Core Settings

Time Windows

⚡ Sniper Settings

📊 ATR Filter

🔄 C1C2 / Retest Settings

🕯️ Candlestick Pattern Confirmation

🟡 Neutral Zone Settings

Trailing Stop Loss

Daily Risk Management

⛔ Circuit breaker stops new entries when limits are hit (0 = disabled)

Backtest Modeling

Slippage split half entry / half exit. Commission per lot per round trip.

Strike Offset (ATM Offset by Day)

📖 Settings Guide [click to toggle]

RR Ratio: Risk-to-Reward ratio. 1:3 = target is 3× the stop loss.
Sun & Moon RR: RR multiplier applied on zones with Sun & Moon trail enabled (default 5). Overrides RR Ratio for those zones only.
Delta: Option delta threshold for strike selection.
Min/Max SL Points: Premium SL range in points. Trades outside this range are skipped.
Lot Size: NIFTY lot size (from exchange, e.g., 75 or 25).
Capital: Total trading capital for lot calculation.
Risk %: Percentage of capital risked per trade.
Zone Buffer Pts: Buffer around zone edges for SL calculation.
Lot Rounding: How fractional lots are rounded (conservative = fewer lots).
Use Fixed Lots: When ON, use a fixed number of lots regardless of capital/risk. Overrides auto lot sizing.
Fixed Lots: Number of lots to use when Fixed Lots mode is ON.
Trailing Enabled: Master switch for the default trailing stop. When OFF, only fixed SL is used (S&M trail is unaffected by this).
Premium SL Monitor: Enable real-time option premium monitoring for SL/TGT exits. Disable to use only index-based SL/TGT.

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Good Price Buffer: Controls where inside (or outside) the zone sniper fires. Range: -1 to +1.
  • 0 = accept full zone [zone.low → zone.high]
  • +0.5 = SL side — extends below low (BUY) or above high (SELL) by 0.5× zone range, up to midpoint
  • -0.5 = Opposite side — midpoint to above high (BUY) or below low (SELL) by 0.5× range (aggressive entry)
  • +1 / -1 = maximum extension on either side
  • Per-zone override available in Add Zone modal (blank = use this global setting)
Max Attempts: Max sniper/C1C2 entries per zone per day. Once exhausted, all entries for that zone are blocked (including C1C2).
Max SL (pts): Total SL points a sniper zone can lose before disabling sniper on that zone.
Wait Candles: Candles to wait for C2 confirmation after sniper C1. Also used as timeout for Rebound Watch.

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C1C2 Zone Buffer (%): Percentage of zone range added outside zone edges to qualify as a C1C2 zone touch. Used when Sniper is OFF or exhausted. Example: zone 20000–20100 (range=100), buffer=0.5 → zone touch = 19950–20150. Higher = more trades trigger; 0 = strict inside-zone only. Note: Sniper uses its own Good Price Buffer instead.
Retest Wait: Max candles a pending order waits for its entry price trigger. If not hit, order cancels and bot returns to SCANNING.
C1 Entry Buffer (pts): After C2 confirms and a pending order is created, the entry trigger is shifted by this many points toward the trade direction. CE: entry = C1.close + buffer. PE: entry = C1.close − buffer. Looser entry criteria = more trades trigger without requiring full retracement to C1.

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📊 ATR Filter — ATR = rolling average of (day_high − day_low) over the last Lookback Days. It acts as a "room budget" for the day. A new trade is allowed only if (distance already consumed in the trade direction + target points) stays within Sacrifice Ratio × daily ATR.
  • Enable ATR Check (default: OFF): Master toggle. When OFF, no ATR filtering — all trades pass regardless of how much the day has moved. Turn ON to use ATR as a reality check.
  • Sacrifice Ratio (0.0 − 1.0, default: 0.7): Max fraction of daily ATR a trade may consume.
    – 0.5 = conservative, blocks trade if total needed exceeds 50% of ATR
    – 0.7 = balanced (default)
    – 1.0 = strict 100% ceiling, only blocks when trade would exceed full ATR
    – 0.0 = effectively always blocks (no room for anything)
  • Lookback Days (1 − 100, default: 14): Past days used to compute the daily ATR average. 14 = standard ATR. Higher = smoother/slower. Lower = reacts faster to regime shifts.
  • Allow Counter Trade (default: OFF): When ON, ATR exhaustion is bypassed if the entry price sits near the opposite day extreme. Example: NIFTY has already moved its full ATR down today and a CE (buying) signal fires near day_low — normally blocked, but with this ON it's allowed because the UP direction still has headroom in the day range.
  • Counter Zone % (5 − 50, default: 30): Width of the bypass zone measured from the opposite extreme as a percentage of today's day range. 30 means the entry must be within the bottom 30% of day range (for CE) or top 30% (for PE) to qualify for bypass.
Log formats:
  – Success: Room: 72% (DayRange 40% of ATR) — Room = directional headroom left in trade direction after target; DayRange = non-directional total ATR already consumed today.
  – Reject: [ATR-REJECT] No room: CE needs 32pts, only 18% left in direction (DayRange 95% of ATR)
  – Bypass: [ATR-COUNTER] CE bypass — entry 24510 near day_low (DayRange 95% of ATR)

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Neutral Zone Min Diff: Minimum prev day Open/Close difference to trigger a neutral zone trade. 0 = always trigger.
Neutral Opposite Reversal: After SL on a neutral zone trade, look for an opposite direction trade.

