Stock Market Basics for Indian Beginners

A complete visual journey from zero knowledge to confidently understanding how the Indian stock market works. Learn shares, exchanges, analysis, risk management, and your first trade — all explained with diagrams, interactive examples, and zero jargon.

Lessons

  • What is a Stock? Understanding Ownership – Discover what a share really represents — a slice of ownership in a real business. Learn why companies issue shares and what rights come with being a shareho...
  • How the Stock Market Works: NSE, BSE & SEBI – Meet the players behind every trade — exchanges, brokers, clearing corporations, depositories and SEBI — and follow a single order from your phone to your de...
  • Primary vs Secondary Market: How IPOs Work – Understand the two markets where shares change hands, and walk step by step through an IPO — from DRHP to price band, bidding via UPI, allotment lottery and ...
  • Demat & Trading Accounts: Your Gateway – Learn how your bank, trading and demat accounts work together, open them step by step with online KYC, and understand charges, nominees, TPIN and how to keep...
  • Order Types: Market, Limit & Stop-Loss – Learn how the order book matches buyers and sellers, and when to use market, limit, SL, SL-M, AMO and GTT orders to control price and risk.
  • Market Indices: Nifty 50 & Sensex – Understand how India's headline indices are built using free-float market-cap weighting, what's inside them, and how investors use indices to benchmark and i...
  • Fundamental Analysis: Reading a Company's Health – Read the three financial statements and use EPS, P/E, ROE, debt-to-equity and growth to judge whether a business is healthy and fairly priced.
  • Technical Analysis: Charts, Candles & Trends – Learn to read a stock chart like a pro — candlesticks, trends, support and resistance, moving averages and volume — with visual examples and tap-to-reveal pr...
  • Risk Management & Diversification – Protect your capital before chasing returns. Learn the types of risk, the maths of losses, diversification, position sizing, stop-losses and the habits that ...
  • Your First Trade: Charges, Settlement & Taxes – Walk through placing your very first buy order, understand T+1 settlement, decode every line of a contract note, and learn how STCG and LTCG taxes work — the...