A company announces a huge order OR A new product gets launched OR Government announces a favorable policy.

The stock jumps.

It is very tempting to interpret the news as an investment opportunity. But I've started thinking about news differently. The important question isn't:

"Is this good news?"

It's:

"Does this materially change the company's future earnings, competitive position or valuation?"

A company can announce something genuinely positive and still be a poor investment if the market already expected it—or if the valuation already reflects much more optimistic expectations.

News is information. But information only becomes useful when you understand its economic impact.

Curious how others approach this: when you see major news about a company you follow, what do you check before deciding whether it actually matters?

This caught my eye while looking at Indian infra stocks.

Posting the data for discussion.

I am more into the technical side of trading but really love to learn about the fundamentals too.

Does this metric actually matter when screening stocks?

Looking for a best value platform which can give me alerts for Nifty & its RSI movement.

Using Chartink premium currently, but want to explore if any other good platforms are available on subscription basis.

If you place orders through a broker API, you have already run into this. You paste an IP into the whitelist box on your developer profile, everything works, and then you move your laptop to the office or switch to a mobile hotspot and every order starts getting rejected. Most brokers only let you change that whitelisted IP once a week, so a mistake costs you seven days.

The problem is that home broadband gives you a dynamic IP. It changes on reconnect, on router reboot, and obviously the moment you switch networks.

There are two fixes.

OPTION 1: ASK YOUR ISP FOR A STATIC IP

Call Jio, Airtel, ACT or whoever you use and ask for a static IP on your connection. Some will give it, usually on a business plan. It works and it is the simplest option.

The catch is that it pins you to one physical connection. Your laptop is now a desktop. Move it, or fall back to a hotspot during an outage, and you are locked out until the weekly whitelist reset.

OPTION 2: ROUTE YOUR ORDERS THROUGH A CHEAP VM

This is the one I use.

Instead of whitelisting your own connection, you put a small virtual machine in the middle. Your orders go from your machine, through the VM, to the broker. The broker only ever sees the VM's public IP, so it does not matter what network you are on. Home Wi-Fi, office, hotspot, a train, all the same.

Oracle Cloud's Always Free tier gives you a machine that costs nothing and does not expire. Other providers work identically.

SETTING IT UP

1. Sign up at Oracle Cloud free tier. You will pay a small verification charge (about 1 rupee) that gets refunded.

2. Pick your home region carefully at signup. This cannot be changed later. Pick India South (Hyderabad) or India West (Mumbai), whichever you are offered.

3. Create a Virtual Cloud Network using the VCN Wizard. Name it, next, create. That is the whole step.

4. Create an instance. Change the image to Ubuntu, and confirm the shape shows the "Always Free Eligible" badge. Download the SSH private key when it offers it and do not lose it.

5. Wait for the state to go from provisioning to running, then copy the public IP.

Five minutes, no coding.

ACTUALLY ROUTING TRAFFIC THROUGH IT

This part is independent of whatever software you use. Three ways, easiest first.

Run your bot on the VM itself. If you have a headless Python script, just SCP it over and run it there under systemd or tmux. Traffic already originates from the VM's IP. Nothing else to configure.

SSH dynamic port forward. Keep the bot on your laptop and tunnel its outbound calls:

ssh -i yourkey.key -D 1080 -N ubuntu@YOUR_VM_IP

Then point your client at a SOCKS5 proxy on 127.0.0.1:1080. In Python, most broker SDKs use requests underneath, so a proxies dict with socks5h://127.0.0.1:1080 for both http and https is all it takes.

Check your SDK actually passes proxies through. Websocket connections often need configuring separately from REST calls. Wrap the ssh command in autossh so it reconnects if the tunnel drops mid-session.

WireGuard. Full tunnel, more robust than SSH forwarding, more setup. Worth it if you are doing this long term.

Then paste the VM's public IP into your broker's whitelist box and update.

VERIFY BEFORE YOU TRUST IT

From inside your bot's actual network path, hit an IP echo service and confirm the address matches what you whitelisted. Do not assume. If you accidentally put the VM in a private subnet behind a NAT gateway, the egress IP is different from the one shown in the console, and you will not find out until an order fails.

