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📰 The News Desk

Ten rounds. Ten headlines. Six stocks. You choose the instrument — spot, futures, or options — and trade your read of the news. At the end, see your P&L against a rule-based algo and a passive benchmark, plus a behavioural profile of how you actually traded.

How This Works

💰 Starting Capital

₹50,00,000 in cash. No leverage beyond what futures margin naturally gives you.

📈 Six Stocks

RELIANCE, TCS, HDFCBANK, TATAMOTORS, SUNPHARMA, ADANIENT — real sectors, real behaviour under news.

🎯 Three Instruments

Spot (own the share), Futures (leveraged, marked-to-market every round), Options (buy calls/puts only — premium paid upfront, no margin calls).

📰 Ten Rounds

Each round: a real-style headline, then you trade at the CURRENT price — before the market has actually moved.

🤖 Algo Bot

A disciplined long/short momentum bot trades alongside you — goes long whatever rose ≥1.5% last round, SHORTS whatever fell ≥1.5%, and sizes bigger into stronger signals. No news reading, no emotion, just systematic price-following. It's genuinely competitive — beating it takes real skill, not luck.

📊 Benchmark

An equal-weight buy-and-hold portfolio, built once at Round 1 and never touched again — the "did nothing" baseline.

⚠️ Not every headline means what it sounds like. Some rounds have second-order effects — read past the first sentence.
ROUND 1 OF 10 ⏱ 01:30
Market Update — Round 1

📋 Your Open Positions

What Happened

🏁 Final Report — 10 Rounds Complete

🏅 Badges Earned

🧠 Your Behavioural Profile

📜 Full Trade Log