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News, product updates and guides from the DalRoti team.
Automation safety, from the morning checklist to the unexpected fill
A running strategy needs watching in a particular way. What to monitor, when to pause and when to stop, why a kill switch is different from both, how broker session expiry catches people out, a morning checklist, and what to do after a fill you did not expect.
Trading India and global markets together
Indian and global sessions overlap for part of the day and diverge for the rest. How to think about the clock, the currency your account is in, the links between gold, crude, USD-INR and Indian contracts, and keeping one view across all of it.
Indicators used systematically, with EMA, Supertrend and RSI as examples
An indicator is only useful in a system once it is written as a rule with a defined comparison. How to turn EMA, Supertrend and RSI into rules, choose parameters without fooling yourself, confirm across timeframes, and avoid stacking.
Why a trade journal changes outcomes
A journal turns a vague sense of how trading is going into evidence you can act on. What to record, how to review by setup and by time of day, what best and worst days tell you, and why the notes have to be honest.
Option chains for beginners
Strikes, calls and puts, expiry, premium, lot size, and the difference between intrinsic and time value, in plain words. What to check on the chain before placing any options order, with no strategy recommendations.
Indian market hours, expiries and MCX evenings
When NSE, BSE, the currency segment and MCX are open, how weekly and monthly expiries, lot sizes and freeze quantities work, and what a closed market means for a strategy that runs on its own.
From idea to live, a step-by-step path for a trading rule
Write the rule, backtest it, paper trade it, run it small, review it, then scale. Six gates between a trading idea and real money, and what has to be true before you pass each one.
Position sizing and daily loss limits
Fixed lots and risk per trade answer different questions, and an automated system needs a daily stop more than a human does. How to size one strategy, and how to size several running at once.
Backtesting pitfalls and how to read a backtest honestly
Overfitting, look-ahead bias, survivorship bias, missing costs and too few trades are the five ways a backtest flatters a rule. Here is what each one looks like and how to read a result without fooling yourself.
Algorithmic trading explained for discretionary traders
What a trading rule really is, what automation takes off your plate, what it leaves with you, and why discretionary experience is the raw material for a good system rather than something you give up.
Risk controls built into DalRoti, from LockMe to kill switches and 2FA
A tour of the controls that protect an account from its owner and from the unexpected, including LockMe account locks, kill switches for strategies and copier groups, daily loss and order limits, the quote-age safeguard on one-click trading, and two-factor sign-in with device sessions.
Copy trading and Mentors on DalRoti, from following to the trade copier
How following a mentor works, what a chart call contains, one-tap copy, mentor-led copying, the master-to-follower trade copier with its sizing rules and safety limits, the reasons a copy is skipped, live streaming basics and the disclosures involved.
The strategy builder and backtesting, from first block to first result
How DalRoti's no-code strategy builder works, from templates and indicator conditions to position sizing, time windows and candle-close checks, then how to run a backtest, read the results and understand why backtest and live differ.
Scanner and Screener turn a market into a short list
The Scanner runs rule-based scans over a universe such as NSE large caps, F&O or MCX and lists what matches; the Screener filters instruments by rules. This post explains how to build, save and read a scan, and how results feed a watchlist or a strategy.
Alerts and Market Pulse let the terminal watch the screen for you
Price alerts from the chart, strategy alerts, delivery in-app, by push, Telegram or WhatsApp, the notification preferences that control them, and what the Market Pulse board shows about breadth and open-interest build-ups.
Global markets on the same screen as your Indian ones
Forex, metals, energy, US stocks and crypto sit next to NSE and MCX symbols on DalRoti, each global row naming its price source. This post covers the data, the MT5 and global broker connections, and how trading sessions differ across markets.
Connecting your Indian broker to DalRoti
How to link Zerodha Kite, Dhan, Upstox, Angel One or another Indian broker, why some need a login every trading day, why live NSE, BSE and MCX prices come through your own broker, and what the Test, reconnect and Dedicated IP controls do.
Paper trading on DalRoti, practising at live prices before you risk money
The DalRoti Paper account fills simulated orders at live prices with no real money. This post covers what it simulates, what it cannot, how to reset a practice session and how to move a strategy from paper to a live account.
Finding any instrument fast with DalRoti symbol search
One search box covers every market on DalRoti. This post shows the segment tabs, the shortcut words for commodities, how to type an options or futures contract directly, and what the Tradable and Chart only tags mean.
Watchlists that work the way you trade
How DalRoti watchlists hold Indian, global and crypto symbols side by side, what each row shows when a market is open or closed, and the keyboard habits that keep a list tidy.