The Complete Strategy
The DELTAK Matrix Strategy (DKMS), end to end
How the strategy decides what to buy, when to buy it, and — more importantly — when to walk away. Every moving part, drawn out rather than described in jargon.
What the strategy is actually looking at
Before deciding anything, the strategy builds two separate pictures of the market. The first asks: which price levels are the big players defending? The second asks: is this particular option gaining or losing strength compared to the index itself? It only acts when both agree.
Where the big money is committed
support / resistanceOption sellers have to put up money to back their contracts, and they lose if price runs through the level they sold at. So the levels with the most money behind them get defended. The strongest one below the current price acts as a floor; the strongest one above acts as a ceiling. What matters most is whether those levels stay put or start shifting — that shift is what tells the strategy which of its three setups is in play.
Is this option gaining or losing strength?
4 quadrantsAn option can rise while the index it tracks rises faster — that option is quietly losing ground. Plotting strength against momentum sorts every option into one of four states. Only the two healthy ones are eligible to buy. If an option is fading, the strategy passes, no matter how good the level looks.
How a level gets identified
There are two ways to spot a defended level: where the most money is parked, and where the most trading is happening right now. They don't always point at the same place. When they disagree we take whichever is closer to the current price, because that is the one price will reach first. When they agree, the level is unusually strong — and those are the setups the strategy likes most.
This gets checked two ways at once — against everything built up over the contract's whole life, and against today's activity alone. The second one matters: a level that is quietly being abandoned today shows up long before the lifetime figures notice.
Three setups — the market picks, not you
Whether those defended levels are holding firm or drifting is what decides the setup. Nobody picks it from a menu — the market picks it, and the strategy follows. Whatever comes out of that still has to pass every remaining check below before a single rupee moves.
Aegis and Zenith both solid — spot is range-bound between two holding walls.
Trades 2nd ITM Call at Aegis, 2nd ITM Put at Zenith.
Banned Nothing between the walls — only the invalidation band around each one.
Aegis is migrating up (support strengthening) while Zenith holds solid.
Trades ITM Calls, only on a downward micro-dip back toward the new support.
Banned Put purchases — structurally disabled while Beta is armed.
Zenith is migrating down (resistance capping harder) while Aegis holds solid.
Trades ITM Puts, only on an upward micro-rally back toward the new resistance.
Banned Call purchases — structurally disabled while Gamma is armed.
Both walls migrating at once — no durable bound to trade against.
Trades Nothing. No candidate clears the gate.
Banned Every entry — the engine mutes itself by design rather than guess.
The extra check on the fussiest setup
One of the three setups bets that a level will hold. That is the riskiest assumption in the strategy, so it gets a second opinion: is this level genuinely under attack, or just being tested? Only that setup carries this check.
The floor and the ceiling are each watched separately, to see whether a rival level is building up against them. When both agree on a direction, the trade is allowed. When they contradict each other, the strategy reads that as confusion and simply sits it out — an unclear market is not an opportunity, and refusing to guess is the whole point.
Two settings, from the header. Maverick (the default) risks the full amount your account size calls for and leaves its offer 7–8% below the going price. Sentinel halves the risk on every trade and leaves the offer deeper still, 12% below — so it fills less often, and when it does fill it has paid less. Neither is wrong; they suit different temperaments.
Sentinel used to mean a different thing — an extra check that big sellers were visibly defending the level before we bought. We removed it. Tested against the trades it actually gated, it threw away 92% of them, and the ones it kept won less often than the ones it discarded. It was picking the wrong trades rather than the safest ones.
Both are validated in the backtest report, which runs Sentinel and Maverick side by side on the same 18 months of data.
Never the cheap option
Cheap options are cheap because they usually expire worthless. They are the ones most retail traders buy, and the main reason most retail option accounts shrink. This strategy only ever buys options that already have real value behind them — they cost more up front, they move more predictably, and they don't evaporate just because the clock ran out. Whatever the setup, that rule never bends.
How we get in, and how we get out
We never pay the asking price. The order goes in below what the option is trading at — 7-8% in Maverick, 12% in Sentinel — and simply waits, up to fifteen minutes. If the market comes to us, we're in at a better price than everyone who chased. If it doesn't, we lose nothing and move on. Once we hold a position, the strategy keeps re-asking the one question that matters: is the reason I bought this still true? The moment the answer is no, it exits — usually well before the stop-loss would have been reached.
NIFTY · ALPHA · put, entered against the Zenith wall
TARGET exitSignal mid was ₹115.10; the resting limit filled at ₹101.29 — a ₹13.81/share improvement banked before the trade even opened, on a wall driven by session volume rather than open interest that tick. Full mechanics for both rules are in the help drawer on the markets page.
Every check, in order
Every potential trade runs this gauntlet in this order, every time. Nothing gets waved through for looking promising — and most candidates never make it to the end.
Every mechanism above, backtested
18 months, six indices, real statutory charges, a strict train/validate/test split — the exact configuration diagrammed on this page.
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