
Episode #108
S2Ep108 | The Carpet Got Ripped Up | First Higher Close In 8 Days, 200 Lakh Calls Covered, PCR Crosses 1 | 69 Lakh Puts March On 24200, Max Pain Climbs To 24250 | Pros Flip Long, FII Sells The Rally | Oil 94, Gold Record, Nasdaq -1% | Gap Into 24300
The first higher close in eight sessions, and it came with a full structure flip. Episode 108 walks the entire board, strike by strike, and then puts a plan on record for a gap-up that lands exactly on resistance. Thursday's tape: Nifty 24,231.85, up 153.55 points (+0.64%), the first higher close after seven straight lower ones, with breadth of 39 advances to 10 declines and 304 of the Nifty 500 green. The Sensex added 628.04 to 77,537.72. India VIX crushed 4.5% to 10.81. Media +2.13%, Realty +1.41%, Capital Markets +1.36%, financials green across the board. The structure flip, from NSE BhavCopy: the 200 lakh call carpet mapped a day earlier got ripped up in one session. 68 lakh calls covered at 24100 alone, 27 lakh at 24200, 23 lakh at 24500. Behind the price, put writers advanced: 69 lakh fresh puts at 24200 (now 133 lakh, the new front-line support), 27 to 29 lakh added each at 23800, 23900 and 24300, and the 24000 support now holds 163.5 lakh puts, the biggest single strike of the cycle. The put call ratio went 0.70 to 1.097, above 1 for the first time this cycle, and max pain climbed from 24200 to 24250, a rising magnet. The one standard deviation map: front-week implied at 7.9%, back at the floor of the whole arc. Daily 1SD about 100 points (24132 to 24332), to Tuesday's expiry about 225 points (24008 to 24456), straddle-implied 23975 to 24490. The math and the board agree: the week's expected battlefield is 24000 to 24450. The participants, from official NSE data: proprietary desks added 81,000 calls, flipped index futures long, and added 70,000 puts as protection, a positioned-long book. Foreign institutions covered 80,000 call shorts (the rally's fuel) and trimmed 93,000 puts, but kept 2.12 lakh futures shorts and sold 583 crore of cash into the rally. Retail dumped 1.62 lakh calls into the first green day while still holding 6.91 lakh uncovered short puts. Domestic institutions bought 3,538 crore, their fourth big cheque, cumulative past 43,000 crore. The model corner: the system flipped to buy at 24,210.95 and projected 24,227.97; the close printed 24,231.85, four points away, the fourth straight projection hit. Expiry pin projection drifts toward 24250 to 24300 by Tuesday if oil behaves. The morning's tug of war: GIFT points to a +90 gap landing exactly on the 24300 resistance, against Nasdaq -1%, Brent near 94 dollars (the third leg: 88, 92, 94), gold at another record 4,543, and the Indian 10 year jumping to 6.87%. The plan on record: BUY ON DIPS. Buy zones toward 24200 and 24150, deep zone 24000 to 24010 where the biggest put base and the 1SD floor stack together. Stop on a close below 24100. Resistance 24300 to 24326, then 24450 to 24500. Riders: oil through 95 and US follow-through selling. Sources: NSE, BSE, SEBI, NSDL, CDSL disclosures. Educational content, not investment advice. QCAlpha Advisers has applied for SEBI Research Analyst registration. Back tests referenced start January 2021 and do not guarantee future returns. The Tanmay Edge drops every trading day at 8:30 AM IST. Streams first on rupeecase.com . Share it with one trader friend who needs it today






