I. WHY
Reasons why want to become a consistently profitable trader ?
BE OWN BOSS (Self Respect)
- Profitable trading grants freedom of time/place/thought.
- one earns & learns to stand on one's own feets.
- Allows living with dignity, without begging or dependence.
- Provides freedom to design daily life with healthy morning/evening routines.
- one is fully accountable for own actions and results.
- A path where honesty, discipline, and responsibility decide success or failure.
BENEFITS OF TRADING AS A LIVELIHOOD (Right Maintenance of life)
- livelihood of peace: honest, independent, and aligned with Dharma.
- Trading is the craft, one trades as a farmer tills the soil : with effort, patience, surrender to outcome.
- A business of the mind : earning arise from awareness, patience and discipline.
- With time Improves skillset and character, discipline itself becomes wealth.
- Teaches humility: wrong actions bring loss, right actions bring fair reward.
- livelihood that can continue even in old age, with simplicity.
- With honest efforts, provides enough to sustain family and fulfill duties.
FAMILY (Responsibility)
- Earnings support family/mother/creatures, nurture life.
- Trading with discipline may support parents, spouse, and children without begging or borrowing.
- Grants time for family/nature, instead of being bound to rigid work hours.
- Provides for health care and education, protecting family from hardship.
- Builds an emergency fund so one stands with dignity in times of difficulty.
MATERIAL NEEDS (Maintenance of life)
- Even if currently no house, land, or car, with discipline this work can provide the basics of living without dependence.
- Can generate currency for : food, shelter, simple comforts, and savings.
- Fulfilling rightful needs through honest work.
SKILLSET (Disciplined practice)
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Provides constant practice in being witness consciousness:
- Watching candles rise and fall without clinging.
- Observing profits and losses as waves of Maya.
- Staying steady in the center.
- Refines patience, discipline and awareness
- Years of energy invested have made this one's chosen craft.
- Discipline and consistency in trading become a mirror to watch ego, greed, fear and hope.
- Commitment: to risk a little, stay disciplined, and focus on process.
ENTHUSIASM (Joy in Work)
- Markets bring energy and enthusiasm for refining skill and awareness.
- Each trading day is a reflection practice : patience, humility and acceptance.
- This path shapes one into a disciplined, humble, selfaware human
II. RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
One Strictly prohibited to take ETF profits 40% payout IF
profit booked didn't follow the Trading plan rules, i.e. booking profits unmaturely by accessing zerodha terminal during market hours.
penalty of -₹5k
- booked loss in any ETFs script
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Accessed zerodha terminal during market hours
(Only Exception is : only allowed for instant withdrawal) - Access ETFs current prices during market hours from google/NSE/misc. resources
Repayment will be deducted from one's personal
- pocket money
- savings
check market data from laptop only (after market closing)
part of good habbit and discipline
GTT order placement/update allowed only next day
because ETFs final closing prices are accurate by next day, as there is adjustment in i-nav as well
Encashing 10% profit opportunity in individual ETF
-
EXIT IF individual ETF having unrealized profit of >=10% using
GTT OCO
a. CLOSING + 0.25% TARGET,
b. CLOSING - 0.25% SL
(OR)
GTT EXIT LIMIT
a. Average buying price (fetch from console) + 10%
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(Condition #1) && (After EXIT, Next Day after receving contract note)
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Reinvest in all 6 ETFs principal amount received by EXITING
(OR) - IF TIMEBASED EXIT && (taken loan from Zerodha Capital) then use principal amount to repay loan
- after deducting all transaction charges payout 40% of profits
- reinvest 60% profits invest in all 6 ETFs according to PORTFOLIO CAPITAL ALLOCATION STRATEGY
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Reinvest in all 6 ETFs principal amount received by EXITING
WEAKEST SCRIPT SELECTION CRITERIA
select weakest script among all 6 scripts (A,B,C,D,E,F) satisfying following rules- Unrealised reward >=2% AND <=3%
- IF multiple ETFs falls between 2% to 3% then choose ETF with maximum invested amount
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e.g.
Out of 6 ETFs A, B, C, D, E, F
- 2% ₹4K
- 5% 45K
- 2.5% ₹12K
- 8.5% 91K
- 3% ₹45K
- 2.2% ₹91K
Following ETFs weak
A, C, E, F
Choose F because it having maximum invested amount
what to
do when debt:equity > 50%
(Only allowed after, TIME BASED EXIT
(OR)
completion of Phase #4 of
BORROWING STRATEGY
)
UNPLEDGE, then EXIT the weakest script having (minimum return of >=2% ) && (Maximum capital allocation)
-
- EXIT Partially : IF partial EXIT is sufficient for loan repayment, otherwise EXIT 100%
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after market closes i.e. 03:40PM onwards, place the GTT OCO order as follows
- TARGET closing price + 0.26%
- SL closing price - 0.26%
- Refer: WEAKEST SCRIPT SELECTION CRITERIA
- repay the loan amount to the zerodha captal
- repeat the process till debt:equity ratio is >50%
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For e.g.
UNPLEDGE/choose the weakest script having minimum return of >=2% AND <=3% with maximum invested capital
Script A : 7% ₹50k
Script B: 6% ₹52k
Script C: 5% ₹90k
Script D: 9% ₹1.5L
Script E: 2% ₹1L
Script F: 3% ₹99K
Weak are E, F but E is the Weakest. So, UNPLEDGE & EXIT Script E (2%)
Zerodha Terminal access allowed only after reading ETFs Trading plan
IF trading plan reading is pending THEN Strictly prohibited
- Accessing Zerodha terminal
- placing/editing GTT ENTRY/EXIT orders
Mode of Zerodha Terminal access
Laptop only
Maintain ETFs trades ENTRY price in journal, only after receiving contract note next day
thus helping in discipline re-inforcement
Zerodha Kill Switch to enforce disicpline
(IF GTT orders triggered AND kill swtich is active, zerodha automatically rejects the orders.)
