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Intraday Index Options Trading by Degree Gann Number System Buying
Intraday Index Options Trading by Degree Gann Number System Buying
Ninad Desshmukh
This book is dedicated to
W.D.Gann
whose work is a great inspiration for stock market traders & researchers.
I would also like to thank my family members and friends. Without their support my journey to
fulfil my dreams would not have been possible
Contents
Title Page
Dedication
Introduction
Annexure
Introduction
Option trading is becoming very popular in India especially intraday options
trading (buying/selling/scalping). All new comers/beginners want to trade
option in the stock market. But options are heavily leveraged trading
instrument and hence a double edged sword. If trade goes in your favor you
can make huge profits with small capital (in case of buying options) in a
very little time. But chances of losses are also big if the trade is not managed
properly.
Most of the traders do not have a proper system to trade options. When they
take trade, they keep a very wide Stop Loss in arbitrary manner such as
30%-50-% of entry price. When trade goes wrong they lose heavily and also
do not able to get into trade on the opposite side as our mental bias is
towards the side of trade taken and even we see reversal we wait for stop
loss to hit instead of exiting the trade and taking trade on opposite side.
When the trade goes in favor, most of the traders quickly exit just to see
option price making huge move in the favor or when in good profit do not
exit and next few minutes all profit wiped out as option price quickly drops
even with small adverse move (in case of options buying) and then exit in
not much profit or even in a loss. So basically they do not have a mechanism
to trail the profits using Trailing Stop Loss.
This system can be used for trading instruments such as Stocks (cash &
futures), Indices (futures), Commodities, Currencies, Cryptos, etc. I applied
this system on Options Strike Price and found extremely effective.
This system does not provide directional view for a trade .
It is a mechanism that helps you manage your trade in the most effective
manner. When applied to Intraday Options Trading, it will help you manage
your options trade in very efficient and effective manner.
2. Follows the rule of Cutting Losses quickly and Let Run the Profits
https://ninad-indicator.blogspot.com/2017/02/classic-example-of-using-gann-nos-for.html
I also use this system for trading stocks and other instruments.
I am not aware if anybody follows such system. Till date I have not came across anybody
using such system especially for options trading.
(DGN System)
The figure-1 shown below is W.D. Gann’s Square of Nine (SQ9). This SQ9
is actually arrangement of numbers from 1 onwards in a Pyramid format.
The yellow highlighted lines shown by 0-180 and 90-270 are called Cardinal
lines and 45-225 & 135-315 are called Ordinal lines.
These lines are degree lines of 0, 45, 90, 135, 180, 225, 270, and 315. We
will arrange these 8 degree lines drawn from centre under 4 degree lines by
merging
1. 0 & 180 as 180 degree line
Then we will arrange numbers under each degree line in ascending order as
shown in the figure-2. So our Degree Gann Number System is ready for use.
We will call it DGN System.
Applying DGN System
OR
If your view is bearish and & if you are option seller then you may wish to
sell 15700CE
But before you take trade in 15700CE, we need to use our DGN system to
identify and assign one of the 4 degrees to 15700CE
Open the 5-min/1-min option price chart of strike price that you wish to
trade with as much days data as possible.
Continuing with example of 15700CE, here is 5-min normal price chart & 4-
charts of 15700CE (Chart No:-1 to Chart No:-5) with each degree lines
drawn on it (I created a template of each degree & saved on my broker’s
trading platform. I just applied those templates to find degree).
Looking at charts, I observe that 180-degree lines have mostly acted as
supports and resistance. So I will assign 180 degree to 15700CE.
With lot of practice one can quickly and correctly assign degree to an option
strike price.
Note: Each option strike price of different expiry will have its own
degree.
1. 5-6 Out of the Money (OTM) option strikes for PEs and CEs
This is to make sure that you are always having degree assigned to ATM
/near OTM / ITM PEs & CEs even with the movement of Index (even with
big gap up/down).
CEs:- 14750/14800/14850/14900/14950/15000/15050/15100/15150/15200
PEs:- 15000/14950/14900/14850/14800/14750/14700/14650/14600
One can note down the degree assigned to option strike price in the Option
Degree Table (Table Template is attached in Annexure)
Options Trading Set Up
1. Entry Price
4. Trailing SL method
When you identified a trade in the Index, based on your (Technical) analysis
& wish to take a trade in the Index option, for example say in Nifty Index
option based on following 5-min Nifty chart (Chart No:-6).
On Apr-05-2021 opening @ 9.15 am, price broke the upward trending
channel, showing possibility of bearish move.
