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🟢 Beginner · Start here
Market Basics
How NSE & BSE work, what stocks are, how trades execute, and how to set up your demat account — all in plain English.
12
Lessons
~4
Hours
Free
Forever
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12 lessons · ~4 hours
Section 1 — The Indian Stock Market
01
What is the stock market and why does it exist?
How companies raise capital by selling shares, and how investors buy ownership in those companies.
⏱ 15 min📖 Article
Intro →
02
NSE vs BSE — what is the difference?
The two major Indian exchanges, how they differ, and why most traders prefer NSE for F&O.
⏱ 12 min📖 Article
Basics →
03
SEBI — who regulates Indian markets and how?
What SEBI does, why it matters for retail investors, and how regulation protects you.
⏱ 10 min📖 Article
Basics →
Section 2 — Getting Started
04
Demat & trading accounts — how to open and choose a broker
The difference between demat and trading accounts, which broker to choose, and what to look for.
⏱ 18 min📖 Article
Guide →
05
Order types — market, limit, SL and SL-M explained
The four order types every Indian trader must understand before placing their first trade.
⏱ 20 min📖 Article
Guide →
06
How does a trade actually execute on NSE?
The journey of your order from the broker app to the exchange matching engine and back.
⏱ 15 min📖 Article
Deep Dive →
Section 3 — Market Mechanics
07
NIFTY 50 and SENSEX — what are indices and why they matter
How stock market indices are constructed and why they are the most-watched numbers in India.
⏱ 14 min📖 Article
Basics →
08
Bull markets, bear markets, and corrections explained
How to identify market phases, what they mean for your portfolio, and how to behave in each.
⏱ 12 min📖 Article
Basics →
09
Circuit breakers and upper/lower circuits on Indian stocks
What happens when a stock hits a circuit limit and why it matters for retail traders.
⏱ 10 min📖 Article
Advanced →
Section 4 — Taxes & Settlements
10
T+1 settlement — what happens after you buy a stock?
How share settlement works in India under the T+1 cycle, and what it means for your account.
⏱ 10 min📖 Article
Deep Dive →
11
STCG, LTCG, STT — taxes every Indian investor must know
Plain-English guide to capital gains tax on Indian equity after Budget 2024 changes.
⏱ 20 min📖 Article
Must Know →
12
Dividends, bonus shares, splits and rights issues explained
All corporate actions that affect your holdings — and how to think about them as an investor.
⏱ 16 min📖 Article
Basics →

