--- title: '3PM Hero Zero Trade Strategy for Expiry Day' source: 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yd9Kx78oej0' video_id: 'Yd9Kx78oej0' date: 2026-07-20 duration_sec: 1683 channel: 'Markets With Mack' --- # 3PM Hero Zero Trade Strategy for Expiry Day > Source: [3PM Hero Zero Trade Strategy for Expiry Day](https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yd9Kx78oej0) ## Summary This video presents a 3:00 PM Hero Zero option buying strategy for expiry days, focusing on capturing gamma spikes in the last 10 minutes of trading. The strategy uses day high/low breakouts and VWAP crossovers on a 5-minute chart to enter at-the-money options with tight stop losses and partial profit booking. ### Key Points - **Introduction to 3PM Hero Zero Strategy** [00:01] — The video introduces a Hero Zero option buying strategy specifically for 3:00 PM on expiry days, emphasizing logic over gambling. - **Hero Zero vs Gambling** [00:29] — Unlike typical Hero Zero methods that buy high breaks and sell low breaks, this strategy uses a disciplined approach with stop loss. - **Trauma of Option Buyers** [01:39] — Morning trades often lead to frustration when stop losses are hit early, causing a long day and revenge trading. - **Why Trade at 3:00 PM** [03:29] — Trading at 3:00 PM limits exposure to 10-15 minutes, avoiding all-day stress and reducing the impact of time decay. - **Logic Behind 3:00 PM** [05:54] — Option sellers hedge after 3:00 PM to avoid overnight gaps, causing gamma spikes that benefit option buyers. - **Gamma Spike Explained** [06:48] — Gamma spikes after 3:00 PM, especially on expiry, as premiums become cheap and delta changes rapidly, enabling quick multi-baggers. - **Strategy Rules** [12:21] — Trade only on expiry days (weekly/monthly) in indices like Nifty, Bank Nifty. Trade window: 3:00 to 3:10 PM. Use 5-minute chart with VWAP indicator. - **Entry Conditions** [14:02] — Buy ATM call if price breaks day high or crosses above VWAP after 3:00 PM. Buy ATM put if price breaks day low or crosses below VWAP. - **Stop Loss and Targets** [18:03] — Stop loss at 30% of premium. Target 1 at 60-70% profit, book 30-40% quantity and move stop loss to cost. Target 2 open-ended. - **Chart Examples** [23:09] — Examples show 50-point moves on expiry days leading to 5x-10x returns on ATM options due to gamma. - **Common Mistakes to Avoid** [25:55] — Avoid OTM options (low delta), overtrading, and holding beyond 3:10 PM. Always use stop loss and backtest. ### Conclusion The 3:00 PM Hero Zero strategy offers a disciplined way to profit from gamma spikes on expiry days with limited risk. Success depends on strict rule-following, proper risk management, and avoiding greed. ## Transcript So hello friends, welcome to the channel. Welcome all of you to another amazing new video. In today's video we are going to talk about 3:00 p.m. Hero Zero Option Buying Strategy. There are many of you who do option buying. There are trade in expiry. And there are many of you who trade Hero Zero. But the Hero Zero technique that I am going to share with you my brother. This is not a fluke. What happens normally, what do people say in Hero Zero, brother? , buy when the high breaks, sell when the low breaks. Hero Zero doesn't do that. We will call this gambling. I am not telling you any gambling method. I am going to share with you a method of Hero Zero which we are going to trade around 3:00 pm and there will be complete logic behind it. So you have to watch this video till the end and this video is for those who follow stop loss. Respects stop loss. So you will have to promise me that you will watch this video. But you will follow the stop loss in whatever setup I am telling you. stop loss if you will follow stop loss and you have to comment no stop loss if you will not follow stop loss. I want to see how many of our people will follow the stop loss. Because stop loss, my brother, it is like oxygen. If you want to stay alive, you have to breathe. Why is stop loss important in the market? If you want to survive in the market then you need to take stop loss. Friends, will you take stop loss or not, do you take it or not, tell me quickly in the comments. not, tell me quickly in the comments. I am not a Savvy Registered Advisor and this is not financial advice. own risk. What are we going to cover in today's video ? In today's what is the trauma of option buyers? Where do option buyers face problems ? Why trade at 3:00 ? Why can't I trade at 2:30 ? Why can't we trade in a day and a quarter ? Why can't you trade in the morning ? Why trade only at 3 o'clock ? What is the logic behind this ? Then I am going to share with you the complete 3 pm Hero Zero strategy. Entry Exit and Proper Risk Reward. And there is a huge bonus hidden