Now let us take a look at Nifty 14900PE 1-min chart (Chart No:-7) (Weekly
expiry – Apr-08-2021) option chart. Based on our DGN system, we
identified this option strike price as 180-degree. So it follows price levels of
106, 127, 151, 176, 204 & so on (Numbers from 180 degree in DGN system
table)
The 14900PE option price opens above 160 @ 9.15 am, but retest Degree
Gann Number (DGN) of 151. So we can enter in the price range of 151-160.
So let us consider entry at Rs 155.
Next step is to put Stop Loss (SL). For this, we will again refer to DGN
table.
Our entry price DGN is 151. So we will look for lower numbers in the table
(not in 180 degree). These numbers are 145 and 139. We can use these
numbers as reference point to arrive at our SL.
In deciding SL we have to take into consideration volatility in the market.
You can use this improvisation or simply use lowest level of 137.
In case you do not like to enter at the opening of the market and normally
look for trade opportunity after for 15-30 minutes after opening you can
avoid this trade and can take trade when 9.50 am candle broke triangle
pattern. In that case you could have entered @ 220-225 range or above DGN
of 233 after the option price also broke triangle pattern with SL @ 216.
2. If you have target for Index for the trade then exit when target is achieved
or use strict TSL near Index target levels
In the 2 nd scenario, you can have idea of what is likely price for your option
strike near Index target price based on other option strike price.
If we enter the trade after retesting, it was at 33410 levels and if we observe
support levels, a possible target for Banknifty was at 33200 levels. So, 200
points down move was expected from our entry levels.
Now let us take a look at 33500PE 1-min chart (Chart No:-9) (Apr-01-2021
expiry). The entry price for option when Banknifty gave trade was 370. To
get target for this option strike for 200 points down move in Banknifty, we
will check price of option strike 33700PE (Option strike price 200 points up
from 33500PE of same expiry). Take a look at 1-min chart of 33700PE
(Chart No:-10). The price of this option when we made entry in 33500PE at
370 was at 490.
Banknifty 33500PE was of 180-degree. So DGN near 490 is 471. So for
33500PE target will be in the range of 471-490.
If you see 33500PE chart the move ended near 490-492 level. So we got
exact target based on other option price.
I always prefer to trail SL to ride the move unless I see the reversal of
the TREND!
When option price touches/cross next DGN level, trail SL to just below 2 nd
lower number(from other degree) below this DGN level. For example, in our
trade, when 14900PE option reaches 176 levels, we trail SL to 2-points
below 163 @ 161.
Continue trailing SL in this way whenever option price reaches next DGN
level to ride the trend until your target on Index is achieved.
In our 14900PE trade, if we put TSL in this way, TSL would hit at 350 as
price reached DGN of 371 (not reached exact 371) as shown in (Chart
No:-11)
Note: - We have to consider 2-3 points’ tolerance as sometimes it may
not touch exact DGN level before reversing or sometimes even option
chart does not show accurate prices.
You can again enter the trade if your analysis suggests further movement in
Index or your Index target is not achieved. So here we can again enter
14900PE above 334 with SL at 314 (if you are aggressive trader) or above
371 with SL at 350. You can exit at DGN level of 452 as Index target is
achieved or TSL would hit at 429 (Chart No:-12).
So by using DGN system to trail SL, we are able to ride the trend & at the
same time covering profits in option trade.
5. Risk-Reward-Ratio (RRR) :-
So for our 14900PE trade, Entry was 155 and SL was 137. So it was 18
points SL. So we need 18*3=54 points profit for RRR of 1:3 as target.
So our price target for 14900PE option should be 155+54=209, say 210.
It is 5-6 points above our DGN level of 204. So our target range based
on RRR will be 204-210.
RRR = 18:195 = 1: 11
If we are interested in selling an option then we sell call option (CE). Here I
am taking 14700CE which is ITM (Chart No:-13) (You can choose ATM or
OTM options for selling). Nifty 14700PE (Apr-08-2021 expiry) was 180-
degree option strike.
The option price opens at Rs.200 on Apr-05-2021 at 9.15 am. It retests DGN
of 204. So we can sell at 204-200 range, say at 200, with SL just above 218
(Check DGN Table) @ 220 as per our DGN system (As we are selling, our
SL will at higher price than sell price).
It reaches 176 (Next DGN), so we will trail SL to Just above 190 @ 192. It
gets hit as price bounce back to 198 levels. So we will again sell 14700PE
when it crosses 176, @ 167, with SL @ 192. We can see from the option
chart (Chart No:-14), that using TSL by DGN systems we will be able to
ride till option price reach DGN of 69. So we can exit @ 69 as Index reached
its target or our TSL would hit @ 79.
Trade Details:-
Note: In case of selling options keeping SL/TSL above 1 DGN level will
be more effective way of trading. For above trade keeping SL @ 235
and then TSL @ 206/178/153/129/108/88.
