Disclosures

What the service is

StoxGud is subscription software. The fee pays for access to Live Flow, the Trading Journal and the member Home; the plans are Pro (monthly) and Premium (yearly), with the same features. Every subscriber sees the same Live Flow screen at the same time; nothing on it is personalised. We do not provide personalised recommendations, portfolio management, trade execution, or custody of money or securities, and we never ask for access to your trading or demat account.

Regulatory status

StoxGud is not registered with SEBI as an investment adviser, research analyst, portfolio manager, stock broker or authorised person, and does not act as one. If that ever changes, this page will say so before any regulated service is offered.

Where Live Flow's data comes from

• Prices: 1-minute intraday candles (open, high, low, close, volume) for each F&O stock and the NIFTY 50 and NIFTY BANK indices from third-party market-data providers. This is not a direct exchange feed and can be delayed behind the exchange. Each build takes the day's 1-minute bars and combines them into 5-minute bars from 09:15. The previous session's high, low and close come from third-party daily bars.
• Refresh: during market hours a new snapshot is built about every 30 to 60 seconds and the page re-reads it every 30 seconds; outside market hours the last session stays on screen. The status line shows the time of the latest bar.
• Which stocks: the F&O list comes from NSE's published lot-size file. Sectors are based on NSE's industry classification.
• No order-book data: Live Flow does not see bids, offers or who traded. "Buy share" is an estimate from candles (below).

StoxGud is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by NSE, BSE, NSE Indices, any data provider or SEBI. NIFTY and all index and company names are trademarks of their owners.

How the 0–99 score is calculated

Every F&O stock is put on one side: bullish if it trades at or above the previous session's close, bearish if below. Within its side, each stock is ranked on six measures:

1. the size of its move: % change from the previous close;
2. its position in the day's range: near the high ranks higher for bulls, near the low for bears;
3. its distance from VWAP (the day's volume-weighted average price), above for bulls, below for bears;
4. the share of the day's 5-minute bars that closed above the VWAP of the session up to that bar (bulls), or not above it (bears);
5. its estimated buy share of volume (bulls) or sell share (bears);
6. its drift over the last 30 minutes, in the direction of its side.

Each measure becomes a percentile rank (0 to 1) within the side, ties sharing the average rank. The score is the average of the six ranks × 99, rounded. It is relative: a score of 90 means the stock looks stronger on these measures than most stocks on its side right now, not that it will rise or fall. Stocks are numbered by score within their side ("#3 of 39"); the P number is that position as a percentile, and the 1–5 conviction dots are the score divided by 20, rounded. The boards themselves list the 15 biggest gainers and losers by % change.

How support, zone, target and R:R are found

For each stock the candidate levels are the day's open, high and low, VWAP, the point of control (the price band with the most volume in a 32-band volume-at-price profile of the day), the previous session's high, low and close, and the two edges of the latest order block (below). Candidates closer to the price than 0.2 × ATR (the average true range of the last 14 five-minute bars) or 0.05% of the price, whichever is larger, are ignored.

• Bullish stocks: Support 1 and 2 are the nearest candidates below the price; Target 1 and 2 the nearest above.
• Bearish stocks: Resistance 1 and 2 are the nearest above; the targets the nearest below.
• If fewer than two candidates exist on a side, each missing level is placed beyond the last one: 1.5 steps further for stops, 2 steps for targets, where a step is the ATR or 0.1% of the price, whichever is larger.
• Order block / zone: for a bullish stock, the most recent down 5-minute candle that was later followed by a close above its high and that still sits below the price; the zone is that candle's low-to-high. For a bearish stock, the most recent up candle later followed by a close below its low, still above the price. If there is none yet, the zone is a narrow band (0.25 × ATR) at Support 1 / Resistance 1.
• R:R = distance from the price to Target 1 ÷ distance from the price to Support 1 (Resistance 1), capped at 9.9.
• Where they are shown: these levels appear in each stock's chart (opened by clicking its card), not on the card itself.
• Card order blocks: the card's chart (the last 120 one-minute candles) marks order blocks found on 1-minute candles: the last opposite candle before a close at least 1.5 x ATR(14) beyond it within 3 candles that also clears the prior 6 candles' high (low for a bear block). A block is active until a candle closes through its far side; broken blocks are drawn faded.

These are mechanical reference prices from the day's data, recalculated with every snapshot, so they move during the day. They are not advice on where to enter, exit or place a stop.

How "buy share" is estimated

Each 5-minute bar's volume is split by where the bar closed within its range: (close − low) ÷ (high − low) is counted as buying and the rest as selling (half and half if the bar has no range). The day's buy share is the volume-weighted total. This close-location estimate is a common approximation; it is not actual buyer- or seller-initiated volume. The same estimate colours the volume-at-price bars.

Conflicts of interest

• The people behind StoxGud may trade in their personal capacity, including in stocks that appear on Live Flow. Because the boards and scores are produced by formula, nobody can place, promote or hide a stock.
• We receive no payment or benefit from listed companies, their promoters or anyone else for a stock's appearance on Live Flow or in our content.
• We receive no referral fees from brokers and run no advertising. If that changes, we will say so here first.
• StoxGud earns money only from subscriptions. The plan you pay for never changes what Live Flow shows: the formulas above are the same for every subscriber.

Reviews and examples

Reviews on StoxGud are written by signed-in members with a confirmed email address, one review per account (a 1–5 rating and a short text). Every new or edited review is checked before it appears. We approve or reject reviews but never edit their text, and low ratings are published like any other. Reviews that claim specific profits or returns (amounts, percentages, "doubled my money"), contain links, give tips, or are spam, abusive or fake are not published. We show the rating, text, the name the member chose, optional role and city, and the date — never the email address. We never write, buy or invent reviews, ratings or user numbers; when there are no approved reviews, none are shown. Members can withdraw their review at any time, and deleting an account deletes it. Worked examples in our pages and guides come from real sessions where they say so and are illustrations of how to read the screen, not results.

Risk statistics published by SEBI

SEBI has studied the profit and loss of individual traders in the equity futures and options segment:

• FY 2021-22 — SEBI's study of January 2023 found that 89% of individual traders in equity F&O lost money (9 out of 10).
• FY 2021-22 to FY 2023-24 — SEBI's updated study (press release of 23 September 2024) found that 93% of over 1 crore individual F&O traders made losses, averaging about ₹2 lakh per trader including transaction costs, and that their aggregate losses exceeded ₹1.8 lakh crore over the three years.
• FY 2025-26 — SEBI's study of August 2026 (Profitability of Individual Traders in the Equity Derivatives Segment, FY25–FY26) found that 87.7% of individual traders were loss-makers (90.9% in FY25), that their aggregate net losses were ₹91,685 crore, and that the average loss among loss-makers was ₹1.47 lakh. Options accounted for 92% of individuals' losses.

Sources: SEBI press release PR No. 22/2024 (which also summarises the January 2023 study) and SEBI's FY25–FY26 study, both on sebi.gov.in.

Contact

Questions about these disclosures: stoxgud@gmail.com.