OPEN & HIGH MANUAL

We hope that you are making full use of OI Pulse for your trading purposes. We keep on adding
more and more features that help you to improve your trading skills. In this manual we are going
to share one of our most profitable in-house Proprietary Trading Strategy that has been
developed on the basis of years of trading experience.
We call it the “OPEN HIGH” strategy. Not only we would discuss the concept of the strategy we
would also introduce the latest feature of OI Pulse “Open & High Strategy” that would
facilitate you to deploy this strategy right at the opening of the market.
So we will learn not only the concept but the practical way to convert the trading idea into
Trading opportunity with help of OI Pulse.

So let’s begin.
OPEN HIGH
We know that one of the best trading techniques for retailers is to align their trades with that of
Big Boys or Market movers. The objective of this concept is to decode the mindset of such Big
Players and find trading opportunities.

Now we shall try to understand the concept by dealing with following questions

1. What exactly do we mean by Open & High?

2. How & Why does such an opening happen in the first place?
3. What can be the reasons behind Open & High Opening?
4. How can this be used for our trading advantage?

Once we are done with OPEN HIGH concept understanding we will learn a trading system for
such cases. We will learn trading system by answering following questions

1. When should we enter the trade when we see Open High Opening?
2. How should we manage our position sizing for these trades?
3. Which strikes should we select for OH trades?
4. Till what time is this setup valid?
5. What should be the target for uch trades?
6. How can OI Pulse help me in Open High trade setup?

Towards the end we will discuss the question

“Is this strategy always successful?”

 OPEN HIGH CONCEPT

For better understanding we shall initially restrict our discussion to Bank Nifty Call Options &
Futures in a Bullish scenario and then later on extend it to other scenarios.

1. What exactly do we mean by Open & High?

What exactly we are referring to Open and High is actually a specific type of Price opening
scenario of an underlying asset (Call options & Bank Nifty Futures in our case).
So whenever you see that the Open Price is the same as High Price till the time you observe
the market we have an OPEN HIGH scenario.

Let us see this as an example

The above prices that you see are from the Trading terminal on 19 February at 9.30 AM.
So what do you observe

● Bank NIfty Future opened at 36402.00 and its high till 9.30 is also 36402.00
● Banknifty 36300 CE opened at 560.10 and its high till 9.30 is also 560.10
● Banknifty 36400 CE opened at 540.85 and its high till 9.30 is also 540.85
● Banknifty 36600 CE opened at 474.05 and its high till 9.30 is also 474.05
 ● Banknifty 37000 CE opened at 272.15 and its high till 9.30 is also 272.15

So we call such a scenario the OPEN HIGH scenario. When the Open Price is the same as
High Price till the time you make the observation. It is a dynamic concept that means that if you
observe the trading terminal later, let us say at 10.00 AM such a situation may not be valid once
again. It may happen that Bank Nifty moves to 36500. In such a scenario the new High will be
36500 and it would replace the earlier entry of 36402 in the trading terminal.

We get to see such an opening many times.

There is a reason behind such an opening and that can be used as a trading opportunity
especially in Options trading that we will understand further.
So let us continue our original sequence of questions to understand the concept.

2. How & Why does such an opening happen in the first place?
In order to understand the “Why” in this question it is important to understand how prices are
determined at the opening and how “LTP” is subsequently determined.
The NSE website has a dedicated section for this concept. I request you to kindly go through
the following link to understand the concept in detail

https://www.nseindia.com/products-services/equity-market-pre-open#:~:text=The%20opening%
20price%20is%20determined,the%20maximum%20volume%20is%20executable.&text=In%20c
ase%20if%20no%20price,market%20is%20the%20open%20price.

We would try to understand this Price determination in an Oversimplified manner for grasping
the concept.

Now imagine you are a Big Institutional Player who is Bullish for the day and wants to invest
say 500 crores in the market. What would you do? You would invest a portion of this 100 crore
right at opening. Let us say this portion is 25 crore. Rest 75 crore you would invest during the
day as you are Bullish for coming sessions.

So my plan would be something like this

Now let us see how you will go and place your orders.
Consider Banknifty 35000 CE in this case. Its LTP was 250 Rs. In Pre Open session Buyers
and sellers place their BID and ASK till 9.08 AM and at 9.06 it would look something like this to
you

BID QTY BID PRICE ASK PRICE ASK QTY

265 15000

260 20000

258 25000

255 20000

10000 250

15000 249

10000 245

20000 240

10000 239
BID & ASK for 35000 CE at 9.06 AM

Now you are a Big player and want to invest 5 Crore in 35000 CE right at opening.

