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Sat, Jul 18th, 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

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 : 247.23 (-1.06%)
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%)
UK GDP report and analyzing forex pairs and associated currencies

We present our daily playbook for forex and currencies

BTC : 28.38 (-0.11%)
^NZDUSD : 0.58431 (-0.01%)
^AUDUSD : 0.69827 (-0.21%)
^USDCAD : 1.40210 (-0.15%)
^USDJPY : 162.400 (+0.02%)
^USDCHF : 0.80734 (-0.17%)
^EURUSD : 1.14392 (-0.03%)
ETH26 : 6,594.63s (-0.22%)
Australian Central Bank decisions and the USD

We present our day session playbook for a basket of currencies the USD measures against.

^NZDUSD : 0.58431 (-0.01%)
^GBPUSD : 1.34541 (-0.19%)
^AUDUSD : 0.69827 (-0.21%)
^USDCAD : 1.40210 (-0.15%)
^USDJPY : 162.400 (+0.02%)
^EURUSD : 1.14392 (-0.03%)
^USDCHF : 0.80734 (-0.17%)
Silver prices - is the volatility expected to subside and lower prices to more buyable levels?

We analyze the very volatile pricing in Silver futures and recent actions by the CME related to margins.

SIH26 : 69.545s (+2.77%)
ES futures chiseling lower on a directionless day

This is a late preview of how the ES has chiseled lower virtually all day today.

ESZ25 : 6,796.54s (+0.27%)
Trade ideas roundup of select Agri commodities

We analyze Wheat, Corn and Soybeans

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Semiconductor Stocks are almost 5 times more volatile than the S&P 500, surpassing the prior peak set during the Dot Com Bubble 🚨 🚨 https://t.co/0hotT9q0t7
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BREAKING 🚨: U.S. Housing Market227,500 properties filed for foreclosure so far this year, a 21% increase from last year and a 30% increase from two years ago 🤯 👀 https://t.co/4fn1iRlsuS
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Source: Morgan StanleyH/T: ZeroHedge
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Tech Momentum stocks just dumped at the fastest pace in history 🚨🚨 https://t.co/Pa53YAh01B
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Semiconductor Stocks have officially entered a bear market after falling more than 20% since their June all-time highs https://t.co/1S1j3IdIeE
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"Hey Barchart, stop being so bearish.""Okay, here you go."
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70% of S&P 500 stocks were trading above their 200-day moving average on Friday, the strongest market breadth since 2024 📈 🤯 👀 https://t.co/MAkxX9BmPk
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South Korea's Stock Market has fallen below its 100-day moving average for the first time in more than 15 months 🚨📉 https://t.co/QlktdRTbrM
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Anyone who maintains a SpaceX $SPCX short position is unlikely to survive, warns Elon Musk 🤯👀 https://t.co/j1bb2xbFn1 https://t.co/uhP2mHkbCY
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