IF zerodha terminal accessed during Market hours (09:00AM to 03:30PM) immediately activate kill switch in zerodha
once activated Zerodha disables it only after 12:00 hours.
Once deactivated, segments can only be reactivated after 12 hours and all orders triggered by GTT / Basket / Stock SIP will be rejected. One will not be able to trade in the deactivated segments until they are reactivated
How one can protect principal amount from oneself like today when holding M2M was -₹15k one sold everything in panic and tried to make ₹23k profit and at the end of day booked negative -₹36k"
- Trade with one's own cash with the position one can comfortably take delivery
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When in profit have patience till 10% of portfolio unrealized P&L TARGET achieved
(OR)
follow TIME based EXITs and Individual ETFs EXITs - When in confusion always take break and read trading plan
- Always remember, one having strong faith in trading and giving 100% devotion to earn living from trading and for this needs principal amount to be protected and growing steadily, have patience, have faith in oneself, have discipline
- Now there is an hedging opportunity as well from part of trading profits parked in FDPortfolioHedgingCapital this will help to protect one's precious capital and also gives peace of mind
- Open Zerodha Terminal only after 03:40PM when equity markets closed.
- Trade like nicolas darvas
- Remember, one trading for rest of one's life, in a long run randomness shall work in one's favor and become a consistently profitable trader.
Trade like Nicolas Darvas by keeping terminal close during market hours
- Only GTT orders to take entry/book profits.
- terminal access only after market close from Laptop
- market data access only after market closing
- GTT orders to be updated only after market close.
- maintain distance from market by accessing market only after day closing
Equity: After 03:40PM
Commodities: After 04:00PM
how to deal with one's fear of loosing running profits , say one trading with one's own principal amount having ₹0 taken as loan from zerodha captial and there might be +5% overall portfolio profit today and next week it might be -5%"
- Refer WEEKLY EXIT CRITERIA INDIVIDUAL WEAKEST ETF , WEEKLY EXIT CRITERIA INDIVIDUAL STRONG ETF
- Refer HEDGING CRITERIA
- just wait for unrealizedf P&L to reach <=-7.5% , then follow BORROWING STRATEGY, stick with the process, one's job here is the perfect execution of one's trading plan, Reward is in hands of market
- now just 10% is the max. target for overall and individual ETFs as well, feel relaxed now
One of one's Elephant ETF is not performing well one have invested around ₹1.29L and giving return just under 1% whereas gold has given return 11% plus can one take capital out of non performing ETF and put it into other assests?
When ETF trading with just one's own funds and there is profit of < 10% should one book them?
Can one book profit on a single script IF it showing 10% plus profit?
What to do when one's position in any script or multiple accumulated script profits start to decrease and there is chance of negative M2M?
what to do when holding is in profit?
IF Overvall portfolio is >=10%
refer
EXIT STRATEGY
ELSE IF for any individual ETF (unrealized return >= 7.5% ) AND (Shooting Star Candle formed on weekly timeframe at Friday/LastWorkingDayOfWeek)
refer
WEEKLY EXIT CRITERIA INDIVIDUAL STRONG ETF
ELSE IF 2 months have been passed still 10% return not achieved
refer
TIME BASED EXIT CRITERIA
ELSE
Keep holding
What to do IF one buy ETF using loan currency at the top and there is -50% drop in portfolio from where one bought
Refer
HEDGING CRITERIA
, IFF one have sufficient capital in FDPortfolioHedgingCapital
Otherwise
Let broker liquidate the position
EXIT order type for Weak/Strong ETF
Use GTT OCO (one cancels other) order with
- TARGET of closing + 0.26%
- SL of closing - 0.26%
WEEKLY EXIT CRITERIA INDIVIDUAL WEAKEST ETF
Every Friday/LastWorkingDayOfWeek 03:40PM onwards, create GTT order to EXIT weakest ETF (100% of quantity) on Monday
How to EXIT
Refer
WEAKEST SCRIPT SELECTION CRITERIA
WEEKLY EXIT CRITERIA INDIVIDUAL STRONG ETF
(unrealized return >= 7.5%)
Every Friday/LastWorkingDayOfWeek 03:40PM onward create GTT order to EXIT Individual Strong ETF Satisfying following conditions:
IF (any individual ETF unrealized return >=7.5% ) AND (on its weekly timeframe shooting star candle forms)
- place GTT OCO EXIT order (refer EXIT order type for Weak/Strong ETF )
- IF ETF is PLEDGED then try to UNPLEDGE maximum/100% quantity by pledging other ETFs as collateral with zerodha capital.
ELSE IF (any individual ETF unrealized return < 7.5% ) AND (On its weekly timeframe shooting star candle forms)
refer
HEDGING CRITERIA
After Weekly EXIT of Individual Strong/Weak ETF, What to do with EXIT Capital
IF any loan taken from zerodha capital
THEN use 100% of capital obtained by EXIT of weakest ETF for repayment of loan.
ELSE
next working day, reinvest 100% of capital recevied by EXITING weakest ETF, among all individuals ETFs having (capital allocation < portfolio allocation individual ETF percentage limit) , according to portfolio allocation strategy, using GTT orders closing + 0.26%
Time based EXIT allowed only after following date
TIME BASED EXIT CRITERIA
Should one consider time based EXITs say TARGET of 10% not achived still more than 2 months have been passed and one still paying EMIs?
