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Time for my annual Books of the Year - Xmas gift suggestion thread.

These are my favourite 15 books I've read this year. Starting with non-fiction, which I've read more of this year than last, and then fiction.

 1. I've got into classical music properly for the first time this year, in large part due to this wonderful history of 20th century music. Ross manages to make a technical and potentially dry topic absolutely gripping. Masterful.
2. The best biography I read this year - Sontag was a fascinating figure, brilliant but also pretty obnoxious. Also she slept with an astonishing array of people from Jasper Johns to Lucinda Childs and, somewhat incongruously, Lord Donaghue.
3. When I was recovering from a long hospital stay I needed something purely fun and enjoyable and this was it. Hard to say much new about The Beatles but Brown's book finds some new angles.
4. I've avoided most of the pandemic books - too soon - but this was one great. To be honest I'd read Michael Lewis's shopping lists if he published them. He is *the* best story teller. This book looks at a group of people who had anticipated the disaster of covid.
5. I've been reading a lot about rationalism this year. These two by @TomChivers + @juliagalef were great introductory guides. Also read "Rationality: from AI to Zombies" by @ESYudkowsky which is also great but 1600 pages so start with these two!
6. This, by @PeterMandler1, is probably the best book I've read about education in the UK. Explains how demand for education has driven policy as much, if not more so, than any politician's plans.
7. This, by @jamestplunkett, was one of the more hopeful things I've read about policy this year. Lots of thoughtful ideas that go beyond the tired debates that we keep having and beyond traditional political dichotomies.
8. A really interesting history of pop music through which I learned a lot about genres I rarely listen to like country and punk. Sanneh's very ecumenical tastes are a nice counterweight to the constant online desire to define oneself by disliking something.
9. A hard book to categorise. It's partly history, partly memoir, partly life writing, partly fiction. But incredibly beautiful. A lengthy meditation of what memory means sounds dull and worthy but it's anything but. And I discovered a load of other writers/artists through it.
10. Not sure why it took me until now to realise James Baldwin was a genius but this is one of the best things I've ever read. A call to end racial injustice but so much more than that - and incredibly empathetic/nuanced. This is one I think everyone should read (+ it's short).
11. On to fiction. This was a v enjoyable romance, lifted well above genre standard by the quality of the writing and the sharply insightful, often acerbic, takes on American and Nigerian culture.
12. Probably the most enjoyable novel I read this year. A huge blockbuster crime thriller that also tells you a lot about Indian history and culture. Utterly compelling protaganists.
13. I am a huge fan of Binet. I've recommended his brilliant first novel HHhH to dozens of people. This is his third - and is a counterfactual history imagining the Aztecs conquered Europe. It's a bit more uneven but still ingenious and fun.
14. These two are more like long short stories than novels and use snapshots of moments in history to explore broader themes. You can read them both in a couple of hours and they'll get you reading all sorts of follow ups to find out more.
15. And finally... the book I'm reading at the moment. It follows Jacob Frank, a real person who claimed to be the Jewish messiah. A massive, intricate, portrayal of an 18th century world caught between enlightenment and mysticism. It's an almost overwhelming masterpiece.

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ULTIMATE GUIDE TO 21 and 200 Moving Average
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Moving averages
EMA and SMA
1. Exponential Moving Average (EMA) is similar to Simple Moving Average (SMA), measuring trend direction over a period of time.
2. However, whereas SMA simply calculates an average of price data, EMA applies more weight to data that is more current
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21 EMA : SHORT TERM TREND
1. Calculates the Average Price of past 21 days
2. A stock above 21 ema is in strong momentum , which will give pullbacks to 21 ema again and again.
3. Stock above 21 ema should never be shorted so as to stay with the trend
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3. A stock which moves 10-15% above 21 ema will be too extended and hence will generally pullback
Stocks take dynamic support on 21 ema
4. You can Short only if its too extended like 15 to 20% from 21 ema ( Not advised )
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1. Whenever 21 ema is sloping upwards its called uptrend
2. Whenever 21 ema is sloping downwards its called dowtrend
3. Whenever 21 ema is sideways its called consolidation
⏫Buy in uptrend
⏬Sell in downtrend
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Ivor Cummins has been wrong (or lying) almost entirely throughout this pandemic and got paid handsomly for it.

