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S2EP64 | Five Green Days, Then A Gap Down To 24000. Buy The Dip | 19th June Friday

10 min · 19. kesä 2026
jakson S2EP64 | Five Green Days, Then A Gap Down To 24000. Buy The Dip | 19th June Friday kansikuva

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Five straight green days, and now a gap down to test it. The Nifty closed at 24,168, up 82, its fifth green day and its second close above 24,000, and the Sensex settled its weekly expiry at 77,409. But this morning GIFT Nifty is pointing to an open near 24,000, about 170 points lower, dropping us right back onto the support we only just cleared. There is no expiry today, so the open interest draws the day, and the question is simple, does 24,000 hold as support. The strange part is that the gap down is not coming from a weak Wall Street, it is the opposite. Overnight the US shook off the hawkish Federal Reserve and rallied, the Nasdaq up almost 2 percent, and Asia is firm this morning, South Korea up 2.3 percent. Brent crude sits near a three-month low at 79 dollars, gold got hit hard down to 4,185, and the rupee is steady and strong near 94.3. A friendly global tape and a soft local open at the same time tells you this is our own profit-taking after five up days, not a global risk-off, the kind of dip that gets bought if support holds. With no expiry, the open interest is the map. The put writers are stacked thickest at 24,000, fresh money defending the level that capped this market for five months and has now flipped to support. But just below it the support goes thin, 23,950 is a light shelf, and the real supports are not until 23,900 and 23,800. On the upside the heaviest calls sit at 24,500, the hard resistance, while the first seller is 24,200. The put-call ratio is 1.12. The straddle is about 226 points, an expected range of roughly 23,900 to 24,400. So the plan today is a buy-on-dips plan, not a chase. We open near 24,000, so the first job is to watch it hold. Buy the dip into 24,000, and even a wick toward 23,950 is a level to lean on as long as it snaps back. Keep the stop honest, a sustained break below 23,900 and the bounce is wrong, the next stop 23,800. On the upside, take-off toward 24,150 and then the first seller at 24,200, and only a break and hold above 24,200 reopens 24,500. The simpler trade is a caution about the calm. India VIX is back near 13 and option premium has been crushed, so it looks cheap. But there is no expiry crush to catch it today, and the moment 24,000 or 24,200 breaks the calm flips fast. Do not sell premium just because it looks cheap, and let 24,000 prove itself before chasing the opening move. The twist underneath is why we gap down. After three days of buying, the foreign desk flipped and sold 855 crore of cash, their first sell in four, and they are still net short about 2.21 lakh index futures. What held the market up was the domestic funds, who bought 3,130 crore and absorbed everything single-handedly. If the foreigners keep pressing, 24,000 is tested hard and 24,200 caps the upside. If that short gets squeezed, we snap back through. Episode 63 graded 4.5 out of 5, full scorecard on rupeecase.com [http://rupeecase.com]. Trade the level, not the opinion. Stream the full episode free and first on rupeecase.com [http://rupeecase.com], and on Apple Podcasts and Spotify, every trading morning at 8:30. Data: NSE, BSE, NSDL, US Federal Reserve.

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jakson S2EP69 | 24,000 Support, 24,200 Resistance. The Pros Just Bought Volatility. Monthly Expiry Tomorrow | 29th June Monday kansikuva

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Thursday closed green — and gave back 205 points from its high. The rally hit resistance and got sold back to flat. Then three days shut for Muharram. Today we come back into the eve of the monthly expiry, coiled inside a 200-point range — and the pros just went and bought volatility. In this episode: the upper-wick fade nobody on your feed flagged; the options book by participant — the Pro desk now long both calls AND puts (long volatility) while the crowd sells puts into a VIX low; and the official 30-June chain — 24,000 support that held all day, fresh 24,200 resistance, a 24,100 pin, India VIX at 13, a ~225 straddle and a 1SD of about 275 points. The lesson: read the chain for volatility, not just direction — and when vol is cheap and the pros are buying it, you own the move, you don't sell it. POV: buy the dips. Levels, positioning, and the plan into Tuesday's monthly expiry — all off NSE, BSE and NSDL data. No noise. Free every trading morning at 8:30 IST on rupeecase.com [http://rupeecase.com] — built on RupeeCase, India's first systematic investing terminal. This is The Tanmay Edge. You just got earlier. ---------------------------------------------------------------- SHOW NOTES / CHAPTERS: 00:00 Green is a costume — Thursday's rejected high 01:15 The fade: split tape, autos up, IT/metals down 02:30 Flows: DII carrying, FII lightening the short 03:45 The options book — Pro long both wings, crowd short puts 05:30 Levels + volatility — 24,000 / 24,100 / 24,200, VIX 13, straddle 225, 1SD ±275 07:00 Education: read the chain for volatility, not just direction 08:15 Macro: 5th down day on Wall St, crude ~$70, flat GIFT 08:55 The plan — buy the dips, own the optionality ---------------------------------------------------------------- KEYWORDS/TAGS: Nifty, Sensex, monthly expiry, options, max pain, call wall, put floor, FII DII, open interest, India VIX, BankNifty, 24000, 24200, Tanmay Edge SOURCES (public, on-air): NSE, BSE, NSDL/SEBI/RBI only. "India's first systematic investing terminal." DISTRIBUTION: Apple Podcasts, Spotify, rupeecase.com [http://rupeecase.com] (homepage free), Telegram, @TanmayKurtkoti on X / LinkedIn / Instagram.

