Every trade starts below zero.
ThreeTwenty is cost-first analytics for Indian intraday trading. Every signal is priced net of brokerage, STT, GST, stamp duty and modelled slippage — before it reaches you.
WIDTH FRICTION AS % OF R %
OF R B/E
AT 2R 0.107% 137% 79% 0.125% 117% 72% 0.208% 70% 57% 0.585% 25% 42% 0.875% 17% 39% 2.05% 7% 36%
B/E is the win rate needed to break even at a 2 : 1 reward-to-risk ratio. With zero costs that number is 33.3%. Tight stops don't reduce risk — they hand it to the exchange. A 0.1% stop pays 137% of its own risk in charges. No indicator survives that.
09:00
PRE-OPEN
Priced before the bell.
Most intraday traders in India lose money. The tools they are sold discuss entries, indicators and targets — and stay silent on the one number that is certain before any trade begins: what the trade costs. Nobody shows the trader their contract note first.
ThreeTwenty starts where the loss actually happens: the charges. A signal is not allowed to exist until it has paid, on paper, every rupee of them.
THE
DIVISION
One division decides everything.
Your opponent isn't the market. It's your contract note.
Plus 0.040% modelled slippage — 0.146% for the round trip. Brokerage stops scaling above ₹66,667 per side, so at larger size the floor falls to 0.076%.
THE
DOUBT
Does the method actually work?
We don't know yet, and we will not pretend otherwise. What exists is the arithmetic, and a set of rules that make it hard for us to fool ourselves later.
Strategy C has the best average and ranks last. We rank on the worst plausible version of a strategy, not its best day.
Most backtests are written by the marketing department. Ours is written by the defence.
FAQ
WAITLIST
When the statistics exist, be first to read them.
No spam, no tips, no promises.
The gory details, in full.
Every rate below is the one the exchange and the government actually charge, applied to the base they actually apply it to. Nothing here is rounded for convenience. If your broker's schedule differs, the model takes yours.
THE CHARGE
SCHEDULE
Seven lines, one round trip.
Rates follow a discount-broker equity intraday (MIS) schedule. Delivery, F&O, currency and commodity segments carry different rates and are out of scope. Illustrative — verify against your own contract note.
RUN IT
YOURSELF
True-cost calculator
Stop losses don't reduce risk. Tight ones donate it.
Cost ÷ stop width = the share of your risk unit the exchange keeps. Above 50% the system calls the trade uneconomical and it is never signalled.
THE
FUNNEL
Built to say no.
Nine stages between the universe and a closed position. Six vetoes run inside stage six — economics is one of them.
Some days the right number of trades is zero.
THE SIX
VETOES
Every check, and the number it looks at.
Eight modules, each named after the thing it answers to.
2002
OAKLAND
The Moneyball math
A team with no money beat teams with all of it by pricing what the market mispriced. Indian intraday has the same mispricing: everyone models the signal, nobody models the toll.
It is arithmetic, not signal quality.
Today's basket
Symbols are real NSE tickers; all prices, quantities and results on this screen are illustrative. Click a row to open its contract note.
Seven candidates triggered today and were killed before they became signals. Each row shows the veto that stopped it and the value that veto saw.
The previous session's two closed positions, reported net — the charges actually incurred are subtracted before the result is shown. Gross P&L is printed beside it so the toll is visible. Today's four picks are all still open; nothing has closed yet.