TWO THINGS THAT WILL BITE YOU LATER

Oracle assigns new instances an ephemeral public IP. It survives reboots and stop/start, but it is released if you terminate the instance or detach the VNIC. Given the once-a-week whitelist limit, convert it to a Reserved Public IP in the console. Free tier includes two at no cost, and it takes about a minute.

Oracle also reclaims idle Always Free compute. Their published threshold is 95th percentile CPU under 20% over a 7 day window. A VM that only routes a handful of orders sits far below that, so this affects algo traders more than almost anyone. Upgrading the account to Pay As You Go exempts you from reclamation while keeping the Always Free resources free.

ALSO WORTH KNOWING

Most brokers let you whitelist two IPs. Register your home connection and the VM, and you have a fallback either way.

This is not Oracle-specific. AWS, Azure, GCP, Hetzner, a 300 rupee Indian VPS, all identical. Oracle is just the one that is free indefinitely.

Full disclosure: I build and sell a trading terminal called Imperium, and I made a video walking through this whole setup because I kept answering the same question. In the video the VM connects through the app's built-in router, so there is no SSH or proxy config to do by hand. If you are not using it, everything above still applies, you just wire up the tunnel yourself.

Happy to answer questions.

$97 Oil, IT Selloff, RBI’s ₹6 Lakh Crore Move & NSE IPO Winners

Nifty fell to a six-week low today, but the index move was only part of the story.

The bigger setup is this:

• Brent is back near $97.

• US rate-hike odds have risen again.

• And RBI is now actively draining the liquidity it had just helped create.

Nifty fell 0.5% to 23,779, while Sensex declined to 76,132. 🔻

IT was the biggest sectoral drag, while PVR Inox and Zee became separate governance-risk stories.

Top 5 Market Drivers Today ↓

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1. $97 Brent is now India’s biggest macro headache again

Brent moved close to $97/barrel as US-Iran tensions around Hormuz escalated further.

For India, this is NOT just an oil-company story.

Crude ↑ > Import bill ↑ > Dollar demand ↑ > Rupee pressure ↑ > Inflation risk ↑

And then the sector impact begins:

Airlines, paints, chemicals, logistics, tyres and other oil-sensitive businesses face margin pressure. 🔴

The RBI has so far contained the currency damage, but it CANNOT eliminate the underlying cost shock. ⭐️

That is why oil remains the first macro variable to watch.

———

2. Strong US jobs data hit Indian IT where it hurts: Valuation + Client spending

Friday’s strong US jobs report pushed September Fed-hike expectations back up. 🔺

Indian IT stocks immediately reacted.

The IT index fell about 2.3%, with Infosys, HCL Tech, TCS and others under pressure. 🔻

There are two transmission channels here:

US rates ↑ = Equity valuation multiples ↓

and

Higher borrowing costs = US corporate spending gets tighter

The second one matters more for IT earnings.

So this is NOT merely a “higher yields = tech falls” trade.

If US clients start delaying discretionary technology projects, the impact eventually reaches revenue growth. ⭐️

That makes Friday’s CPI even more important for Indian IT.

———

3. RBI just drained more than ₹6 lakh crore - the liquidity story has changed

Last week, record liquidity looked like a straightforward banking tailwind.

Today, RBI showed the other side of that story.

It withdrew more than ₹6 trillion from the banking system after surplus liquidity surged to a record ₹11.6 trillion, nearly 4% of deposits.

Why?

Because excess liquidity can push short-term rates too low and eventually create inflation or market distortions.

So the new chain is:

$136bn FX inflows → Rupee liquidity explodes → RBI must sterilise it

That means investors should STOP treating record liquidity as permanent free money for banks. ⭐️

The real question is now:

How much liquidity does RBI allow to remain after sterilisation?

That number will decide how meaningful the funding tailwind actually becomes.

———

4. PVR Inox fell on a governance issue - not a box-office issue

PVR Inox fell around 6-8% after reports of an internal probe into alleged kickbacks of up to ₹200 crore involving developers building cinema properties.

