Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Buying and Selling of FII vs DII

Here we can what exactly happened during this week with respect to purchase and selling of FII and DII.
I didnt capture the swing in index price,just placed closing price for the day for now..but its enough to make a few inferences about NIFTY.

Nifty was around 5250 at start of month then greece problems were taken seriously by markets around the world and started to slide we see that Domestic Institutional Investors were net buyers on  5th and 6th and 7th and FII were selling inturn pulling the market down and making good returns. Again on Mondy they were the net buyers and made the market to go up...it looks like FII's are buying at low price and selling at high price and DII's are buying at high price and selling at low price ..so we expect FII to sell around 5250 and DII;s buying at the levels...will see in coming days :)

What is the next BlackSwan?

What a wonderful month so far for markets a swing of near 6% downside in a week and a 4% upside in a day ,Credit goes to European Officials single handedly making the markets to dance according to there tune and also we yet to know the reasons for 1000 point swing of Dow Jones..rumors in market are mistake by iIbank in selling e-mini S&P worth 15Billion USD, large Europe bank liquidated its positions. and high frequency trading ..any way leave it...we will get to know more on it in few days..

So What exactly happened during the past week and weekend ? what made europe for the changes in there policy towards bailing out countries all the while opposing towards that idea. I guess this weekend will be recorded in history for sure. European Bank offered a trillion dollars package to weak countries?  Will this solve the current problem? From where will they bring 1T $ ? Print Money.if so..haha..LOL..that will have ripple effect in coming days for sure ..if not ..Why didn't they do this much earlier? when bonds were yielding much lesser..Now when they are higher they are buying them..pretty bad i guess ..its like buying at high price and selling at low price...If thats not the case..then Markets are doomed to come down again...for now europe went up..but still there are problems around euro..i dont think in a weekend all there problems are solved ..May be am wrong..will see..

So what next for markets..inch higher for now until we see another blacksawn. If there arent any events like that then by default we have the great driver of our ENGINE ...yep its China..Many are suspicous of China coz they dont reveal much data to the rest of world and we have to speculate a lot on its conditions..
I personally feel China is the ultimate culprit for making Metal Prices ,Oil to go up in 2008 coz of Olympics it conducted  which lead to massive cornering of metals...to build the stadiums,roads,infrastructure..and it drove Oil prices like anything coz it piled up huge reserves of Oil to use as backup fuel  in case of occurrence  of  Earth Quake. Once the event is over we had a oversupply of commodities,Oil and it crashed. Now again if  oil or metals to go up we need such a kind of demand...

So even without any real  demand metals going up..means expect a fall in near future which is already happening in China..Thats why am bit worried of China Throwing a Bomb on us..Have to be carefull in knowing the next BlackSwan timing

Friday, May 7, 2010

Greece is BlackSwan for Markets

I was bearish on NIFTY for a long time cause of variety of reasons like high P/E Ratio, High Interest Rates in near future,China Factor,Greece Problem etc Most of the factors are negative to Nifty  and i am still wondering why all of sudden  my view on market got changed after the last expiry and overnight i went from highly bearish to moderately bullish side.

I Guess it was  a big mistake of changing my stance, though i was bit bearish and bought 5100 put and sold 4800 put and was kind of gamble cause am selling a put (Unlimited Risk). Then comes the Black Swan in form of Greece and made the market to drag down. And i was bit lucky to have 5100 put and made good return in it and squared of it expecting the market will not go down much.But am wrong the market is dragging down daily and my position of 4900 sell is making losses and i will be bankrupt if it breaches 4900 before that i have to make a decision.

Here are some snippets at which i made certain decisions which i like to share over here
At position A in the above pic was Expiry time in April Series and my view on market got  changed from highly bearish to bullish coz the chart appeared to go up and earnings results of companies were Good and Greece was not there in my mind, cause Greece problem is made tougher by speculators who are expecting it to go bankrupt( will talk about this in another post) .Can see from A position that SMA crossed each other which was ignored by me somehow...regretting for it..anyway that's what happens to retail investors..they will be wrong in identifying the patterns..ok.. leave that for now,,

In the Fourth Rectangle is Williams indicator and highlighted region is marked in Black box with letter C , This was the time at which i was highly bearish cause the indicator touched 80+ for many days..that indicates its highly overbought and anytime it can sell off...its not that easy to predict sell off at least for me and only from historical data we can see it ..It was in overbought state for one month and for whole month of march to mid april i was bearish ,during that time market went up and i was made wrong.