So what would you do to get the maximum quantity of 35000 CE in 5 crore?

In order to do so I must place my BID at the highest ASK Price i.e 265.
So I will place my order for 80,000 qty at a price of 265 to ensure that my order gets filled.
So right at opening 80,000 qty would get filled at 265 and after that since the next bidder is at
250 price LTP would drop down immediately.
 SITUATION AFTER INSTITUTIONAL BID AT HIGHEST ASK PRICE

So this is how we will get a price where in High is equal to the Opening Price.
We have oversimplified the mechanism for understanding. In reality it is a bit complex as it
involves Market Orders in addition to Limit orders but the broader aspect remains the same.

So this is “HOW & WHY” we get an Open High scenario.

Let us proceed further to the next question.

3. What can be the reasons behind Open & High Opening?

Well the answer to this question has already been answered in Previous explanation. One Big
Institutional player is Bullish for Bank Nifty that is the reason why he is pumping in the money
right at opening.
This Player wants to get maximum quantity as per his plan right at the opening so he will try to
control the opening price. If the price is not in his control then he may not get the desired
quantity and that may hamper his plan.
So the primary reason is that some big player is Bullish and wants to take control of the price at
the opening to get maximum quantity as per his plan.

4. How can this be used for our trading advantage?

If we get Open High Opening then there is a very high probability that the high
price/premium of CE/PE is hit again after bottoming out.

For example for 35000 CE if open and high level is 265 and the current LTP is 190 then there is
high probability that premium may go once again to 265 level or beyond. This is where we will
plan a trade subject to fulfillment of conditions.

There are two reasons for it

1. If the Big Player’s view coincides with broader Market view then prices will again rise to
High price and go beyond after testing some previous support.
2. If the Big Players view is against the broader market view then in order to minimise his
loss he will use remaining capital to bring the price near the HIgh levels once again.

Please read these explanations again to understand the concept.

So what we are talking about is HIGH PROBABILITY of price coming back to the High level in
any situation. We can trade in such a case.

So I guess the concept is clear for you. I will just highlight the key aspects of identifying high
probable trades

High Probability of Open & High for trading with CALLS

1. Open & High on Bank Nifty/Nifty Futures
2. Open & High on Call Options of Bank Nifty
 High Probability of Open & High for trading with PUTS
1. Open & LOW on Bank Nifty/Nifty Futures
2. Open & High on Call Options of Bank Nifty.

So we must get Open & High on either the Calls or Puts. The probability for Call OH increases
when we get OH on Futures as well while probability of OH on puts increases when we get
OL(Open=Low) on Futures.

However kindly note that there will be instances when we get OH on options on both Calls and
Puts but not on Futures. In such a scenario we can trade on both sides but with caution.

Here is a summary

S.no Futures Options Interpretation

HIGH PROBABILITY FOR OPTION

CALL OPTIONS
1 OPEN=HIGH PREMIUMS TO REACH BACK TO HIGH
OPEN=HIGH
LEVEL ONCE AGAIN

CALL OPTIONS
2 - MILD PROBABILITY
OPEN=HIGH

PUT OPTIONS
3 OPEN=LOW HIGH PROBABILITY
OPEN=HIGH

PUT OPTIONS
4 - MILD PROBABILITY
OPEN=HIGH

CALL OPTIONS
OPEN =HIGH
5 - & MILD PROBABILITY ON BOTH THE SIDES
PUT OPTIONS
OPEN=HIGH
Table 1: Probability of OH success on basis of Futures and Options.

So till now we have talked just about Probabilities, this does not mean you will straight away buy
Calls or Puts on seeing the Open & High scenarios.

We will learn specifics of the trade in the next section.

Now we will focus on specifics of trades.

OPEN HIGH TRADE SETUP

As discussed in the introduction we shall learn the trade setup in a sequential manner by
answering certain questions

1. When should we enter the trade when we see Open High Opening?
2. How should we manage our position sizing for these trades?
3. Which strikes should we select for OH trades?
4. Till what time is this setup valid?
5. What should be the target for uch trades?
6. How can OI Pulse help me in Open High trade setup?

So let’s begin

1. When should we enter the trade when we see Open High Opening?
I would start by asking a counter question “ Should you enter straightaway in the trade when
you see Open=High Opening on Call or Put side?”

I would outrightly say “NO”.

