About Unhedged

Unhedged is a practical resource for traders who want to move beyond discretionary chart-watching and into systematic, automated trading. No hype, no paid signals — just honest, technical education drawn from real experience building and running algorithmic strategies on Indian markets.

The name "Unhedged" reflects a philosophy: take clear, well-researched directional positions backed by data and rigorous validation rather than hiding behind excessive hedging or vague market opinions.

What We Cover

• AmiBroker Formula Language (AFL) — writing, debugging, and optimizing strategies
• Backtesting methodology — avoiding curve-fitting, understanding metrics that matter
• Walk-forward analysis — the gold standard for out-of-sample validation
• Broker API integration — connecting strategies to live order execution
• Execution pipelines — webhooks, order management, latency, and reliability
• Risk management — position sizing, drawdown limits, and capital allocation
• Options execution — deep ITM strategies, expiry handling, and rollover logic
• Infrastructure — datafeed setup, cloud deployment, and automation

Philosophy

Most retail traders lose money because they trade on intuition, chase indicators, or over-optimize on historical data. Algorithmic trading done right is the opposite — it demands intellectual honesty, statistical rigor, and engineering discipline.

Every concept discussed here has been tested in live markets, not just backtests. When something doesn't work, we say so. When results degrade from backtest to live (and they always do), we quantify the degradation and explain why it happens.