A senior executive was reportedly asked to leave earlier this year.

The key distinction:

This does NOT immediately change movie admissions, ticket pricing or popcorn sales.

But governance issues attack a different part of valuation:

TRUST.

Investors now need clarity on:

• How widespread the alleged misconduct was

• Whether controls failed

• Whether promoters or other senior executives were aware

That uncertainty can keep a valuation discount alive even if operating performance remains healthy. 🔴

———

5. NSE IPO excitement is starting to reprice its hidden listed beneficiaries

IFCI rallied around 6%, while New India Assurance touched a 52-week high as investors continued discovering listed companies with direct or indirect NSE exposure.

This is exactly the second-order effect we discussed.

NSE’s listing does more than create one new stock.

It creates a market price for an asset that has sat inside other balance sheets for years.

That can unlock value in shareholders whose NSE stakes were previously hard to monetise or value.

But the next stage becomes much more numerical:

What valuation does NSE actually list at - and how large is each beneficiary’s stake relative to its own market cap? ⭐️

That is where genuine hidden value separates from headline excitement.

———

📰 Other Important Developments

• Zee Entertainment falls over 6% after CBI registers an FIR against founder Subhash Chandra over alleged misrepresentation linked to ₹980 crore of LIC Housing Finance loans

Another governance overhang for the stock.

• RVNL gains after securing a ₹903 crore order from SJVN Thermal for the 1,320 MW Buxar project

Meaningful order-book addition, but still within RVNL’s normal EPC business.

• Mazagon Dock wins a ₹118 crore AI-based infrastructure-security project for Maharashtra substations

Strategically interesting diversification, though small relative to its shipbuilding business.

• Defence stocks rise ahead of a DAC meeting involving a proposed overhaul of ~40 Su-30MKI aircraft and acquisition of 2,500 software-defined radios

HAL, BEL, Data Patterns and Tejas Networks are among potential beneficiaries.

• Sixteen IPOs worth more than ₹7,300 crore are scheduled this week

A heavy primary-market calendar that can compete with listed equities for liquidity and attention.

• Tata Motors’ €3.82bn Iveco tender offer opens today

The story now shifts from regulatory approval to acceptance, funding and eventual return on invested capital.

———

🎖️ Bottom Line

Today’s market weakness had three real causes:

- $97 crude
- Renewed Fed-hike fears
- A liquidity story that is becoming less one-sided

The most important new insight is probably the RBI action.

Last week investors saw record liquidity and immediately thought:

“great for banks.”

Today RBI reminded us:

“not all of that liquidity is staying.”

So the market now has a very interesting balance:

+ India has more external liquidity support than before.
– RBI is actively sterilising the excess.
– Oil remains elevated.
– Global rates remain hostile.

For the next few days, the hierarchy is simple:

Oil first. CPI second. Everything else follows. ⭐️

———

📗 What we learned today:

Why Diagnostic Companies Can Grow Profits Much Faster Than Revenue

Link in 1st comment. 📌

Here are my stocks for this week. Keep it in your watchlist. Just sharing my analysis, not a buy/sell recommendation. If u guys have any stocks on radar feel free to share in comments

Been doing P2P lending on LendenClub for a while now and just crossed 315 closed loans. Thought I’d share my numbers since I keep seeing the same “is P2P worth it?” / “P2P is a scam” discussions but not much actual data.

My closedd loan numbers:

• Principal lent: ₹3,06,250
• Total received: ₹3,33,663
• Interest received: ₹36,332
• NPA: ₹8,919
• ANR: 24.77% p.a.

I currently have 122 active loans as well. Around ₹1,04,500 was lent across those and ~₹92k is still outstanding. Been getting repayments fairly regularly so far.

I usually keep the ticket size pretty small, mostly ₹250–₹1,000 per loan, and spread it out across as many borrowers as I can. I pick the loans manually and don’t use lumpsum for this.

It’s a bit time-consuming doing it this way, but I prefer having some say in which loans I’m actually getting into. Whether that makes a meaningful difference in the long run, no idea yet.