in the middle of this video those who watch the video completely. And who are our loyal subscribers. So without wasting any time let us begin the video. But if you are new to the channel, subscribe to the channel now. Press the All button on the bell icon so that you get all the notifications on time. If I talk about the trauma of option buyers, on time. If I talk about the trauma of option buyers, we take a trade in the morning. If the SL is hit in the morning trade then it causes a lot of irritation. Then the day seems very long. And then there is a rush within us to somehow get a trade where I can recover my losses. So what is the problem in this, suppose the market is opening around 9:15 and here you took the trade at 9:45 and your SL is cut till 10:15. So after 10:15 your time does not pass at all because you wait for such a trade to happen and as an option buyer you try to manufacture the trade. You try to make a trade but it does n't work. And when you try to make a trade, you will end up making a useless trade. When you take a you took a useless trade where the trade was not making any profit and you incurred a loss in it, then somewhere your irritation increases and your day becomes very long and what happens due to that irritation is that your losses increase. Ok? So the biggest problem is that you should not trade in the morning in this strategy. In the strategy, you have to trade in such a way, my brother, that you have to give only 10 to 15 minutes. In 10 to 15 minutes, you will have your entry , your exit and your target too. It's such a simple setup. So you don't need to wait much. And who remain busy throughout the day. Do your work , do your business. You just have to spare 10 to 15 minutes. Your entire work will be completed from 3:00 pm to 3:15-20 pm. That's all the time n't have to wait the whole day. So you will be saved from this frustration to some extent. After that, if you take a trade, you do not have patience. There is a problem in taking long trades. , who have problem in holding long trades , who are not able to hold big trades, because here your work is going to be done in just 15 to 20 minutes. After that, after 2:00 pm, such an impression is created that the market is about to close now. Now only one hour is left, what can the market do in that one hour? So option buyers don't trade like that. But in the technique I am going to tell you, this is a big game in 15 to 20 minutes. And I will also show you examples. And when you see these examples, you yourself will be shocked that such a big move can be made in such a short time. If I know at what time the move occurs then I can trade here very well. And here, when you have to hold the trade for 15 to 20 minutes and buy options, then your biggest enemy is the premium duck, hearing about which the option buyers tremble. Option bias is afraid to trade. Option buyers do not trade confidently. That too, your enemy is going to stay very far away from you. Rather, somewhere then we will make him our friend. This is how we're going to work here. So it will be a lot of fun because all your trauma, all your negative experiences, we will convert them into positive experiences in this video and convert them into positive experiences in this video and Why trade at 3:00? What is the logic behind that? We will talk about that. But before that, I had made a video on this channel - Trading without Charts. Meaning you don't need to look at the charts. How can you trade based on data alone ? How can you spot a trend ? How to create your own bias. experiment, I have also made money by trading for 4 months. So link will be found in the description box comment section. You should definitely go and check it out after this video. Now why only 3:00 pm ? Why trade at 3:00? There is logic behind it. See, when three are left then the traders prepare for the next day. And if I talk about option sellers, those who have sold options, then 99% of the option sellers, if they want to carry their option selling trades, they start hedging. So what will they do when they start hazing? He will buy the option. Do you understand what I am saying? Whatever option sellers there are, when the market is about to close at 3:00 PM and they have to carry their position, then majority (99%) of the option sellers start hedging after 3:00 PM because the main reason for hedging is to avoid overnight gaps so that if the market opens with a huge gap up or a huge gap down, then there should not be a huge loss in my position. Therefore, this Otherwise, there are many option sellers who trade intraday without hedging and just by placing stop loss. But if anyone wants to carry it, he definitely hedges here. After that, what happens after 3:00 pm is that the gamma spikes a lot. Now