Your view of the world and markets can change significantly when you close out your derivative positions and trading/leveraged trades v/s only hold a delivery-based portfolio.

The reason is psychological. The quick gains and losses that leveraged trades bring make you react with the same emotions you do in a regular portfolio at a faster rate. So what a 30% drawdown would make you think on a delivery portfolio ends up happening in days.
Suddenly you will find it easier to believe that negative conspiracy theory-based video or blog post than you would have otherwise.
It is therefore always a good idea to have an investment portfolio outside your trading positions to help you keep perspective of the big picture and ask the right questions.
The trading then is a subset of the big picture. Bull market cycles often go on for years and go through many bouts of hope and fear themselves. But stocks hold out better making higher highs and lows as long as the trend is intact.
An across-the-board decline in your portfolio or lower lows in a stock v/s the previous drawdown lows would only happen in bear markets. The onset of a bear market can therefore be identified in how your portfolio is behaving.
Investments set the tone of the larger direction for the market, trades participate in that trend with near-term leverage and news does not distort the view as long as the larger trend is not disrupted.
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Decoded his way of analysis/logics for everyone to easily understand.

Have covered:
1. Analysis of volatility, how to foresee/signs.
2. Workbook
3. When to sell options
4. Diff category of days
5. How movement of option prices tell us what will happen

1. Keeps following volatility super closely.

Makes 7-8 different strategies to give him a sense of what's going on.

Whichever gives highest profit he trades in.


2. Theta falls when market moves.
Falls where market is headed towards not on our original position.


3. If you're an options seller then sell only when volatility is dropping, there is a high probability of you making the right trade and getting profit as a result

He believes in a market operator, if market mover sells volatility Sarang Sir joins him.


4. Theta decay vs Fall in vega

Sell when Vega is falling rather than for theta decay. You won't be trapped and higher probability of making profit.