This is one of those weeks where I am really pleased to post a changelog. All 4 of these features have been in the builder’s lab and in my conversations with users and finally all of them are live now.

Let’s get started.

Zig Zag Indicator

I get a ton of requests for new indicators on Punch but this one was by far the most requested one. Zig Zag indicator connects swing highs and swing lows with straight lines, filtering out the noise in between. You can customize the indicator by setting the price deviation threshold (default 1%) and a pivot depth (default 5 bars). Moves smaller than your threshold get ignored, leaving you with just the trend structure.

This is available on Android now and will be on desktop by this weekend

Option Price Charts in All Timeframes

Option price charts were previously limited to timeframes of 1 hour and below. That restriction is removed. You can now view option price charts across every timeframe available on Punch.

If you trade positional options or want to see how premiums have moved over days and weeks, this was a gap. It's filled.

Available on both desktop and Android now.

Rectangle Drawing tool

This one got hundreds of votes : Rectangle tool

The standard rectangle tool can be used to mark consolidation zones, price ranges, or areas of interest. It comes with full customizability for border colour, thickness and style, along with fill opacity control and extend left/right toggles.

The rotated rectangle variant is more suited for marking diagonal channels or angled consolidation patterns that don't sit horizontally.

Chart controls

This one is specific for Punch desktop users.

Desktop charts now have dedicated zoom (+/-) and scroll (left/right) controls that appear when you hover over the chart in addition to the recentre icon you're already familiar with.

That’s all for today.

We're working through the other requests on Builder's Lab. A few more drawing tools, trailing SL, protection order for equity, and kill switch are all under development right now.

- Archit

Two quick updates this week and both of them have been highly requested & long pending on the Punch Builder’s Lab

Key Levels Indicator

The old Key Levels only showed previous day high and low. We’ve changed that. The new one covers six timeframes: intraday (configurable from 1h to 4h), daily, weekly, monthly, 52-week, and Monday range.

For each timeframe you get open, high, low, close, and midpoint as separate toggleable levels. So you can plot previous day high/low alongside previous week high/low alongside 52-week high/low on the same chart, each in a different colour.

Every timeframe has its own colour picker with opacity control. Line width and style (solid, dashed, dotted) are configurable. Labels can be switched between long form ("Prev Day High") and shorthand ("PDH"). There's also a merge option that combines identical levels across timeframes so your chart doesn't turn into a mess of overlapping lines.

By default, daily and weekly previous high/low are turned on. Everything else is off. Customize what you need.

How to access: Indicators panel (Fx) → scroll to "Key Levels"

Pivot Points Restructure

Pivot Points was a single indicator with a dropdown to switch between Standard, Fibonacci, and Camarilla. That created a problem: you could only use one at a time.

We've split them into three standalone indicators. Standard Pivot Points, Fibonacci Pivot Points, and Camarilla Pivot Points are now separate entries in the indicator list. You can plot any combination of them simultaneously.

CPR (Central Pivot Range) is also now its own independent indicator. TC, PP, and BC plotted separately, no longer buried inside the Pivot Points dropdown.

How to access: Indicators panel (Fx) → scroll to "Camarilla Pivot Points” or “Central Pivot Range“

Both of these are live on Android now. We'll be adding the same indicators to Punch Desktop too in an upcoming release.

💬 Until next week

Every idea you suggest, every vote you cast, every bug you report — gets us closer to building Punch the right way.

See you at the Lab.

— Archit Sunat

Desktop is evolving fast. Right now we're focused on building parity with the Android app.

Two updates for you on desktop this week.

Indicator Customisations

You can now customise your indicator style down to the detail.

When you plot an indicator and tap the colour option, you get 16 colour choices along with the ability to set the opacity.

You can customize the look and feel by adjusting line thickness, switching between three style options, and choosing to show or hide individual indicator values.

And you can select the source: open, high, low, close, HL/2, or HLC/3.

Market Depth

Like on Android, the order form on desktop now comes with a dedicated market depth view. Get a quick look at the bid and ask across 5 levels of depth. Market depth also shows the OHLC, OI, Volume, and upper/lower circuit for the respective strike.

How to access: on your order form, tap the Market Depth icon next to the order type.

Android: BSE cash Integration (Version: 2.0.0.87)

Till now Punch had access to all NSE indices and stocks along with BSE indices, but BSE cash was a missing piece. That's now filled.

How to switch: tap the NSE toggle next to the scrip name to switch to BSE and vice versa.

Coming Up

Protection orders for equity went into development this week. We're targeting end of month for release. Trailing SL is also in the pipeline for this month. I'll keep you posted.

— Archit

Hello everybody,

This week I want to talk about 2 of the most awaited features on desktop.

Watchlists

With over 233 votes on Builder's Lab, watchlists became the top-voted feature. And we've released them with a multitude of capabilities, even more powerful than mobile. So all you watchlist keepers can take full advantage of it.

