Up and reading in about ten minutes
Most of that is the first history fetch, which runs on its own. You need nothing but an account: no exchange data subscription, no terminal, no spreadsheet.
The three steps
Create your account
Email and a password, and nothing else to configure. Everything below is done from your own account.
Load the tradable universe
One command fetches the broker’s instrument dump and works out which of it is eligible to trade: the exchange’s own equity list, less the government securities, the NCDs and the treasury bills that make up most of the segment.
Let the first fetch run
History is filled for every eligible stock. This is paced by the broker’s rate limit — three requests a second for historical data — so the first pass takes a while and the nightly top-up is quick.
It is resumable. If it is interrupted part-way, the next run continues from where it stopped rather than starting again.
Then what?
Start with one stock
Open a stock you know well and read it across the four timeframes. Compare what the tool says to what you already believe — that is the fastest way to calibrate how much to trust it.
Read the records, not just the reads
Every setup has a replayed record beside it. Look at that before the setup. Most will be unmeasured or unfavourable, and knowing which is the point.
Try an options idea on paper first
The options paper book applies the real Indian cost model to every simulated fill. If an idea does not survive paper with costs, it will not survive live.
Before you start
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