Anyway, just sharing because I thought the numbers might be useful to someone. Curious if anyone else here tracks their P2P returns/NPAs in detail?

Markets people are posting that this month’s options expiration is the biggest ever. Like $9.6T worth of options dying off by Sep 18, and $6.2T on that Friday alone.

Translation: A ton of bets expire the same day, the day stock options, index options, and index futures expire together. So traders and dealers have to shuffle positions. Price can get choppy. Not automatically a crash. Not automatically calm either.

Just a caution day.Don’t overthink it.

new execution bugs and issues sometimes from my side or the broker has been coming up

today it was unable to make position in 2 different stocks which would have put the pnl at around +1200 ( ifci and newgen ) because of an error in system, which i did fix but well at the end of day its the variance eating me alive,

lets see what tomorrow brings us,

CURRENT CAPITAL ₹98746.73 ( - ₹1254.27 )

Anyone knows what’s happening?

MASPTOP is up by 7% and MON100 is up by 4%

These ETFs were already at a 20% premium which I used to think is the maximum the premium could go. This is based on observing these ETFs having a daily upper circuit which was equal to 120% of inav.

Anyone knows what has happened? Any rule change? Any new units being allowed by RBI?

PC Jeweller’s turnaround is real.

It has fully cleared 9 of 14 consortium banks and repaid >96% of dues to the remaining five.

But this is where the analysis gets interesting.

The biggest risks have shifted from:

Debt → Cash flow, inventory, dilution & governance.

And I found one accounting effect that could make today’s profits look much stronger than the underlying economics. 👇

———

₹1,286 crore profit vs ₹711 crore cash BURN.

Across FY25 + FY26:

• PAT: ~₹1,286cr 🟢
• Operating cash flow: – ₹711cr 🔴

FY26 alone:

PAT: ~₹711cr
Operating cash flow: – ₹78cr ⚠️

That is an enormous gap.

The main culprit?

Inventory.

FY25 inventory absorbed ~₹1,013cr of operating cash. ⭐️

So PCJ is currently generating far more accounting profit than cash profit.

For a turnaround company, I’d watch this more closely than PAT growth.

———

Here’s the risk I think most investors are missing. ⚠️

PCJ’s Q1 FY27 margins were extraordinary:

• Revenue: ₹877cr
• Gross margin: ~29.6%
• Operating EBITDA margin: ~27.6%

Those are exceptional numbers for jewellery retail.

But PCJ also disclosed something important:

Its gold/silver exposure is carried on a FIFO cost basis, while current market prices are considerably higher. ⭐️

Why does that matter? ↓

———

Imagine PCJ owns gold inventory bought years ago for ₹50.

Gold is now worth ₹100.

It sells jewellery at today’s higher price…

…but part of the accounting cost may still reflect that old ₹50 purchase price. ⭐️

Result:

Old gold-price appreciation flows through reported gross profit.

Nothing improper about FIFO accounting.

But there is a catch!

Replacing that gold today costs ₹100.

So PCJ can theoretically show:

• Strong PAT
• Huge margins
• Weak cash flow

…at the SAME time.

And that looks remarkably similar to what its accounts currently show. ✅

———

This is why I wouldn’t blindly annualise PCJ’s 27%+ EBITDA margin.

Senco Gold, for comparison, explicitly told investors that rising precious-metal prices helped FY26 margins.

Its reported EBITDA margin was ~11.5%.

Management considered roughly 7.5-7.7% sustainable. ✅

PCJ’s margin is dramatically higher.

The question I’d want management to answer:

What would PCJ’s margin be if inventory were valued at today’s replacement cost rather than historical FIFO cost? ⭐️

That could completely change the valuation story.

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Then there are the old export receivables.

PCJ stopped exports in September 2021.

Yet by June 2026, original export receivables were still ~₹1,468cr.

Against this, the ECL provision was ONLY ~₹281cr. ⚠️

More importantly, the auditor says it CANNOT determine whether:

• The existing provision is adequate
• Management’s collection timeline is reasonable

Roughly ₹1,186cr therefore remains exposed AFTER the current provision. 🔴

Even a 50% additional impairment would be ~₹593cr.

