Cofounder & CEO @ Tradomate one
Bengaluru, India
Joined July 2015
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India trades in many languages. Its stock screeners only spoke one.
So we built Tradomate's screener to understand Hindi, Marathi, Gujarati, Kannada, English, and more.
Describe your setup the way you'd say it, and AI builds the filters.
Built in India, for every Indian trader.
For every 100 SIPs started in September, about 79 ended (@amfiindia "stoppage ratio").
Every month, that number gets a scary headline. But it can't tell you who actually quit.
"Ended" lumps three people together:
→ the one who quit after a bad month
→ the one whose SIP simply finished its full term
→ the one who switched funds (one stop + one start)
It also counts SIPs, not people. One investor with several SIPs shows up several times.
Meanwhile, SIP money hit a record ₹32,490 Cr in September.
A gym's exit door counts the dropout, the guy with the medal, and the guy who moved to a closer gym the same way.
If you've stopped a SIP, which one were you?
Nifty closed October at a 6-month high, but most portfolios didn't feel it.
Of 2,274 NSE stocks listed all month, only 406 ended higher (Fewer than 1 in 5)
Imagine an index is a class photo. The tall kids stand in front. In October, the tall kids were a few big IT stocks. Smallcaps and midcaps, the back rows, had a losing month. Even inside the Nifty, fewer than half the 50 stocks rose.
The index isn't lying. Big companies are supposed to count more.
But "the market went up" and "my stocks went up" are two different sentences.
Employer Diwali gifts are now tax-free up to ₹15,000 a year (was ₹5,000).
Cross it by a rupee and, as most CAs read it, the whole gift is taxed.
A ₹16K hamper can be worth less than a ₹15K one.
Option buying feels like the safe trade. Your loss is capped at the premium you paid.
That's true. For one ticket.
This week, @Nithin0dha shared a rough Zerodha estimate: about half of futures traders are profitable. Option buyers? About 1 in 10.
The cheap ticket is the problem. A small loss feels affordable, so it gets bought again next week. Weekly expiries make it easy. Zero-day options make it daily.
It's like a subscription you forgot to cancel. You never feel the charge, only the statement.
Not saying option buying is gambling. Saying the cap is on the ticket, not on the habit.
Option traders: do you track total premium paid per month, or only P&L per trade?
Most of us do our trading homework at 8 PM in pyjamas.
Then show up at 9:15 AM in office clothes. 😂
@tradomateOne usage shows two clear peaks: around 8 PM and 9 AM.
Night is for research. Morning is for execution.
Screen stocks. Test ideas. Make a plan.
Then let the 9 PM you guide the 9:15 AM you.
The goal isn't more screen time. It's better decisions.
When do you do most of your trading research?
Didn't get Jio shares? That wasn't bad luck. It was a lottery working exactly as designed, and most people misread how it works.
When the retail part of an IPO gets more applications than it has shares, SEBI's rules try to give one minimum lot to as many people as possible. A computer draw picks who.
So one PAN = one slip in the bowl. One lot or the full ₹2 lakh, same slip. A bigger slip doesn't help in a lucky draw.
Second thing: retail was booked about 2.7x. That's not a 1-in-2.7 chance. The 2.7x counts shares, not people. Your odds depend on how many people applied, not how much they asked for.
So if you got nothing, it says nothing about you or the stock.
Lotteries don't reward conviction.
Did you get an allotment, or are you in the "better luck next IPO" club?
Not investment advice.
I just crossed 10,000 followers on @LinkedIn, and the lesson is a bit embarrassing.
My policy explainers (RBI, Budget, inflation) averaged about 570 views. A post about the VC line "let us know once you have a lead" did 8,000+.
The explainers were fine. They were just the 1,001st copy of the same take. On RBI day everyone posts the same thing, and nobody remembers who said it.
What travelled were things only I could write: a VC's polite no, a candidate who rejected our rejection.
My filter now: if a 1000 people could post it today, find the angle only you have, or skip it.
Analysis still matters. It just needs a person in it.
What's the post you were sure would flop that did the best?
Jio's IPO is heavily oversubscribed, and everyone is quoting it like a rating.
It isn't. It's the length of the queue outside a restaurant. It tells you how many people want a table tonight, not whether the food is good or the bill is fair.
A subscription number is demand at a price the company chose. That's all it measures.
Two things the queue hides:
→ Queues grow because they're long. "Everyone's applying" becomes the reason to apply.
→ It's not one crowd. By day 2, big institutions had bid 9.9x their share. Retail was only just past full.
And for a small investor, a longer line doesn't improve the meal. It lowers your odds of getting a table. Oversubscribed retail allotment is a lottery.
Read the menu (the prospectus), not the line.
