Regime
Technical analysisThe prevailing market condition a strategy is or is not suited to.
In plain terms
Clustered losses in one condition point to regime, not a broken system.
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Regime dependence
Technical analysisThe property that a strategy works in some market conditions and fails in others.
In plain terms
Trend systems want expanding volatility; mean-reversion systems want it settled. Neither is broken when the regime changes — it is just out of season.
New tax regime
Regulation & taxAlso called: Tax regime
India’s default income tax structure, with wider slabs, a larger standard deduction and almost no other deductions.
In plain terms
The fixed thali. Cheaper for most salaried people who do not have a home loan, and it needs no paperwork.
Market regime
Technical analysisThe prevailing character of the market — trending or ranging, quiet or volatile.
In plain terms
Most “my system stopped working” conclusions are really a regime change.
Old tax regime
Regulation & taxIndia’s original income tax structure, with narrower slabs and a long list of deductions.
In plain terms
The à la carte option. Worth it once you claim roughly ₹4.5–6 lakh of deductions — usually a home loan or a big metro HRA.
Volatility regime
Technical analysisWhether current volatility is high or low relative to its own recent history.
In plain terms
The axis most traders ignore. A trend can stay intact and still become too wild for your usual stop.
BSE SME
Market basicsThe Bombay Stock Exchange's platform for small and medium enterprises, running under the same lighter regime as its NSE counterpart.
In plain terms
The ₹1 lakh minimum lot is not a mark of quality — it is a regulatory warning label, set high deliberately to keep out investors who cannot absorb the loss.
ELSS
Market basicsAlso called: Equity Linked Savings Scheme
Equity Linked Savings Scheme — a fund category required to hold at least 80% in equity, carrying a three-year lock-in and a tax deduction available under the old regime.
In plain terms
The lock-in is described as the cost and is arguably the benefit: three years in which you cannot redeem in a panic.
Managed float
Market basicsAlso called: Managed floating exchange rate
An exchange rate regime in which the rate is set by the market but the central bank operates in it — the Reserve Bank’s stated position being that it does not target a level and acts to contain excessive volatility.
In plain terms
For a chart reader the consequence matters more than the intent: a stretch of unusually small ranges is not by itself evidence that the next move will be small, so volatility measured over a quiet window understates what a stop has to survive.
Section 80C
Regulation & taxThe old-regime deduction of up to ₹1.5 lakh covering EPF, ELSS, PPF, life premiums and home loan principal.
In plain terms
The reason offices fill with insurance agents every January. Useful for what you were paying anyway, expensive for anything bought to fill it.
Section 80TTB
Regulation & taxA deduction of up to ₹50,000 on deposit interest for senior citizens, under the old tax regime.
In plain terms
Five times the ₹10,000 everyone else gets under 80TTA — and one of the remaining reasons a retired person may still prefer the old regime.
Technical glitch framework
Regulation & taxSEBI’s regime requiring brokers to report material disruptions to their trading systems within set timelines and to submit a root cause analysis afterwards.
In plain terms
It defines the event rather than leaving it to argument: a malfunction of five minutes or more in trading hours affecting login, order processing, visibility of funds or risk systems. There will be an official timeline of what happened, and your own timestamps are what let you check your account against it.
200-day moving average
Technical analysisAlso called: 200-DMA
The average closing price over roughly one trading year.
In plain terms
The market’s shared definition of "long-term trend". Best used as an on/off regime switch.
Balance and imbalance
Technical analysisWhether a market is rotating around an agreed fair price or seeking a new one.
In plain terms
Balance favours fading extremes; imbalance means it is trending. The regime question, arrived at differently.
Death cross
Technical analysisWhen the 50-period moving average crosses below the 200-period average.
In plain terms
A dramatic name for a late confirmation. Much of the decline has already happened by the time it prints — it marks which regime you are in, not what to do that day.
Edge decay
Risk & psychologyThe gradual disappearance of a strategy’s advantage as more participants exploit it.
In plain terms
Diffuse decline across all conditions. Different from a regime problem, where losses cluster in one condition.
Home bias
Risk & psychologyThe tendency to hold far more of your own country's equity than its share of global market value would justify.
In plain terms
Partly rational, since you earn and spend in rupees. The problem is that a wholly domestic portfolio stacks your job, your property and your savings on one economy, one currency and one regulatory regime.
IBC
Regulation & taxAlso called: Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code
India’s Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, governing time-bound resolution of defaults.
In plain terms
Faster and more predictable than the old regime, and promoters are generally barred from bidding for their own company.
Risk-adjusted comparison
Risk & psychologyComparing two returns only after accounting for the certainty, the tax treatment and the horizon attached to each.
In plain terms
Put both after tax and the gap is usually far narrower than the headline version suggests. Which tax regime you are on moves the hurdle by points, not decimals.
Section 80G
Regulation & taxA deduction for donations to eligible institutions, at 50% or 100% depending on the organisation.
In plain terms
Old regime only. Get a receipt with the registration number.
Section 87A rebate
Regulation & taxA rebate that reduces tax to nil below a threshold of taxable income.
In plain terms
Why someone earning under about ₹12 lakh pays no tax in the new regime despite the slabs suggesting otherwise.
Standard deduction
Regulation & taxA flat amount subtracted from salary income before tax, requiring no proof or investment.
In plain terms
Free money off your taxable income. ₹75,000 under the new regime, ₹50,000 under the old.
Whipsaw
Technical analysisA signal that triggers and immediately reverses, producing a loss with no real move.
In plain terms
Usually a symptom of the wrong regime rather than a missing filter.