Season 2, Episode 37 | 2026-05-12
EP37 | The Tanmay Edge
Brent cracked 105 overnight. The escalation lane fired. GIFT Nifty opened down 117. India 10Y bid 7 basis points. Yesterday Pro flipped net calls from 58737 long to 30428 short in one session.
Cold Open | Two Trades In One Expiry Day
Brent cracked 105 overnight. The escalation lane has fired. GIFT Nifty is down 117 points. India 10-year bond yield is 7 basis points up. The chain wrote the pin at 23800 yesterday. Then Brent priced something else. Two trades in one expiry day. Wall first. IV first. Pin second. Expiry is not going to be easy today. This is The Tanmay Edge. EP37. Tanmay Kurtkoti. Let's go.
Three Numbers Run This Open
Brent 105.33 on international print, up 1.07 percent overnight. The escalation trigger fired clean. WTI also up 1.2 and trading just below the 100 dollar mark. Both pricing fresh Iran tail risk after Trump rejected the peace response Monday. GIFT Nifty 23670, down almost 120 points. Gap down 0.5 against Monday close 23815. We open inside the wing floor. The chain priced 23550 to 24070 last night. 23670 is 100 points inside the band. US already cracked records and held. Dow futures flat. S&P up 13. Nasdaq up 27. Above all-time highs by a hair but flat overnight. US is shrugging at oil. India is…
Asia Split + Yields + Rupee At Record Low
Asia split. Nikkei plus 0.42. Hang Seng plus 0.33. Taiwan flat. KOSPI minus 1.5. Jakarta minus 0.47. Oil importers got punished. India sits with them. India 10-year bond yield 7.03 up 7 basis points overnight from 6.96. US 10-year up to 4.43 modestly. Dollar Index 98.12. USD/INR 95.31, record low set Monday stays in place. Sub-95 stays broken. This is a tape that says risk-off in pockets and pin-pull in others. The oil pricing wins this morning.
Pro Flipped | The Wall Is An Instruction
Yesterday Pro flipped net calls from 58000 long Friday to 30000 short Monday. 89000 contracts moved in one direction. Biggest single-day participation we have seen in recent times. Pro is the desk. Pros is the proprietary traders of members. Pro reads order flow before anything else. When Pro flips like this, the wall at 24000 is not a forecast. It is an instruction. FII added 48000 short calls on top of that. FII bought 26000 more puts. FII sold 8438 crores. Biggest single day in 20 sessions. Cumulative FII sell crossed minus 50000 crores. DII absorbed around 5940 crores. Did not fill the hol…
Chain Map | 24000 Wall, 23800 Pin, 23500 Floor
24000 is the wall. 1 crore 23 lakh call OI on Monday close. Almost 1 crore added in one single session. Friday OI was 21 lakhs. Monday close was 1.23 crores. Wall multiplied 6x in one session. Biggest single-strike write of the week. 23800 is the pin. Combined call plus put OI 9.51 million. Highest of any strike. Deepest negative gamma cluster of the chain. This is where the chain wants spot at 15:30. 23500 is the deep floor. Put OI 1 crore. Added 21 lakhs Monday. The fence the chain wrote bigger than 23800 in one session. ATR-2 buy zone if the morning escalation extends.
Wing Math + Two Halves Of Expiry
ATM 23800 straddle 205. Call 132 plus put 73. Wing 260 each side. Expiry range 23550 to 24070. GIFT 23670 opens 111 points above wing floor. 400 points below the 24000 ceiling. We start inside the band. First half. Brent 105 plus gap-down plus yields bid means IV expansion. VIX 18.51 Monday close. Tuesday morning prints higher first. Premium sellers cannot work this leg. 23700 PE catches a bid if spot tests 23600. Long gamma trade kicks in. Second half. The pin. Gravity wins. 23800 has the highest OI on the chain. Theta accelerates after noon. Magnet pulls. Pro defends 24000 wall and 23500 flo…
Sector Tape + The Rotation Read
Pharma held in green. CNX Pharma Strong Buy. Healthcare Strong Buy. Defensives caught the bid. Cyclicals broke. Finance broke down completely. CNX Finance Strong Sell. The long carry leg from Bank Nifty is gone. Banks lead the down move on Iran-tail days. Infra broke. Energy broke. Metals broke. CNX200 CNX500 broad market selling off. FMCG flipped to Buy. The defensive rotation is complete. The read. Sell rallies in cyclicals into the 24000 wall. Pin trade in the second half plays the rotation. Defensives sit. Cyclicals speed. The wall is the cap on the rip.