what is gamma? If I talk about Gama, I have made two videos on Gama Bust. The complete strategy is explained in that video and that is the expiry strategy. On that, I have made a strategy with complete logic for You can go and check that out too. The link will be found in the description box comment section. But if I talk about Gamma, then Gamma basically tells us at Gamma basically tells us at what speed your delta will change. Now the question is what is delta ? Those who are hearing all this for the first time will get confused. If I tell you in simple language, then Delta tells us that brother, if Nifty goes up by 100 points or goes down by 100 points, then by or goes down by 100 points, then by decrease, this is told to us by Delta. And what does gamma indicate? Gamma says that brother, what does gamma indicate? Gamma says that brother, if Nifty goes up by 100 points or down by 100 points, then at what speed will your delta increase or decrease? Now why does gamma spike after 3:00? Especially you will get to see it in the expiry because what happens on the day of expiry, what happens at 3:00 pm on the day of expiry? Basically, whatever premium is to be paid at 3:00 pm on the day of expiry , the premium is , the premium is paid at 99%. Because now only half an hour is left for the expiry. Ok ? So the premium becomes 99% of D. The absolutely cheap. They become very cheap. Meaning, you will also get at the money premium Meaning, you will also get at the money premium of Nifty around ₹10 ₹20. You will get it for around ₹5. Because all the premium that is visible ends here. At that time, if the market moves big here, then Gamma creates problems because the at the money premium here is around ₹10 ₹15. Now if this premium has to go to 100 then it will not go due to delta. This will happen due to gamma. Gamma will spike like that. Like in gamma, we will see a big spike here. Delta will see a bigger spike than that. And when Delta will see a bigger spike than that. So this speed of 15 to 100 can be Normally we see that if any premium has to double, triple , 4x, 5x it takes time. If a premium has to be increased five times, it will take time. But on the expiry day, any premium can be five times, within 15 seconds, 20 seconds, 30 seconds, 40 seconds, due to gamma spike, gamma bust. Because Gamma Bust is useful to you on the day of main expiry. When you don't have much time left for expiry. So what do we do as an option buyer? Our work in option buying is such that we catch big mouths in a short time and Gamma Spike is going to After that the time value collapses, so you will not have the tension of premium deduction. So as an option buyer at 3:00 pm on the expiry day, if you are trading correctly, you can make a lot of money with very little risk. And what is the setup to make big money with very little risk ? I am going to share that complete setup with you. But what do you have to do with the video? Have to watch the full video. And in this setup we are not making any predictions. We are not predicting. We are just reacting. I have made some rules which we have to follow and react here just like robots. Now we will take you further towards setup and strategy. But before that what's a great one for you all? 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Now let's talk about this Hero Zero strategy. Ok? So first of all, we will trade this strategy only when the expiry day comes. Now whether it is weekly expiry or monthly expiry. And where will you trade it? This will be traded in indices. Nifty, Bank Nifty, Sussex, then Nifty, Mid Cap, Nifty will trade there. If you trade in expiry, then in weekly expiry expiry you can trade in Nifty, Bank, Nifty, Sussex etc. Nifty, Bank, Nifty, Sussex, if it is too much then you can invest in Nifty. What will be your trade window now? You have to trade from 3:00 to 3:10. Meaning the last trade you can hold is till 3:10. Even if conditions are forming at 3:11, you should not trade. After some thought, observation and practice, I have brought this time before you. So you have to trade within this 10 minute window only. Ok? It became clear when to trade and at what time to trade. Now you don't have to think too much I have created a no confusion levels as to what you have to do. You do n't have to create any confusion. When you sit down at 3:00 pm to trade on the expiry day, you just have to mark these three things. Simply how to use the VVP indicator and what are the examples where the trade is being made. worry. But you only need three things. Day high of that day, day low of that day and you have to apply VVP indicator. Now it is obvious that if you are VVP indicator will not be applied on the spot chart. For that you will have to apply VVP indicator on the future