IF >= 2 months have been passed since:
(Date when fresh ETF Trading Begins)
AND
(didn't get 10% return)
AND
(portfolio unrealized profit >=7.5%)
Only THEN
EXIT 100% of the Portfolio according to one's
EXIT STRATEGY
Then repeat the process i.e. Follow
ENTRY STRATEGY
and
BORROWING Criterias
III. HEDGING STRATEGY
How to prepare for black swan event like Covid or 2008 housing crisis, in which there was more than 50% correction , in that case if one have taken loan from zerodha capital , one's principal amount would be vaporized?
Case #1 : Assuming one have capital in FDPortfolioHedgingCapital, then refer
HEDGING CRITERIA
one has started payins of profits from mcx gold futures trading into FDPortfolioHedgingCapital as well, hope this will also helps one in hedging one's portfolio
Case #2: Not enough captial to HEDGE, then make sure one's debt:equity ratio is strictly <50%
Max allowed capital for hedging in FDPortfolioHedgingCapital
20% of (portfolio holdings + cash in zerodha)
Surplus amount of profit must be invested in ETFs portfolio with Zerodha
Required 20% of (portfolio holdings + cash in zerodha)
Present in 🎁📈 FD (ETFsCashPortfolioHedgingCapital)
Is Allowed to Open Hedging Account with Fyers
Which broker to use for Hedging
Fyers
When to open account with Fyers for hedging?
When FDPortfolioHedgingCapital >= 20% of Net Worth
For e.g. IF one having total ETFs portfolio of ₹5L then open account with Fyers iff one having FDPortfolioHedgingCapital worth ₹25k
one followed the trading plan split the principal amount 50% into gold/silver and remaining 50% into equity niftybees bankbees juniorbees and midcapbees, took entry according to trading plan and pyramid when there was positive 1%, today negative -3% M2M around -₹8k, one want to know as darvas EXIT the boxes using Trailng SL how about me, as one not willing to book loss on Index ETF trading as one want to protect one's precious capital, but one want to ask some solution, few days ago one's unrealized M2M was positive 1% around ₹2.7k and today its negaive -₹8k its too much, what is the solution?"
Refer : HEDGING CRITERIA
Which contract to choose for Hedging
choose next month contract
- MCX goldpetal/silverMicro futures
- ATM PE Next month Expiry for nifty/bankNifty/niftyNext50/midcapNifty
HEDGING CRITERIA
- Hedging can be done when Weekly timeframe candle forms kind of shooting star and then one will wait for the candle to give closing.
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Next week Monday on Fyers terminal, after 03:00PM IF LTP is below previous week shooting star candle LOW then allowed Hedging as follows:
- in case of Equity : buy ATM PE for Nifty/BankNifty/NiftyNext50/MidCapNifty
- in case of Gold/Silver : SHORT Gold/Silver
HEDGING CRITERIA FOR STOCK ETFS
In case of equity index ETFs only PUTS buying is allowed.
Buy Monthly Next Month ATM PE
HEDGING CRITERIA FOR GOLD/SILVER
Hedging of gold and silver is allowed by SHORTING equivalent amount of Gold/silver futures in MCX with FDPortfolioHedgingCapital.
Criteria is as follows:
-
Must have enough capital in FDPortfolioHedgingCapital for
- margin requirements to SHORT equivalent amount of GOLD/SILVER as in portfolio
- SL of weekly shooting star candle high + 3 points additional margin
- Hedging is allowed in Fyers terminal only
- SHORTING is only allowed in gold/silver because one allowed to SHORT equivalent amount of futures as one having delivery
Example:
one have invested ₹1.20L physical delivery of goldbees holding. Then one must short ₹1.20L worth of gold futures with SL above shooting star weekly candle high + 3 points and SL capital needs to be added in total margin computation assume
- margin required for SHORT ₹1.20L of gold having 12 quantity is ₹12K and
- SL of shooting star weekly candle high + 3 points is ₹5k, then total margin reqruied = ₹12k + ₹5k = ₹17k
HEDGE EXIT CRITERIA
Case #1 SL HIT (Weekly Shooting Star Candle High +3 points)
In case of SHORT GOLD/SILVER
Case #2 Potential Sign of Trend Reversal
on 15m timeframe, Market opens gap up and gives closing above yesterday closing price, IF so then next day one allowed to EXIT one's HEDGE around 03:00PM onwards
Case #3 Expiry auto square off
In case of ATM PUTS
- IF Market keeps falling and its End of the month means Expiry of HEDGE then do nothing and let it be automatically be squared off by the exchange
- OR allowed to manually EXIT after 03:00 PM
IMPORTANT NOTE: GOLD/SILVER SHORT positions hedges needs to be closed one week before expiry for better liquidity and avoiding mandatory taking physical delivery from exchange.
