About OrsLeo
OrsLeo is the pen name used by the author and editor of stocktechnicals.in. Every article on the site is written or edited under this byline. The detailed origin story — how this site came about, what experiences shaped it, and why it exists — is documented in the sections below.
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20+ Years in Indian Markets. A Website in 2007. 6+ Blown Accounts. And One Mission Since 2025.
StockTechnicals.in is created by a technology professional who has been connected to the Indian stock market since 2004 — starting with an NTPC IPO allotment, a fresh ICICI Direct demat account, and penny stocks like Gayatri Projects traded purely on tips and market noise.
The First Attempt
The obsession with markets led to building go4shares.com — one of the early Indian stock market websites, back when most traders didn’t even know what a candlestick chart looked like. The site ran on Google AdSense and earned its first payouts. But passion without knowledge is just gambling with extra steps. Work responsibilities took over, and the site went quiet.
The Year That Changed Everything
Re-entered the market during the D-Mart IPO wave. Discovered what discount brokers like Zerodha and Upstox had been building since 2010 — platforms with real charting tools built in, not just buy/sell buttons. After years away from markets, seeing a candlestick chart inside a trading terminal for the first time felt revolutionary. The overconfidence that followed was lethal.
Made ₹50,000 in a single day trading futures on a forwarded tip — on ₹1,00,000 capital. The feeling was electric. What followed was devastating: lost it all in the same day. Rebuilt the account, lost again. More than six blown accounts between 2017 and 2022 — four of them in the first six months alone.
Each time chasing the same illusion — that the next tip, the next Telegram channel, the next “sure shot call” would be the one.
It wasn’t. They never are.
The Real Education Begins
Finally stopped looking for tips and started looking at charts. What followed was two years of systematic learning — not from signal groups or YouTube thumbnails promising “₹5,000 daily profit,” but from price itself and select educators who teach process over predictions:
Core Disciplines
- Candlestick Patterns — Hammer, Engulfing, Morning Star, Doji — understanding what each candle reveals about the battle between buyers and sellers
- Chart Patterns — Head and Shoulders, Double Tops, Triangles, Flags — the structures that repeat across every market and timeframe
- Support, Resistance, and Supply-Demand Zones — the invisible levels where institutional money enters and exits
- EMA Crossovers and Moving Average Systems — using the 9/21/50/200 EMA stack for trend confirmation and dynamic support
- Fibonacci Retracements and Extensions — the mathematical framework behind pullback entries and profit targets
- Risk Management and Position Sizing — the difference between gambling and trading is a stop loss and a position size calculator
Advanced Specializations
- Harmonic Patterns — Gartley, Butterfly, Bat, Crab — precision reversal trading using Fibonacci ratios
- Volume Spread Analysis (VSA) — reading the hidden story of smart money through volume-price relationships
- ICT Concepts — Order Blocks, Breaker Blocks, Fair Value Gaps (FVG), Market Structure Shifts, and Optimal Trade Entry — the institutional perspective on how markets truly move
- Options Greeks and Strategies — Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega — from covered calls to iron condors, understanding how options are priced and why most buyers lose
- Trading Psychology — revenge trading, overtrading, FOMO, and the discipline to do absolutely nothing when the setup isn’t there
The Transformation
The shift wasn’t finding a magic indicator or a secret strategy. It was learning that the market doesn’t owe you a trade every day. Today: a selective trader with a simple rule — maximum 12–15 trades per month across all timeframes. Some months, significantly fewer. Some weeks, zero trades. And that discipline — the ability to sit on hands while everyone around you is “printing money” on Twitter — is worth more than every indicator combined.
Fewer decisions mean fewer mistakes. That’s the entire edge.
Why StockTechnicals.in Exists
This is the site we wish existed in 2004.
Back then, there was no Zerodha Varsity, no TradingView in your browser, no free charting tools. “Research” meant a call from your sub-broker or a PDF report from a brokerage. “Technical analysis” sounded like a scam. Two decades later, the tools have changed but the problem hasn’t — most traders still enter the market without understanding how to read a single chart.
StockTechnicals.in is built by someone who spent years in two roles that rarely overlap — managing campus-wide technology infrastructure AND teaching hardware, networking, and data management to a classroom of students. Managing systems taught analytical thinking. Teaching taught something harder: making the complex feel simple. Every article on this site is written with that dual lens — technically accurate but explained like you’re learning it for the first time.
Every article uses Indian market context — Nifty, Bank Nifty, Reliance, HDFC Bank, real ₹ values, and platforms like Zerodha and TradingView. Our chart illustrations are crafted to demonstrate each pattern and concept as clearly as possible for beginners.
The Uncomfortable Truth We Won’t Hide
93% of individual F&O traders in India incurred net losses during FY 2022–2024, with aggregate losses exceeding ₹1.8 lakh crores over three years (SEBI Study, January 2023; updated September 2024).
The numbers are staggering:
- Average loss per trader: ₹2 lakh over three years (including transaction costs)
- The top 3.5% of loss-makers — roughly 4 lakh traders — lost an average of ₹28 lakh each
- Only 1% of traders earned more than ₹1 lakh in profit after transaction costs
- Individual traders collectively spent ₹50,000 crore on transaction costs alone (FY22–24) — 51% brokerage, 20% exchange fees
- Over 75% of loss-making traders continued trading despite consecutive years of losses
- 43% of F&O traders are under 30 years old (up from 31% in FY23) — and 75% earn less than ₹5 lakh annually
And here’s what most sites won’t tell you: even among the 7% who were profitable, a significant portion of their gains were consumed by transaction costs — brokerage, STT, exchange charges, and GST. Meanwhile, 97% of FPI profits and 96% of proprietary trader profits came from algorithmic trading — not manual chart reading.
We believe you deserve to know this before you place your first trade, not after you’ve blown your account.
What This Site Is NOT
- ❌ Not a tip service or signal provider
- ❌ Not SEBI-registered investment advice
- ❌ Not a “get rich quick” scheme
- ❌ Not affiliated with any broker
What This Site IS
- ✅ Free, comprehensive technical analysis education for the Indian market
- ✅ Written from real experience — including the losses
- ✅ Indian market context with NSE/BSE references in every article
- ✅ Honest about what works, what doesn’t, and what costs money to learn the hard way
- ✅ Built to teach you to read your own charts — so you never need someone else’s tips again
Disclaimer: All content on StockTechnicals.in is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Stock market investments are subject to market risks. Past performance and personal experiences shared on this page do not guarantee future results. The founder is not a SEBI-registered investment adviser or research analyst. Always consult a qualified financial advisor before making investment decisions.