Not existential anymore.

But definitely NOT trivial.

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There’s an even stranger accounting effect here.

PCJ’s receivables previously included hundreds of crores of unrealised forex gains.

Why?

Suppose a customer owes PCJ $100.

The customer doesn’t pay.

But the rupee weakens.

That same unpaid $100 receivable becomes worth more rupees on paper.

So:

Reported receivable ↑
Cash received = ZERO ⚠️

That’s why I’d track actual export cash collections, NOT merely the rupee value shown on the balance sheet. ⭐️

———

Shareholders have also paid heavily for the turnaround.

Approximate share count:

Q1 FY26: 657.5cr
Q1 FY27: 971.1cr

That’s ~48% more shares in one year. ⚠️

Meanwhile PAT increased ONLY ~4%.

Result:

EPS fell from ₹0.25 → ₹0.18. 🔴

So while the company became financially safer…

each shareholder owns a smaller piece of it.

And despite being close to debt-free, PCJ has approval to raise ANOTHER ₹1,000cr through QIP. ⚠️

That raises a simple question:

If profits are already ₹700cr+, why is more equity required?

Weak operating cash flow provides one possible answer. ⭐️

———

PCJ may effectively be replacing:

Bank capital → Shareholder capital.

That makes the company safer.

It doesn’t automatically make each share more valuable. ❌

And governance still deserves a discount.

Recent history includes:

• SEBI proceedings relating to disclosure issues, later settled

• Continuing auditor qualifications

• CRISIL classifying PCJ as “Issuer Not Cooperating” as recently as May 2026

The CRISIL point is particularly uncomfortable. 🔴

A company telling equity investors that its finances have transformed should ideally be willing to provide a rating agency enough information to independently assess that transformation. ⭐️

———

Then comes PCJ’s move into gold mining in Chad. ⚠️

The idea sounds exciting: Vertical integration.

But today, investors still LACK basic project economics such as:

• Resource/reserve estimate
• Ore grade
• Recoverable ounces
• Mine life
• Production cost
• Capex
• Expected returns

For me, the issue isn’t Chad.

It’s sequencing.

After a major debt crisis and years of poor cash conversion, I’d first want PCJ to prove that its core jewellery business can consistently generate cash. ⭐️

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Put everything together:

PCJ has huge legacy gold inventory bought at historical costs.

Gold prices are much higher today.

Reported margins have become extraordinary.

Yet operating cash flow remains WEAK. 🔴

And shareholders keep providing fresh equity. 🔴

That creates a plausible economic explanation:

PCJ may currently be monetising old gold-price appreciation through its P&L while requiring fresh capital to replace that inventory at today’s higher prices. ⚠️

If true, today’s headline earnings may be much LESS repeatable than they appear.

———

So my view is nuanced.

PC Jeweller is a genuine turnaround.

The debt crisis has largely been solved. ✅

But I wouldn’t yet call it a clean turnaround. ❌

The next test is harder:

Can PCJ generate strong cash flow without repeatedly issuing new shares? ⭐️

From here, the single number I’d watch most closely is:

Operating Cash Flow ÷ PAT

If cash conversion turns decisively positive while margins remain strong, several of these concerns weaken substantially. 🟢

Until then, PAT growth may be one of the LEAST useful numbers in PC Jeweller’s accounts.

This is it so far, what does rest of the year looks like. Happy to take suggestions from you guys.

Any geek stocks guy? , I wanna talk, I started following Indian stocks very recently.

How many of you have this super trader kit from Dhan?

Received it around a year ago.. I guess being profitable comes with some other perks as well 😁

I was a hardcore Kite user, but Dhan's doing amazing things with their tech.

After 3 days of no trade days, got some good news. Took trade when nifty breakdown support but have to close it cause of rules. After few candles got another opportunity to test my strategy 2. PE prices were not moving like nifty.
Before i could book the gain strategy 1 made me to take a trade and within an hours i booked all the gain. It was a down trend day. I do not trade after 2 pm so after lunch here i am. How was your day?? Did you take trade.