IS EXITING HEDGE AT LOSS ALLOWED
Allowed only IF
- SL HIT in case of GOLD/SILVER
-
Expiry auto square off ATM PE for Equity
(OR)
one week (7 working days) before Expiry in case of GOLD/SILVER Futures
IV. MONEY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
(ZERODHA CAPITAL BORROWING STRATEGY)
Can one borrow from zerodha capital to trade in MCX Gold Futures Intraday
Strictly Prohibited,
Only Profits money reserved in 📈 FDMCXGoldFuturesIntradayTrading only can be used
Borrow based on Trading capital in Zerodha only
for computation of debt : equity ratio for zerodha capital, equity is the Trading capital, holdigns in zerodha only
🌳 Zerodha ETFs Holdings
Zerodha Cash
at present zerodha capital Loan Close amount (DEBT)
EQUITY
zerodha capital debt : equity (present)
How to compute debit: equity ratio
debt = at present zerodha capital Loan Close amount
equity = (Holdings + Cash in Zerodha) - debt
= (debt/equity)*100
IF current debt : equity ratio is x% then how much more currency one can borrow for
1. 50% debt : equity
2. 75% debut : equity ratio"
first find out current phase of Zerodha ETFs Positional Trading (is it, phase: #1, #2, #3, #4)
ELSE IF phase #2 then max 50% of equity
ELSE IF phase #3 then max 75% of equity
ELSE ₹0
current phase of Zerodha ETFs Positional Trading
howMuchCurrencyOneAllowedToBorrowFromZerodhaCapital
Borrowing from Zerodha Capital by pledging ETFS is allowed only when
- 100% of principal amount is invested in all 6 ETFs according to Trading Plan
- 100% of purchased ETFs are transferred to one's demat account and elegible for pledging
BORROWING STRATEGY
so that one having higher probability of getting 10% returns faster
PHASE #1, Invest Own Capital
first invest 100% of one's own principal amount in ETFs according to percentage of each ETF in portfolio allocation strategy
PHASE #2, Take Loan from Zerodha Capital (maintain debit : equity = 50%)
when (portfolio unrealized P&L <= -7.5%) then keep taking loan for ETFs investments from zerodha capital till debit : equity ratio is <50%
PHASE #3, Take another Loan from Zerodha Capital (maintain debit : equity = 75%)
when (debt : equity ratio = 50%) AND (overall portfolio >= 1%) then
IF TIMEBASE EXIT limit has passed THEN
EXIT the weakest ETF acccoring to
WEAKEST SCRIPT SELECTION CRITERIA
ELSE
once again start taking loan for ETFs investments from zerodha capital till one's debt : equity ratio < 75%
PHASE #4, Gradual Loan Repayment to Zerodha Capital (debt :equity restore to 50%)
when (debt : equity touched 75%) then
a. start EXITING Weakest ETFs and repay zerodha capital loan currency till one's debt: equity ratio is > 50%, for EXITING weakest ETF allowed to EXIT daily or weekly iff satisfying
WEAKEST SCRIPT SELECTION CRITERIA
b. once it reached 50% refer
EXIT STRATEGY
now this way one having the strongest performing ETFs and would help one get 10% returns faster
PHASE #5, TimebasedExit Triggered, Urgent Loan Repayment to zerodha capital (maintain debt : equity to 0%)
a. start EXITING Weakest ETFs and repay full amount to zerodha capital. for EXITING weakest ETF allowed to EXIT daily or weekly iff satisfying
WEAKEST SCRIPT SELECTION CRITERIA
b. when debt : equity reached 0% then follow keep holdings intact and follow TImebased EXIT strategy by waiting for 7.5% ROI then EXIT
Important Criteria that needs to be fulfilled before taking Loan:
make sure that zerodha capital loan contract end length is >=3 months i.e. one need more than 3 months period minimum to repay the entire loan amount, otherwise request for new of loan and get 12 months period for repayment
When EXITING a ETF position in profit
&&
have taken loan from zerodha capital
&&
(debt : equity > 50%) || (It's timebased EXIT)
- Pay 40% of profit to oneself, 60% keep in zerodha as mentioned in How to Split Profits under MONEY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
- With 60% profits buy ETFs as mentioned in POSITION SIZING & PORTFOLIO CAPITAL ALLOCATION STRATEGY
- Repay back to zerodha capital the principal amount received by EXITING position
When having opportunity to UNPLEDGE security in zerodha capital to reduce loan amount IF one's collateral is appreciated which security to UNPLEDGE one with 10% haircut or one with 20% haircut.
refer EXIT STRATEGY WHEN 10% TARGET ACHIEVED , RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
borrowing by pledging from Zerodha capital is allowed only when
- 100% of one's principal amount is invested in all 6 ETFs according to one's trading plan
- once trigger of -7.5% portfolio dropped only then allowed to borrow. once borrowed currency from zerodha capital and is 100% invested in all 6 ETFs, only then next series of borrowing allowed
Example (Not allowed because 100% of PrincipalAmount/BorrowedZerodhaCapital not invested yet : )
Assume, one have invested 25% in goldbees, 12.5% in bankbees, 12.5% in juniorbees, 12.5% in midcapbees
Still PrincipalAmount/BorrowedZerodhaCapital is left for investment in niftybees and silverbees, because GTT were (not triggered)/ (triggered but not filled)
When to UNPLEDGE holdings in zerodha capital
PLEDGE/UNPLEDGE mindfully, only when absolute necessary according to one's trading plan rules, as pledging/unpledging charges are very bad
Caution : Zerodha Capital charges UNPLEDGE charges for all sub parts of single ETF Scripts
it's very bad zerodha capital charges PLEDGE and UNPLEDGE of individual units not as whole
Say there 7 instances of silverbees when one tried to UNPLEDGE then one was charged for all of them ie. ₹40 x 7,
same thing happens IF taken topup 7 times with those instances, so its double slap with processing fee
Next time be aware and only do pledging mindfully because to UNPLEDGE one have to repay as well.
taken loan from zerodha capital for ETF Trading, kindly guide
First of all one have to pay monthly EMI to zerodha before 7th of each month, EXIT weak ETF partially for EMI Payment (Refer
ZERODHA CAPITAL EMI REPAYMENT CRITERIA
)
There is also chance that near the end month of loan tennure and one buy ETF using loan currency at the top and there is 50% fall in portfolio from where one bought just PLEDGE more holdings to cover it. or EXIT according to shooting star candle IF any ETF already in profit of >=7.5%
(Refer EXIT/Hedging Criterias)
Now here is the strategy
- for monthly EMI payment refer ZERODHA CAPITAL EMI REPAYMENT CRITERIA
- Payin 100% of one's principal amount to Zerodha ETF Trading Account & buy ETFs as specified in ENTRY STRATEGY
- IF one's portfolio drops by <= -7.5% then Borrow from zerodha capital according to one's BORROWING STRATEGY
- maintain debt:equity ratio < 50%
- HEDGE (SHORT gold/silver, ATM PE Monthly Nifty/BankNifty/NiftNext50/MidCapNifty) according to HEDGING STRATEGY
- EXIT according to one's EXIT STRATEGY
what is the max loan amount one can borrow from zerodha Capital
Keep debt:equity ratio < 50%
(there haircuts involved and RBI also recommend max of 50% but in one's case this 50% is too much as there 20% haircut as well. So this is the max i.e. max 50% allowed) of principal amount in zerodha after subtracting loan amount pay in to zerodha. However one can borrow upto 75% and
then needs to gradually reduce the portfolio by EXITING weak ETF and repaying back to maintain 50% debt:equity ratio as mentioned in
BORROWING STRATEGY
How much loan one allowed to get = (Own Principal Amount) * 50%
Own Principal Amount = Total Principal Amount in Zerodha - Loan Taken from Zerodha Capital
can one borrow more from zerodha captial for pyramiding, one's current debt:equity ratio >= 50%
refer BORROWING STRATEGY
want to take ₹30k from zerodha capital for gold futures trading but this would lead to debt:equity > 50%, what to do?