The reason behind this is “PROBABILITY”. We must enter when the Probability is maximum.
For High Probability we must look at certain other factors as well to decide whether to go for this
trade or not. These would be

A. Price changes along with Volumes after opening

B. Global Markets
C. VIX

Let's discuss them one by one

 A. Price changes along with Volumes after opening
We know that one big trader has come up with a big sum say 500 crores in the Market but what
will happen if another Player enters sometime later with even a larger sum say 1000 Crore?
What will happen to the probability? It would decrease substantially.
But how can we determine that this is happening?
It can be gauged by interpreting the Price variations along with Volume.

Let us consider two cases to prove the point

25 May 2021: Low Probability

26 May 2021: High Probability

Let us consider 25 May 2021 first

On 25 May we got Open=HIGH for the strike 35400 that was quite close to the opening levels of
BankNifty Future. So this means someone must have entered in a big way thinking the market
can move up.
Now it is a Mild Probability scenario as we got OH on CE option but not on BankNifty Futures
as per table 1.
Now what happened next as the Market proceeded, the market started falling and that too with
volumes, this is an indication that the View of the Big Player who was Long at opening is going
wrong and thus the probability for the price of CE option to go back to its High levels is also
decreasing.
At 10.18 we got a major fall and with significant Volume. So surely someone bigger has entered
the market who feels that market has to go down. Now the probability of CE premium going
back to a higher level is very very low and we should not think of going into the trade at all.
On this day the 35400 CE never reached the High Level of 297.45 and closed at Rs 52 only.
I guess you have an idea when this concept fails.

Now let us consider 26 May 2021

On this day BANK Nifty Future opened around 35K , though the Future didn't give OH but 35000
CE gave OH opening. As you can see there was no further fall with Volume, thus the
Probability of 35000 CE to go back to the HIgh level is very high.
In fact on this day 35000 CE opened at 190 level, went down to 90 level and then climbed back
to make a fresh high of 228.
So if we are able to enter the trade it would be a fantastic trade.

So you must look for follow up price movements and analyse them with Volumes.

Let us summarise this

Subsequent Corresponding Probability of

S.no OH
price Candles Volume candles success of OH

1 CALL OH FALLS LESS THAN 50 K INCREASES

2 CALL OH FALLS MORE THAN 50 K DECREASES

3 CALL OH FLAT FLAT INCREASES

4 PUT OH RISES LESS THAN 50 K INCREASES

5 PUT OH RISES MORE THAN 50 K DECREASES

6 PUT OH FLAT FLAT INCREASES

Table 2:Probability of OH success on basis of subsequent price and volume candles

So you must not enter blindly but wait for subsequent price and volume candles to play their
part.

B. Global Markets
Global markets should not go against the direction of Opening Big Players. If we get OH on CE
and world markets fall then the probability of success will diminish. Likewise you can analyse PE
trades.
 C. VIX
Like Global markets VIX should not go against the OPening player. If we get OH on the CE then
any rise in VIX along with fall in price will diminish the probability of success of the trade

Exact Entry Point

Now having analysed Price,Volume,Global markets and VIX we need to define the exact entry
point for the trades. We must enter the trade when we get momentum on our side. By
momentum I mean we must enter as soon as we see price approaching the High levels with
Volumes.
Please remember “Execution is the key”. This setup has to be scalped and not taken as a
positional trade.

Let us see on 26 May where we should have entered

You can see how the price moved thereafter. This was a high probable trade.
Let us proceed further and understand other aspects of the trade

3. How should we manage our position sizing for these trades?

Position sizing should be based upon the level of confidence you have in the trade.
For example if we get OH in both Futures as well as CE options and Global Markets and
VIX are also in favour you can go with higher quantity.
There may be certain occasions where we will get OH on both PE and CE sides. On
such occasions we must reduce our quantity as the markets may take violent turns any
moment.
4. Which strikes should we select for OH trades?
If you track OH on various strikes across the Options chain then you would see that a lot
of deep ITM & deep OTM strikes exhibit OH phenomenon. But we need to neglect them.
We must select only 3-4 strikes around the ATM strike at the opening.
Prefer strikes with Premiums in the price range of Rs 200-300 within these strikes for
playing this concept.

5. Till what time is this setup valid?

It is very important to realise that the probability of OH concept to materialise will start
decreasing exponentially after 11.00 AM. So it is better to avoid pursuing such trades
after 11.00 AM.

