Free and open stock market and financial education

Varsity is an extensive and in-depth collection of stock market and financial lessons created by Karthik Rangappa at Zerodha. It is free and openly accessible to everyone and is one of the largest financial education resources on the web. No signup, no pay-wall, no ads.

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Impact cost and how it can ruin a trade Play
5 types of share capital Play
How OFS allotment is done Play
Building a mutual fund portfolio Play


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Explore all the open-access Varsity modules that cover the entire spectrum of financial literacy and capital markets; everything from savings and taxation to option strategies and technical analysis.


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Recent comments

  • 6 Prinkesh on Real Estate (Part 2)

    Karthik sir, it's been more than 2 years and Indian markets have not given any returns, as trader and investor, these times are feeling challenging, depressing may be. Do you have any hope, when will markets start to climb up again and we� ...

    18 Sep 2026
  • 183 Rammohan v p on Orientation note

    Hi Kiran, Happy to see that you have collected so many books in pdf form. If you don\’t mind, could you please share few relevant books with me. The topics of my interest are planning to trade on Risk / Reward. Controlling emotions/ psychology. Fu ...

    18 Sep 2026
  • 2421 Sudarshan Patil on The Finale - Helping you get started

    Sir , Charting software like amibroker or metastocks have any advantage over kite. Iam serious trader, how it help me in trading or trading decision which kite can not? ...

    17 Sep 2026
  • 1206 Arjun Kangane on The Trading Terminal

    Sir, if we buy a share at market price can we sell that share at limit price? ...

    17 Sep 2026
  • 1174 Sujay Kumar KS on Corporate actions and impact on stock prices

    The special dividends are usually very large payments compared to a regular dividend, and that’s when the stock price significantly drops. Why special dividends are paid even when stock price goes down? ...

    17 Sep 2026

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