chart. Ok? I hope this is very clear. Okay brother, this is a very good thing. Let's move ahead. Now on which time frame will you trade brother? The time frame that we will monitor is a 5 minute What will we do with this time frame? Will monitor. And what strike price will we buy? Which strike the money. You can either add an out-of-the-money buy or a strike in-the-money. I would recommend money. You can also catch a strike in the money. What do you have to do You can also catch a strike in the money. What do you have to do ? You have to add the money call buy. When? When the price breaks either day's high. When the price either breaks the day's high or the the price either breaks the day's high or the price was below the VVP before 3:00 pm. And after 3:00 PM the price is going above VVP. Either you have to trade when the price is going above the VVP or you have to trade when the price is breaking the day high. you have to trade when the price is breaking the day high. breaking the day low or when the price is going below the VWP here. Now you have to going below the VWP here. Now you have to understand. Let's say it's 2:57. Isn't it ? And you have marked the day high price And you have marked the day high price and here is the price, and here is the price, so if the price is breaking the you will add the money call buy there. Now when you buy an add the money call, its premium will be very small. Isn't it ? And if it is breaking the day high in the last half an hour then there is a very high chance that it can give a spike after that. And if you get that spike of even 50 points in Nifty, if you get 50 points, 30 points, 40 points, then your premium will become 3x to 4x. Why so ? Because brother, when you add the money call bye, you are bye at 3:00. The premium will be lost in that add-in-the-money call. Because what else is there inside Add the Money So a very small time value will remain in it. And if you buy it at that time and as it moves, if it becomes an in the money strike, your premium will increase by 50-60 points. When your premium increases by 50-60 points, your premium can become 5x, 7x, 10x also. is not a big deal. Ok? So here there will be gamma strike and in what will there be gamma strike ? When you buy an out of the money or a strike in the money call here. Well, I will buy only when the day high is broken. I will say goodbye only when the day breaks. What is another way if the day high is not breaking the day low ? VP Now see, when you trade, there may be a line. Let's assume that this line is the Let's assume that this line is the line of VVP. Isn't it? And line of VVP. Isn't it? And this line is the price line. Now see, it is a simple thing. Where is VVP now ? VVP is down right now. The price is up. So this is a bullish scenario. This is a bullish scenario. This is a good scenario for the Bulls. Isn't it? So if we want to trade here, then where will the trade be made ? Here the trade will be made only when the price goes down and crosses below the VVP. When the price crosses below the VVP and this happens after 3:00 pm. If it happens from 3:00 to 3:10, what will we do here ? Add the money PE will buy. I will buy the put. And the same is reversed if suppose this is the line of VVP and below is the line of price. is the line of VVP and below is the line of price. And between 3:00 and 3:10 in these 10 minutes, if the price crosses above the VVP here on the 5 minute time frame, then crosses above the VVP here on the 5 minute time frame, then we will add the money call buy here. You just have to buy a call in two conditions or a put in two conditions. If the day high is broken or is crossing above the VVP then we will buy. Call: If the day low is breaking or going below the VVP then we will buy Put. Apart from that, if he is dancing , he is dancing or he is doing Zumba, we don't care. We don't want to trade there again. my brother then you will incur loss, then do n't call me boss. In this also we will follow stop loss. then you are responsible for it. You will have to take accountability here. Now before I show you examples on the chart, let me explain stop loss to you. Whatever premium you buy at, premium you buy at, your stop loss will be 30% of it. 30 to 35%. Suppose your stop loss will be 30% of it. 30 to 35%. Suppose you are buying at a premium of ₹5, you are buying at the money at a premium of ₹5 or ₹10 because in the last half an hour the premium is negligible but it will be ₹10. If the premium is ₹5, then what is 30% of it? 1.5, that is, what will be your stop loss? Your stop loss will be around 3.5. If you are buying at ₹10, then your stop loss will be around 7. Yes, I will give you a small recommendation from my personal experience that you should not place your stop loss on absolutely round figures or on predictable numbers. or on predictable numbers. 