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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
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Recent comments

  • 282 Prakhar Ingle on Why should you invest?

    I was using 1+12/100 instead of 1.12 itself which is why I got a different answer. Using 1.12 gives me 2067062.806 which comes to 2,067,063 after rounding off. ...

    05 Jan 2026
  • 282 Prakhar Ingle on Why should you invest?

    Hi, In Table 1.2 the cash retained @ 12% of 2,40,000 is 2,067,063 for the first year. I didn't understand its calculation until I came across a similar question in the older comments of this section where the person had mentioned the compound ...

    05 Jan 2026
  • 945 MaheshKumar on Indicators (Part 2)

    How to select EMA for the Bollinger Band Middle line ? Cannot see any option ! How are you able to set EMA for bollinger band middle line ? ...

    05 Jan 2026
  • 482 Ashwin on Synthetic Long & Arbitrage

    Hello. I would like to know if this kind of analysis for the Long Call, Short put and Short Future is available online on Zerodha.. ie can we choose any 2 option legs and 1 Future and get an analysis and a P&L table like we have in most Optio ...

    04 Jan 2026
  • 452 Nitansh on Market Intermediaries in Stock Markets explained

    Why is even there a need of a broker, like why can't the role of a broker can be done by a institution like NSE or BSE. if i want to buy a share, i go the NSE and place my order, the exchange matches the order, i get the share in my Depository a ...

    04 Jan 2026

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