6. What should be the target for such trades?

We have outrightly said that this trade has to be considered from Scalping point of view
rather than Positional Trade.
We must enter as soon as the Momentum in the favourable direction picks up and we
must trail the profits.
Sometimes the price will just fall short of reaching the Open High levels , if we trail we
will be in profit and if we rather wait for the price to cross the High level always then we
may lose the opportunity at times.
So we must enter with Momentum and trail our profits rather than waiting for the price to
cross the High levels to book our profits.
So let us summarise all the steps we have discussed once again to gain a holistic view

Step 1: Future OH
Check for Open High (for CE trades) on Futures (Or Open Low for PE trades).
❖ If we get Open High on Futures then it will increase the probability of OH on CE
options to be successful.
❖ If we get Open Low on Futures then it will increase the probability of OH on PE
options to be successful.

Step 2: Options OH
Check for OH on Calls or Put sides of the Option chain. You can check this on your
trading terminal and consider them
Just like the following example

Alternatively you can use OI Pulse to determine such strikes. (More on it in

subsequent sections)

Step 3: Strike Selection

Out of all the strikes that show OH concept, consider only those strikes that are near to
the ATM or in the price range of Rs 200-300. Ignore the rest.
 Step 4: Validation
Validate the opportunity by analysing
➢ Subsequent Price & Volume candles
➢ Global Markets
➢ VIX
Assign probabilities based on such validation as per following 2 tables table

S.no Futures Options Interpretation

HIGH PROBABILITY FOR OPTION

CALL OPTIONS
1 OPEN=HIGH PREMIUMS TO REACH BACK TO HIGH
OPEN=HIGH
LEVEL ONCE AGAIN

CALL OPTIONS
2 - MILD PROBABILITY
OPEN=HIGH

PUT OPTIONS
3 OPEN=LOW HIGH PROBABILITY
OPEN=HIGH

PUT OPTIONS
4 - MILD PROBABILITY
OPEN=HIGH

CALL OPTIONS
OPEN =HIGH
5 - & MILD PROBABILITY ON BOTH THE SIDES
PUT OPTIONS
OPEN=HIGH
Table 1: Probability of OH success on basis of Future & Options

Subsequent Corresponding Probability of

S.no OH
price Candles Volume candles success of OH

1 CALL OH FALLS LESS THAN 50 K INCREASES

2 CALL OH FALLS MORE THAN 50 K DECREASES

3 CALL OH FLAT FLAT INCREASES

4 PUT OH RISES LESS THAN 50 K INCREASES

5 PUT OH RISES MORE THAN 50 K DECREASES

6 PUT OH FLAT FLAT INCREASES

Table 2:Probability of OH success on basis of subsequent price and volume candles
 Step 5: Position Sizing Decision
Decide the position size you want to enter based on probability of success. If it is high
probability then go for higher qty and lower qty if probability is mild.

Step 6: Entry
Make an entry only when the Momentum picks up in your favour. Enter as soon as you
see prices rising with volumes greater than 50 K from lower levels.
You can go pyramiding to a certain extent.

Step 7: Trailing your Profits

As soon as you are in profit you need to protect your capital first. So start trailing the
profits rather than waiting for exact High level to be crossed.

Now as one more example consider Bank Nifty example of 19 Feb 2021

Consider the Opening on your trading terminal first

It would look like this

Step 1: Future OH
We have OH on Future thus probability of success of OH on CE if any will be high.
Step 2: Options OH
We have OH on many Call strikes. Thus we select such strikes. These will be namely

36300 CE @ OH 560.10
36400 CE @ OH 540.85
36600 CE @ OH 474.05
37000 CE @ OH 272.15

Step 3: Strike Selection

We will select strike closest to ATM strike i.e 36400 first

Step 4: Validation
We will observe the price chart and analyse Price and Volume candles. Any red candles
with volume greater than 50 K will be detrimental
 Probability is high because of following reasons
1. OH on Futures
2. OH on many strikes on CE side
3. No subsequent fall with volume rather a green candle with volume greater than
50 K appears

Step 5: Position sizing

Since Probability is high the position size shall be high as well.

Step 6: Entry
Enter as soon as momentum picks up
 Step 7: Trailing the Profits
This particular day Option premiums increased appreciably.

Just notice the new highs

36300 CE: 560 ---> 719
36400 CE: 540--->658
36600 CE: 474--->545
37000 CE: 272--->360

So I guess that if you followed the concept step by step you would have been in profit more than
1% of your entire capital just by this trade alone.

