The short version
I trade primarily Nifty index options, with a directional skew. Long Vol, Debit Spreads, Credit spreads, Ratio Spreads etc. After enough years staring at profiles drawn by hand, I had a working model of how the index actually moves: rotations, value migration, single-print fills, regime transitions. The model worked. The tools to run it at scale did not.
How I got here
A constant learner with five+ years of experience navigating Indian markets. I have been trained in Market Profile, Volume Profile, and auction theory by AM Shai, Govind Srinivasan, Job and Leo from Orderflowlabs, and Dalton's own Mind Over Markets.
The biggest challenge faced by Indian traders is the lack of sophisticated tools, platforms, and data solutions. With the help of AI, I want to invite you on this journey of seeing auction theory applied to NIFTY and other instruments in the Indian market.
What was available in India was a mix of:
- Brokers' charting platforms — fast, but built for executions, not for structure
- Indicator-stacking scanners — pretty, but blind to what an auction is actually doing
- Tip services and Telegram channels — not even in the same conversation
- A handful of decent international Market Profile tools — priced and designed for a different market
The Indian index has its own rhythm — IB completes early, expiry cycles dominate the latter half of the week, options skew shifts the auction in ways spot equities do not. The tools needed to be built for this market, by someone who actually trades this market.
Why Market Profile, why Dalton
Auction theory is the only framework I have found that describes the market in a way that survives across regimes. Indicators come in and out of fashion. Patterns work until enough people see them. Auction structure persists because it is the underlying mechanic, not a derived overlay.
Dalton's books are still the cleanest articulation of how to read it. We built the engines around what those books taught me to look for.
Am I a profitable trader?
Honest answer: no. I lose money on more days than I make it, and I scratch out monthly break-even with difficulty.
I am not in the business of selling trading calls, and I am not going to dress up a losing record as a marketing asset. But losing money on most days is not the same as not understanding the auction. Reading structure is one skill. Executing on it — with the right size, the right timeframe, and the discipline to hold — is another.
Auction Edge exists to help you see the market through Dalton's framework. Whether you turn that into money is your responsibility, not mine.
Why I am building Auction Edge solo
For now, Auction Edge is a one-person operation. I write the code, run the engines, write the briefs (the Narrator helps), answer support, and trade my own book.
There are tradeoffs to staying small:
- Faster shipping — no committees, no roadmap politics, the fix you ask for ships the same week if it makes sense
- No conflict of interest — no fund, no advisory practice, no kickback partnerships, no "premium calls" group selling you something on the side
- Less surface area — fewer features promised than I can ship, on purpose
- Direct access — you write to me, I write back
The cost is bandwidth. We will hire when the work demands it and not before. I am building Auction Edge for myself first.
How I trade
I trade my own book only with skin in the game; sometimes with too much skin in it... Lol! I use Auction Edge every session — not as a signal source, but as a structural read I would otherwise have to build by hand. The product passes the only bar that matters: I would use it even if I had not built it.
What I am working on next
The dashboard is live. The Narrator publishes daily EOD recaps, post-Initial-Balance recaps, and weekly recaps. The thing I am most focused on now is the AI Trading Coach — the post-trade review system that reads your trades against the auction state at the moment you took them. The early prototypes are working and the rating axes are stabilising. Read more on the Coach page.
After that, in rough order:
- Broker integrations for direct trade ingestion (Coach feature) — Zerodha and DhanHQ ready, others to follow
- Bank Nifty support
- A back-test layer for power users to query the rotation library directly
- An institutional console for prop desks
Where to find me
Based in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India. If you trade the index seriously and want to talk shop, write to me. I read everything.