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Sat, Aug 22nd, 2026

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Murali Sarma

Murali Sarma

Murali Sarma is a private investor and trader, dealing in currencies, commodities (grains, energies, metals, bonds, indices), and stocks. Using his background in technical analysis, he spends long hours identifying market trends, helping identify major support and resistance zones, interpreting market generated information for short-term and swing traders and specializes in analyzing market profile. In his writing, he presents a comprehensive understanding and explanation of the underlying fundamentals combined with a set of technical tools that allows presentation of price levels in an actionable format. Murali is the individual behind TradeGuidance’s premium weekly newsletter which covers futures, stocks and options that can be traded over a short-term horizon.

Most Recent Stories

Commodity sector - Grains actionable analysis

We present our daily snapshot of how we expect grains to trade

ZOZ26 : 343-6s (+0.36%)
ZWU26 : 681-4s (-0.18%)
ZCZ26 : 508-4s (+0.99%)
ZMZ26 : 325.8s (+0.62%)
ZSU26 : 1225-0s (+0.35%)
ZLU26 : 69.35s (-2.57%)
Metals analysis for the intraday futures market participant

We review our metals setups for the day

PLV26 : 1,895.7s (+3.08%)
SIU26 : 69.530s (+2.09%)
HGZ26 : 6.6880s (+1.80%)
GCZ26 : 4,680.6s (+2.39%)
PAZ26 : 1,369.40s (+1.14%)
Grains - smaller timeframe actionable measures

We provide directional guidance for the intraday and short-term market participant

ZOZ26 : 343-6s (+0.36%)
ZCZ26 : 508-4s (+0.99%)
ZWU26 : 681-4s (-0.18%)
ZLZ26 : 69.58s (-2.44%)
ZSX26 : 1239-4s (+0.24%)
ZMU26 : 317.7s (+0.63%)
Metals - technical analysis

We analyze the portfolio of metals futures which is prevalent in our own trading almost everyday.

GCQ26 : 4,624.1s (+2.39%)
HGU26 : 6.5870s (+1.82%)
PLV26 : 1,895.7s (+3.08%)
SIU26 : 69.530s (+2.09%)
PAU26 : 1,350.20s (+0.88%)
Grains, Livestock, Energy, Metals actionable setups

We summarize our commodities playbook for the smaller timeframe investor

The monthly PUT sellers digest

We share a sampling of our ideas for July monthly options traders

Premarket analysis of indices and trending commodity futures

We analyze our core playbook

Livestock and Grains round up and our actionable playbook for the last trading session in February'26

We analyze Livestock and Grains sector in this very brief report

ZMK26 : 342.7s (unch)
ZCK26 : 451-4s (-3.22%)
PAM26 : 1,209.00s (+2.44%)
GFJ26 : 374.030s (+0.07%)
HGK26 : 6.3050s (-0.88%)
PLJ26 : 1,942.3s (-1.96%)
ZLK26 : 74.82s (-0.58%)
LEJ26 : 258.475s (+0.62%)
HOJ26 : 4.1634s (-4.60%)
RBJ26 : 3.3123s (-1.17%)
ZSK26 : 1174-4s (-3.35%)
ZWK26 : 647-0s (-2.71%)
Our retail pick for 2026 - Amazon

We analyze Amazon and its various business lines post the early Feb earnings.

AMZN : 258.63 (-0.57%)
Gold futures price analysis

We analyze the overnight move in gold futures alongside all the geopolitical events crowding the trade

GSJ26 : 4,492.50s (+2.66%)

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