Strictly Prohibhited
What IF one didn't make 10% a year and ends up -10% after including expenses of EMI payments to zerodha capital and transaction charges"
one just loose 10% that year, this is good thing because iff one having track record of earlier booking 10% profits TARGETs and this only take one of one's profits approximately. repeat the process, invest 100% of one's remaining principal amount and IF one's portfolio is <=-7.5% then
take loan from zerodha captial equal to 50% of debt:equity and reinvest it for 10% overall portfolio profit TARGET.
one has also added precautionary measures :
- time based EXIT of 2 months with just >=7.5% unrealized portfolio return
- Weekly EXIT of individual ETFs based on weakness such as shooting star candle in case of ETF already having >=7.5% profit
- Weakest ETF EXIT on weekend having 2% to 3% return only
what to do when one's holdings in negative m2m
IF overall portfolio is negative by <= -7.5% then take loan from zerodha capital and do averaging
IF one having hedging capital in FD then make sure to have portfolio hedged accordingly
Additionally Refer EXIT Criteria for time based EXIT, weekly EXIT of weak/strong ETFs
V. MONEY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
(ZERODHA CAPITAL LOAN REPAYMENT)
IF zerodha capital EMI payment made from FDEmergencyFund or pocketMoney
THEN from FDTradingExpenses, it must be repaid back to FDEmergencyFund or pocketMoney
How to compute Monthly EMI
EMI = outstanding principal amount - full loan closure amount (by clicking on repay full amount)
Note: Fetch these values from zerodha capital console only
ZERODHA CAPITAL EMI REPAYMENT CRITERIA
IF Overvall portfolio is >= 10%
refer EXIT STRATEGY
ELSE IF for any individual ETF (unrealized return >= 7.5% ) AND (Shooting Star Candle formed on weekly timeframe at Friday/LastWorkingDayOfWeek)
refer WEEKLY EXIT CRITERIA INDIVIDUAL STRONG ETF
ELSE IF 2 months have been passed still 10% return not achieved
refer TIME BASED EXIT CRITERIA
ELSE
Keep holding
What would happen IF one borrowed more than one's principal amount or PLEDGED ETFs bought using loan to get more loan
Zerodha would not let one sell any holdings IF LTV < 45% and would liquidate all of one's PLEDGED holdings IF threashold of 50% plus reached, and might consider one as defauter as he would ask for payin before the liquidation and IF not provided, Zerodha Capital might not consider
offering one loan amount next time, so be cautious and keep the debt to equity ratio under 50%
Here is somewhat mathematical proof :
one has to maintain zerodha capital LTV(Loan to value Ratio). one have to maintain LTV below 50% and IF it goes above 50% then one have to pay in to zerodha capital, and also IF it goes above 60% they will automatically sell one's PLEDGED holdings at loss.
LTV = loan disbursed/PLEDGED value of security
For e.g.
PLEDGED value of security: ₹2.69L
Loan disbursed: ₹1.21L
LTV : 1.21/2.69 = 44%
Now assume IF there is 10% drop in PLEDGED holding value
Updated PLEDGED value of security: ₹2.42L
LTV : 1.21/2.42 = 50%
Now assume IF there is 20% drop in PLEDGED holding value
Updated PLEDGED value of security: ₹2.15L
LTV : 1.21/2.15 = 56%
Now assume black swan even and there is 50% drop in PLEDGED holding
Updated PLEDGED value of security: ₹2.15L
LTV : 1.21/1.34 = 90%
Now IF one took loan, buy ETF and PLEDGE them as well to get more loan and in worst case scenario there is 20% portfolio drop and also it's near end of 12 months loan tennure then they would not allow one to sell PLEDGED holding till one repay their principal amount. To UNPLEDGE one's
LTV ratio must be within the permissible limit of 45%. Means they will ask one for more payin or more pledging. So follow the rule that max allowed limit of borrowing is 45% of one's principal amount which is one's hard earned Salary or trading profits."
IF one's 10% TARGET isn't achieved and there just 15 days left for zerodha loan agreement to expire?
When 15days left for full loan repayment to zerodha capital, start EXITING the position and repaying back to zerodha capital even in loss. start over process according to ENTRY STRATEGY
What to do IF portfolio is down <=-7.5% and Zerodha Capital loan agreement is about to expire in next two month?
First apply for new contract from zerodha so that one have atleast 12 months buffer, IF they do not approve then let it be, as one here to protect one's precious capital and market can go down alot then one can imagine and one need minimum of 3 months buffer by zerodha captial loan
closing and repayment
Refer:
IF one's 10% TARGET isn't achieved and there just 15 days left for zerodha loan agreement to expire?
When one's 10% profit TARGET achieved, should one pay 100% of the loan amount taken and close the loan with zerodha capital?
