Depth of market and volume profile visualisation
Ritvik Vipin, founder and mentor

The Proximity · Est. Order Flow

Ritvik Vipin · Founder & Mentor

Read What
Most Can't.

The Proximity is a structured mentorship built on market microstructure, institutional behaviour, price action, order flow and volume profile — so you can read why price moves instead of guessing what happens next.

08

Live Sessions

02

Month Program

04

Core Modules

Community

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01

Why The Proximity exists

Most traders learn everything except why price moves.

Years are spent collecting indicators, candlestick patterns, random strategies, social media tips and buy/sell signals. The information keeps accumulating, but the underlying question is never answered.

The Proximity is designed to bridge that gap. Instead of teaching students what to think, the goal is to teach them how to analyse markets independently.

IndicatorsPatternsStrategiesSocial tipsSignals
The gap

Yet they never truly understand why price moves. Understanding comes from mechanics, not from memorisation.

HVN

Where the market spent time — and why it matters more than any pattern.

02

What makes this different

The Proximity is built on mechanics, not opinions.

  1. 01

    Understand Why Price Moves

    Learn the mechanics that drive every movement in the market, from the order book upward.

  2. 02

    Learn How Institutions Think

    Study how professional market participants interact with liquidity and execute size.

  3. 03

    Market Mechanics Before Strategies

    Develop a foundation in market microstructure before touching execution models.

  4. 04

    Build a Repeatable Framework

    Create a structured decision-making process instead of relying on predictions.

  5. 05

    Practical Learning

    Every concept is reinforced through examples, review and structured backtesting.

  6. 06

    Independent Decision Making

    Become capable of analysing markets without depending on signals or opinions.

03

Curriculum

Four modules, sequenced from mechanics to execution.

Each module builds on the last. Nothing is taught as a standalone trick — every concept exists because it explains the behaviour of the one before it.

Students begin by understanding how markets actually function — who participates, why they participate, and how their intentions show up in price.

Participants

  • Market Makers & Market Takers
  • Institutional Participants
  • Arbitrageurs & Hedgers
  • Passive vs Aggressive Participants

Market Microstructure

  • Exchange Matching Engine
  • Price Discovery
  • Bid & Ask Dynamics
  • Limit Orders vs Market Orders
  • How Orders Move the Market
  • How Candles Are Formed

The Order Book

  • Depth of Market (DOM)
  • Order Book Behaviour
  • Hidden Liquidity
  • Order Spoofing
  • Book Sweeping
  • Liquidity Consumption

Institutional Execution

  • Institutional Order Execution
  • Execution Algorithms
  • VWAP & TWAP Execution
  • How Arbitrageurs Influence Price
  • How Hedgers Influence Price Indirectly

Reading the tape

The footprint chart, decoded.

A candle tells you where price went. A footprint tells you who moved it — every contract traded at every price, split into passive bids and aggressive asks.

  • Bid × Ask

    Volume executed into resting bids versus lifted offers.

  • Imbalances

    Diagonal 3:1 stacks that mark genuine aggression.

  • Point of control

    Where the auction spent its size and found value.

  • Delta

    Net aggression per bar — and where it diverges from price.

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Delta

Volume

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1881,690
240861
512690
9341,188
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16496

09:45

+2,307

8,803

1121,942
2101,342
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305184

10:00

+2,684

8,086

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388206
921344
1,106498
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462480
262190

10:15

1,317

6,419

13288
486214
903331
1,218402
774596
431288
296170
14863

10:30

2,236

6,540

84312
226744
402968
1,364806
588349
17392

10:45

+434

6,108

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Swipe the chart to explore

04

Program structure

Two months. Learn it, then apply it.

01Month One

Live Sessions

  1. 8 Live Zoom Sessions
  2. Every Saturday & Sunday
  3. 4 Consecutive Weekends
  4. 9:00 PM – 11:30 PM IST
  5. Session recordings included
02Month Two

Application & Review

  1. Structured Backtesting
  2. Concept Revision
  3. Performance Review
  4. Framework Development
Beyond the batch

Students continue learning through a dedicated WhatsApp community that remains active even after The Proximity ends.

05

Outcomes

Capability, not predictions.

The measure of this program is what you can do independently once it ends — how you read context, build a plan and review your own decisions.

  • A deeper understanding of how markets function.
  • The ability to interpret institutional price behaviour.
  • Confidence in independently analysing charts.
  • A structured trading framework.
  • Professional risk management.
  • A repeatable decision-making process.
  • The ability to continuously improve through review and backtesting.
06

Who this is for

Built for traders who want to understand, not to be told.

01

Beginners

Traders who want a structured foundation instead of scattered, contradictory information.

02

Intermediate Traders

Those who understand the basics but are searching for consistency and process.

03

Working Professionals

Part-time traders who need an efficient, repeatable approach around a career.

04

Microstructure-Curious

Traders interested in institutional market behaviour, order flow and auction theory.

05

Dedicated Learners

Students willing to study, backtest and practise between sessions.

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About the mentor

Ritvik Vipin, founder and mentor
Founder & Mentor

Ritvik Vipin

"I believe that successful trading begins with understanding how markets function—not with memorising indicators or chasing predictions. The Proximity is built around developing independent thinking, structured analysis and repeatable decision-making so students can build their own approach to the markets."

The teaching philosophy is simple: mechanics first, context second, execution last. Students are guided through the reasoning behind every concept so they can defend their own analysis without relying on anyone else's view.

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Student testimonials

In the words of students.

I came in after two years of losing money to indicators. Within the first month Ritvik had me reading the order book instead of the chart, and for the first time I could explain why a level held. My win rate barely moved — my losses got dramatically smaller.
01Arjun MehtaSoftware Engineer · Bengaluru · 8 months in
The footprint module is worth the entire program. Learning to spot absorption at the extremes stopped me from shorting into every low. Ritvik reviews your marked-up charts line by line — no vague feedback, ever.
02Sneha IyerIndex futures · Full-time trader
What I appreciated most was that nothing was hyped. No screenshots of profits, no signals. Just auction theory, delta and a repeatable playbook. I journal every session now and my review process is finally structured.
03Rahul NairPart-time trader · Ex-banking
I had already done three courses before this. This was the first one that explained the mechanics — who is on the other side of my fill and why. That single shift made my entries far more patient.
04Karthik ReddyOptions & futures · Hyderabad
The live batch reviews are brutally honest. Ritvik pulled up my last 40 trades and showed me that 80% of my losses came from one setup I refused to drop. Cutting it changed my month immediately.
05Priya SharmaSwing trader · 6 months in
Sequencing is what makes this different. Foundations, then price action, then order flow, then the framework — by the time footprint charts showed up, they were obvious instead of intimidating.
06Daniel FernandesCrypto perpetuals · Goa
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FAQs

Questions, answered.

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