What's New

A piece of feedback I’ve heard repeatedly from Builder's Lab: "My SL gets filled too far from my trigger. Why can't I tighten that?"

Fair point. On every trigger order, Punch was calculating a limit price behind the scenes: 5% from trigger for options, 1% for equity and futures. You couldn't see it. You couldn't change it.

This week's main release fixes that. The other change brings Magnet Mode to Desktop.

Market Protection, now visible and adjustable

There's a new Market Protection section in Settings. Set your preferred % per instrument type (Stocks, Futures, Index Options, Stock Options) once. It applies to every trigger order you place for that type. Range is 0.1% to 10%. System defaults stay at 1% and 5% if you don't touch it.

On every order form (standalone trigger, SL leg, TP leg), you'll now see a one-line row below the trigger price showing the active % and the computed limit price. Tap it to override for this trade only. Pick from chips (0.5%, 1%, 2%, 3%, 5%) or enter a custom value. The override doesn't get saved back to Settings. The next order goes back to your default. To save your market protection % preference, go to global settings → switch over to the “Market protection“ tab and save you preferred % per instrument type.

A higher protection % gives your SL more room to fill in a fast-moving market whilst a lower % keeps fills tight to the trigger. You decide where on that curve you want to sit, per instrument type, per trade.

How to access: Settings → Market Protection. Or tap the protection row on any trigger order form.

Magnet Mode on Desktop

Drawing a trendline from one candle high to another used to require zooming in and squinting. Magnet Mode fixes that.

Drawing anchors now snap to candle OHLC values automatically. Click the magnet icon on the left toolbar to open the submenu and choose a mode:

Weak snaps only when your cursor is close to an OHLC value. Otherwise places freely.

Strong always snaps to the nearest OHLC, regardless of where you click.

Works across every drawing tool with anchor points: Trend Line, Extended Line, Horizontal Line, Horizontal Ray, Vertical Line, Fib Retracement, Rectangle, and Rotated Rectangle.

There's also a Snap to Indicators toggle in the same submenu. Turn it on and anchors snap to indicator values on the chart too: EMA, SMA, Bollinger Bands, Supertrend, VWAP, and anything else plotted. The system picks whichever target (OHLC or indicator) is closest to your cursor. Useful for drawing trendlines off a moving average or marking exactly where price touched VWAP.

How to access: Magnet icon on the left drawing toolbar.

See you at the Lab.

– Archit Sunat

This week we have two important releases: Indicator Templates and candle customisations.

A few weeks ago I was speaking with a few users to understand their experience trading on the newly launched desktop terminal. And although the multi-chart layouts and multi-dashboard support were well received, one fundamental issue became a huge friction point.

Traders mentioned that they had to replicate the same setup of indicators and timeframes every time they would create a new dashboard or even change symbol within a dashboard. This had become a very tedious process.

Hence, we have launched Indicator Templates. A simple but significant feature that lets you set up your indicators the way you like — EMA, VWAP, RSI, whatever combination you trade with. Save it as a named template. Next time you open a chart or switch scrips, one click brings back your entire setup. No re-adding indicators, no reconfiguring colours and settings.

You can optionally lock a template to a specific scrip or timeframe. So a "BankNifty 5m Scalper" template can switch your chart to BankNifty on 5-minute automatically when loaded.

Favorite your most-used templates for one-click access from the toolbar. Punch also ships with a set of default templates for common setups — F&O scalping, swing trading, equity day trading — so you have a starting point even before you build your own.

Templates sync across devices.

The second big update is that we have brought the candle customisation feature over from Android. You can now set separate colours for body up and body down, toggle candle borders on or off with independent border colours, and switch to hollow candles. Changes apply globally across all your charts.

There were also a couple of minor bug fixes on holdings calculation and a UI fix for the Squeeze Momentum indicator.

Till next week. Keep posting on Builder's Lab and guide Punch in the direction you want.

— Archit

Scalper Joystick — Now Open to Everyone

Scalper Joystick was originally planned as a Champion-only early access feature.

But the demand for this one was unlike anything we've seen before — not just on Builder's Lab, but on webinars, 1-1 calls, SMC sessions.

So we've decided to open Scalper Joystick to everyone, immediately.

This is a one-time decision, driven purely by demand.

If you missed the original release note — Scalper Joystick lets you pre-define SL/TP/Lot size, execute with a single tap (no order form), and place bracket orders by default. It sits below the chart so you retain full visibility in split view.

Advanced Option Chain — Now Live for All

Also out of early access as of today.

For those who missed it:

• Toggle 15+ data points: LTP, Volume, OI, Greeks (Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega), IV, % OI Change, OHLC

• Show/Hide OI Bars

• Enable % Change for intraday tracking

Candle Customization

A few weeks ago, I read this on Builder's Lab:

"Market pulse wale charts Punch par leke aao. Woh green red candle ka color better tha"

And a follow-up comment:

"Market pulse style green/red candle provide better visual clarity. Keeping the same colours in punch will really help traders."

This got me thinking about the hundreds of traders I've spoken to over the past 6 years. Charts are a visual habit. One user once told me — "ankho ko bhi aadat padh jati hai."

Punch is an execution platform, but many of you still do your analysis on TradingView or Market Pulse. You shouldn't have to re-learn your visual cues just because you switched apps.

So we've made candles fully customizable — across all chart types.

You can now set:

• Body & Border colour

• Up vs down colour

• Setting for hollow candles

We've also added templates for TradingView and Market Pulse colour schemes. If you want your Punch charts to look exactly like them — you now can.

Indicator Source Customization

A couple of weeks ago we shipped indicator customization — colours, visibility, line thickness.

But one piece was missing: source.

For example, you can change EMA source to OHLC, HL2 or HLC3. For Bollinger Bands, you can change the MA type to EMA, SMA, WMA, DEMA, or TEMA.

Small change. More depth to your analysis.

Pre-set Watchlists

A few weeks ago I put up a poll on Builder's Lab asking which watchlists you wanted on Punch.

75 comments later, we had a laundry list.

We've started building them. For now, we've added:

• NIFTY 50

• NIFTY NEXT 50

• F&O Stocks

These were the most requested.

Sector watchlists had big demand too — that's next. After that, we'll move to finer details. Maybe even an option to import your watchlist via CSV.

Let me know in the comments if that's a good idea.

On App Lags and Chart Loading Delays

For the past few days, some of you have reported app lags and chart loading issues.

Thanks to those of you who've shared screen recordings and detailed stories on where exactly the issue occurred. It's helping the team identify the root cause.

Identification is the hard part. Fixing is easier once we know what's broken.

We'll be releasing fixes shortly.

That's all for this week.

— Archit Sunat