37 is my stop loss so 6.87 like this I will place stop loss on random numbers. Hunt first places stop losses with round figures. If the market gives you movement after that, then you should not feel sad. Ok? So whatever your premium will be at which you buy call or put when your trade is being made, 30% of that will be your stop loss. What will be the target now? Here you will have two targets. The first one is 60 to 70% of the premium, that is, if you bought it for ₹10 and it goes to ₹16 or ₹17, what will you do ? Here you will book 30 to 40% quantity. Ok? And by booking 30 to 40% quantity, as you get T1, target one, your stop loss will come at cost. That means if you have bought a premium of ₹10. For example, your stop loss is ₹7 and you are getting a target of 16-17, so here you have to book 30 to 40% and you have to bring your stop loss from 7 to 10 so that if there is a reversal from here, after touching 16-17, if it comes to 10, then you can cut the trade there. There you should not hold the trade in hope because you have to understand that all these trade, your target, your stop loss will be happening very quickly. So if you do not take quick decisions and keep sitting in hope, then your capital can become completely zero. Your capital can also become completely zero. Because what is the name of this setup? Hero and Zero. So zero will also appear many times, you have to understand your capital. So you have to invest only as much money in it as you can afford to lose. It is not that I have invested a huge amount of capital and in one day my capital will increase five to seven times. If you want to make money by doing that then neither this market is of any use to you. No market is useful for you. Because there is no place for greed here. This is a setup that if you try it with a small capital and increase your capital, then this setup is quite good. This setup will work very well when you have limited capital. Ok? So when should Target One book you? When you get 60 to 70% of your premium. There you can book 30 to 40%. The target to you is open. Although here I have capped one number but it is open. You can also trail is open. You can also trail your profit remaining in target two by booking as much as you want, 120% to 150%, 200%, 250%, 300%. Ok? That means if you have bought it at a premium of Rs 10, then what will you do at Rs 16 or 17 ? 16 17 When the premium comes, we will ? 16 17 When the premium comes, we will book 30 to 40%. After that, if it goes from 22 to 25, that means it is giving you almost 120 to 150%, then if you want, you can book the entire amount. If you want, you can trail it. Who knows, if they give a spike of Rs 30-35 then you can book the entire quantity there. Meaning the upside is yours. I am not putting any cap on the upside. The upside is yours. Where do you need to manage risk? Where is the stop loss? It is my job to tell who has to be put on the cross. Ok? So what do you do ? If you are trading, you have to risk only 1 to 2% of your total capital. I would say brother, put in only that much money that even if it becomes zero, move may not come. It is possible that there may be a move but not as much as your target and if there is a reversal from there, you will be sad. So even if you lose that money, there is no problem. And what is my simple method? Let me tell you. I did not start this same setup with ₹10,000. Isn't it? I started with ₹10,000 and I took it to almost ₹2.5 lakh and what did I do ? Bhaiya, I then increased my capital and from ₹2.5 lakh I came down to ₹50,000. Then I understood that the risk involved in this is limited. You lakh can become ₹25 lakh. Maybe it will become 25 lakhs. But that will happen once or twice out of 100. So we don't have to rely that much on luck. We have to play on skill. We have to Well the video is not over yet. Now I will go into the chart and tell you how to spot trade, how to trade, how to set a target, how to set a stop loss , we will talk about everything. So now watch the video completely, watch it till the end. somewhere it will demotivate me and I may not bring you content that requires so much effort again. in their paid courses. We are teaching you for free. If you just give a like and a share, we will definitely like it very much. Without wasting any time let us now switch back to the screen. Ok? So now we're on to the charts and I'm going to show you some examples here. First of all, if you check an example, this is your chart here for 26th August. It was Nifi's weekly expiry day. And this is the day high of Nifty and before 3:00 pm we marked the day low of Nifty. Now if you notice this 3:00 PM candle, if you look carefully, I zoom in on it. We are looking at a 5 minute time frame. This 3 PM candle broke down here. I broke it. For example, if you check after breaking the low, we have moved almost 50 points. Moved 50 points. 