The IntradayEdge research blog
Plain-English guides on intraday trading in India, technical analysis, and how AI is changing equity research. New posts every week.
AI in Trading
AI Stock Screener vs Traditional Screener: Which Should an Indian Retail Trader Use?
A practical comparison of AI-driven stock screeners and traditional rules-based screeners for Indian equities — strengths, weaknesses, and a hybrid workflow that uses both.
Building a Personal AI Stock Screener in Python (India Edition)
A practical blueprint for building your own AI-augmented stock screener for NSE — data sources, indicator stack, LLM verdict layer, and what to be careful about.
AI Trading Signal Accuracy in India: An Honest Reality Check
What does 'AI accuracy' actually mean for a trading signal? A clear-eyed look at win rate, expectancy, calibration, and the marketing tricks to avoid in India.
ChatGPT for Stock Analysis in India: What Works, What Doesn't
A practical, no-hype guide to using ChatGPT for Indian stock research — prompts that work, prompts that hallucinate, and how to bolt it onto your existing workflow.
Getting NSE Data into Python for Intraday Analysis
A practical guide to pulling NSE intraday and historical data into Python — yfinance, nsepython, Kite Connect — with code, gotchas, and indicator computation.
AI Stock Analysis in India: What Actually Works in 2026
A pragmatic look at AI in equity research for Indian retail investors — what large language models can and cannot do, the workflows that work, and the hype to avoid.
LLM-Powered News Sentiment for Indian Stocks: A Realistic Pipeline
How to build a news-sentiment signal for NSE stocks using LLMs — the architecture, the prompts, the hallucination controls, and the honest limits.
Technical Analysis
Pivot Points for Intraday Trading on NSE: A Working Guide
How to use classic, Fibonacci, and Camarilla pivot points on Indian stocks intraday — entry rules, confluence, and where pivots actually add edge.
Candlestick Patterns for Intraday Trading in India: The Only 7 That Matter
Forget the 60-pattern PDFs. These are the seven candlestick patterns that actually generate intraday edge on NSE — with entry, stop, and confirmation rules.
EMA Crossover Strategy for Intraday: What Actually Works in India
An honest look at EMA crossovers on NSE intraday — which periods to use, why most crossovers are noise, and how to filter the real signals.
Bollinger Bands for Intraday Trading on NSE
A focused intraday guide to Bollinger Bands — the squeeze, mean reversion vs trend, settings that work on Indian stocks, and common traps.
SuperTrend Indicator: An Intraday Guide for Indian Stocks
A focused guide to the SuperTrend indicator on NSE/BSE intraday charts — settings, entry/exit rules, when it fails, and how to combine it with RSI and MACD.
Head and Shoulders Pattern: Trading the Reversal on Indian Charts
How to identify and trade head and shoulders (and inverse head and shoulders) on NSE charts — neckline measurement, false breakouts, and the rules that protect against drawing patterns into existence.
VWAP Trading Strategy: A Practical Intraday Guide for Indian Stocks
How to use VWAP on NSE — what it really represents, mean-reversion vs trend-following, anchored VWAP, and clean setups for Indian large-caps.
MACD Indicator Explained for Indian Markets (Intraday & Swing)
A practical guide to using MACD on NSE/BSE stocks — what the line, signal and histogram actually mean, and the two crossover setups that work on Indian intraday charts.
Support and Resistance for Intraday Trading: An NSE Practitioner's Guide
How to draw support and resistance levels that actually matter on Indian intraday charts — the seven references that flow concentrates around.
How to Read RSI for Intraday Trading (with Indian Market Examples)
RSI is the most misused indicator in retail trading. Here's how to actually read it on Indian stocks — divergence, midline shifts, and the 50-level edge most beginners miss.
ATR (Average True Range) for Indian Intraday Trading
How to use ATR for position sizing, stop placement, and regime detection on NSE intraday — the single most useful indicator most retail traders ignore.
Intraday Basics
Intraday Trading Taxation in India: A Practical 2026 Guide
How intraday equity trading is taxed in India — speculative business income, ITR-3, STT, audit thresholds, and offsetting losses. Plain English, current rules.
Gap-Up and Gap-Down Trading Strategy for Indian Markets
How to read overnight gaps on NSE — gap-and-go, gap-fill, and exhaustion gaps — and what to do in the first 30 minutes of trading.
Intraday vs Delivery Trading in India: Which Is Right for You?
A clear-eyed comparison of intraday and delivery trading — leverage, tax, time commitment, and which one actually suits a working professional in India.
Opening Range Breakout (ORB) Strategy for Indian Stocks
A complete walk-through of the Opening Range Breakout strategy on NSE — 15-min ORB rules, entry/exit, filters, and why most traders mess it up.
Intraday Trading Journal Template: What to Track and Why
The fields that turn a trading journal from a chore into an edge. A copy-paste template for tracking intraday trades on NSE, with the metrics that actually improve P&L.
Intraday Trading Margin Rules in India (Post-SEBI Peak Margin Framework)
A retail-friendly walkthrough of how intraday margin actually works in 2026 — VAR + ELM, MIS leverage, MTM, peak margin, and what changes when you carry into next day.
MIS vs CO vs BO Orders in India: Which Should You Use?
Plain-English comparison of MIS, Cover Orders, and Bracket Orders on NSE — margin requirements, stop-loss handling, and the order type that actually fits your strategy.
Stop-Loss Strategies for Intraday Trading in India
Five stop-loss methods that actually work on NSE intraday — ATR-based, structure-based, time-based, percent-based, and chandelier — with when to use each.
Intraday Square-Off Timing in India: Rules, Auto Square-Off, and How Brokers Handle It
When does intraday get auto-squared-off on NSE? Broker-by-broker timings, exchange rules, penalties for missing square-off, and how to avoid forced delivery.
The Best Time to Trade Intraday on NSE (with hour-by-hour data)
Most intraday traders lose money in the chop zone. Here's an honest look at how each hour of the NSE session behaves, and which windows actually have a positive edge.
Scalping Bank Nifty: A Realistic Intraday Playbook
What scalping Bank Nifty really takes — capital, latency, costs, the 1-minute setups that work, and the four reasons retail scalpers blow up.
Intraday Trading in India: A Beginner's Guide for 2026
A practical, step-by-step guide to intraday trading on the NSE and BSE — order types, margin rules, indicators, risk controls, and a sample trading routine.