Most of the traders on Twitter are non-directional traders.

Only a few trade on one side according to direction.

Here are 9 benefits of directional trading you cannot miss:🧵

Collaborated with @niki_poojary

@niki_poojary 1/ Higher Returns

Playing as per the trend usually gets you more conviction in your trades.

Which then leads to higher returns as you trade with the increased confidence.

Rather than selling 30-30 on each side, for eg, can just sell 90-100 on one side and make more.
@niki_poojary 2/ Easy management

It is easier to manage directional trades according to stop loss or targets based on patterns.

Don't need additional factors to think of for eg, premiums, distance from the spot, greeks, etc.
@niki_poojary 3. Avoid adjustments constantly

Non-directional option sellers have to constantly do adjustments to their trades.

Many times their original view is right but then the adjustments go wrong.

To combat these adjustments, they make more adjustments that unnecessarily use margins.
@niki_poojary 4. Improves price action analysis

You cannot be a good directional trader without having a very good grip on price action analysis.

Constantly using the price to make trades rather than playing for theta leads you to better understand price action.
@niki_poojary 5. Avoid strangle trap

Most of the option sellers get trapped due to greed of selling on both sides due to lower margins for the second leg.

So to make more returns they sell both sides(strangles).

That's why every week they get trapped unnecessarily.
@niki_poojary 6. Best traders are directional Traders

Two traders come to mind when it comes to directional trading.

1. Mitesh Patel Sir
2. Subhasish Pani

Look at the growth of their trading accounts, both have increased their accounts by doing directional option selling.
@niki_poojary 7. Can potentially make jackpots

If the market is really one side, there are some occasions where you can make windfall profits just by rolling your trades.

Think of the bull market rise where every day was a gap up and upside.

The money people made during that time was huge.
@niki_poojary 8. Can apply to any instrument

Directional trading can be applied to any instrument once learned how to do it.

For eg, if you can gauge the direction, you can trade in stocks, cryptos, commodities, etc.

The logic is the same everywhere.
@niki_poojary 9. Applicable on any day

Non-directional traders, usually wait for Tuesdays to start the week as that's where theta decay is the highest.

When you play for delta rather than theta, any day is good for you as movement takes place daily, so you can sell options and make a profit.
@niki_poojary Hope you discovered something new (because that's the point!)

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Curated tweets of @sourabhsiso19

Found awesome content: ⏬
1. Moneycontrol
2. Bank nifty Strangles/Straddles
3. Learnings
4. Expiry Trading
5. Directional trading
6. Long Term Investing
7. Pivot system
8. DHS pattern
9. Multiple trade management threads/ways.

Moneycontrol article on @sourabhsiso19


What Sourabh does and how to trade like him?


Why trade multiple systems? ⏬
1. Keeps drawdown at minimum.
2. Strong money management can be applied.
3. Better psychology.


Thread on how options allow you to change your positions in a dynamic manner.
MASTER THREAD on Short Strangles.

Curated the best tweets from the best traders who are exceptional at managing strangles.

• Positional Strangles
• Intraday Strangles
• Position Sizing
• How to do Adjustments
• Plenty of Examples
• When to avoid
• Exit Criteria

How to sell Strangles in weekly expiry as explained by boss himself. @Mitesh_Engr

• When to sell
• How to do Adjustments
• Exit


Beautiful explanation on positional option selling by @Mitesh_Engr
Sir on how to sell low premium strangles yourself without paying anyone. This is a free mini course in


1st Live example of managing a strangle by Mitesh Sir. @Mitesh_Engr

• Sold Strangles 20% cap used
• Added 20% cap more when in profit
• Booked profitable leg and rolled up
• Kept rolling up profitable leg
• Booked loss in calls
• Sold only


2nd example by @Mitesh_Engr Sir on converting a directional trade into strangles. Option Sellers can use this for consistent profit.

• Identified a reversal and sold puts

• Puts decayed a lot

• When achieved 2% profit through puts then sold
Google Chrome has over 137,000 extensions.

But 95% of Traders are unaware of the best extensions for trading.

10 Google Chrome Extensions that will accelerate your trading ( all free ): 🧵

Collaborated with @niki_poojary

1. Pulse by Zerodha

Latest financial and market news from all major Indian news sources are aggregated in one place.

🔗
https://t.co/jQ5Lu1P1r3


2. Full Width Zerodha Kite Trading Platform

This extension will make your Zerodha kite trading app full-width for large-screen desktops and laptops.

Also adding some tweaks will help you stay more focused on trading.

🔗 https://t.co/HSmVxLxPNv


3. Zerodha Scrip Plus

Zerodha fullscreen trading with brokerage calculator and analysis options

- Brokerage Calculator
- Full screen trading
- Marketwatch and Holdings scrips analysis

🔗 https://t.co/ZOmAcvamRh


4. Jarvis - Zerodha Trading helper

Jarvis helps in managing your risk by giving you a consistency of pre-determined stop loss % and risk per trade.

Once you set these values in the plugin then it automatically sets the quantity of the trade.

🔗 https://t.co/qn2MvDkCdR

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