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🔵 Intermediate · Build your edge
Technical Analysis
Master chart reading, candlestick patterns, indicators, support & resistance, and trend analysis to make better entry and exit decisions.
18
Lessons
~7
Hours
Free
Forever
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18 lessons · ~7 hours
Section 1 — Charts & Candlesticks
01
How to read a candlestick chart — the complete beginner's guide
Open, high, low, close — and what every candle tells you about buyer and seller psychology.
⏱ 18 min📖 Article
Foundation →
02
12 candlestick patterns every Indian trader must know
Doji, Hammer, Engulfing, Morning Star — patterns that actually work on NSE stocks with real examples.
⏱ 25 min📖 Article
Patterns →
03
Timeframes — which chart period to use for which trading style
1-minute vs daily vs weekly — how to pick the right timeframe for your strategy and personality.
⏱ 14 min📖 Article
Foundation →
Section 2 — Support, Resistance & Trends
04
Support and resistance — how to draw them correctly
The most misunderstood concept in TA. How to find real S&R zones and avoid placing lines randomly.
⏱ 20 min📖 Article
Core →
05
Trend lines, channels and how to identify market direction
Drawing valid trend lines, identifying uptrends, downtrends and sideways markets on NSE charts.
⏱ 16 min📖 Article
Core →
06
Chart patterns — Head & Shoulders, Double Top, Triangles
The six most reliable chart patterns with clear entry, stop loss and target rules for Indian stocks.
⏱ 28 min📖 Article
Advanced →
Section 3 — Indicators
07
Moving averages — EMA vs SMA and which works for Indian stocks
A 5-year backtest on NIFTY 500 comparing EMA and SMA — and what the data actually shows.
⏱ 18 min📖 Article
Indicator →
08
RSI — the right way to use it without getting faked out
Overbought/oversold signals, divergences, and how RSI behaves differently in trending Indian markets.
⏱ 20 min📖 Article
Indicator →
09
MACD — complete guide with Indian stock examples
MACD line, signal line, histogram — how to use all three to spot early trend changes on NIFTY.
⏱ 18 min📖 Article
Indicator →
10
Bollinger Bands — when markets squeeze and when they explode
How to use Bollinger Bands to identify volatility compression and anticipate breakout moves.
⏱ 16 min📖 Article
Indicator →
11
Volume analysis — the indicator most Indian traders completely ignore
OBV, VWAP, and volume profile — confirming breakouts and filtering fake moves on Indian indices.
⏱ 20 min📖 Article
Advanced →
Section 4 — Building a System
12
How to combine indicators without getting confused
A framework for building a simple, consistent TA-based trading system that doesn't contradict itself.
⏱ 22 min📖 Article
System →
13
Multi-timeframe analysis — how professionals confirm trades
Why checking multiple timeframes before entry dramatically improves your win rate on Indian stocks.
⏱ 20 min📖 Article
Advanced →
14
Divergences — when price and indicators disagree
Regular and hidden divergences on RSI and MACD — one of the most powerful early warning signals.
⏱ 22 min📖 Article
Advanced →
15
Stop loss placement — the science of not getting stopped out too early
ATR-based stops, structure-based stops, and why percentage stops are often the worst choice.
⏱ 18 min📖 Article
System →
Section 5 — Applying TA on Indian Markets
16
Reading NIFTY 50 charts — how index TA differs from stock TA
Why NIFTY behaves differently from individual stocks and how to adjust your TA approach accordingly.
⏱ 20 min📖 Article
Advanced →
17
Gap up and gap down openings — what they mean and how to trade them
Why Indian stocks gap frequently, how to classify gaps, and which ones are worth trading.
⏱ 16 min📖 Article
Practical →
18
Building your personal TA checklist before every trade
A step-by-step pre-trade checklist that combines everything in this path into one repeatable process.
⏱ 14 min📖 Article
Capstone →

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🟡 Intermediate · Value-minded
Fundamental Analysis
Learn to read financial statements, calculate valuation ratios, understand sector cycles, and identify quality businesses worth owning long-term.
15
Lessons
~6
Hours
Free
Forever
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15 lessons · ~6 hours
Section 1 — Reading Financial Statements
01
How to read a balance sheet in under 10 minutes
Assets, liabilities, equity — what they mean and what to look for in Indian company annual reports.
⏱ 20 min📖 Article
Statements →
02
Profit & Loss statement — revenue, margins and what actually matters
How to assess whether a company is truly profitable after all expenses, taxes and interest.
⏱ 18 min📖 Article
Statements →
03
Cash flow statement — why it matters more than profit
Operating, investing and financing cash flows — why a profitable company can still run out of cash.
⏱ 18 min📖 Article
Statements →
04
Annual reports — how to read them without getting lost
Where to find Indian company annual reports, what to skip, and the five sections that actually matter.
⏱ 16 min📖 Article
Practical →
Section 2 — Valuation Ratios
05
PE ratio — why it alone is not enough to value a stock
PE, PEG, EV/EBITDA, Price-to-Book — a complete valuation toolkit for Indian investors.
⏱ 22 min📖 Article
Valuation →
06
ROE, ROCE and what they tell you about business quality
How to use return ratios to separate great businesses from average ones using Screener.in.
⏱ 16 min📖 Article
Valuation →
07
Debt analysis — how much debt is too much for an Indian company?
Debt-to-equity, interest coverage ratio, and which Indian sectors can safely carry high debt.
⏱ 18 min📖 Article
Valuation →
08
Screener.in masterclass — building your own stock filter
How to use India's best free stock screener to find quality stocks using custom fundamental filters.
⏱ 24 min📖 Article
Tool Guide →
Section 3 — Macro & Sectors
09
RBI policy decoded — what rate changes do to your stocks
Sector-by-sector impact of rate hikes and cuts on Indian equities. A framework every investor needs.
⏱ 20 min📖 Article
Macro →
10
Sector rotation — which sectors lead in each market cycle
IT, banking, FMCG, pharma — the rotation playbook adapted for Indian market and economic cycles.
⏱ 18 min📖 Article
Macro →
11
Budget day — how to read the Union Budget as an investor
What to look for in the Budget, which announcements move which sectors, and how to position ahead.
⏱ 16 min📖 Article
Macro →
Section 4 — Stock Selection & Portfolio
12
Moat — what makes a business truly defensible?
Brand, switching costs, network effects, cost advantage — identifying durable competitive moats in India.
⏱ 20 min📖 Article
Deep Dive →
13
Promoter holding and institutional ownership — what the data signals
What high promoter pledging means, why FII/DII ownership shifts matter, and red flags to watch.
⏱ 16 min📖 Article
Deep Dive →
14
Quarterly results — how to read an earnings release in 10 minutes
Revenue beat, margin expansion, guidance — what to look at first when results drop on the exchange.
⏱ 18 min📖 Article
Practical →
15
Building a fundamental checklist before buying any Indian stock
A step-by-step checklist combining all lessons in this path into one repeatable stock evaluation process.
⏱ 20 min📖 Article
Capstone →

