The time reality
Most Indian professionals work 9–10 hours during market hours (9:15am–3:30pm). Genuinely attending to intraday charts in parallel is either impossible or reduces work quality materially. The manual-intraday path is not compatible with a demanding job.
Cost math
Intraday traders place 600+ roundtrips annually. Positional traders place 100. At even ₹40/roundtrip average cost, that's ₹24,000 vs ₹4,000 — a ₹20,000 edge per year in favour of positional from transaction costs alone.
Attention math
Intraday requires real-time attention. Positional requires periodic attention — mornings, end-of-day, event days. Positional is compatible with a day job. Intraday usually isn't.
Risk math
Intraday eliminates overnight gap risk but introduces constant intraday noise. Positional holds overnight but filters out noise. Professional traders generally prefer positional precisely because signal-to-noise is higher over longer horizons.
The automated answer
Automated execution makes both paths viable. The Sleeping Trade engine does both — but weights heavily toward positional because the edge is structurally larger for most account sizes. Pro plan users typically see 2–4 trades per week, not 4 per day.
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