Field notes for people who read the market.
17 articles across 1 topic. What each reading describes, in plain words: no tips, no predictions.
Module 1: Introduction to stock markets
What a stock market is for, who takes part, how an order becomes a trade, and the words every later module uses.
All articles
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Module 2: Technical analysis
Reading price and volume on a chart: candlesticks, support and resistance, patterns, indicators and the limits of each.
Module 3: Fundamental analysis
Reading a company rather than its chart: the annual report, the three financial statements, the ratios that matter and how value is estimated.
Module 4: Futures trading
What a futures contract is, how margin and leverage work, mark-to-market, expiry, rollovers and how futures are used to hedge.
Module 5: Options theory for professional trading
Calls and puts, premium, strike and expiry, moneyness, the option Greeks, volatility and how an option's price is built.
Module 6: Option strategies
Combining calls and puts into spreads, straddles, strangles and condors: what each one expresses, what it can lose and when it fits.
Module 7: Markets and taxation
How gains from shares, mutual funds and F&O are taxed in India, which charges apply to every trade, and the records to keep.
Module 8: Currency, commodity and government securities
The markets beyond shares: currency pairs, commodity contracts on MCX and NCDEX, and government bonds, with what moves each.
Module 9: Risk management and trading psychology
Position sizing, stop losses, diversification, drawdowns and the habits of mind that keep a trader in the game.
The readings, live, on your own screen.
Open the chain, the walls and the book for today’s session. Free to start.