Thoughts on trading, investing, crypto, philosophy, and building.
We love the story of the founder who slept under the desk, the trader who didn't take a holiday for three years, the executive who "sacrificed everything" fo...
A few weeks ago I had a half-finished landing page, a draft email I'd been editing for three days, and a content calendar I kept "improving" instead of publi...
The first month of FY27 is in the books. Markets bounced hard off the March lows, momentum names led the rebound, and my Nifty 500 momentum portfolio rode th...
Most people review their week by looking at what they got done. Tasks completed, meetings attended, emails sent. This is measuring activity, not progress. Yo...
Sometimes your business gets tested. Revenue dries up. A client leaves. A product launch falls flat. The numbers stop making sense and the spreadsheet stares...
There is a particular kind of paralysis that strikes people who care about quality. They sit down to write, to code, to design, to build — and they freeze. N...
Most people walk through life with a broken default setting. When they encounter something ambitious, difficult, or unfamiliar, their brain's first response...
What if you only held the 3 hottest stocks in the Nasdaq-100 every month? No machine learning, no complex signals — just buy whatever went up the most over t...
I spent weeks backtesting every combination of NIFTY and BankNIFTY switching strategies. Dual momentum, triple momentum with Reliance, spread trades, profit...
When I started building Anvil Wallet, a self-custody crypto wallet supporting Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, and Zcash, I had to make a core architectural decisi...
Most mobile crypto wallets are built in JavaScript or Swift/Kotlin. The crypto operations — generating keys, signing transactions, encrypting seeds — all hap...
I trade F&O on the NIFTY 50 index. Mostly long positions. When the trades work out and I'm booking profits, I run into a problem that most traders don't thin...
I trade Indian equities and crypto using reinforcement learning bots that run 24/7. The whole thing runs on three machines - a cloud server, a home GPU box,...
I run algorithmic trading bots on a small infrastructure - a laptop for development, a cloud server (PROD) running live services 24/7, and a home GPU box (PC...
Going long BTC when the daily close crosses above the 20-day EMA, with a 50-day SMA trend filter, turned $10,000 into $4.2 million over 11 years. Buy & hold?...
Most retail algo traders follow a predictable path. They start with moving average crossovers, graduate to machine learning classifiers (random forests, XGBo...
There's a superpower hiding in plain sight. It doesn't require talent, money, or connections. It can pull you out of the darkest moments, turn failures into...
There's a common belief that successful trading requires constant action. More screens, more trades, more complexity. When I tell people I sometimes go an en...
Every few months, someone asks me whether they should buy gold, equities, or debt. My answer is usually the same: why are you picking one? Multi-asset funds...
Here's a truth most traders learn the hard way: making money and keeping money are two completely different skills. You can have the best entry in the world,...
India has over 100 million crypto users. Let that sink in. We are one of the top three countries globally for crypto adoption, and yet our government treats...
Every year leaves its mark differently. Some years are defined by what you achieved, others by what you survived, and the rare ones by what you discovered ab...
When Satoshi Nakamoto released the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2008, the vision was clear: a peer-to-peer electronic cash system that would operate outside traditi...
Life is not a straight line. Anyone who has lived long enough knows this. It undulates. Success and failure, joy and grief, momentum and stagnation. We rise,...
There is a peculiar freedom that arrives when you stop trying to control what you cannot control. It comes as clarity: you've been playing chess against the...
I've been trading crypto for a while now. I run an algorithmic BTC trading bot, I track macro data daily, and I've spent more time staring at monetary policy...
A few months ago, I made a costly mistake.
Innovation doesn't die overnight. It erodes slowly under the weight of rules, approvals, compliance steps, and uncertainty. When governments over-regulate fa...