50 points may seem like a very small point. But here at 3:00 pm you will be buying the Add the Money Premium at ₹3 ₹4. Due to this quick 50 point move, this premium of ₹16 would have gone away from you very easily. And here you have made very good returns. Along with that, if you check another example here, here we take the example of VIP. Vap applies indicators. Vape if you check here. Like I said, we will place the indicator here. So this VP indicator opened. Now here on Na VVP, you just have to come to the settings and change that in this source you do not have to take high low close. You just have to take it. Just take it, we will catch it and do ok. Now if you notice, this is the weekly expiry of Nifty on 28th October. If you pay attention here, then 28th October in the month of October is Tuesday. This is the no weekly expiry, there is monthly expiry. So here you will notice that the price is trading below the VVP. Here the price of this candle has broken the VVP above. That means the price went above the VVP and this candle is the 3 pm candle. So if your entry is at 2650, it has moved almost 30 to 35 points. Now a move of 30 to 35 points means if you had bought a premium of ₹3, then your premium would have gone up to ₹68 in momentum. So you must have easily achieved our target of 150%. So you must have easily achieved our target of 150%. mean to say is that this setup will not be formed on every expiry. You will get this opportunity once or twice a month. There may be a period of one or two months when you may not get an opportunity. There may be a month or two where you get a lot of opportunities. But net net you will get 15, 20, 30 trades in a year. Whatever trades you get, if you trade them well then you can make a lot of money in Hero Zero. If you think we can tweet something about these setups to increase the number of trades, please share your opinion in the comment section. If I make some changes, let's say in the setup or add something, then I will so that you people come to know that yes, I have done this trick in this setup, so you should you will get its link in the description box comment section. So I hope you have seen examples on the charts of how to trade it, and what things to take care of. But this is an important thing brother. What is the important thing? You have to avoid these mistakes otherwise you will face a lot of problems. First I said ATM at the money option, you have to buy it not out of the money. is a move in the market and you buy out of the money, it will have no impact on it. Because brother, its delta value is very slow. So if you buy ATM at the money option then the delta value of the at the money option is 0.5. So your premium will run away at a very fast speed. If you trade OTM options and buy OTM options, its delta value will be 0.1 or 0.05. So by the time the move comes, it will 0.05. So by the time the move comes, it will go from 0.1 0.05 to 0.3. By then your work will not be done. But as soon as you buy the add the money option with delta 0.5 or 0.4, if it goes from 0.5 to 0.7 or even to 0.6, your work will be done. Only in this you will see big money being made. Do not overload, as I said, quantities have to be kept under control. Even if the setup worked once or twice. First of all, go pause the video and do a back test. After doing the back test, come and comment on the video. After that you also have a test. tell us the results in your comments so that when users watch this video in future, they get an idea. Overlapping should not be done. Quantities should always be controlled. He has said to trade only after 3:00 pm. You have been told to trade from 3:00 to 3:10. So please respect this time zone only. Trade in between this only. Only then will you make a good amount of money. And mostly when the stop loss is placed, do not leave it until it becomes zero. The harm lies in the hopping itself. The whole world that is making losses in trading is making losses only in the hope that this will happen. I wish it would happen. I wish it could have happened. When we start trading, we But when two-three months pass in trading, then we think that oh God, if my trading capital comes back to the same amount as I started with, then I will either follow risk management or will not trade in the market. So I want you to learn from day one and only when you learn will you win. You will find the links to other important videos in the description box and definitely check it out. I will meet you in the next video. Till then stay safe. you in the next video. Till then stay safe. Have a nice day.