He has been wrong (or lying) so often that it will be nearly impossible for me to track every grift, lie, deceit, manipulation he has pulled. I will use...


... other sources who have been trying to shine on light on this grifter (as I have tried to do, time and again:


Example #1: "Still not seeing Sweden signal versus Denmark really"... There it was (Images attached).
19 to 80 is an over 300% difference.

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A Thread on the Boss himself @Mitesh_Engr

Mitesh Sir's Positional Option Selling 101:

• How to find direction
• Which options to sell
• How to deploy capital
• Exit criteria
• What ROI he targets weekly
• What % risk he takes

Done with the help of @niki_poojary


How @Mitesh_Engr Sir finds the direction?

• Daily charts S/R
• 75 min charts S/R
• Intraday trend
• Always play directional
• Never trades in strategies


Which options to sell in weekly expiry according to @Mitesh_Engr?

• Weekly candle High/Low
• Sell 1% away options from those
• Exit when levels breached


Position Sizing by @Mitesh_Engr Sir.

How to deploy your capital?

• First sell 20%
• Pyramid the next day
• When to exit
• What to do when view goes wrong
• What to do with idle capital


Some important tweets of @Mitesh_Engr Sir

• What Data to look at
• ROI for safe players per month
• Max risk per day
• Gather knowledge and play directional
• Never play strategies
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Read this. U may get it for free.
Short straddle :
What is ?? Sell an atm call and put.
Instrument: mostly bnf and nf.
Now there are versions of it.
1. Best version :
Enter around 9.15-20 and exit around 3.20. No adjustment nothing.
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If u r doing it on zero leverage(meaning u have full capital of around bnf's notional contract,i.e. 40000*25 = 10lacs), then u r most likely going to make better than fd or anything like that.
Simple rules : friday,monday, tuesday do for weekly. Wednesday and thrusday next week

So, gamma moves can't impact much.
Another better version of mahesh chander kaushik is to do it for monthly expiry.
Bigger premiums and never hav to worry about 200-300 points sudden moves.
2. 2nd version : have combined stoploss of premiums and re-entry criteria. Example :

Let say 40000 straddle is at 600. Sell at 600 and hav combined sl at 650. Many algos are providing this. U can even place stoploss in % terms. Like, if sold straddle at 400 and placed 10% sl, means if 440 combined premium touch, it will be stoploss.
Let say, in morning,

U sold straddle at 600 and it sl hit at 650. Now, u placed reentry at 600 with same sl. This time may be linear decay happens and u may cover morning's loss and make some profit.
3rd version : stoplosses at each leg and trail sl to cost type.
Example , 40000 straddle at 400.
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A small tribute/gift to members

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technical screeners - intraday and positional both

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positional one

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Here is the detailed information of about strategy,

Entry time : 9.30 - 10
Exit : Upto you

Strategy :
Sell weekly ATM CE & PE at almost equal price
For ex : Sell Nifty 17250 CE at 50 and Nifty 17250 PE at 48 so it will become short straddle

Buy monthly ATM or near ATM CE & PE at matching price (5-10 points diff should be fine) as hedge
For ex : Buy Nifty 17250 CE at 150 and Nifty 17300 PE at 155 so it will become long straddle.

Weekly Short straddle + Monthly Long straddle

Adjustment:

• If you feel slightly bullish/bearish then no adjustment needed
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• If Nifty moves one side or about to breach BEP then add equal amount of lot. This can balance tested side. For ex: If I bought 17300 CE 4 lot as hedge then add 4 lot so you will have only one side risk . Note: Remember to keep SL at cost price (only for additional lot bought)

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#3/thread on Angkor wat

Christianity and islam may be the largest religion of today’s world but Sanatan dharm has the largest religious monument in the world in the form of Angkor wat. It is situated in combodia and spread across over 400 acres / 1.6 km².


It was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992, which encouraged an international effort to save the complex.
It was originally built as a Hindu temple dedicated to the god Vishnu. In Khmer, the Cambodian language, Angkor means "city" and Wat means "temple grounds".


So Angkor Wat means "Temple City". Its original name was Vrah Vishnuloka or Parama Vishnuloka, meaning the sacred dwelling of Vishnu in Sanskrit.
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Angkor Wat was initially designed and constructed in the first half of the 12th century, during the reign of Suryavarman II, as the king’s state temple and capital city. It was built without the aid of any machinery, as there was no machinery available at that time.


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