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🟣 Advanced · Think like a machine
Algo & Quant Trading
Build rule-based systems, understand backtesting, learn SEBI's algo framework, and get started with Python for market analysis — no prior coding needed.
10
Lessons
~5
Hours
Free
Forever
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10 lessons · ~5 hours
Section 1 — Thinking Like an Algo
01
What is algorithmic trading and why most people misunderstand it
The real definition, the myths, and why rule-based thinking beats gut instinct for most retail traders.
⏱ 15 min📖 Article
Intro →
02
SEBI's algo trading rules in 2026 — what you can and cannot do
The complete regulatory framework for retail algo trading in India after SEBI's latest circular.
⏱ 20 min📖 Article
Must Read →
03
Rule-based trading — build a system without writing a single line of code
How to define entry, exit and position sizing rules using Streak, ChartInk and TradingView alerts.
⏱ 22 min📖 Article
Practical →
Section 2 — Backtesting & Strategy
04
Backtesting your strategy — common mistakes that give fake results
Overfitting, look-ahead bias, survivorship bias — how to build honest, realistic backtests on Indian data.
⏱ 25 min📖 Article
Core →
05
EMA crossover strategy — fully defined entry, exit and stop loss rules
A complete rule-based trend-following system using 20 & 50 EMA, backtested on NIFTY 500.
⏱ 20 min📖 Article
Strategy →
06
Key metrics to evaluate any trading strategy — Sharpe, drawdown and win rate
How to measure whether a strategy is actually good — beyond just looking at total returns.
⏱ 18 min📖 Article
Core →
Section 3 — Python for Indian Markets
07
Python for stock market analysis — getting started with NSE data
Download NSE historical data, calculate indicators and build a simple backtesting engine from scratch.
⏱ 35 min💻 Code
Python →
08
Pandas for finance — manipulating stock data like a quant
DataFrames, date indexing, rolling calculations and merging multiple stock datasets using Python.
⏱ 30 min💻 Code
Python →
09
Building a stock screener in Python using NSE data
Write a script that scans NIFTY 500 for stocks meeting your custom fundamental and technical criteria.
⏱ 40 min💻 Code
Python →
10
From idea to rule-based system — putting it all together
A complete walkthrough: strategy idea → rules → backtest → evaluation → paper trade → live deployment.
⏱ 35 min📖 Article
Capstone →

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All Learning Paths
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Market Basics
12 lessons · Beginner
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Technical Analysis
18 lessons · Intermediate
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Fundamental Analysis
15 lessons · Intermediate
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Algo & Quant
10 lessons · Advanced
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Learning Tips
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Start with Basics — even if you've traded before. The foundation changes everything.
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Take notes — concepts stick better when written in your own words.
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Paper trade first — apply every concept before using real money.
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One path at a time — finish Market Basics before jumping to TA.

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