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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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Recent comments

  • Good point about automation - before going live, the real test is how your strategy behaves across different market regimes, not just entry signals. MACD and Bollinger Bands work great in trending conditions, but I learned the hard way that a single ...

    26 Mar 2026
  • "You can buy either call or Put option by paying a premium. You make money when the premium increases from whatever price you have paid." But if you hold till expiry(which is what we are considering till now in all examples), the premium ...

    26 Mar 2026
  • Yes ...

    26 Mar 2026
  • For example if i want to sell the stocks at a price of x, but no one is offering to buy at that price. Will my stocks rejected from selling and stay in my account? ...

    26 Mar 2026
  • 106 Pranay Sharma on Gold (Part 2)

    Hi Karthik ! I am going through your content on Commodity trading in Zerodha varsity. Apparently it was written around 10 years back and most examples are given from 2015-16. You need to update this content as per the current practices availabe fo ...

    25 Mar 2026

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