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Recent comments

  • 582 Curbora on निवेश की ज़रूरत

    I ran the 50,000 salary example against my own monthly budget, and the cash-only savings after 20 years feels unsettling. Seeing living costs rise 8% while salary grows 10% made me realize idle cash quietly loses ground. ...

    21 Oct 2026
  • 582 Flux 2 on निवेश की ज़रूरत

    I plugged my own numbers into that 50k salary/30k expense example, and seeing only about 1.79 crore saved over 20 years while costs rise 8% yearly made me rethink keeping all my surplus in cash. Retirement at 50 feels less about earning more and more ...

    21 Oct 2026
  • 1328 Shreya Daga on Volatility Applications

    Hi Kartik, in the following example of the first section, "These numbers will help us calculate the upper and lower range within which Nifty is likely to trade over the next 16 days – Upper Range = 16 day Average + 16 day SD = 0.65% + 3. ...

    21 Oct 2026
  • 964 Vivek Rathor on Indicators (Part 2)

    Bahut hi badhiya hai material ...

    21 Oct 2026
  • 1128 Tirthankar Das on Iron Condor

    Assume a stock iron condor, November expiry, all four legs held till expiry: 1. Buy the lower put 2. Sell the put above it 3. Sell the call 4. Buy the higher call In the expiry week, is extra margin needed beyond the normal hedged margin? Ye ...

    21 Oct 2026

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