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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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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

  • So to calculate standard deviation (daily volatility) is it better to consider only daily returns for the last one year staring from yesterday or can we go beyong one year. ...

    12 Nov 2026
  • Hello Karthik Sir, First of all, I would like to thank you for helping me learn trading through your valuable insights on varsity. Two months ago, when I read your volatility-based strategy, I started selling options on Nifty every Friday betwe ...

    12 Nov 2026
  • You happen to forgot to highligt the net loss incured by option writer when close the contract before expiry. The writer basically sold at a lower premium (80Rs) & is now forced to buy the same at a higher premium of 130, making a net loss of ...

    12 Nov 2026
  • From past few months i am gaining knowledge about stock market from varsity and loving it From about 1 month back i decided to put my engineering skills into use and created a system which has all the rules of TA from your checklist plus some more o ...

    12 Nov 2026
  • bhai me bhi 16 years ka hu or mwe sehore mp me rehta hu ...

    12 Nov 2026

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