About StrategyGyan

Our mission

StrategyGyan exists to explain every named trading and option strategy with the same care: what it is, how it is built, exactly where its money comes from, exactly where its risk lives, and the market conditions in which it stops working. We document 52 strategies across seven families. 31 of them cap your loss by their own structure; the rest do not, and we say so on every page, above the fold.

What makes this different

• A reference, not a blog. Nothing here is dated commentary. Every page is written to be as true in five years as it is today.
• The numbers are computed, not typed. Every payoff diagram, Greek curve, max profit and max loss on this site is generated by one engine from one set of illustrative legs. The cheat sheet cannot disagree with the strategy page, because both read the same data.
• Risk before reward. Every page states its maximum loss before its maximum profit, as a formula and as a worked rupee number.
• Original diagrams. Payoff curves, Greek panels, decay curves and volatility-sensitivity curves are inline SVG generated at build time. No stock images, no charting library, no layout shift.
• India-specific. Worked examples use NIFTY and BANKNIFTY, Indian lot sizes, Indian margin conventions and cash settlement.

What we will never do

We will never tell you a strategy is the best one, the safest one, or a way to generate income. We will never publish a trade call, a target, or a stop-loss. We will never claim a strategy is profitable. A strategy is a shape of risk; whether it suits you depends on facts about you that this website cannot know.

Who it is for

Beginners who want to understand what they are being sold; swing and positional traders comparing structures; intraday and expiry-day traders who need the Greeks straight; quants and risk managers who want a clean, consistent reference. Start with the strategy index, narrow the field with the finder, or read risk management first — which is what we would suggest.

What we are not

StrategyGyan is an educational platform only. We are not a SEBI-registered investment adviser, research analyst or stockbroker, we do not manage money, and we never give buy/sell recommendations. See our SEBI Disclaimer and Editorial Policy.

Last updated 9 July 2026.