The Acme Blog

Strategy notes from India's most disciplined retail traders.

Strategy breakdowns. Market commentary. Founder notes. How-to guides written by the team building the platform. Published every Tuesday and Friday.

Market commentary

Why this 5% Nifty drawdown felt worse than the COVID crash (and what to do about it)

It wasn't the magnitude โ€” it was the speed. Three intraday sessions, no warning, no support test. Here's what your stop-losses should have caught.

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Rohan Mehta
18 May 2026
5 min
How-to guide

Set up your first paper-trade strategy in under 5 minutes โ€” step by step

For new subscribers. The 4-screen flow we walk every new user through. Connect broker, pick a template, set risk, hit Go. Screenshots included.

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Mehek Joshi
16 May 2026
7 min
Founder note

We almost added margin trading. Here's why we said no.

A long email to our investors explaining a feature we walked away from โ€” even though customer surveys said they wanted it. Some products aren't worth the soul.

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Rohan Mehta
14 May 2026
12 min
Strategy spotlight

The "Tuesday Open Range Breakout" strategy that printed 14 of 22 months

Subscriber-submitted. A simple BankNifty ORB rule that's quietly compounded for two years. We backtested it ourselves and tore through the assumptions.

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Priya Iyer
11 May 2026
9 min
Data dive

5,000 traders, 90 days of data: what actually works in Indian markets

An aggregate analysis of all live strategies on Acme. Which underlyings win, which strategies survive, which entry styles drown. No cherry-picking.

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Sanjay Patel
8 May 2026
14 min
How-to guide

Switching from Zerodha to Upstox without losing a single live strategy

The exact 6-step migration we walked a customer through last week. Auth, position transfer, P&L continuity, downtime: 0 minutes.

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Sanjay Patel
5 May 2026
6 min
Market commentary

Budget 2026, capital gains tax, and your algo strategy

The new STCG/LTCG slabs landed last quarter. We modeled four common strategy archetypes against the changes โ€” three become marginally less attractive, one becomes structurally better.

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Neha Kapoor
2 May 2026
10 min
Strategy spotlight

"Short Straddle on results day" โ€” three years backtested, every quarter

Mostly works โ€” until the one quarter it didn't, and lost a year of gains. The exact filter we added that fixed the tail risk.

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Arjun Reddy
28 Apr 2026
11 min
Founder note

We crossed 5,000 active traders. Here's what changes (and what doesn't).

A milestone post. Why we're still answering support ourselves, why we're not hiring sales, and what the next 5,000 traders will get that the first 5,000 didn't.

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Rohan Mehta
22 Apr 2026
9 min

Don't trade without this brief.

The Friday digest โ€” one strategy, one chart, one founder thought. 4,128 subscribers. โญ 4.9 average rating.