IF < 3 months remaining for loan contract to expire then close the loan by repaying 100% of loan amount and interest.
ELSE just pay the 100% of outstanding principal amount, interest and keep the loan active by keeping any single ETF, #1 quantity PLEDGED.
VI. MONEY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
(ZERODHA CAPITAL MISCELLANEOUS)
one concerned about one's 10% profit TARGET, say one achieve 10% profit TARGET and then one buy again at the top and it might be possible for next 6 to 8 months market stays below one's entry price, then after booking 10% profit TARGET what should one do with one's principal amount?
- keep invested in market not matter it is at moon or earth,
-
IF there is correction and one's entire portfolio is <=-7.5% then
- take loan from zerodha capital iff there more than 3 months for contract to end, then do averaging,
- otherwise reqeust zerodha capital to renew of contract so that one get 12 months period for repayment
one has taken loan from zerodha capital for ETF trading, every month one have to pay emi, at the end of loan tennure how can one know exactly whether made any profit from loan capital or not?
- maintain two columns in trading log, one telling percentage of one's own capital deployed another percentage of loan capital deployed and from the p&l column one can compute two another columns one for p&l deployed capital, another p&l for loan capital.
- keep track values in separate sheet, one's own deployed capital and loan capital.
VII. MONEY MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
When fresh principal amount received (father, shop, EYFs 60% profit)
IF topup loan taken from zerodha capital,
THEN repay using principal amount this way the ETFs already bought by loan capital are now one's owned.
ELSE
Reinvest in all 6 ETFs according to portfolio allocation strategy %
Every new single ₹1 goes first to ETFs trading capital
whatever fresh currency one recieves from parents, relatives, taken credit needs to be invested in ETFs as principal amount, only 40% profits payouts from ETFs positional cash trading is allowed to spend on expenses, tiding, miscellanous activities.
When to payin Fyers with FDPortfolioHedingCapital
Only When capital in Fyers < 20% of (portfolio holdings + cash in zerodha)
What to do with the profits made in Fyers account by Hedging
Whenever hedging position makes profit
IF any loan taken from zerodha capital
THEN 100% of profit payout goes to loan repayment
ELSE
a. Keep 40% in Fyers/Hedging account
IF Fyers Capital > 20% of (portfolio holdings + cash in zerodha)
THEN payout to FDPortfolioHedgingCapital
IF FDPortfolioHedingCapital > 20% of (portfolio holdings + cash in zerodha)
THEN payin to zerodha for ETFs positional Trading
b. payout 60% to zerodha for ETFs positional Trading
When EXITING individual ETF according to RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGY make sure to deduct from profits the expenses (transaction charges/ Zerodha capital emi or processing fee)"
So here actually one need to keep record of two dates
- Date when fresh ETF trading begins
- Date till trading expenses and transaction charges covered from profits.
(one maintaining these dates in Financial Statement)
Date Fresh ETF trading begins
Zerodha
Date till Zerodha trading expenses and transaction charges are covered from profits
ZerodhaCapital
Date till ZerodhaCapitalLoan charges (interest, processing fee, taxes) are covered from profits
Consider yesterday date for computing trading Expenses?
when computing trading expenses consider yesterday date. As there might be any trades executed today whose expenses might not have been included yet.
profits payout will be made only after receiving contract note.
this way one got correct EXIT price and charges till yesterday.
Why one targeting 10% of overall portfolio profit
Compounding ₹4.52L (10% ROI), only 26 times:
- Principal amount will be: ₹20.56 Lakhs (considering just 60% of profits reinvested)
- ₹10.07 Lakhs will be already taken as 40% profits payouts
- it gives peace of mind as 10% is achievable, considering now also allowed individual ETF EXIT for profit booking IF having unrealized profit of >=10% using GTT OCO order
How to Split Profits
🌳First deduct from Total profit, the EMI amount given to the zerodha capital, and keep it in the Zerodha, remaining account split into 60% and 40%
60%🌳Keep in Zerodha, thus increasing one's net Worth
40% of the profit split into following equal parts:
- 💰FDEmergencyFund
- 💰PocketMoney (keep as cash in IDBI, PNB)
- 💰 FDSavings
- 🎁 FDPocketMoney(mother)
- 🎁 FDLoanRepayment(mother)
- 🎁 FDPocketMoney(wife)
- 🎁 FDFoodNature(plantsBirdsAnimalsCreatures)
- 🎁 FDMedicareNature(plantsBirdsAnimalsCreatures)
- 🎁 FDMedicare(wholeFamily)
- 🎁 FDHouseholdExpenses(foodMiscellaneous)
- 🎁 FDHealthInsurance(wholeFamily)
- 🎁 FDWorldTour
- 🪙 GoldSilverETFs DigitalGoldSilverETFs
- 🪙 GoldSilverETFs 21BighaLandResidenceOrchard
- 📈 FDETFsCashPortfolioHedgingCapital
- 📈 FDMCXGoldFuturesIntradayTrading
- 📈 FDTradingExpenses
- 📈 AdulteryBurnedCurrencyRecovery
Explanation :
60% of whatever profits one make will keep into zerodha and Rest 40% of the profit split into following parts:
- One part goes into Emergency Fund, so that in case of emergency one can have backup liquid cash
- One part goes into Pocket Money
- One part goes into Savings like buying one's favourite cycle with all accessories, books, laptop, anything.
- One part goes to mother as pocket money
- IFF Loan taken from mother then, One part goes to repayment of loan
- One part goes to wife as pocket money, IF unmarried, to be handed over to wife, one month after marriage
- One part goes for FoodNature (plants, birds, animals, creatures)
- One part goes for MedicareNature (plants, birds, animals, creatures)
- One part goes for FDMedicare(wholeFamily)
- One part goes for household expenses like groceries, electricity, internet, LPG cylinder, bike fuel, detergent, medicines etc.
