Field Notes

Reading the NIFTY auction.

Daily reads, weekly plans, and structural notes — auto-published by the Auction Edge Narrator and grounded in Jim Dalton's Market Profile framework.

30 posts·updated yesterday·auto-published by AI Narrator
LAST WEEK
Weekly Plan03 OCT 2026

NIFTY Weekly Plan — Week of 2026-10-02

– Trend status: Sellers stay in control. Price closed Thursday at 22422, about 700 points under the prior completed week’s 23140 close, and stays bearish until it accepts back above 22610. – Week’s verdict: Sellers won. Value (where most trade happened) stepped lower on three of the last fou

Daily Review01 OCT 2026

NIFTY Market Profile — EOD Review (2026-10-01)

– Every long-term measure we track still leans bearish, and the benchmark sits below the 12-day range it was trading in last week. – Wednesday was a Neutral-Extreme day: a two-sided session that closed at its lows, so the downside lean carried into today. – Friday’s primary scenario is a lower-value

Lunch Brief01 OCT 2026

NIFTY Lunch Brief (2026-10-01)

– Every major trend measure still points down, and the weekly picture has been sliding out of its multi-week range. – Yesterday ended near its low (a Neutral Day that closed at the extreme) after three straight lower value areas. – Today the morning plan was a sell-side break; price sits near 22331

Post-IB Brief01 OCT 2026

NIFTY Post-IB Brief (2026-10-01)

POST-IB BRIEF — NIFTY – NIFTY opened 77 points below yesterday’s close and well under yesterday’s value area (22680–22770); the open was an Open Auction, with no early initiative drive. – The Initial Balance (the first hour’s range) is 22508–22611, about 103 points, roughly half of the 20-day a

Daily Review30 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Market Profile — EOD Review (2026-09-30)

– Every trend gauge we track points down, and NIFTY sits in the lower quarter of its two-year range, so rallies are fighting the tide. – Tuesday was a P-shaped day (a short-covering rally that stalled); Wednesday erased its gains and closed under the fair-price zone. – Primary plan: sell weakness wh

Lunch Brief30 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Lunch Brief (2026-09-30)

– Backdrop stays bearish (falling value, averages stacked down), but today is a bounce inside that downtrend. – Yesterday was a P-Shape day (short-covering rally) that closed near its high at 22716 after a poor low. – Today’s 51-point gap down filled at 9:15; the line in the sand is the Initial Bala

Post-IB Brief30 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Post-IB Brief (2026-09-30)

POST-IB BRIEF — NIFTY – Opened ~51 points below yesterday’s close but inside yesterday’s value area (22630–22730); the gap was repaired immediately. – The first hour’s range (the Initial Balance) is 22660–22756, 96 points, under half the ~209-point average daily move, so a breakout is plausible

SEPT · 2026
Daily Review29 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Market Profile — EOD Review (2026-09-29)

– The broader trend is firmly down: every timeframe we track is aligned bearish, and price sits in the lower quarter of its long-term range. – Today was a P-shape day (a rally that stalls, often short-covering rather than fresh buying) after Monday’s long-liquidation break. – Tomorrow’s line in the

Lunch Brief29 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Lunch Brief (2026-09-29)

– Macro: every timeframe still leans bearish, and price sits in the lower quarter of the long-term balance range. – Yesterday: a B-Shape (long-liquidation) day that closed on its low, 23080 to 22762, with value migrating lower. – Today: the open gapped down about 48 points and the early drive up has

Post-IB Brief29 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Post-IB Brief (2026-09-29)

POST-IB BRIEF — NIFTY – Opened 48 points below yesterday’s close and below yesterday’s value area (22780–22880): sellers kept control from the start. – The first hour’s range (the Initial Balance) is 22570–22753, 184 points, wide against the ~208-point average daily move, so it likely holds muc

Daily Review28 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Market Profile — EOD Review (2026-09-28)

– The bigger picture stays uniformly bearish — VWAP, EMA and moving-average stacks all aligned down, market breadth weak, daily value migrating lower for a fourth session. – Friday’s strong-high close proved a false signal: today gapped down, broke a wide Initial Balance, and closed at the low in a

Lunch Brief28 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Lunch Brief (2026-09-28)

– Every trend gauge — moving averages, VWAPs, breadth — still points down; a fourth straight lower-value week confirmed it. – Friday closed strong near its high, but today gapped down ~75 points and sliced through Friday’s defended low without pausing. – Line in the sand: 22,850, the Initial Balance

Post-IB Brief28 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Post-IB Brief (2026-09-28)