7. How can OI Pulse help me in Open High trade setup?

So now you know that you need to follow 7 steps to identify the correct trading opportunity. But
sometimes following these steps all together becomes a bit difficult especially given the
Adrenaline rush of Morning hours. So it would be very helpful if we can have a tool to help us in
this regard.
This is where OI Pulse will help you to a great extent.
The latest feature “Open & High Strategy” makes things simpler for you by doing a lot of
analysis through AI based algorithms.

So let us see this feature in a bit detail

Accessing this feature
This feature may be accessed in following manner

Now once you are inside the feature you can select from options

This is the biggest advantage: You can do analysis for Nifty, bank Nifty and Finnifty in a
master of clicks. So your 7 x 3 steps for analysing Nifty, BankNifty & Fin Nifty shall be
greatly reduced.
You may also do backtesting using this feature for previous trading sessions.
It works beautifully in the Live market as prices get updated too on a real time basis.

Once you select the data points you would get following screen in front of you

This screen will help you

1. Identify all the strikes where OH is getting formed right at opening
2. It would tell you which are the strikes where OH is still yet to be triggered and where it
has triggered.
3. It would tell you the time when OH was triggered after forming at the open
4. It will do 7 step analysis using AI based algorithms and give you a Probability of success
if you pursue this trade.

So it makes your job easier.

So let us understand the screen itself first and try to read it.

We will focus on Call side first

Strike Price:
● In this table you will see the strikes where OH got formed on either the Call side or Put
side.
● In the above table, at the strike price of 33900 OH was formed on the CE side whereas
33600 & 33800 saw OH getting formed on the PE side.
● Since 33700 does not appear it means it saw no OH on either side.

Day Open:
In this column you will see the price at which the strike began to trade at opening.
So it is the open price of the strike.

Day High:
This will be the same as Day Open as it highlights the High price at open.

New D. High:
It stands for New Day High. If the Open High has been breached and a new high has been
formed it will get reflected in this column. It will get updated on the screen as the LTP changes.

New D. Low:
It stands for New Day Low. For all practical purposes it will show the intraday Low made by the
price till the time you observe the chart .

O=H/O=L
It will show whether the price at openmade a High or a Low and would show accordingly. It
would be static and will depend only upon the opening prices.
Triggered Time:
If the OH level has been breached then this column will show you the time at which this
happened.
In the above chart it is showing 9.22. So we will read the data as
33900 CE made an OH on opening, the Open and High Price were 1295.2 but at 9.22 this OH
was breached and subsequent new high was 1496.8 while the Low made till the time of
observation was 862.85.

Call LTP:
It will show you the latest LTP and will be updated regularly.

Probability:
This is the unique element of OI Pulse that gives some values based on an AI algorithm. Higher
the number higher is the probability of success of taking a trade.
But please please please don't take this number as a shortcut to take a trade.
Our recommendations
Take into consideration OH trade only when you see Probability greater than 90 %.

So what this feature does is that it spares you from the work of continuously monitoring the
prices.
Only when you see a probability greater than 90 % just do a quick analysis of the price and
volume of candles and be ready to take this trade.

So Probability>90% is a trigger signal for you to prepare yourself for taking the trade and not
actually enter the trade.

Enter only when you see momentum and not anytime before.

There is one more feature the “Red Dot” that is also an outcome of AI algorithms. It would look
like this

This is an additional feature to the Probability feature.

So if you get Probability >90% and a red Dot then forget everything and divert all your attention
to play OH trade.

I again re emphasise 90%probability and the red dot is just a trigger point and not an
entry signal. Enter only when momentum picks up.

This feature will help you identify opportunities in a very quick manner.

Just notice the number of signals and the price at which they got hit. If you use it in the Live
market you will be highly benefited.
Now having covered almost all the aspects of OH concept and strategy I would like to proceed
towards the conclusion by answering the most important question

“Is this strategy always successful?”

I would say that there is no strategy that works every time. But on the basis of our experience
we can say that out of every 10 times you take a trade you will be happy more than 7 times.

I am sure that you must have heard many concepts like “Short the market on OH” but if we
understand the concept behind such an opening we can make handsome money by going the
other way that our master scalper Mr. Sivakumar Jayachandran has been doing so for many
years now.

So with this I conclude the strategy and the setup. I would request you go watch following
videos on the topic to gain more clarity

https://youtu.be/wd65VD24-0E

https://youtu.be/xw-QiaptWlg

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