Algo performance update for 21 May 2026. Pure systematic execution.
System Stats At A Glance:
When data meets disciplined automation, consistency follows.
I posted my fundamental views on the company long ago here
https://www.reddit.com/r/ValueInvesting/s/fmO8evAwiN
From what I got to know while sitting with an employee who got laid off, there is no pattern to the whole exercise
Exceptional engineers FIRED
Women on maternity leave FIRED( God no ethics here)
Team with no project currently because it was sent to India SAFE
Engineers who are average performers SAFE
H1B safe and fired
Citizens safe and fired
Green card holders safe and fired
One manager got fired while his team is all safe
It seems that the whole exercise was to cut salary budget and someone ran an algorithm to select people and balance all kinds of demographic variables to ensure that the company does not get sued for discrimination of any kind
Managers of all levels were kept in the dark till the last moment.
How the hell a company fires people in such desperation that they let go of their good employees.
This is just a very bad sign for the future of the company, nonetheless it reminds me of me getting laid off 2 years before the company went bankrupt, I always feel thankful to my manager who got me on the list so that I could get a generous severance.
I just see the story repeat all over again, a different sector a different company, but TECH.
I just see the stock slowly declining to 0 now
No amount of token spend can save it.
After yesterday’s disaster where I manually killed the script and missed a 3x move, I promised myself I’d stay away from the "Off" switch today.
The result? Absolute madness on the SENSEX expiry.
Unlike yesterday’s panic, the algo played the SENSEX volatility perfectly today.
Yesterday I was a "clown" for stopping a 3x move because I thought the algo had gone rogue. Today, I let it run through the drawdowns—specifically that heavy averaging on the 78500CE around 13:40.
The result was a surgical exit at 36.30.
The data doesn't lie. When you build a system for automation, the human element is almost always the weakest link. My net P&L after charges (Rs. 760) is still over 55k.
Moral of the story: Stop being the "Stop Loss" for your own code.
How did everyone else play the SENSEX expiry today?
I’m sharing this because I’m currently staring at my trade log in disbelief. If you’ve ever doubted your code and stepped in manually, this one is for you.
Since the market opened this morning (May 06, 2026), my algo was acting... unusual. Or so I thought.
Watching the drawdown on those SENSEX 77500CE and 77200CE positions, I convinced myself the script had gone rogue. I panicked, assumed the logic had failed, and manually shut it down mid-way to save my capital.
It wasn't rogue. The analysis was actually outstanding.
Looking at the final log, every single option it bought became at least 3x intraday. If I had stayed away from the keyboard and trusted the execution, that 40% return would have been massive.
Lesson learned: Sometimes the biggest risk to an automated system is the human holding the "Off" switch.
Anyone else ever "saved" themselves right out of a massive profit?
Algo had an outstanding analysis today, since morning it did not buy a single PE and kept averaging CE with no SL, I manually interrupted it thinking it had gone rogue, I did not know that it had not gone rogue at all.
All the options it bought became at-least 3x intra-day
Algorithmic trading does work on the options which are expiring today, keep the faith and keep building..... Feel free to ask any questions which are not the specifics of my algorithm
Algo was adjusted to take low risk due to election based extreme swing possibility.
Sharing my bot trade log for today.
Bot was taken offline post 1pm for maintenance and hence some trade logs have been removed from this list, as they were fired for testing the order management module for execution lag and execution accuracy.
None of the moves post 1 pm were captured.
Update:- cost of doing business :- 1327 Rs in brokerage and all kinds of taxes and fees
UPDATE:- Cost of doing business 5K in brokerage and all other taxes and fees
