PocketX
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What actually moved the market today: a ten-minute routine
The index fell 0.8 per cent and every headline offers a different reason. Most of them are stories attached to a number after the fact.
From a question to a decision: how the PocketX surfaces connect
The cost of fragmented tools is not the switching. It is that context dies at every boundary, so you arrive at the decision having lost the reasoning that got you there.
Your first week on the Pocket app
A trading app on your phone is a research tool or a slot machine depending entirely on how you configure it in the first week.
Reading your portfolio honestly: holdings, positions and P&L
A missing number displayed as zero is worse than a gap, because it looks like information. Refusing to fill it in is a feature, not an omission.
Tradebook, ledger, tax report and TOR: which one you actually need
Every March, traders discover their broker reports and their own spreadsheet disagree. The reports are the record — the spreadsheet is a recollection.
A watchlist you'll actually use, and when to prune it
A watchlist of sixty names is not sixty opportunities. It is a list you have stopped reading, which is worse than no list at all.
How to ask PocketX a market question and get a useful answer
Ask PocketX is a research interface over live market data, not a chatbot with opinions. The difference shows up entirely in how you phrase the question.
What a PocketX backtest actually proves — and what it does not
A backtest is a record of what a rule would have done, given a specific set of bars and a specific set of assumptions. Treating it as a forecast is the most expensive mistake in rule-based trading.
What happens after you place a mutual fund order on PocketX
The gap between paying for a mutual fund order and owning units confuses more first-time investors than anything else in the product. Here is exactly what each state means.
How to read an option chain on PocketX
The option chain is the densest screen in Indian markets. Read it in a fixed order — underlying, expiry, strike, then open interest — and it stops being intimidating.
Using the PocketX screener to build a shortlist you can actually work through
A screener does not find good trades. It reduces an unworkable universe to a list short enough that you can do real work on each name. Confusing the two is why most screens go unused.
Smart alerts in PocketX, and where the execution boundary sits
An alert that can place an order is an automated trading system. An alert that cannot is a notification. PocketX is firmly the second, and every part of the design follows from that.
How to build a rule-based strategy in PocketX
A strategy is a rule you are willing to be held to. The PocketX strategy builder is deliberately narrow so that the rule you write is the rule that gets evaluated — here is how to write one.