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jakson S2EP67 | 24000 Cracked On Expiry. The Floor Is Now The Ceiling | 24th June Wednesday kansikuva

S2EP67 | 24000 Cracked On Expiry. The Floor Is Now The Ceiling | 24th June Wednesday

For three weeks, 24,000 was the floor. On expiry day it cracked. The Nifty held till 11:30, then let go straight through 24,000 and closed at the low — 23,824.10, down 278.80 (−1.16%), seven stocks up and forty-three down. The level you were buying is now the level you have to sell into. Today's read, all the numbers in one place: • Tue close: Nifty 23,824.10 (−278.80, −1.16%), range 23,784.95–24,135.50. Sensex 76,200.68 (−893.39, −1.16%). IT and metals led the fall — Infosys −3.36%, TCS −3.16%, Tata Steel −2.66%. Only four Nifty names green. • The why: global, not domestic. Korea fell ~10% Monday (circuit-breaker, chip rout), US Nasdaq −2% overnight, an everything-selloff with gold and crypto down too. • Flows: FII cash net FLAT (+₹18 Cr) on a 279-point down day; DII bought ₹680 Cr. The fall came through index futures and global beta, not cash selling. • Positioning (Pro → FII → Client): Pros flipped net short (−2,131). FII went deeper short — ~2.29 lakh contracts (added ~5,800), all three legs bearish. Client bought the dip — net long ~1.63 lakh, the crowd catching the knife. • The flip (30-Jun chain): 24,000 — the old floor — is now the biggest call wall of the month (~13.6M). Real support below is 23,500 (8.5M puts). PCR 0.78, call-heavy. • Max pain: 24,000 — the chain's magnet is still the broken floor. The whole week is a fight at that one number. • Premarket: GIFT Nifty 23,864 (+53), soft higher open. US tech −2% overnight, no help. Brent 76.41, crude a cushion. Gold under 4,100. USD/INR 94.73. India VIX 14. The plan: no expiry today, so no pin — it's an auction, a follow-through day. Sell the rallies, respect the broken level. Resistance 23,900 then 24,000; sell into it or let it prove itself. Support 23,800, 23,700, then the real floor 23,500. Only a clean reclaim and hold of 24,000 says the foreign shorts are covering. The education today: support becomes resistance. When a floor that held for weeks breaks, it flips into a ceiling — because the longs who bought it are now trapped underwater and sell into any bounce back to break-even. Their relief is your resistance. EP66 graded 3/8 — the pin thesis broke when 24,000 cracked, though the break-calls landed. Full scorecard at rupeecase.com [http://rupeecase.com]. Trade the level, not the opinion. Free and first on rupeecase.com [http://rupeecase.com], Apple Podcasts and Spotify — every trading morning at 8:30 AM IST. Data: NSE, BSE, NSDL.

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jakson S2EP66 | Weekly Expiry: 24000 Floor, 24200 Ceiling, Max Pain 24100 | 23rd June Tuesday kansikuva

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Monday's gap-up did half its job. The Nifty held the 24,000 floor, closed up 0.37% at 24,102.90, and the IT wreck from Friday reversed clean — Tech Mahindra, Infosys and pharma led the bounce. But it stalled cold at 24,200 and faded. Now it's weekly expiry, and the chain has built the tightest room of the week. Today's read, all the numbers in one place: • Mon close: Nifty 24,102.90 (+89.80, +0.37%), range 24,073–24,168. Sensex 77,094.07 (+0.38%). IT and banks led; consumption (Asian Paints, Titan, ITC) dragged. • Flows: FII sold ₹636 Cr cash, DII bought ₹1,036 Cr — a flip from Friday. No conviction either side. • Positioning (Pro → FII → Client): Pros flipped to a small net long in index futures (+1,193) — first desk leaning up. FII still net short ~2.23 lakh contracts but covered ~3,600; hedged-bearish (long puts, short calls). Client net long 1.54 lakh, sold puts heavily — crowd bullish. • The walls (23-Jun chain): FLOOR 24,000 = 13.15M puts (biggest line). CEILING 24,200 = 13.35M calls (biggest line). ATM 24,100 balanced. PCR 0.87. • Max pain: 24,100 — exactly where we open. • Gamma flip ~24,150: above it pins toward 24,200, below 24,100 amplifies toward 24,000. • Expected move: ATM straddle ~129 → 1SD ±129 → 23,975–24,230. VIX ~13, IV ~10%. • Premarket: GIFT Nifty flat at 24,086 (−13). Global soft — US tech −1.3% overnight, Asia red. Brent 77.71, crude a cushion. USD/INR 94.68. The plan is a pin: coil 24,000–24,200, settle near 24,100. Hold 24,150 and it drifts toward the 24,200 ceiling; lose 24,100 and it slides to the 24,000 floor where you buy the dip. A clean close below 24,000 opens 23,950 then 23,900. The education today: 0DTE theta. On expiry the option you buy in the morning has a 3:30 deadline — you can be right on direction and still lose, because time decay drains it faster than the spot can move. The walls tell you where; the clock says it must get there today. EP65 graded 5/6 — every level and the band landed; only the "IT keeps dragging" call missed, because IT bounced. Full scorecard at rupeecase.com [http://rupeecase.com]. Trade the level, not the opinion. Free and first on rupeecase.com [http://rupeecase.com], Apple Podcasts and Spotify — every trading morning at 8:30 AM IST. Data: NSE, BSE, NSDL.

23. kesä 202612 min