If we use SL above 1-DGN level then trade would have been turned out as
shown in the chart (Chart No:-15).
Trade Details:-
Buying Options
Selling Options
(III):- Scalping Options:-
Scalping is a technique where we buy/sell large quantity of options for a
very small quick profits and the trade is normally hold for less than 5 min
(actually most of the time not more than 1-minute).
The Risk Reward Ratio is important and normally skewed towards Risk i.e.
higher risk for less profit. By using DGN system, we can use RRR of 1.5:1
for scalping. So for a risk of Rs.20/- profit target is Rs.14-15/-
When Banknifty broke lower trend line @ 11.31 am, 35900PE option price
was very near to price resistance level of 316 (90-degree DGN). So we will
not enter into the trade and will wait for price to break 316 levels.
At 11.40 am candle 35900PE broke the 316 levels and we will enter in that
candle approximately @ Rs.318-320. We will keep SL 2 point below our
DGN level of 298. So SL will be @ 296.
For next 5-min option price does not move much. So either we will exit @
11.45 am candle with no loss/profit or we will hold as price action shows
Lower High Lower Low pattern.
For selling options for scalping, here I am taking example of 35900CE (You
can choose out of money options for selling).
At 11.4 am candle we can re-enter @ 380 with SL little above previous high
of 395 @ 397 (Or you can keep SL @ 403). We will exit @ 11.54 am @ 357
as Banknifty made a doji candle that shows possibility of reversal. This is a
successful scalp trade as we are able to make more than 14-15 points in
profits.
At next candle, of 12.49 pm, Option price cross our target level of 352. It
makes a high of 358 and close just below 352. So either we exit or hold on
as price closed near 352 expecting further up move. Next candle price does
not cross high of 358 and again close below 352 so we will exit at the close
of 12.50 pm candle @ 352-350 levels.
For the same move of Banknifty we can sell option of 35900CE for scalping
trade. At 12.46 pm candle, option price cross 361 level (Chart No:-26). So
we can enter in the 12.46 pm candle @ 359 with SL @ 383.
We will exit @ 12.51 pm candle @ 335-337 as it reverses sharply.
In next 1-min candle, option price reaches to next DGN of option strike @
307. This is our criterion for not exiting scalping trade and to ride the trend
using TSL. So if option price covers entry DGN to next DGN in 1-min (with
tolerance of 2-3 points) we hold the scalping trade using TSL with DGN
system.
So when price reaches 307 levels, we can put TSL @ 287 (2-points below
289). But we entered trade @ 280 and we should at least cover our first
target of 15 points, so we will keep TSL @ 295. When price cross 325-DGN
from other degree, we keep TSL @ 305. When price cross 343 levels we
change TSL to 323.
At 10.41 am candle option price cross DGN of 343 but close just below it.
So we will wait for next candle. The 10.42 am candle did not cross high of
previous candle and also close very near to 343 levels. So either we can exit
here @ 340-342 or wait as there is good momentum.
The 10.43 am candle breaks 361 levels but close much below 361, so we
should exit at the close of this candle @ 355
So instead of exiting quickly in scalping trade, here we use TSL to ride the
trend and ended making much higher profits (75-points) than 15-25 points.
This is very good profits for scalping trade as we are using high quantity for
scalping (1000+ no for Banknifty options or 2000+ no for Nifty options)
The 10.41 am candle broke DGN of 334 but reversed and close just below
334. By our DGN system TSL level still is 355. So we keep it as it is. The
10.43 am candle broke 320 levels and we change our TSL to 336.
Thereafter, we see consolidation move for next several minutes and we will
exit @ 320-316 range.
Buying Options:-
The 14.11 pm candle breaks support level on Banknifty. At the same candle
34800 PE crosses DGN of 53 (Chart No :-33), so we can take entry @ 55
with SL @ 38.
The option price does go down in next 2 candles but reversed from 40 levels
and our SL is protected. Next few candles makes big moves and out TSL
gets hit @ 149. You can also optimize exit looking at big wick of 14.21 pm
candle. It made top of 192 but closed way below top @ 160 levels and hence
you can exit around 160 levels.
We can again take trade @ 14.43 pm candle, as it broke the trend line
support & 34800 PE crossed DGN level of 176. We can enter @ 180 with
SL @ 149. We can exit this trade at close of 14.51candle as 14.50 candle
made Double Top on option chart and 14.51 candle came down below DGN
of 233. So we can exit @ 229 OR we can exit @ close of 14.48 pm candle
@ 220.
Selling Options:-
With practice I am sure that you can you use this system to trade options
confidently. I wish you all the good luck with options trading.
Annexure
Ninad Desshmukh
Ninad Desshmukh is an Entrepreneur & Stock Market Trader.
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