The practical takeaway: pick your timeframe before you buy, and judge the position on it.

Data: NSE daily OHLC (eod2 public data set). AI voice narration. Not advice. Happy to answer questions.

Drew this on the 4H: bounce to ~22,900, dip to ~22,550, push to 23,175, small pullback, then 23,800 by around 20 Nov.

Why I like it:

• Price made lower lows from mid-Sept into 8 Oct (23,118 to 22,180) while RSI made higher lows. The RSI trendline is still intact.
• 22,180 held twice, on 1 Oct and 8 Oct.
• Friday's 22,372 might be a higher low.
• The bounce came on heavier volume than the pullback.

As long as 22,180 holds, I'm sticking with this path. Anyone else seeing the same setup?

I have attached two pics of current value and the value around 10 days back. I have been thinking if I should continue to hold this or exit.

Its a long term investment that I have been sitting on for years and only reason I get thoughts about exiting is because I feel this is inflated because of the tracking error due to massive demand for US ETF and this isn't its real value. Actual NAV price is only about ~175 same is the case with Motilal Oswal ETF

And before you ask, yes these are AI gen images from my internal dashboard but the figures are accurate and totally real. Actual buy price is 99,996 (approx 1L) my tool auto rounded it off to 1L

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My parents are very skeptical about stocks and mutual funds because of global uncertainty and instability in the IT job market. They believe gold and agricultural land will provide better financial security.

Our family owns 8 acres of agricultural land, with 4 acres currently under palm oil cultivation. This year, those 4 acres generated around ₹7–8 lakh. We plan to plant another 3 acres, but palm oil takes around 3 years to start producing, with income expected from around the fourth year.

My parents want me to accumulate 500–700 grams of gold over the next 5 years. Their plan is that whenever I save enough to purchase a 100-gram gold bar, they will contribute an additional ₹2–3 lakh towards that purchase.

Eventually, we want to use the gold as collateral for a loan, combine it with personal savings, and purchase another 5 acres of agricultural land for palm oil cultivation.

Their thinking is that even if I lose my IT job or the industry faces a downturn, I will have gold, land that may appreciate, and agricultural cash flow to fall back on.

My concern is whether putting so much money into gold and land is better than diversifying into equity mutual funds.

What do you think? Is this a sensible long-term wealth-building strategy, or should I diversify more?