• How to figure out whether the market is trending or range-bound; the technical indicators to apply in different phases

• Day trading, swing trading, and position trading — profitable approaches and appropriate precautions for these three futures trading strategies

• Cash and futures arbitrage — how to get risk-free returns from idle cash

• Money-making options strategies

• How to trade with discipline

• The critical importance of money and trade management; rules for limiting your risk per trade and how to work out the size of your trading positions.

Based on an insider’s expertise and experience of trading Indian futures and options, the book is packed with proven strategies and examples of real trades in the Indian derivatives market.

The author boldly asserts that “derivatives have changed the Indian trading landscape forever . . . It is, finally, possible to make a fortune on the Indian stock market.”

Ashwani Gujral’s brilliant academic background spans engineering and finance. He is BE (Electronics and Communications) from M.I.T. Manipal, 1993, and MBA (Finance) from Georgetown University, Washington DC, USA, 1995.

Mr Gujral writes regularly for the leading US specialist magazines and journals on trading and technical analysis, including The Active Trader, USA; Stock Futures and Options, USA; Futures, USA; Trader’s Source, USA, and Technical Analysis of Stocks and Commodities, USA. He is also a Technical Analysis Consultant to Reuters India Ltd.

Mr Gujral also features regularly as an expert over CNBC, NDTV and Zee News Channels to offer comments on the Indian economy and the stock and derivatives markets. Since 1995, he has been trading stocks and derivatives for a living.

How to Make Money Trading Derivatives is his first book.