You can add, edit, remove, and reorder your scrips.

We have introduced 8 customizations in your watchlists with trackable, real-time data – LTP, price, price change %, open, high, low, close, and volume. You can use the settings button to select the columns you track regularly, or use all of them and spread the watchlist across the screen.

TIP: You should create a dashboard just for your watchlists.

You'll continue to have access to your beloved preset watchlists – NIFTY 50, NIFTY NEXT 50, and FnO watchlists.

Something that's not even released on Android yet – Watchlist Heatmaps. Switch from list view to Heatmap view to track your watchlist visually. Scrips are color-coded in red and green based on price movement, with varying shades to highlight the intensity of the move.

On hovering over any scrip inside a watchlist, you'll get two options:

1. View chart — the respective scrip chart will open in your active chart layout.

2. View option chain — you can switch over to the option chain of the respective scrip.

And lastly, all your watchlists created on mobile will be automatically synced across web and mobile.

New drawing tools

Until now on desktop, you only had access to horizontal lines, trendlines, and Fibonacci retracements. With this update, we have introduced 4 new drawing tools:

• Vertical Line — for session boundaries and time-based references

• Trendline Ray — draws a directional trendline extending forward from a single anchor point

• Horizontal Ray — for projecting levels forward without extending both sides

• Extended Line — for structure and trend projection beyond visible candles

Coming up next on desktop

In the next couple of weeks, expect: market depth, indicator customizations, holdings on desktop (currently only viewable on Android), and the OI profile indicator on chart.

Punch Android app (version 2.0.0.86)

We received great feedback and appreciation for the OI profile indicator. We've now extended its capabilities to include a new mode, OI + OI Change, that overlays both the absolute Open Interest and the OI Change (increase/decrease) for each strike, for both Calls and Puts, in a single consolidated bar chart.

That's all for today. Thank you.

— Archit Sunat

Yesterday was weekly expiry. I ran a survey after market hours, asking you how Punch performed yesterday. Many of you responded. Thanks for your inputs.

Most of you said Punch is better than any broker you've used before. Execution was fast. Charting held up well. App was smooth.

What we've built is good, but not great yet.

We can do better.

Your average confidence in Punch is 7 out of 10.

That is not meeting the bar we have set for ourselves.

Your confidence needs to be 9+, and we will get there.

36% of your want execution to be even more fast. 33% of you experienced chart lag. Price slippage and charts crashing were the other areas you flagged.

Thanks for helping me and my team understand your current confidence level. That helps me set the target for the Punch team and myself.

I will keep running these surveys on volatile days and sharing results with you. Volatile days put the product under real stress. We need your feedback most on those days.

If you missed yesterday's survey, it's still open : Share your feedback with us.

For detailed feedback, email archit@punch.trade.

A quick product update (app version 2.0.0.82)

Watchlist grouping and sorting is live.

Toggle "Group by Type" to split your watchlist into Indices, Stocks, and Futures. Your custom order stays intact within each group. You can also sort by A-Z, Z-A, or % change (ascending/descending). Both features work independently of each other.

Trailing SL and protection for equity orders are currently in the testing phase. We plan to release them on both mobile and desktop together. We should have this out shortly.

Thank you,

- Amit Dhakad (CEO Punch & Market Pulse)

We started rolling out Punch Desktop on Monday. Many of you already have access. Over this week, every interested user will be in.

Log in at desktop.punch.trade with your phone number and PIN.

We could list features here. You've probably already seen the list. Instead, here's what actually changes about how you trade.

You stop switching tabs

On mobile, you watch one chart. Maybe two in split mode. When you want to check a different scrip, you switch. When you want to compare timeframes, you switch. When you want to see the option chain alongside the underlying, you switch.

On desktop, you set up 8 charts on one screen and stop switching. Nifty on 1-minute next to BankNifty on 5-minute next to four stocks on 15-minute. All live. All visible. The information you were piecing together across tabs is now sitting in front of you at the same time.

Your analysis gets room

On a phone screen, the option chain competes with the chart for space. You can't see premium movement alongside the underlying's price action without flipping between views. Drawing a Fibonacci retracement on a 6-inch screen works, but it's not where you'd choose to do serious charting.

Desktop gives analysis the surface it needs. The option chain with 15+ customisable settings, premium plotting on charts, drawing tools, SMC indicators — all of it was already on mobile. The difference is you can now use them without fighting the screen for space.

You stop rebuilding your workspace every morning

Most traders have more than one setup. A scalping layout. A swing layout. Maybe an options monitoring layout. On mobile, you rebuild this context every session.

On desktop, each setup is a saved dashboard. Your charts, indicators, drawings, timeframes — all preserved. Market opens, you click into the right dashboard, and everything is where you left it.

Why it took us this long

Market Pulse, and then Punch, has always focused on solving a trader's workflow on mobile. 85% of all trades in India go through mobile. That's where the volume is, and that's where we spent our time.

