From confusion to clarity, one CPR level at a time — with Anil Hanegave

Most people don't fail at trading because they can't read a chart. They fail because every session they open with a different plan — a new indicator, a tip from a Telegram group, a hunch about "today feels bullish." Trading Direction was built to remove that guesswork entirely, replacing it with one repeatable structure: the Central Pivot Range (CPR), taught with price action and discipline by founder Anil Hanegave.

Today that academy runs out of a Kharadi, Pune headquarters and reaches traders across India and abroad through live Zoom classes, in-person "Trading Gurukul" seminars, a 60,000-subscriber YouTube channel, and a self-paced course library. This is the story of how it works — and the framework at the centre of it.

What is CPR, and why is it the foundation of everything taught here?

The Central Pivot Range is a set of three levels — Top Central (TC), Pivot (P), and Bottom Central (BC) — calculated from the previous session's high, low and close. Unlike most technical indicators, CPR doesn't repaint or lag: it's fixed before the market even opens, giving a trader the same stable reference for the entire session instead of a signal that keeps shifting underfoot.

Price trading above TC signals a bullish bias for the session; below BC, a bearish one. The width of the range itself — narrow or wide — hints at whether the day is likely to trend hard or chop sideways. It's a simple idea on the surface, which is exactly why it scales from a first-time beginner to an options seller managing real capital.

The CPR playbook — twelve structures, one framework

Trading Direction's curriculum breaks CPR down into distinct, repeatable structures. Each one changes how the day should be traded:

Every entry taught at Trading Direction runs through three checks before a rupee is risked: where price sits relative to the daily, weekly and monthly CPR; whether price action — a rejection wick, an elephant candle, a trap-zone close — actually confirms the level; and whether Heikin Ashi volume agrees. The full mechanics live in the Intraday Options Trading: The Complete Guide on the Trading Direction blog.

What a Virgin CPR reaction actually looks like

Theory is easy to nod along to. So Anil publishes dated, real trades instead. One documented example: on 10 November 2022, BankNifty opened weak and drifted down to 41,374.70 — approaching a Virgin CPR Resistance zone (roughly 41,570–41,613) that price hadn't touched yet that session.

The stop-loss discipline behind that trade is just as deliberate as the entry: fixed on the opposite CPR boundary before the order goes in, never widened mid-trade, one re-entry maximum per setup, and a hard exit by end of session regardless of P&L. It's covered rule by rule in Stop Loss Rules for Intraday Traders: The Complete Framework.

Keep going — the free breakdowns

Every course concept is backed by a free, detailed article on the Trading Direction blog. Start with these:

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