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How to read the charts a 2-minute guide · no finance background needed
Bottom lineEvery chart on this site is one of a handful of simple shapes. We'll read a real one together first, then name the six shapes — after that you can read any analytic here. Nothing needs a finance degree.
Start here — let's read one chart together
the real thing — how much of the market rose vs fell, every week, 2004 → 2026-10-01
This one strip is 22 years. Each thin bar is about a week; the left edge is 2004, the right edge is today.
Green = most stocks rose that week; red = most fell. The brighter the colour, the stronger it was.
See the bright-red bands? Those are real market crashes you may remember — the 2008 crash and COVID in March 2020, marked right on the strip. Almost nothing rose in those weeks.
That's the whole trick — don't squint at one bar, read the bands: long green = a calm rise, red clusters = trouble.
✓ You just read a 22-year chart. Every coloured strip on the site works exactly like this.
The six shapes you'll meet
You just used the first one. Here are all six — each example below is the real chart from the page named on its right (a small illustration if that data isn't loaded).
the real 'buying pressure' line — buyers keen (green) vs backing off (red)
What it is
A line that fills green above a middle line and red below it. Here the middle means “neither buying nor selling hard”.
How to read it
Above the middle = the positive side (here: keen buyers); below = the negative side. The shape over time is the story — note the deep-red dips at the crashes.
the real thing — what stands out just before big market moves
What it is
Bars spread left and right from a centre line — one per trait. (This is the actual result: before big moves, strength is up top, heavy buying is at the bottom.)
How to read it
Right of centre = higher than a normal day; left = lower. Longer bar = more unusual. Skim top-to-bottom to see what stood out.
the real gauge — where foreigners' stance sits vs its own 2.5-year history
What it is
A marker on a range showing where today sits compared with its own past.
How to read it
The faint hill is where the number usually sits; the bright line is today. Near the left = unusually low; near the right = unusually high (e.g. “more extreme than 88% of history”).
the real thing — how profitable each sector was, year by year
What it is
A coloured table — rows (here, sectors) and columns (here, years).
How to read it
Warmer (oranger) = higher. Read across a row to watch a sector rise or fade over time; read down a column to compare in one year. A blank cell = too little data to trust.
The words, in plain English
Breadth
How many stocks are actually rising — not just the one headline index. Broad = most stocks up.
The tape
Whether buyers are aggressive (paying up to own stock) or quietly stepping back. Rising price with a weak tape is a warning.
Delivery
Shares actually bought to keep (moved to your demat / holding account), not flipped the same day. High delivery = real conviction.
Drawdown
The dip — how far something falls from a high before (maybe) recovering. The pain you sit through before a payoff.
Dispersion
How differently stocks move. High = each on its own merits (picking matters); low = they all move together on the big news.
Median vs average
The median is the middle outcome — the “typical” one. The average gets pulled up by a few huge winners, so we prefer the median.
Percentile
Where a number sits versus its own history. “88th percentile” = higher than 88% of the past — unusually high.
Base-rate
How often something happened historically. It describes the past; it is not a prediction of the future.
Survivorship
We mostly see companies that survived. Failures dropped off the list, so raw historical returns look rosier than reality.
FII / DII
FII = foreign investors. DII = domestic (Indian) mutual funds & insurers. They often trade against each other.
ROCE / OPM
ROCE = profit earned per ₹100 of capital a company uses. OPM = profit left from every ₹100 of sales. Higher = a better business.
Long / short
A “long” bet profits if the price rises; a “short” bet profits if it falls. “Net short” = more down-bets than up.
The one rule that matters most
Everything here describes the past — it never tells you what to do.
These analytics tell you what has happened, with all the caveats stated on each page. No chart on this site is a buy or sell signal. They are for understanding the market's character and history — the decision is always yours. When a page shows a caveat (survivorship, “after the fact”, thin data), that is the honest fine print, not a footnote to skip.