Sattva Capital
A private trading firm that builds its own systems.
We trade our own capital in Indian markets — systematically, on software we write, run and are accountable for. No outside money, no discretionary calls, no black box we don't understand.
01 / What we do
Every position is taken by a rule, not a reaction.
Markets move faster than judgement. So the judgement happens beforehand — written down, tested, and handed to a machine that executes it the same way on a calm Tuesday as on a day that feels like it matters.
Cash and derivatives
Index and single-stock futures and options on NSE and BSE, traded to defined rule sets rather than views.
MCX contracts
The same engines, the same discipline, with contract-level handling for lot sizes, multipliers and tender windows.
The stack itself
Feed handling, order routing, risk controls and reconciliation — built in-house because the edge is in the details nobody sells you.
02 / The platform
SITA — Sattva Intelligent Trading Algorithms.
One system carries everything: market data, strategy execution, live order placement, position tracking and the controls that sit over all of it. It has been running our own book in production since 2026.
Two rule families
Grid ladders that work a range, and Top-Bottom rule sets that follow structure. Each is a specification before it is code.
Three brokers, one interface
Zerodha, IIFL and Upstox sit behind a single adapter layer, so a strategy is written once and no broker is a single point of failure.
Backtest, paper, live
Nothing reaches real money until it has run against years of history and then live on paper — same tick feed, same engine, no orders.
03 / Approach
What we actually believe.
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Brakes before speed
A kill switch, daily order caps, gates that refuse to trade a closed exchange, orders that time out instead of chasing a price. Automation without brakes is just a faster way to be wrong.
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Prove it before it costs anything
An idea that has not survived history and a paper run is an opinion. We would rather find out on a simulated fill than a real one.
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Own the whole stack
Feed, engine, order path, risk layer, records. Buying a box you cannot open means inheriting failures you cannot diagnose at the moment they matter.
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Say what is actually true
Systems that hide a problem are worse than systems that fail loudly. Ours are built to report what went wrong rather than quietly carry on looking fine.
04 / Contact
Worth a conversation?
We are not raising capital and not taking clients. But we are always glad to hear from people building in the same territory — engineers, traders, and anyone who has opinions about execution quality.
sattva.capital2026@gmail.com