Saurabh Singh

For years I invested like most people do — on tips, on headlines, on moves that had already happened. It cost me time and money to learn something simple: the market shows its hand before it moves. So I stopped trying to predict, and started trying to notice. And I noticed something that still feels like a small secret: A stock about to make its biggest move looks, for weeks, like nothing is happening at all. The price goes quiet. The range tightens — each pullback shallower than the last: 25%, then 15%, then 8%. Volume fades. On the surface, boredom. Underneath, a handover — nervous sellers giving up, steadier hands quietly taking the other side, until there's almost no one left to sell. Then, on a surge of volume, it breaks the ceiling. The move everyone notices later began right here, in the silence nobody was watching. Once you've seen it, you can't unsee it. So I built BananaPatterns to do exactly that — scan all ~4,600 Indian stocks for that shape, every day, and surface the few that are setting up. Checkout here @ bananapatterns.com. One pattern, in plain English, out in the open. Come learn it with me. Not a SEBI-registered advisor — this is education, not advice.

The video is out now. Thank you @TradeWithGroww_ for giving the opportunity. @iManasArora was very patient to answer all the questions. We had lots of conversation off camera which gave insights into his psychology. Gem of a person I must say. Note: I come at 1:00:30 but do watch full video.

Allow me to spit some truth into my younger self... I actually think the biggest mistake I made early on was spending way too much time thinking about how much money I "could" make on a trade and almost no time thinking about how much I was willing to lose. I remember sitting there mapping out upside targets, imagining the perfect trade in my head, calculating what my account would look like if the stock doubled... yet I barely gave 5 seconds of thought to what I'd do if I was wrong. And looking back, that's such a backwards way to approach this business. The market isn't obligated to me. The only thing I have complete control over is my DOWNSIDE, and once that finally clicked in my stubborn lil brain, my trading started changing in ways I never expected. Now, when I open a chart, my first question isn't, "How high can this go?" It's, "Where am I wrong?" and if I can't answer that question immediately, I usually don't have a trade. That's 1 of the reasons I love buying pullbacks into the 9/21EMAs, undercuts and reclaims, and 15/30-minute pivots off areas of interest. It's because they allow me to define my risk before I ever click the buy button. If buyers don't defend the area the way I expected, I want to know quickly so I can move on to the next! 1 thing I don't think people realize is that a huge percentage of my trades DON'T work on the first try. Sometimes it'll take 2 or 3 breakeven trades and/or small losses on the exact same stock before it finally moves in my favor. And I'm completely okay with that. But... why am I okay with that? Because each loss is SMALL ENOUGH that it doesn't change the way I think. I don't suddenly feel pressure to make my money back or start revenge trading. I don't begin forcing setups that aren't there, because I simply wait for the next opportunity, because the thesis is still intact... even if my timing wasn't. That's why I NEVER obsess over profit targets. The market is going to decide how far a winner goes. I have 0 control over that. What I do have control over is making sure 1 bad trade never ruins my week, my month, or my internal confidence. I think that's the part of trading nobody really wants to talk about because it's not exciting. Posting a +300% winner gets attention. Posting a disciplined -5% loss doesn't. But if you looked through my journal, you'd probably notice that my biggest winners weren't what built my account. My small losses DID. They gave me the opportunity to still be there when $ARM showed up. They allowed me to stay aggressive when $MU started working + they gave me the confidence to press names like $INTC because I wasn't digging myself out of a hole from oversized losses. The funny thing is, once I stopped chasing huge winners and became obsessed with protecting my downside, the huge winners started taking care of themselves. That's why I genuinely believe drawdown control is 1 of the greatest competitive advantages a trader can have. Not because it's fun or gets attention... but because every dollar you don't lose today is another dollar that's ready to compound when the next great opportunity comes along. The market will always give you another opportunity! The question is whether you'll still have the capital (and the confidence) to take it. Happy 4th & God bless!

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Immediately kill. Swing trading is like Tinder dating if action does not start after entry just run. Find another Tinder date. Never hesitate to get out if trade is not working.

There are different headlines every day. Our job is to focus on what's in control. Stick to price and switch off noise. It pays to follow the price. Videshi PF is doing well compared to Desi PF. 🤞 Reason - I sleep.

Most want to teach. Few have the discipline to execute. I’m still building mine.