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Trigger RR: RR level at which trailing SL activates (e.g., 2 = at 2× risk).
Lock RR: RR level locked in when trailing activates (e.g., 0.5 = locks 0.5× risk as profit).

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Daily Risk — Max Daily Loss (₹): Circuit breaker. Once day P&L hits this loss level, no new entries for the rest of the day (backtest & live). 0 = disabled.
Daily Risk — Max Trades/Day: Max trades allowed per day across all zones. 0 = unlimited.

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Strike Offset: ATM offset per day of expiry week. 0 = ATM, 1 = 1 strike OTM, -1 = 1 strike ITM.

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C1C2 Mode — Pro Fast Exit
When Pro C1C2 is active, the candle after C1 (C2) triggers one of three outcomes:
  • Correct color + breaks C1.high: C2 confirmed → widen SL to zone SL, add Leg 2 ✓
  • Wrong color + closes BELOW C1.low (CE) / above C1.high (PE): C1 thesis invalid → FAST EXIT at C2 close price, recorded as a trade in Day Trades.
  • Wrong color + stays above C1.low: Consolidation → SL tightened to C1.low (market anchor), trade stays open.
After FAST EXIT → Rebound Watch mode: if price closes above old C1.high (CE) / below C1.low (PE) within Wait Candles, a fresh REBOUND SNIPER entry is placed with zone SL. Times out after Wait Candles candles.

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Allow Opposite C1: When enabled, a RED candle touching a BUY zone (or GREEN candle touching SELL zone) is accepted as C1 if it closes inside the zone. Forced to C1C2_WAITING — requires C2 confirmation to enter. Useful for catching trades where price spike-wicks through the zone then reverses.

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Auto Zone Analysis
Generates supply/demand zones automatically from previous day's price action using fractal swing detection, trendline analysis, and significant level snapping.

Swing Strength (3–10, default: 5): Fractal pivot detection — a swing high needs this many lower-high candles on BOTH sides. Higher = fewer, stronger pivots. Lower = more zones but noisier.
Min Buffer (pts) (5–50, default: 15): Minimum zone width in points. Zones narrower than this are padded equally on both sides.
Max Buffer (pts) (15–80, default: 35): Maximum zone width. Zones wider than this are capped. Magnetic snapping to significant levels (weekly OHLC, expiry extremes) stays within this limit.
Proximity % (10–60, default: 30): Merge threshold — zones whose edges overlap are merged. Higher = more aggressive merging.

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Zone Labels:
  • HIGH — Previous day's high area (supply zone / SELL)
  • LOW — Previous day's low area (demand zone / BUY)
  • IMMEDIATE — Zone nearest today's opening price (neutral, or BUY/SELL if TL direction fires)
  • PASSIVE — Interior swing zones away from current price
  • PASSIVE/CLOSE — Zone near previous day's close
  • TL — Trendline-projected zone (where a validated trendline intersects today's price range)

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1st Candle Close for IMMEDIATE: When ON, the IMMEDIATE zone reference uses the first 5-min candle's close instead of the open. This accounts for gap-and-go scenarios where the close is a more realistic reflection of the opening level.
TL Body-Cross Check: When ON, a trendline is only promoted to a zone if at least one candle's body (open-close range) pierced through the trendline after the last anchor point. Wicks-only crosses are ignored. This filters out weak trendlines that were never meaningfully broken.
Allow TL Return: When ON, a trendline that was body-crossed is still accepted if the last 2–3 candles returned to the correct side. This re-validates trendlines after a brief fake breakout.
TL Direction for IMMEDIATE: When ON, evaluates whether price sustained on one side of a trendline during the first hour of trading. If price opens below a TL and sustains above it for N candles → IMMEDIATE zone becomes BUY. If price opens above and sustains below → SELL. Uses a sliding window over the first 12 candles (1 hour), checking ALL non-steep trendlines sorted by strength (number of touch points).
Max Steepness % (20–100, default: 60): Trendlines steeper than this percentage of the day's range are discarded as irrelevant. Steepness = |slope × span| / day_range × 100. High values (80+) allow steep TLs; low values (30–40) keep only gentle slopes.
Sustain Candles (1–12, default: 3): Number of consecutive candles price must stay on one side of a trendline to confirm TL direction. 3 = 15 minutes of sustained price action. Higher = stricter confirmation but may miss fast moves.

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Last Momentum Cooldown (in ATR Filter config): Checks the previous day's last 5–30 minutes (sliding window, 1–6 candles) for an abnormally large directional move relative to |High − Close|. If ANY window exceeds the threshold, the bot blocks new entries for a cooldown period after market open.
  • Move Threshold % (10–80, default: 40): If the directional move in the last N minutes exceeds this percentage of |yesterday's High − Close|, cooldown triggers.
  • Cooldown Duration (min) (5–120, default: 30): Minutes after trade_start during which SCANNING is blocked. Trades already in progress (IN_TRADE, PENDING) are unaffected.
  • Diagnostics: When triggered, shows move direction, actual %, window size, and cooldown end time in the activity log: [COOLDOWN] Last momentum 52% of H-C (up, 15min) > 40% → blocking until 09:50