Coming to the last rectangle marked with D which is the current week where we have slide in our market and Williams R is  in region 0 that shows its in oversold region and now again  for how long it will be that zone before there is bounce off and market going up 


I expect the market to come down a bit till 4900-4800 and then expect to go up..only in-case if Greece problem is halted for some time. Will get  some status on Greece by Monday Morning and hope peace prevails in market








Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Options Trading with Charts

yep finally made some progress on data collection and had some tough time in automating it but not done as of now..So here are some technicals of Todays Markets

below is the chart of nifty got from nse website




It all started from 2 pm IST and market started sliding
from then, initially i thought its a normal slide and when it went from 5220 to 5200 but once it breached 5200 there was some choppiness in the slide and it could not withhold the pressure of bears( or weak hands or SL got triggered) and blood was flowing for next 90 mins and even in last mins of trading also it didn't show any respite




We will see how Options were Traded and which holds the maximum open interest. Options Trading is generally used for hedging ,but there will be traders who take positions in expectation of making profit...(u know what 90% options traded will expire worthless )

Another important thing we need to see in options is Many people(includes myself until some time back) considered option buying is what determines the market direction but that notion of direction is wrong . why?
Its option writer (seller) is taking maximum risk and writing the option in return for the premium by expecting  that market will not close above strike price + premium in case of CALL and Strike Price - Premium for PUT option. Since option writers doesn't want to loose money(in fact who one wants to loose money? No one) .The Market direction is effectively decided by them. In case if any unwanted situation arises then writers may close there positions and might go for another strike price..This is how Open Interest Changes from Day to Day on Different Strike Prices

Here is what happened in Options on May 4th 2010

U can see from the below graph that there is good change in Open Interest in 5000 put ,5100 put and 5200 put that means market may settle anywhere between these values in coming days, Today there is Good change of Open Interest of 4800 put which indicates that lot of put writing happened at that strike price and market may reach that position and at expiry and we can say that market has Good support at 4800
5100 put has Good accumulation and one can see that 5100 is having some support for now


Coming the CALL side..we have good Open Interest (RED COLOR) in 5300 CALL which means there are many writers over there expeccting that market will not cross 5300 and that means Market has a near Term resistance of 5300. Good number of contracts were written for this lot which can be seen from change in open interest (GREEN COLOR)




The below Graph shows Contracts Traded Today and change in OPEN INTEREST

One can clearly see that IN THE MONEY PUTS were closed that lead negative change of OPEN INTEREST for 5200,5300,5400,which indicates that market may go down in coming days( This observation needs to be checked again). Reason why i made such a statement is why will option put buyers will close there IN THE MONEY PUTS.???.if they expect market to go down..they will  earn good return right?...Here comes..its not options buyer who wants to make money..its option writers who will make money...and now if market goes down ...IN THE MONEY positions will be huge loss...that's the reason they(Option Writers) closed there positions..(but anyway i will check this hypothesis again)
Wantedly  i didn't talk about the Blue Bars as i need some more clarity to understand it

P.S: I Made a honest observation from the Data Available at NSE india Site , Kindly forgive me if i made any wrong assumptions and analysis

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Market Today


Today's Market was flat till 1.30 pm and latter part of session we had a huge volatility that led to market crossing critical resistance point of 5180 as told on News in the  morning. So what exactly made this market to fall  in the last  hour,We know market movement is based on supply and demand. At first instance it appeared to me that "EURO Crisis" which is happening in that region made our index to fall ,mean investors are afraid of index going down anytime soon and sold of in a hurry and might have exited once it breached 5200 . But of late FII are buying into nifty for quite some time inline with corporates showing good results with few exceptions and we had 30+ consecutive net buy sessions by FII..that indicates FII are not here to sell anytime soon..So what Exactly made this fall ? who knows? only thing we can do is speculate and see if we are lucky ...

So here is what i speculate of today's happening

Euro region has few problems which i clearly don't understand apart from the budget deficit which i hear in news and amount of money needs to rollover to close that GAP..Of which Greece is having a major problem for now and it might go for bankrupt and taking a few countries along with it . This will make demand for metals to fall . why metals? Metals are basic  raw material for majority of  industrial products..right from toothpaste to buildings...So fear of Greece and weak demand for metals made most of the metal stocks investors to close there positions which in turn gave pressure to other sectors and made a weak market sentiment.

But other thing which is coming into my mind is ..recently metal producers(Steel Mining companies went for Price hike of metals) Now what made them to increase the price at this time? Are they Expecting increase in Demand for metals in coming days? If so then today's fall might be reversed in coming days(How many Days?one month?..Two months?... :) who knows)

More Statistics coming in another post later in the day