Introduction to Stock Markets
The stock market can play a pivotal role in ensuring your financial security. In this module, you will learn how to get started in the stock market, its fundamentals, how it functions, and the various intermediaries that appertain it.
15 chapters
The Need to Invest
Why should you invest? This chapter covers the importance of investing, inflation, and how the stock market can help you build wealth over time.
Regulators and Market Participants
Understanding SEBI, stock exchanges, depositories, brokers, and other participants that make up the stock market ecosystem.
The IPO Markets - Part 1
How companies raise money through Initial Public Offerings. Learn about the primary market and why companies go public.
The IPO Markets - Part 2
The IPO process in detail - from filing DRHP to listing. Understanding book building, price bands, and allotment.
The Stock Markets
Introduction to secondary markets where stocks are traded. Understanding how buyers and sellers come together.
The Stock Market Index
What is Nifty 50? What is Sensex? Understanding indices and how they represent the broader market.
The Trading Terminal
Navigating a trading platform. Understanding market depth, order book, charts, and placing orders.
Buying and Selling Shares
Market orders, limit orders, stop-loss orders. How to execute trades and the different order types available.
The Settlement Process
T+1 settlement, clearing corporations, and how shares and money change hands after a trade.
Corporate Actions
Dividends, stock splits, bonus issues, rights issues, and buybacks. How corporate actions affect shareholders.
Understanding Market Capitalization
Large cap, mid cap, small cap stocks. How market cap is calculated and what it tells you about a company.
Introduction to Financial Statements
Balance sheet, profit & loss statement, and cash flow statement. The three pillars of financial analysis.
Investing vs Trading
The difference between investing and trading. Timeframes, approaches, and which one suits your goals.
Demat and Trading Account
Opening your first account. Understanding the difference between demat and trading accounts and how they work together.
Getting Started
Your first steps in the stock market. Building a watchlist, research basics, and common beginner mistakes to avoid.