After having blown up his account as soon as as a discretionary dealer, Puneet Tewani quickly realised that algorithmic buying and selling works finest for him as no feelings are concerned within the recreation. “It may be very tempting to override the system on sure events. So I don’t take a look at the trades after 10 am,” says the Nifty Financial institution choices vendor who runs a fancy internet of 433 methods each week.
His goal on expiry days is to earn a 0.25% return. Edited excerpts from an interview:
How had been your rising up years? Did you at all times dream of turning into a profitable dealer?
My father used to speculate and so I had a primary thought about markets. I did BTech in electronics however since I needed to get into monetary markets I did an MBA. In between I additionally began buying and selling within the money market. Afterward, I bought a job at Mansukh Securities. Ultimately, I left the job to do one thing of my very own. I attempted buying and selling independently for a 12 months but it surely didn’t work out. I blew up my account. Then I had no different choice however to take up one other job.
I began working within the IT area on the Ministry of Company Affairs the place I one way or the other bought to find out about algorithms and coding. I utilized it in buying and selling, left the job, and began my very own buying and selling agency.
Would you be snug going again to discretionary buying and selling regardless of the failure?
At this time I can’t do discretionary buying and selling on a big capital base as a result of I don’t have that mindset. Feelings play an enormous function. Now I deploy a method and depart it. I don’t see what trades are getting punched out and in after 10 am. There are tempting moments. I am going to a different cabin in my workplace the place I get myself busy with different jobs like backtesting, and many others. I don’t need to see my M2Ms.
Inform us one thing about your methods on a typical day.
I’m an choice vendor who offers largely in straddles and strangles on the idea of value motion and indicators. We commerce in Nifty in addition to FinNifty however most of it’s in Nifty Financial institution.
Earlier we used to have directional methods after which as our capital base elevated we tried totally different fashions and the main focus turned in direction of lowering drawdowns. Now we’ve a basket of 433 methods, a few of that are non-directional and OTMs.
The basket is structured such that it will probably deal with a big capital base, our first commerce goes in at 9:15 AM and the final one at 3:05 PM. The basket has a mixture of ITM-ATM -OTM strikes. The ITM strikes are largely used for encashing the directional bias, whereas ATMs and OTMs are used for non-directional buying and selling.
When the decay is much less, then non-directional received’t work on that specific day. On Mondays, we run a directional technique and on Tuesday’s FinNifty expiry, we comply with a non-directional technique. For Nifty Financial institution, we’ve a mixture of 40% directional. The day-wise allocation of directional and non-directional methods is dependent upon the historic day-wise pattern.
On expiry day, we promote OTMs in addition to ATMs. For directional technique, we go deep within the cash. If we get one thing out of that, it’s fantastic, in any other case, it’s non-directional.
With Nifty Financial institution expiry shifting to Friday from subsequent month, would it not require a change in your algos as nicely? Would that additionally help you deploy extra sources in Nifty on Thursdays?
We’ve to see how the market reacts to this alteration. We’ll start by pushing a 50:50 mixture of directional and non-directional methods for Nifty Financial institution expiry. Since we’d have 2 totally different expiries the underlying nature day-wise may change. Primarily, the allocation for Nifty can be increased than traditional on Thursday as it’s only 20-25% as of now. The allocation will now be greater than 70% with an equal mixture of directional in addition to non-directional methods. The identical can be the case with Nifty Financial institution on Friday, on expiry we’d do 85-90% of Nifty Financial institution and 10% of Nifty.
We’ll now be buying and selling on 3 expiry days – Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. Our goal is to earn a return of 0.25% on the expiry day on common. So having 3 expiry days might be higher for us. The reason being the T+0 curve that tends to zero on the expiry day. The combination of directional and nondirectional offers us a win chance of greater than 75% on every expiry day.
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