New to this? Here is what the screen actually does.
Most people arrive with a tip, a screenshot, or a feeling that everyone else is earlier than they are. This page is the honest tour: every screen you will use, what it puts in front of you, and what it refuses to pretend it knows.
A chart that shows your position on it.
Candles, line or area from one minute to one day. Moving averages, Bollinger, Supertrend, VWAP, CPR, previous-day levels, RSI and MACD — on our own chart engine, with your holdings and orders drawn on the same canvas.
See the payoff before you pay for it.
Build a spread, straddle or condor and watch the P&L shape, both breakevens and the greeks move as you change strikes. Margin is computed before the order leaves — so the position is a decision, not a surprise.
Test the strategy before it tests you.
Five desk structures — short straddle, strangle, iron condor, bull put and bear call — replayed over years of real Indian option history. You get the equity curve, the worst drawdown, and the trades that caused it.
The offer document, read for you.
Every DRHP is parsed into descriptive flags: how much of the issue is existing holders cashing out, what the promoters paid per share, whether the peer set flatters the price, what litigation is outstanding. Plus your realistic allotment odds. No score, no verdict — the facts and their page numbers.
One search. The whole company.
Type a name and get a decade of statements, cash flows, ownership and pledge history, auto-linked peers, and a valuation you can argue with — DCF and comps where every assumption is a field you control, in bear, base and bull.
Risk that grows with you.
On day one it answers what you own and how concentrated you are. Later, the same book gives you volatility, beta, drawdown, value-at-risk and full crisis replays. Nothing is locked behind a level — you simply grow into the part you need next.
The boring part that costs the most.
Short and long-term capital gains, F&O treated as business income, quarterly advance-tax dates, old-versus-new regime side by side, and a what-if before you book a position. On the other side: your dividend calendar, expected credits and TDS already netted off.
Nothing here is a black box.
A reference library of 135 written explainers sits behind the platform, and every metric on screen links to the page that shows how it was computed. Your own trades feed a journal that tells you where your edge actually was — and where it only felt like one.
No calls. No targets. No one promising you a number.
Kautilya is not a registered investment adviser or research analyst. You get the arithmetic and the disclosures — the decision stays yours.
When a figure could not be extracted, the screen says so rather than estimating. Charts stay hidden until there is enough real data to draw one.
Unofficial premiums are shown as unregulated indications, scored against what actually happened at listing — never presented as a price.
Start with the screen, not the tip.
Browsing is free — connect a broker only when you want your own book on the screen.
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