We wanted to get the mobile app to a point where most of our users are genuinely happy with it before splitting focus. But we heard from many of you that mobile felt limiting for analysis and trading. The charting, the option chain, the multi-scrip monitoring — all of it works on phone, but sometimes you just need more room.

So in December we started a parallel track to build desktop. Not a port of the mobile app. A separate product designed for the screen size, with multi-layout charting, persistent dashboards, and trade-from-chart execution as the foundation.

That's what's shipping now.

What gets built next is up to you

Desktop is going to evolve quickly, and what gets prioritised depends on what you vote for. That hasn't changed.

For those who need the specs

For those who want the list: Upto 8 charts on one screen, multiple saved dashboards, trade from chart, drag and drop protection orders, 40+ indicators, every timeframe from 5 seconds to 1 month, every chart type (candlestick, Heikin Ashi, Renko, bar, line), trendlines, horizontal levels, Fibonacci retracements, SMC indicators, option chain with 15+ settings, premium plotting, full order types (market, limit, trigger, iceberg), trade-wise P&L.

Same 0.01s execution. 99.99% order success rate.

desktop.punch.trade

Desktop Goes LIVE Next Week

No waitlist. No limited rollout. Live for everyone.

Here's what you get on day one:

Up to 8 charts on a single screen. Not tabs. Not stacked windows. Eight charts, visible at once, in a layout you build yourself.

Multiple dashboards. Set up one for scalping NIFTY, another for BANKNIFTY straddles, another for monitoring your swing positions. Switch between them in a click.

Trade directly from any chart. Place orders, set stoploss via drag and drop (Protection Orders), and manage positions without leaving the chart you're watching.

A fully customisable option chain with 15+ settings. Plot call and put premiums on charts. Full order types: market, limit, trigger, iceberg. Trade-wise P&L across positions.

40 indicators, drawing tools (horizontal lines, trendlines, Fibonacci), all timeframes from 5 seconds to 1 month, all chart types.

Same 0.01s execution. Same 99.99% order success rate.

More details on March 11.

Android Update : Punch Build 2.0.0.74

OI Profile Indicator

270 votes on Builder's Lab. This was one of the most requested features on the platform.

OI Profile plots Open Interest distribution across strikes directly on your spot chart. You can select expiry, view OI Change bars, and see where buildup and unwinding is happening at a glance.

Early Feedback Champions have been testing this for the past few weeks. The response has been strong.

General access begins March 21. If you're not a Champion, you'll see it in the indicator panel after that date.

Access: Open any chart → Indicators panel → search "OI Profile."

Scalper Joystick Updates

Three updates based on direct feedback from joystick users.

1-tap fast exit from charts.

Until now, 1-tap order execution (exit without confirmation) was only available from the joystick itself. Now you can do it from the chart too.

Go to Scalper Joystick Presets → switch on "1-tap fast exit (skip Confirmation)." You'll need to set this individually for each of the three indices.

Keyboard input for presets and lot size

You can now type lot size and preset values directly using your keyboard instead of tapping + or −. Faster for traders who know their numbers.

Active chart indicator in split mode.
Some users found it hard to tell which chart the joystick was controlling in split view. There's now a visual indicator showing the active chart.

Bug Fixes

Ichimoku indicator crash fix. The app was crashing for some users when applying Ichimoku. Resolved.

Spot chart tag was incorrectly showing on option charts. Corrected.

Status bar was displaying "Market Closed" when the actual issue was a network error. Now shows the correct state.

General code cleanup and minor performance work under the hood.

Thank you
- Archit Sunat

We rolled out the Punch Desktop beta last week. A handful of you have been testing execution since day one — and we've been listening.

Over the past 4-5 days, through direct conversations with beta users, we've built a list of 60+ improvements, bugs, and issues. The team is fully immersed in working through it.

Here's what shipped this week.

Two Quick Bug Fixes

• Chart icon on the order form was misaligned — fixed.

• Option charts were showing the spot chart tag and the “T“ icon was missing for a few users — corrected.

Status Bar is Back

We had removed the status bar from desktop after a bug was causing it to show "Market Closed" on network errors — which was misleading. That's been fixed, and the status bar is back with accurate market status and connectivity indicators.

Mobile Crash Fixes

While the team has been heads-down on desktop, we also shipped fixes for crashes some of you were hitting on Android:

• Dashboard launch crash — app was crashing on startup for some users. Fixed.

• Offline sync crash — app was crashing when trying to sync while offline. Now handles disconnected states properly.

• Database corruption crash — RARE but critical crash caused by corrupted local DB. Patched.

What's Next

The next desktop beta drop will happen once we fix the issues / suggestions that came in the first batch. So that the second batch will get a more improved and even better Punch Desktop. 

Keep the reports coming — this is the phase where they have the most impact.

— Archit Sunat, Punch