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You are ahead, but the evidence of an edge is weak
Over 135 trades (2025-06-13 to 2026-10-15) you kept ₹63,920 after ₹70,467 in estimated charges. The biggest leak below cost you ₹1,60,241.
The gain is small against the swings from trade to trade. A run like this turns up by chance often enough that it proves little yet.
The test behind it: the gains are too uneven to separate from luck (steadiness 0.64 per day; 1.5 is the least that counts as moderate evidence).
Read it top to bottom: the verdict, then the fixes worth the most money, then where the money went. Everything after that is the detail behind those.
Weakest: Costs. Every lost point, with its reason and rupees, is in the full audit.
If you had no edge at all, a per-day gain this large would still turn up by chance more often than not. Take out what NIFTY did while each trade was open and the same trades average +0.127 % per day.
The whole book as one: 135 trades on 59 symbols (56 long, 79 short), Futures. Read from a broker tradebook. Each strategy is also graded on its own further down.
Charges are estimated: each trade's own turnover at today's statutory rates (2026-10 (STT per Budget 2026, eff 1-Apr-2026)) plus the brokerage you set, no slippage added since your fills already carry it. Your broker's contract notes are the actual figure; if the file carries them, the audit uses those instead.
Fix these first
The rupee figures on these cards overlap: one trade can sit in a losing name, a big-loss day and the charges at once. They are the size of each leak, not savings that add up.
Ten trades are 43 % of all your losses-₹1.60 L
Your ten worst trades lost ₹1,60,241 of the ₹3,69,336 lost in all. The three worst: 2026-06-24 HDFCBANK26JUNFUT Futures, same-day, short, morning (09:45-12:00) (-₹31,785); 2025-11-12 HDFCBANK25NOVFUT Futures, same-day, long, morning (09:45-12:00) (-₹16,189); 2025-07-25 RELIANCE25JULFUT Futures, same-day, short, morning (09:45-12:00) (-₹16,002).
Next: Read these ten before anything else. What they share -- a name, a strategy, a hold, a size, a day -- is your first rule; the rest of the book is noise next to them.
3 days cost you 20 % of all your losses-₹75 k
A typical losing day costs ₹5,989; these lost at least three times that: 2026-06-24 (-₹31,785); 2025-11-12 (-₹23,995); 2026-07-28 (-₹18,830).
Next: The book is decided on a handful of days. A daily loss limit at about twice the typical losing day would have cut these; test it on the next month before trusting it.
Costs take 52 % of what you make-₹70 k
Each trade makes +0.168 % before costs and pays 0.063 % in charges and slippage. If your real fills are a little worse than modelled -- twice the costs -- the average day loses money (-0.005 %).
Next: A trade should make at least two to three times its cost. Check the brokerage you entered, and if your fills are worse than the default slippage, believe the doubled-costs line. The fix is more profit per trade, not more trades: every extra trade pays the same charges.
6 more findings in the full audit
Your biggest trades lose · Futures, same-day, short, morning (09:45-12:00) cost you ₹8,429 on 58 trades, won 60 % · Not enough trades yet to tell · Futures, same-day, long, morning (09:45-12:00) loses while the rest carry the book · The drawdown was 15 % of capital · Expect a losing run of at least 6 trades.
Where your money went
Costs ate 52 % of the gross profit.
Month by month
Running total
what you had kept, by exit day how far below your best point you were
More numbers
How this was read
How this was read
- broker tradebook: 247 fills matched FIFO per instrument into 135 round trips
- no strategy column: trades were grouped into 4 trade types by segment, hold, side and entry time (fewer than 8 trades folded into 'other'); name your own strategies in the report to grade each one
- costs in rupees from each trade's own turnover: statutory stack (2026-10 (STT per Budget 2026, eff 1-Apr-2026)) + brokerage Rs 20 per order + GST; no slippage added -- real fills carry it in the price
- MARKET-NEUTRAL: each trade minus the NIFTY move over its hold, signed for its side (a same-day trade uses the previous close -> close, a proxy for an intraday window)
- MARGIN per trade = Stock futures 20.0 % of turnover (echoing the measured fractions behind this audit) -- ASSUMED; your broker's margin statement is the truth
Not checked here
- Whether the rules used any information that was not available at the moment of the trade (look-ahead). Only you can confirm this.
- Whether these exact trades were chosen after trying many variants. A strategy picked as the best of 50 needs a far higher bar.
- Fills: limit orders that would not have filled, circuit limits, and impact on thin names are not modelled beyond the slippage line.
- Margin, leverage and position sizing: returns are per trade on its own turnover.