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Free trading community for Indian traders: ideas, discussions, chat

A free trading community for Indian traders on SuperCharting: publish chart ideas, discuss NSE stocks per symbol, and talk in groups, channels and private chats.

SuperCharting has a free trading community built into the charting workstation, with three parts: Ideas, where traders publish a chart with their written analysis; Discussions, short posts about one symbol such as NSE:RELIANCE; and Chats, a messenger with groups, channels and private chats. None of them is limited by plan: Essential, the free plan, gets everything on this page. Reading ideas and discussions needs no account; posting and chatting need a free one. Everything here is for learning and sharing views, not for buying or selling advice.

Ideas: publish your chart analysis

An idea is a picture of your chart with a title and a written explanation of what you see, why, and what you expect. You publish it from the Publish button in the header above the chart. The dialog takes a picture of the active chart as it opens, then asks for a Title and a description (bold, italic, lists, links and more chart pictures are supported). Continue leads to Final touches: the Idea direction (Long, Short or Neutral), a Category such as Trend Analysis, Chart Patterns, Education or Fundamental Analysis, up to 10 Tags, and Visibility: Public, listed on the Ideas pages, or Private, seen only by people you send the link to.

Published ideas live at /ideas, which anyone can read. The page has the tabs Popular, Editors' picks, For you and Following, an All ideas menu to show only trading or only educational ideas, and two buttons to sort by most recent or by popularity. Each idea page shows the symbol and timeframe, a Trade active or Trade closed label, a play button that draws the symbol's daily closes since the idea was published, and an action row with boost, comments and Grab this chart. Grab this chart opens the same symbol and interval on your own chart; it does not copy the author's drawings.

The author can add updates under the idea and close it as Target reached, Stop reached or Closed. Readers can Follow the author and pick Follow this idea from the more menu to be notified of new comments, updates and the closing. Comments take one level of replies and can carry a chart picture.

Discussions: short posts about one symbol

Discussions are short posts, up to 1,000 characters, about the symbol on your chart. Open them from the Products menu at the bottom of the widget bar (pick Discussions); the panel follows the chart, so switching from NSE:NIFTY to NSE:HDFCBANK switches the posts. The same posts are on the public page of a stock or index, under its Community tab, for example /symbols/NSE-RELIANCE/minds/.

The composer asks "What's on your mind about NIFTY?" and offers bold, italic, strikethrough, lists and quotes, a $ button to mention another symbol (a $TCS mention becomes a chip that opens that chart), a picture of the active chart, and who can see the post: Everyone, Followers, or Private (only you and people with the link). Ctrl+Enter posts. Posts sort by Recent or Popular, and each has a boost, comments with replies, and a "..." menu with Follow, Copy link and Report. A post cannot be edited once it is up; delete it and post again.

Chats: groups, channels and private chats

The Chats button on the widget bar opens a messenger inside the workstation. The pen button (New message) offers New group, New channel, New private chat and Saved Messages, a chat with yourself for notes and chart pictures.

• Groups: members talk; the owner and admins add and remove members, make admins, share or revoke an invite link, turn on slow mode and can give the group a public @link so others find it by search. Official public groups such as General, Indian markets, Stocks and Scripts & Pine are open to every account.
• Channels: only the owner and admins post; subscribers read, react and see view counts. The official @supercharting channel carries news from the SuperCharting team.
• Private chats: one to one, with read ticks, typing and last seen, and Block if you need it.

Messages can be replied to, forwarded, edited for 48 hours, pinned, given one reaction, or deleted for everyone. The Attach button sends a photo, a file or a Chart picture (active chart); a chart picture arrives as a card with Open on chart, which loads that symbol and timeframe on the reader's chart. You can search all chats from the top box, search inside one chat, and browse a chat's shared photos, files and charts from its info page. A shared chart is a picture, like a chart snapshot, not your layout.

How to join the trading community in SuperCharting

1. Create a free account at /signup, or sign in.
2. Open a chart, for example NSE:NIFTY on the 15-minute timeframe.
3. Click Chats on the widget bar and open the Indian markets group from the list; click Join group if it asks.
4. To share what you see, click Attach and pick Chart picture (active chart), then write one line on what the chart shows.
5. For a longer write-up, click Publish in the header, write the idea, pick its direction and category, tick I agree to the House Rules and click Publish idea.
6. For a quick take on a stock, open Products > Discussions and post to the symbol's feed.

On a phone, the More menu has Discussions and Chats under Community; see charting on a phone.

Example: a learning idea on NIFTY

Say you notice NSE:NIFTY on the daily chart has bounced from its 200-day moving average three times this year. Publish an idea with direction Neutral and category Education that explains how you drew the average and what a fourth test would tell you. Post a Discussion on NSE:NIFTY linking the idea's view in one line, and share the chart picture in the Indian markets group to ask how others read it. Practise any plan that comes out of it in paper trading, with no real money.

Community rules in plain words

SuperCharting gives no tips, calls or recommendations, and it does not allow them in its community either. The rules are:

• No buy or sell calls or tips for money, and no promises of results. Share analysis and what you learned, not instructions to trade.
• No paid signal groups, no selling of courses or services, and no invitations to outside groups. Links to outside chat groups, phone numbers and UPI payment ids are refused in public chats, and in a private chat until the other person has written to you.
• No spam, abuse or adult content, and no copying other people's work as your own.
• New accounts cannot post links, or files in public chats, during their first day. Everyone has the same sending limits, for example 20 chat messages a minute.

Report is on every chat message (right-click it), on every idea and comment (the more menu) and on every discussion post and comment ("..." menu). Reports go to the site's moderators, who can delete content and stop an account from posting; ideas that break the House Rules are removed, and repeat offenders lose the ability to publish. Posts and ideas are the members' own views, not investment advice. If you need advice, speak to a SEBI-registered investment adviser.

Frequently asked questions

Is the trading community free?

Yes. Ideas, Discussions and Chats have no plan check, so Essential, the free plan, gets them in full. Reading ideas and discussions works signed out; posting, commenting and chatting need a free account.

Can I sell signals or run a paid group here?

No. Tips or calls for money, paid groups and links to outside groups break the community rules, and moderators remove them.

Who can see my posts?

Public ideas and Everyone posts are visible to all. A Private idea or post is seen only by people who have its link, and a Followers post only by accounts that follow you. Private chats are between their members.