BankNifty Today — 18 APR 2023 Post-Mortem Analysis + Finnifty Weekly Expiry

One thing I noticed this week is the variance in volatility of Nifty50 vs BankNifty. On 99 out of 100 trading days — Banknifty used to have a higher volatility than Nifty & you know what higher volatility brings to the options trading. Yes — option premium anomaly. Probably this variance was there earlier too, since I trade on…

BankNifty Today — 13 APR 2023 Post-Mortem + Weekly Expiry Analysis

We will start with the weekly analysis first, that is what happened in the series 7th to 13th April. The revised format is to provide an executive summary per week. This will benefit you for further research. Since 7th April was holiday, I have taken the closing price of 6th April as starting point. We…

BankNifty Today — 12 APR 2023 Post-Mortem Analysis

Banknifty held out to a perfect trend continuation from yesterday. If we notice closely the pull backs were not strong enough to break the momentum. I sincerely thought we will have a reversal or a bearish day today and had taken PE debit spreads to capitalize. If we analyze today’s pattern closely bank nifty took…

BankNifty Today — 11 APR 2023 Post-Mortem Analysis + Finnifty Expiry

Banknifty had a mega pre-open boost by Kotak Bank, it was up 5% by 09.10 which indicated the bears will get their bones crushed today. Contrary to the popular belief, Kotak bank has the 3rd most weightage to bank nifty above SBIN and AXIS even though kotak has lower net interest income. And today’s 5%…

BankNifty Today — 06 APR 2023 Post-Mortem Analysis + RBI Decides Not to Hike Rates

Yesterday we discussed in detail the RBI MPC possibilities. If you read the article — I was expecting a hike. Surprisingly RBI maintained status quo today. Even when the inflation is at the elevated level a pause in rate hike should not be taken very lightly. An optimist would say it is an excellent decision that RBI…

BankNifty Today — 05 APR 2023 Post-Mortem Analysis + RBI MPC interest rate expectations

Before we get into today’s analysis let us spend some time on Inflation, MPC minutes by RBI & health of banking sector. You might be aware we have the MPC minutes & interest rate decision tomorrow. There are 3 possible outcomes status quo dovish hawkish What really prompts RBI to rate hike are 2 things…

BankNifty Today — 03 APR 2023 Post-Mortem Analysis

We had a perfect trend continuation day today, see the purple line — the trades were in the same degree of slope as on the previous working day. Banknifty opened at 40695 today and then slowly started climbing. We were in a small range of 40550 to 40690 between open and 12.05 — this was mainly because of the…