A free school for the Indian stock market
Most people learn investing backwards: tips first, basics never. Here every chapter is numbered and short enough to finish in one sitting. Three levels take you from what a share is to how options and taxes work, with a self-check at the end of each chapter.
9 chapters live · 23 more on the way · no sign-up · no tips, ever
The path
Each level is a set of short modules. Finish a chapter, take the self-check, mark it done, and watch the bar fill.
Start here if you have never bought a share.
You own a few shares. Now learn to judge them.
Derivatives, risk and tax: the parts that cost people money.
Two-minute concepts
One idea per card, with a worked example in rupees. Good for a tea break, and linked from every chapter that uses the word.
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The history behind the numbers on the screen.
Every Diwali the exchanges open for a single ceremonial session, brokers worship their account books, and a new Samvat year begins. Where the ritual comes from, what people actually do in that hour, and what the record says about buying on it.
The circuit breaker tripped before ten in the morning, the index closed with the biggest percentage fall in its history, and a national lockdown was announced the next evening. What the day felt like, what the people who sold did next, and why the recovery is the part worth studying.
In the 1850s a few dozen men traded shares under a banyan tree outside Bombay's Town Hall. One cotton boom, one spectacular bust and several evictions later, they had a street, a rulebook and the institution that became the BSE.
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What the machines can and cannot do for your money.
A step-by-step workflow for letting a language model do the page-turning on a 300-page annual report: the prompts, the extraction table, the verification pass that catches invented numbers, and the questions a model cannot answer for you.
Until 2025, automating your own trades through a broker's API lived in a grey zone. SEBI's February 2025 framework made it legal with conditions: registered algos, an order-rate threshold, broker accountability, and a line between strategies you can see inside and ones you cannot.
Ask a chatbot which share to buy and it will answer, confidently and badly. What language models actually do, why their numbers cannot be trusted without a source, where they genuinely save hours, and what SEBI's rules say about advice from anyone, human or machine.
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