POV + Education | Same Put Two Jobs Continues
Buy the 23700 put. Yesterday 23800 put roll it down to 23700. If spot tests 23650 in the first hour. Hold the wing trade until VIX peaks out. Then flip. Sell the 23700 put plus the 23900 call. Strangle around 12:30 PM if spot recovers to 23800. Cover before 3 PM. Do not hold strangle into the last 30 to 45 minutes. Lesson. Expiry day is two markets. Not one. Morning market sells volatility wrong. The first half belongs to gamma. Brent above 105 means dealer hedging is unbalanced. IV expands fast. Premium sellers get crushed in the first 90 minutes. Be long gamma. Buy puts on dip. Pay the IV. A…
Highlights
- Brent 105.33 plus 1.07 percent overnight | escalation trigger fired clean
- WTI just below 100 plus 1.2 percent | Trump rejected peace response Monday
- GIFT Nifty 23670 minus 120 vs Mon close 23815 | gap-down 0.5 percent
- Chain priced 23550 to 24070 wing | GIFT opens 100 pts inside band
- US Dow flat | S&P plus 13 | Nasdaq plus 27 | both ATH plus by a hair
- Asia split | Nikkei plus 0.42 | KOSPI minus 1.5 | Jakarta minus 0.47 oil importer pain
- India 10Y 7.03 up 7 bps from 6.96 | US 10Y 4.43 | DXY 98.12 | USD/INR 95.31 record low
- Pro flipped net calls 58737 long Fri to 30428 short Mon | 89000 contract rotation S2 biggest
- FII added 48000 short calls | bought 26000 long puts | sold 8438 Cr cash biggest 20 sessions
- Cumulative FII sell crossed minus 50000 Cr | DII absorbed plus 5940 Cr
- Client extended long | added 138000 calls | wrote 26000 puts | max optimism vs Pro flip
- 24000 wall 12345000 CE OI | 10000000 added in one session | Friday was 2100000 only
- 23800 pin 9510000 combined CE plus PE OI | highest of chain | deepest negative gamma
- 23500 deep floor 10000000 PE OI | 2100000 added Mon | chain wrote bigger than 23800
- ATM 23800 straddle 205 | CE 132 plus PE 73 | wing 260 each side | range 23550 to 24070
- VIX 18.51 Mon close | first half IV expands | premium sellers crushed first 90 minutes
- Sector rotation | Pharma Strong Buy | Healthcare Strong Buy | FMCG flipped Buy | Finance Strong Sell
- Two halves expiry | first half long gamma buy puts on dip | second half short gamma sell strangle
- POV | buy 23700 PE | flip to 23700 PE plus 23900 CE strangle 12:30 | cover before 3 PM
- RC Nifty 10 dropped SBIN Mon | SBIN minus 4.52 | drag saved 0.45 pct | Day-0 alpha plus 0.51
Transcript Excerpt
A very good morning guys. Brent cracked 105 overnight. The escalation lane has fired. GIFT Nifty is down 117 points. India's 10-year bond yield is 7 basis points up. The chain wrote the pin at 23800 yesterday. Then Brent priced something else. Two trades in one expiry day. Wall first. IV first. Pin second. Expiry is not going to be easy today. This is The Tanmay Edge. India's pre-market edge. I am Tanmay Kurtkoti. Season 2, episode 37. Let's go. Three numbers run this open. Brent is trading at 105.33 on international print, up 1.07 percent overnight. The escalation trigger fired clean. Crude oil WTI also went up by 1.2 and is trading just below the 100 dollar mark. Both pricing fresh Iran tail risk after Trump rejected the peace response on Monday. GIFT Nifty is down almost 120 points trading around 23670. Gap down of 0.5 against Monday's close of 23815. We open inside the wing floor. The chain priced 23550 on the downside to 24070 on the upside last night. 23670 is 100 points inside the band. US already cracked the records and held. Dow futures is flat. S&P was up by 13 points. Nasdaq was up by 27 points. Above all-time highs by a hair but flat overnight. US is shrugging at oil. India is the importer. And that is where it hurts us. Asia is split this morning. Nikkei is up by 0.42 percent. Hang Seng is up by 0.33 percent. Taiwan flat. KOSPI is down by 1.5 percent. Jakarta is down by 0.47 percent. The oil importers got punished. India is getting punished and India sits with them. Yields are up on India as well. So bond yields on India's 10-year bond is trading at 7.03 up 7 basis points overnight from 6.96. US 10-year yield is up to 4.43 modestly. Dollar Index at 98.12 and USD INR at 95.31 stays at record low set on Monday. Sub-95 stays broken on USD INR. This is a tape that says risk-off in pockets and pin-pull in others. The oil pricing wins this morning. Now read what happens in the chain. Yesterday Pro flipped net calls from 58000 long on Friday to 30000 short on …
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