POST-IB BRIEF — NIFTY Quick take: – Gapped down ~76 points and never looked back — a decisive, one-way open. – The Initial Balance (first hour’s range) is already broken lower; price sits near session lows around 22,850. – Friday’s “floor holds” read failed: price sliced through 23,116 and

Weekly Plan26 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Weekly Plan — Week of 2026-09-25

– WOTF: DOWN, second straight week. Swing shorts stay primary until the prior week’s high near 23890 is reclaimed. – This week’s verdict: value kept migrating lower (three of the last four sessions printed a lower value area), even as Friday clawed back Thursday’s -225pt gap-down day with an

Daily Review25 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Market Profile — EOD Review (2026-09-25)

– The weekly trend is still one-timeframing lower for a second straight week, and every trend lens — the anchored VWAP order, the moving-average stack, the 50/200-day cross — reads bearish, with our composite market-bias score pinned at its most negative setting. – Today closed as a Neutral Day wi

Lunch Brief25 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Lunch Brief (2026-09-25)

– Every trend gauge — weekly trend, moving averages, VWAPs — still points down; two weeks of one-timeframing lower. – Yesterday trend-down, closed near its low; today gapped down, filled it, built a narrow first hour, then broke down and reclaimed. – Line in the sand: 23,030 — broken briefly, then r

Post-IB Brief25 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Post-IB Brief (2026-09-25)

POST-IB BRIEF — NIFTY Summary – Opened down 28 points, filled the gap almost immediately, then tested and held the low near 23,030 before bouncing — a classic test-and-reverse open. – The Initial Balance (the first hour’s range) is unusually narrow at 92 points, under half the 20-day averag

Daily Review24 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Market Profile — EOD Review (2026-09-24)

– The weekly trend is one-timeframing lower for a second straight week and every major trend lens — the VWAP stack, the moving-average stack, and the 50/200-day cross — is now aligned bearish, with the composite market read pinned at its most negative reading. – Yesterday’s rally was exposed as shor

Lunch Brief24 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Lunch Brief (2026-09-24)

– Weekly value is one-timeframing lower for a second week; four sessions of rising daily value just got wiped out. – Yesterday closed strong near its high, but today gapped down 225 points and the Initial Balance broke lower before any bounce could hold. – Line in the sand: the nine-day balance’s ow

Post-IB Brief24 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Post-IB Brief (2026-09-24)

POST-IB BRIEF — NIFTY – Gapped down 225 pts (0.97%) this morning — below yesterday’s ENTIRE range, a full gap. – First hour tested lower, rallied to 23,282, then fully round-tripped back down. – Price (23,213) sits just under the Initial Balance (first hour’s range) low — retesting where an old

Daily Review23 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Market Profile — EOD Review (2026-09-23)

– The weekly trend is still one-timeframing lower for a second week and the composite backdrop leans bearish, yet the last three daily value areas have each printed higher — real tension into Thursday. – Wednesday’s Open-Drive higher held value gains for a second straight session, but the profile ca

Lunch Brief23 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Lunch Brief (2026-09-23)

– Weekly value is one-timeframing lower for a second week; the broader trend stays bearish (death cross). – Yesterday closed weak in a trend-down session, though daily value has edged higher four sessions running. – Today’s Initial Balance (first hour’s range) broke and held above 23,415 — the after

Post-IB Brief23 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Post-IB Brief (2026-09-23)

POST-IB BRIEF — NIFTY – NIFTY opened at 23352, inside yesterday’s value (23320–23400), chopping without conviction — an Open Auction, weakest open type. – The Initial Balance is 65 points, about a third of the 20-day average range — narrow, raising breakout odds. – IB unbroken; session reads “b

Daily Review22 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Market Profile — EOD Review (2026-09-22)

– The medium-term trend stays bearish — a confirmed death cross, a bear-stacked short-term average system, and two straight weeks of one-timeframe selling on the weekly chart — and today reasserted it hard. – After an early failed push to a new high, the market broke its Initial Balance down the v

Lunch Brief22 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Lunch Brief (2026-09-22)

– Macro stays bearish: death-crossed averages, weekly value one-timeframing lower for a second week, state Imbalance. – Yesterday closed Normal Variation, higher high/low, but flagged poor structure (near-zero tail at the top). – Today’s Open-Auction gap-up reversed into a developing Trend Down day;

Post-IB Brief22 SEPT 2026

NIFTY Post-IB Brief (2026-09-22)

POST-IB BRIEF — NIFTY – Gapped up 40 pts, opened above yesterday’s fair-value zone but still inside yesterday’s range — an undecided Open-Auction, not a committed drive. – Initial Balance (first hour) printed 23,426-23,489, a wide 63 pts — about two-thirds of the recent average daily range — no