I'm not saying apply or skip. That's your call... I'm saying the queue is the easiest number to see... and the least useful one to decide with.
Not investment advice.
"Let us know once you have a lead" is the politest no in Indian VC.
Fundraising works like a sangeet. The music's on, everyone's tapping their feet, and the floor stays empty until one chacha walks out and dances first. Two minutes later it's packed.
Most investors want to be guest number two. The lead does the homework, sets the price, takes the board seat and takes the blame. Followers borrow someone else's conviction for free.
So founders... stop counting "interested" investors. Count the ones who'd dance first.
What I'd do: treat "we'll follow" as a no until someone leads. Stay warm, but don't count them. Put your time into the one investor who can get conviction on the thing you understand better than anyone.
Once the first "chacha" is on the floor, the rest show up fast.
SEBI just shut the front door on gold funds. The side door is still open, and that's where people overpay.
Since 16 Oct, most fund houses stopped new money into gold FoFs (funds that buy gold ETFs for you, no demat needed). Running SIPs continue. New ones don't.
The reason isn't gold. It's the rupee. Gold is one of India's biggest imports, and every rupee of gold buying needs dollars.
Gold ETFs on the exchange are still open. So the crowd moves to the side window. When the queue gets long, the ETF can trade above the value of the gold it holds (its iNAV).
It's happened before. Last October, when silver FoFs shut, most silver ETFs traded 5–10% above their iNAV.
Two habits if you're buying this week: check price vs iNAV, and use a limit order.
And if your gold FoF SIP is already running, don't cancel it to restart it. A new registration won't go through.
Smart rupee defence, or just a longer queue at the side door?
Not investment advice.
Most startups don't have a growth problem. They have a leaky bucket and a very expensive hose.
Founders keep asking how to grow faster. More ads, more influencers, more sales hires.
The first question should be: why do people leave?
If users try you once and never come back, every new user you buy is water poured into a bucket with a hole in it. You can pour faster. You'll just make a more expensive puddle.
Two questions I ask before any growth push:
1. Would our users be upset if we shut down tomorrow?
2. Do they come back without us reminding them?
If the answer is no, the fix is the product, not the marketing budget.
Plug the hole. Then turn on the hose.
Sensex jumped 1,100+ points today because the Finance Minister said the government is "open to hearing views" on LTCG and STT.
Not a cut. Not a date. A "we'll listen."
#LTCG is the tax on profit from shares held over a year. #STT is the small tax you pay on every trade, win or lose. Traders have wanted relief on both since they went up in 2024.
IT stocks were already up on results, so not all of today was the FM. But a big part of the move came after the headline.
It's the kid who hears "we'll see" and starts picking the ice cream flavour.
The problem: a rally built on a "maybe" can reverse on a "no." The #Budget2027 is months away. Every comment and leak until then will move prices both ways.
What was said and what was decided are two different things. Today only one of them happened.
Honest question: if STT were cut tomorrow, would you trade any differently?
Nifty fell 0.7% today... The #Smallcap 100 rose 1.4%.
If you only looked at Nifty, you'd think it was a bad day for everyone. It wasn't.
#Nifty is 50 large companies, weighted by size. A few giants decide the number. Today FMCG, PSU banks and IT dragged it down while smaller stocks had a good day.
Think of a seesaw: a few heavyweights on one side, a hundred kids on the other. The heavyweights sit down and the scoreboard says "down", even with the kids in the air.
So if your portfolio is mostly small and #midcaps, Nifty is a bad mirror. Some days it makes you panic for nothing. Other days it makes you relax when you shouldn't.
At 3:30, what do you check first: Nifty, or your own portfolio?
Margin is marked at the last traded price.
Margin calls fill at whatever bid exists.
India's MTF book: ₹1.57 lakh Cr, +65% YoY. Most of the growth is in small and microcaps.
Size leverage to the exit door, not the entry price... Do you check volume before using MTF?
Nifty closed at its 2026 low today. Oil above $104. RBI hiked yesterday. Every sector red.
India VIX: 15.3. In March 2020 it touched 86.
VIX ~14 was pricing a ~0.9% daily move. Nifty did 1.64%, midcaps 2.5%.
Options are pricing a grind, not a crash. Is it a right call?
25 bps was expected. The real signal is the path.
The Fed took rates to 3.75-4%, and 16 of 18 policymakers see at least one more hike in 2026... interesting!
For India, this matters beyond the Fed funds rate:
Stronger dollar + higher US yields + $100 oil = pressure on INR, bonds, and capital flows.
The global liquidity regime just got tighter.
India being the least-favoured Asian stock market hurts me.
But I see it as a challenge.
We have great markets, but #traders and #investors still lack the intelligent tools they deserve.
From least favoured to most favoured. I’m on it. 🇮🇳