- One part goes for HealthInsurance whole family
- One part goes for World Tour
- One part goes into DigitalGoldSilverETFs . later to be converted into physical gold, silver when enough to purchase 1kg silver, 20gm Gold
- One part goes into 21BighaLandResidenceOrchard. open access to all creatures, having fruits trees, vegetables, herbs, clean running drinking water. when enought to purchase 21 bigha land these gold silver ETFs needs to be transferred into sellers account or conversion into physical cash after paying taxes
- One part goes into ETFsCashPortfolioHedgingCapital. for buying ATM Montly PE for (Niftybees, BankBees, JuniorBees, MidcapBees), Hedging by SHORTING equal amount of MCX Futures(Gold, SIlver)
- One part goes into MCXGoldFuturesIntradayTrading
- One part goes into TradingExpenses
- One part goes into AdulteryBurnedCurrencyRecovery (RepayToZerodhaETFsPrincipalAmount)
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Emergency Fund (FFG) belongs to
- Father (50%)
- Futtu (25%)
- Goli (25%)
mother minimum payout is ₹3k
keep accumulating her share of profits in FD Tiding mother till ₹3k threshold reached and then swap with Physical Cash and make her payout.
How much mininum principal amount to keep in Zerodha for ETFs GTT orders buying
- 90% keep in zerodha for positional ETFs trading
- 10% keep in Upstox for Gold Future intraday trading IFF disiciplines by risking < 0.89% per trade
What IF one broke one's rules and loose one's principal amount
take full responsibility of one's actions, now only one will protect one's principal amount and grow with it, or hahah will suffer miserably for one's own negligence, one will protect one's principal amount and make it grow via compounding
Why one doing cash trading only
to protect one's principal amount and grow it steadily by 10% compounding
VIII. EXIT STRATEGY
EXIT order type
GTT LIMIT
EXIT Order
(TARGET/profit booking)
GTT OCO having two legs
- TARGET CLOSING + 0.26%
- SL CLOSING - 0.26%
EXIT STRATEGY WHEN 10% TARGET ACHIEVED?
- EXIT Weakest Scripts first having lower percentage return
- IF multiple ETFs having same unralized return then choose one having highest invested capital among two
- IF loan taken from zerodha capital then use 100% of principal amount from EXIT to repay loan
- Use 60% profits as well for loan repayment, get 40% profits payouts as mentioned in How to Split Profits
For e.g.
Six ETFs with capital allocaiton as follows
A : (₹40k, B, : ₹40k C : ₹90k, D : ₹90k, E: ₹65k, F : ₹65k)
Day #1 (10% overall TARGET achieved)
A : 35%, B: 18%, C: 10%, D: 22%,
E: -3%, F: 5%
First EXIT E (-3%) then EXIT F (5%)
Important Note:
as one have taken loan from zerodha capital by pledging one's secuirities, one would not be able to sell them all at once, without first unpledging them by repaying loan to zerodha capital and it might take 2-3 days for currency to be credited to one's bank account then repayment of
zerodha loan then unpledging of security and able to EXIT, at that time the overall return percentage might have changed so keep mind to EXIT first lower percentage Reward scripts as they the one who might turn downside so first EXIT those scripts, no matter IF they in negative just EXIT
them first.
Day #2 (after securities UNPLEDGED by repaying loan payment to zerodha capital and ready to EXIT), now due to randomness return might vary, just EXIT no matter what now 10% return figure is insignificant just EXIT
A : 30%,
B: 10%, C: 10%,
D: 18%
EXIT first C(10%) then B(10%)
Day #3 (after securities UNPLEDGED by repaying loan payment to zerodha capital and ready to EXIT), now due to randomness return might vary, just EXIT no matter what now 10% return figure is insignificant just EXIT
A : 35%, D: 21%
EXIT first D(10%) then A(10%)
Well Done, one proud of oneself for being disciplines in overall achiving TARGET of 10%, thank you for perfect execution of trading plan.
Can one EXIT 100% of one's portfolio when unrealized profit >= 10%
Allowed
IX. POSITION SIZING & PORTFOLIO CAPITAL ALLOCATION STRATEGY
Max. allowed investment in Commodity ETFs
(Goldbees, Silverbees)
50% of the principal amount
Max. allowed investment in Stock ETFs
(Niftybees, bankbees, juniorbees, midcapbees)
50% of the principal amount
PORTFOLIO ALLOCATION STRATEGY
Max. allowed investment per script
Commodities
Goldbees 25% of principal amount
Silverbees 25% of principal amount
Stocks
Niftybees 12.5% of principal amount
Bankbees 12.5% of principal amount
Juniorbees 12.5% of principal amount
Midcapbees 12.5% of principal amount
Trim ETFs excess holdings
IF (holding % in any ETF is greater than max allowed limit)
AND
(Unrealised return is >= 2.5%)
THEN
EXIT excess holdings using GTT order
Note: one also allowed to place GTT order to EXIT holdings when unrealized return reaches 2.5% of average entry price
Next day, Reinvest the proceeds in ETFs whose investment amount is less than the maximum allowed investment according to capital allocation strategy.
E.g.
Total principal amount: ₹4.72L
Current scenario:
ETF investment% UnrealisedP&L%
Silverbees 0%
Goldbees 5% 1%
Niftybees 30% -0.5%
Juniorbees 30% 3%
Bankbees 30% -3.5%
Midcapbees 5% -1.5%
Then
EXIT juniorbees (30% - 12.5%) = 17.5%
EXIT 17.5% out of juniorbees and next day Reinvest in
Silverbees, goldbees, midcapbees
Invest in such a way that maximum amount invested and keeping individual ETF maximum portfolio allocation percentage investment limit intact
I.e. 25% max for goldbees, silverbees
12.5% for mid150bees
Now IF requires to develop calculator for this then develop
( or )
compute manually.
