Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], July 8: The landscape of the Indian derivatives market is undergoing a structural shift. With retail participation in the Futures and Options (F&O) segment reaching historic highs, the demand for stock market education has exploded. However, regulatory data consistently reveals a sobering reality: nearly 90% of retail day traders experience significant capital erosion due to speculative trading. In an era dominated by flashy, 60-second social media “hacks” and unverified advisory services, a new benchmark in financial literacy is being set by Chirag Rathod, founder of Upper Circuit Stocks. His data-driven, rule-based approach has led a growing wave of over 20,000 students to bypass viral shortcuts in favor of instituional-grade trading frameworks for retail traders.
Bypassing the “Hype” for Quantifiable Logic
The rise of Upper Circuit Stocks highlights a major evolution in student psychology. Today’s retail investors are increasingly realizing that “viral” strategies often fail under real market volatility. Chirag Rathod, an MBA in Finance and a NISM-registered Research Analyst, has structured his educational curriculum to mirror institutional risk models which are specifically designed for retail traders.
His digital footprint reflects this growing demand for structured education:
- X (formerly Twitter): A highly engaged community of 15,000+ followers tracking systematic market analysis.
- Instagram & Telegram: Over 11,000 Instagram followers and a 5,000+ strong Telegram community collaborating daily on rule-based execution.
- Educational Impact: More than 20,000 students mentored systematically across his customized options trading strategies.
Instead of teaching subjective “market feel,” Rathod introduces students to mechanical systems like the “Triple-Wire Convergence” (the statistical overlap of VWAP, 9 SMA, and 20 SMA). This rule-based focus serves as an “Institutional Guardrail,” removing emotional bias and treating trading as a measurable, calculated, rule-based business process rather than a speculative gamble which most retail traders fall for.
What his students learn from him?
Most of the retail traders often fall for easy money schemes and miss on the technical and financial aspects of intraday trading. Chirag Rathod, through his courses which are based on past data, analyse how the markets move, break them down into repeatable models just like “Triple-Wire Convergence”, so his students can identify these market moves and take a calculated, measurable decision rather than relying on other people’s judgement and gut feels.
Chirag Rathod has become the new benchmark for stock options learning through his unique teaching concepts, trading strategies, institutional style mindset and continuous learnings from past market data which retail traders are now taking benefit from.
“I want to create a market where every retail trader has a learning based structured approach towards options trading with the mindset of an institutional trader. The institutional trader has the money power to trade, which the retail trader may not have, but more important here to have that institutional mindset through which both of them can come on common grounds and trade in this ever-volatile market. I am trying to bring the retail traders mindset to the level of the institutional trader. I want to instil the confidence in retail traders with knowledge led, data backed strategies, so they can trade with this structured approach rather than thinking this is a gamble.” Says an enthusiastic Chirag Rathod.
As India’s financial markets mature, the transition from speculative trading to systematic education is no longer optional. Through Upper Circuit Stocks, Chirag Rathod is establishing a new standard of excellence, proving that a rule-based framework is the ultimate tool for retail empowerment.