Who runs Potoos, and how we make money

Vinoth Kumar S runs Potoos. This page tells you who he is, how a call is made, where our income comes from, and who we ask not to subscribe.

Published 23 September 2026 · Potoos Research Services

Vinoth Kumar S

Proprietor and Research Analyst, Potoos Research Services

SEBI RA · INH000027380

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Why Potoos exists

Vinoth made his first investment in 2005, out of his first salary. For years it was ordinary investing. A few shares, some options, mutual funds. His work was building products and startups. The pandemic gave him the first long stretch of time to study the market properly.

What he found was simple. A small investor looking for help had two choices, and both were bad. Most of the advice came from people with no licence at all. The licensed voices often said the same thing: if your money is small, this is not for you.

The stock market is open to everyone. A small investor is not missing the right to be there. What is missing is the right tools and the right information.

There is a real mistake inside that advice, and it is the same mistake most retail investors make on their own. A plan built for ₹1 crore cannot be run on ₹1 lakh. Same plan, different money, completely different result. Most of the damage starts by expecting ₹1 lakh to behave like ₹10 lakh.

Two patterns repeat. Some people teach themselves, then change their plan every few weeks. Nothing is ever tested. Others take tips, usually from unlicensed people, and then do not follow the plan that came with the tip.

Both hit the same wall, and nobody sells a course on it. Execution. A tip is only information. Placing the order is the real skill. Most people risking money do not know how the market works behind the screen. Supply and demand, order types, delays. We have met people who cannot place a basic order with confidence. That is the gap Potoos was built for. Anyone with large capital and good information already has plenty of options. We built this for the other end.

How a call is made

Start with the problem. Almost every subscriber has a job or a business. Nobody with ₹50,000 to ₹5,00,000 in the market should spend a working day watching a screen. So the method has to fit into a few minutes in the evening.

On most days a share or an index moves inside a range. Some days it breaks out. Most days it does not. Think of that range as 0 to 100. We aim to enter near 20 and leave near 80. We do not try to catch the lowest point or the highest point. We give up both ends on purpose. That is the price of staying in the easier part of the move.

There are many public ways to draw a range. Bollinger bands, average true range, Fibonacci, Gann, Darvas. We use our own method. For the small-capital plan we work mostly from price action and option greeks. The order of priority never changes:

1. Keep the capital

   Everything else depends on you still being able to trade next week.

2. Control the loss

   That is what the stop-loss is for. It is set before entry, never after.

3. Then take the profit

   In that order. Only in that order.

That is the order we work in. It is not a promise about any one call. No method removes risk from the market. Anyone who tells you theirs does is selling you something.

Why calls arrive the night before

Same reason. Even with ₹5,00,000 in the market, there is no need to spend your working hours watching a chart. The call goes out the evening before. Tomorrow's plan already exists before the market opens. You read it when you have a minute. You decide. You place the order.

It also means we do not trade every day. Some days there is nothing worth sending. You follow the price points, you save the time, and you avoid reacting to a message in the middle of the session.

Four things we will never do

• Never a call without a stop-loss. If the exit is not fixed before the entry, it is not a call. It is a guess.
• Never change a call afterwards. Profit or loss, it stays exactly as it was sent. Editing the record is the reason records in this business cannot be trusted.
• Never live-market calls on the small-capital plan. Two reasons. It takes your day back from you. And by the time a live message reaches you, the price has usually moved.
• Never anything outside SEBI's rules, however it is asked. Nobody has asked yet. The answer is ready.

SEBI's own studies of individual traders in equity derivatives show that most of them lose money. A subscription does not change that fact. The work is to improve the odds at the small end, by controlling what can be controlled. A fixed risk. A size you can hold. A plan made before the market opens.

How we make money

For a research analyst, this is the part that separates a real practice from a tip service. So here it is in plain sentences.

On price, SEBI sets a limit. A Research Analyst may charge individual and Hindu Undivided Family clients no more than ₹1,51,000 per family per year. SEBI changes this limit from time to time. Our plans are far below it, and that is on purpose. This service is built for people with less than ₹5,00,000. A fee near the limit would eat the account it is meant to help.

Who should not subscribe

This plan is built for capital between ₹50,000 and ₹5,00,000. Below ₹50,000, please wait. The reason is arithmetic, not principle.

We do not predict which way the market will go. Calls are built so you can take either side. So a run of stop-losses is a normal part of the plan, not a failure of it. If calls hit stop-loss three to five days in a row, you need enough money left to trade on the sixth day. Start too small and you are out of the game exactly when the plan needs you in it. Losses can be managed. They cannot be avoided. Managing them needs capital.

One more thing. If you want equity only, that is fine. Just come with the right expectation. We do not swing trade equity. Equity recommendations are meant to be held for a year or two, through a full cycle. If you need a result in three weeks, this is not the service for you.

If you want to stop

You can cancel at any time during your term. We deduct the amount for the period you have used, on a pro rata basis. The balance is refunded to the account you paid from. The full terms are shown at signup. You also agree there to the Most Important Terms and Conditions before the subscription starts.

If Vinoth is not available

We do not promise a fixed number of calls in a month. It depends on what the market offers. A call invented to meet a number is worse than no call. There is a team behind the desk, so work continues through illness or leave. The research still goes out in the registered analyst's name and signature.

Where the name comes from

We wanted a name that matched the way we work. We looked at flowers, birds, animals, all of it. The potoo turned up along the way. It is a bird in the owl family, and it was a name none of us had heard. We read about how it actually behaves, and the match with our approach was close enough to be funny. The domain was free. We put a few names to a small group of people, and they picked Potoos.

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