X. ENTRY STRATEGY
When to place new GTT ENTRY/EXIT Orders
Next Day 04:00AM to 09:00AM
ENTRY order type
GTT limit
How to took ENTRY
place GTT at daily closing + 0.26% of the ETF script
What to Ask oneself before taking new position
how can one perfectly execute one's trading plan rules
How to make step wise entry in position
- Just invest 100% of one's own principal amount same day according to investment percentage, IF there is gap up and some of the scripts not filled then try next day after market closing.
- When one's portfolio is negative under <= -7.5% and have taken loan from zerodha capital assuming contract is still having more than 3 months to repay loan, then PLEDGE the portfolio and again invest 100% of the loan amount same day according to one's position sizing criteria.
Refer BORROWING STRATEGY
can one average in loosing position
Allowed
as specified in
BORROWING STRATEGY
,
RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
can one pyramid in profitable position
Allowed
as specified in
BORROWING STRATEGY
,
RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGY
XI. STRICTLY PROHIBITED
Can one write covered calls for hedging
Strictly Prohibited
Reasons:
F&O isn't allowed in Zerodha, and with other brokers one don't have portfolio for margin PLEDGE, so just stick with buying ATM PE for hedging
Can one PLEDGE holding for loan repayment EMI?"
Strictly Prohibited,
EXIT the weakest among two ETF partially for loan repayment
Today one opened the terminal during market hours 03:25, took manual random entry for goldbees and disregard GTT and one's previous day plus .26% rule. worst take could be today be panic selling in market and one might have existed all the positions or headless chicken trading. what to do , what is the solution to correct this so that in future, access to Market Data/Zerodha terminal during market hours be strictly prohibited.
Strictly prohibited to open during market hours
- NSE/BSE website
- Zerodha
- Zerodha Capital
Take responsibility of one's actions as one have to protect one's precious capital, IF GTT for goldbees wasn't triggered that might be good for one as tomorrow there might be correction in goldbees. So kindly follow the trading plan and one only allowed to open terminal after 03:40 PM for equity and 04:00PM for commodities.
Can one access terminal OR place orders from smartphone
Strictly prohibited
Can one PLEDGE holding for INTRADAY trading?
Strictly prohibited
Can one SHORT on INTRADAY using cash
Strictly prohibited
Can one EXIT Delivery holding at loss
Strictly prohibited
Can one do INTRADAY with broker currency
Strictly prohibited
can one do tiding all OR part of principal amount to wife/mother/nature
Strictly prohibited
can one spend principal amount on oneself or in case of emergency
Allowed only in case of life or death situation,
otherwise Strictly prohibited"
can one spend principal amount to buy ATM options for hedging
Strictly prohibited
can one spend principal amount to trade index futures and options
Strictly prohibited
can one check ETFs prices during market hours from NSE website?
Strictly prohibited
Is one allowed to do INTRADAY trading in Zerodha and can one short sell or take leverage from broker or mtf on delivery?
Strictly prohibited
Zerodha is meant for cash only ETF trading where one can only pyramid ETFs which in profit. or average when one's overall portfolio is down by >= -7.5%
MTF/Short sell/intraday leverage?
Strictly prohibited in zerodha
Am one allowed to do CNC buying intraday?
strictly prohibited as one's profits TARGET 10% of one's principal amount and one have max investment limit per script so INTRADAY cnc not allowed.
can one spend principal amount for gold futures trading or commodity trading
Strictly prohibited,
Allowed Iff Only allowed iff one have shown discipline in last 100 trades by keeping one's risk per trade under -0.90%, then just max 10% of one's net worth amount is allowed to be given for MCX Gold Futures trading (some part of this currency to be taken from FD reserved for MCX Gold
Futures trading and Remaining one can take from Principal Amount)
XII. MISCELLANEOUS
Keep individual ETF exposure under maximum allowed portfolio allocation percentage.
IF position in any ETF is greater than max portfolio allocation AND current ETF is in +2.5% unrealised profit then partial EXIT quantity to balance exposure to maximum allowed investment percentage.
What to do with the Partial EXIT capital?
Case #1 IF top up loan taken from zerodha capital THEN use 100% of partial EXIT capital to repay loan amount to zerodha capital.
Case #2 ELSE reinvest amount equally in all six ETFs according to portfolio allocation strategy
For example.
ABC ETF max. Allowed capital allocation is 12.5% and 14.5% is at present allocated AND ETF is having unrealised profit of +2.5% then partial EXIT to make to 12.5% capital allocation.
always keep some ETF quantity while EXITING
example, IF for any ABC ETF, total quantity are 1137, then EXIT only 1130 quantity
min quantity to keep #1
max quantity ot keep #9
After reading trading plan,
IF (there is no electricity) &&
(there are pending GTT orders creation/update) THEN
Allowed to access zerodha terminal by turning laptop on via UPS mode and place/edit GTT orders
Instruments To Trade
- GoldBees
- SilverBees
- NiftyBees
- BankBees
- JuniorBees
- Mid150Bees
Why one having devotion towards trading
it's the only professional which gives one opportunity to have financial freedom and accumulate wealth, have freedom of time, and be one's own boss, equal opportunity to make wealth
What to do when GTT order triggered but not fulfilled as price moved higher and eventually order got cancelled at end of the day
it's part of the game, repeat the order for the next day after market closing
Timeframe for observing markets
Weekly
one also doing MCX Gold futures INTRADAY trading, for backtesting can one open ONLY Upstox account during market hours?
okay allowed, but make sure to open zerodha terminal only after market close preferably after 03:40PM
When to Review this journal
Anytime
When to modify GTT orders and make any transactions to zerodha
after market closing 03:40PM onwards