Stock markets, trading, and investments – Simplified

Varsity is an easy to grasp collection of stock market lessons with in-depth coverage and illustrations. Brought to you by Zerodha, India's biggest discount stock broker, it is completely open and FREE to access.

Modules

  • 1. Introduction to Stock Markets

    14 chapters
    Money needs to be invested to cover the cost of Inflation. This opens us to the Stock Markets, learn about basics of investing in this module

  • 2. Technical Analysis

    20 chapters
    Technical Analysis helps identify trading opportunities using actions of Market Participants through charts, patterns, and indicators.

  • 3. Fundamental Analysis

    16 chapters
    Fundamental Analysis is the art of evaluating the intrinsic value of a stock to find long-term investing opportunities. Learn stock analysis in this module

  • 4. Futures Trading

    12 chapters
    Futures Trading involves trading in contracts in the derivatives markets. This module covers the various intricacies involved in undergoing a futures trade including margins, leverages, pricing, etc

  • 5. Options Theory for Professional Trading

    23 chapters
    Options is a contract where the price of the options is based on an underlying. Options contracts grant the buyer the right to buy the underlying without a compulsory obligation

  • 6. Option Strategies

    13 chapters
    The module covers various options strategies that can be built with a multi-dimensional approach based on Market trend involving Option Greeks, Risk-Return, etc.

  • 7. Markets and Taxation

    7 chapters
    The module covers the taxation aspect of investing/trading in the stock markets. The process of calculating P&L, payment of taxes, filing returns, etc. is explained

  • 8. Currency, Commodity, and Government Securities

    19 chapters
    This module covers the Currency,  MCX Commodity contract, and the Government Securities (GSec) traded in the Indian Markets.

  • 9. Risk Management & Trading Psychology

    16 chapters
    The module covers the risk management aspect along with the psychology required for being consistent and profitable while trading

  • 10. Trading Systems

    15 chapters
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Chapter updates

  • 99 8. Currency, Commodity, and Government Securities

    Ch 19 – Government Securities

    19.1 – The new beginning In a very exciting new development, NSE in collaboration with RBI has recently made it possible for retail investors to start investing in Government Securities, mainly the ..

    May 3, 2018
  • 79 6. Option Strategies

    Ch 11 – The Short Straddle

    11.1 – Context In the previous chapter we understood that for the long straddle to be profitable, we need a set of things to work in our favor, reposting the same for your quick reference – The vo ..

    April 14, 2016
  • 218 10. Trading Systems

    Ch 15 – Calendar Spreads

    15.1 – The classic approach I had briefly introduced the concept of calendar spreads in Chapter 10 of the Futures Trading module. Traditionally calendar spreads are dealt with a price based approac ..

    June 23, 2018
  • 141 10. Trading Systems

    Ch 14 – Live Example – 2

    14.1 – Position Sizing I know, the discussion on pair trading was to end with the previous chapter, but I thought I had to discuss a special case before we finally wrap up. I’ll also try and keep ..

    May 30, 2018
  • 96 10. Trading Systems

    Ch 13 – Live Example -1

    13.1 – Tracking the pair data We have finally reached a point where we are through with all the background theory knowledge required for Pair Trading. I know most of you have been waiting for this m ..

    May 25, 2018
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Recent comments

  • 348 Dharam on Volatility & Normal Distribution

    Hi, Tks a lot. What i meant was that when we calculate Daily Mean from LN(D3/D2), i was getting negative figure, so got confused that should i take it as positive figure or it can be negative also. Kindly guide where exactly can we get Daily SD o ...

    22 Oct 2018
  • 348 Dharam on Volatility & Normal Distribution

    Hi, Tks a lot. What i meant was that when we calculate Daily Mean from LN(D3/D2), i was getting negative figure, so got confused that should i take it as positive figure or it can be negative also. Kindly guide where exactly can we get Daily SD o ...

    22 Oct 2018
  • 107 Karthik Rangappa on Government Securities

    Puneet, this is only in the case of 91-day t-bill (i.e if you really consider Rs.6 is very high for Rs.10,000/- invested). For 181 and 364 days t-bills, it works out to 0.12% and 0.06% on an annualized basis. ...

    22 Oct 2018
  • 1026 Karthik Rangappa on Selling/Writing a Call Option

    I'm copy-pasting this from NSE's website - The gross open position across all futures and options contracts on a particular underlying security, of each specific client, FPI (Category III) or scheme of MF, should not exceed the higher of: 1% of the ...

    22 Oct 2018
  • 501 Karthik Rangappa on Case studies - wrapping it all up!

    Mani, I'd suggest you post your queries here on the developer forum - https://kite.trade/forum/ ...

    22 Oct 2018
Karthik Rangappa authors and curates Varsity for Zerodha. He has more than a decade of research experience in the financial markets, and travels widely conducting educational programmes.

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