9 in 10 F&O traders lose. Here's how to be the 10%.
That's not a scare line — it's a regulator's finding: a September 2024 SEBI study found 93% of individual F&O traders lost money between FY22 and FY24, across lakhs of real accounts. My take: the survivors aren't smarter or faster. They keep score better — they write down the decision before the market hands them the outcome, then grade the decision, not the P&L.
"Top 10% Trader" describes a disciplined process — grading the decision, not the outcome. It is not a performance ranking, a return claim, or a promise to beat the market.
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by Henil Dedhia
One system, three ways to use it
Plain-English books that teach the process, a trade journal that makes you write it down, and a free tool that turns your own journal entries into an honest read on your discipline and consistency.
Start the habit
Your first 15 trades, one page each — the exact fields the Basic journal uses, free, so you can start grading decisions today.
Get it freeLearn the process
From your first defined-risk trade to the full governed-desk system — plain English, risk-first, built for the Indian F&O market.
See the booksSee your own score
Fill a trade the way the journal teaches, and watch the math turn your own numbers into a discipline and consistency read — instantly, in your browser.
Try itGrade the decision, not the outcome
A good decision can lose money; a bad one can get lucky. Over a hundred trades, only good decisions survive. This journal — on paper or here — is not a diary of profits. It's a mirror. Its one job is to show you, honestly, whether you followed your own rules, so you fix the decision instead of chasing the outcome.
Educational content only — not investment advice. You're logging and reviewing your own trading decisions; nothing here is a recommendation to buy or sell any security or derivative.
Watch and read along
Short lessons on YouTube and a plain-English newsletter on Substack — same system, different formats, both free. And when an IPO window opens, the IPO desk explains how the Indian IPO process actually works — from the filed documents, never a call. The books have free chapter-by-chapter companions too — browse the free chapter library → And the Markets desk covers the trading-behaviour research behind my own rules — when not to trade, not what to trade.
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Why I built Top 10% Trader
One habit — writing the decision down before the market handed me the outcome — turned into the books, the journal, and this site. This is the short version, in one take.