Video Series

Agora's Trading Playbook

5 videos

Agora's own frameworks for reading the market and executing with discipline. Each entry turns a specific execution mistake or setup into a clear, repeatable rule you can apply.

TastyTrade Ke Founder Tom Sosnoff Ki 11 Strategies | India Mein Kaam Karengi Ya Nahi?

Most retail options traders in India spend their attention on the next indicator or setup, so this video asks why a trader with 44 years and more than 10 lakh executed trades behind him described his most profitable strategies as the boring ones. It works through eleven options selling strategies associated with Tom Sosnoff, the former Chicago floor trader who built Thinkorswim and TastyTrade, covering the short put, jade lizard, covered call, bull put spread, put ratio, bear call spread, butterfly, iron condor, short strangle, pairs trading and mean reversion. For each one the mechanics come first, then the reason it works, then the part that matters most for an Indian viewer: whether it survives weekly expiry, gap risk and SEBI margin requirements. The short strangle gets particular attention, since it is credited with close to 70 percent of Sosnoff's career profit, and it is also the structure the host is least willing to copy directly, because a single gap day can tie up a whole account. The closing position is to take the way of thinking, probability rather than prediction, and to treat the specific setups as something to adapt rather than import.

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The Resistance Level Mistake Every Trader Makes

Most intraday traders assume their losses come from a weak strategy, the wrong indicator, or a scanner that missed the move, so they spend months swapping one system for another and never get closer to consistency. This video makes a sharper argument: with roughly seven in ten Indian intraday traders ending the year down, the real leak is almost never the entry, it is everything that happens after it. Execution, not selection, is where good trades quietly turn into losing ones. It walks through five execution mistakes in order. The first is misreading the famous advice to let your winners run, professionals ride genuine momentum while retail traders ride hope, holding long after the edge that justified the trade has already evaporated. The second is adding risk at exactly the wrong time, averaging into a losing position without any new information, which increases exposure precisely when the statistics are turning against you rather than for you. The third is re-entering or trading without confirmation, ignoring market depth, volume, and open interest that would tell you whether the move is real. The fourth is overriding clear warning signs, such as three red bars against your position, because you have already decided how the trade should go. The fifth is refusing to book profits into obvious resistance, letting a winner round-trip back to breakeven or worse. The closing reframe is practical and humbling: pull up your last twenty trades and look only at the exit column. That single review, the video argues, reveals more about why you are losing than months of strategy research ever could, because none of these are setup problems and all of them are fixable.

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Kal Kya Trade Karun? | Yeh Poochna Chhodo, Ye Karo

Most traders treat the opening range breakout as a buy or sell signal on its own, and that is exactly why it fails them. This video reframes ORB as an information and timing tool rather than a standalone strategy, and walks through the full professional workflow that surrounds it, from the previous market close to the next morning's entry. The preparation starts after 3:30, not at 9:15: building a stock-in-play watchlist using an eight-point filter that looks at F&O availability, a meaningful percentage move, a volume spike, daily ATR, open-interest buildup, price range, relative strength, and liquidity. The next layer is market regime, reading Gift Nifty and overnight sentiment to judge whether tomorrow is more likely a trend day or a range day. From there the trader plans for several scenarios instead of predicting one direction, and decides where the idea is wrong before sizing anything. The sequence matters: invalidation first, then risk, then quantity, with targets drawn from supply and demand zones rather than arbitrary percentages. Only at the end does ORB act as a final confirmation filter. The takeaway is that the same chart, the same indicators, and the same opening range can produce completely different results depending on the preparation and context a trader brings to them. A disciplined process, not the signal itself, is what creates the edge.

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The One Check Every ORB Trader Skips | Opening Range Breakout

Most opening range breakout traders have already lost the trade before the market even opens, and not because of a bad entry or a badly placed stop, but because every single morning they ask the wrong question. The moment the clock hits nine fifteen they open the chart and start hunting for the ORB high, the ORB low, and the next breakout, when the question that actually matters is whether today is even a breakout day at all. This episode makes the argument that ORB is not broken, it is a trend day strategy that traders keep running on range days and balance days, the exact conditions it was never built for, and that mismatch is what quietly drains the account. The fix is a market regime checklist you can run before and just after the open, reading Gift Nifty gaps, event days such as central bank policy and inflation data, India VIX treated as a regime signal rather than a number, the size and personality of the first hour range, how price behaves around VWAP, and overall market breadth. The deeper reframe is about sequence. Struggling traders see a breakout and assume a trend, professionals establish the trend first using higher timeframe zones and a stock in play filter and only then decide whether the fifteen minute breakout even deserves a trade. In that professional order the breakout is never the trigger, it is the final confirmation that everything else has already lined up, volume, breadth, VWAP acceptance, and room on the higher timeframe. Same chart, same indicators, same opening range, and yet a completely different result, because the edge was never the breakout itself, it was the context you read before you ever took it.

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ORB Wahi Strategy | Market Badal Chuki Hai

You marked the opening range, waited for the breakout, took the entry, and then your stop hit just before the market ran in the exact direction you predicted. This video argues that the opening-range breakout is not broken, but the market around it has fundamentally changed. ORB has roots in 1960s American markets, a world with no algorithms, no weekly expiry, and no machine execution. Today the same level is visible to everyone at once: retail traders, Telegram groups, YouTube, and algos. That shared visibility is precisely why liquidity piles up around the obvious breakout level, and why price is so often pushed just far enough to trigger a wave of stops before reversing. The uncomfortable reframe is that many ORB traders are not executing an edge so much as providing liquidity for someone else. The real problem is not high-frequency trading or expiry in isolation; it is that traders hunt for a clean breakout every single day in a market that does not produce one every day. The lesson is to trade the breakout selectively, on the days the market actually offers one, rather than forcing the same template onto every session.

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