Reading the weekly option chain: where the open interest is building
Put writers cluster at 24,000 while call writers defend 24,500. What that range does, and does not, tell you.
Analysis & opinion
Context, not calls
Longer reads on flows, sectors and derivatives, plus columns from our writers. Views are the authors' own and are not investment advice.
Sector rotation check: defensives quietly take the lead
FMCG and pharma have outperformed for a month. We look at relative strength and earnings revisions.
What a slower credit growth print means for bank margins
Loan growth is cooling from its peak; deposit costs are the bigger swing factor for net interest margins.
Stop checking your portfolio every hour
Volatility is the price of admission for equity returns. Your screen time is not a strategy.
The case for boring index funds in a noisy market
Most active traders underperform. A low-cost index fund is a perfectly respectable default.
Weekly expiries are a casino for most retail traders
The data on retail F&O losses is sobering. Size small, or sit out.