Author: Karthik Rangappa


 

JPY-USD: The Great Carry Trade

The ‘USD—Yen’ carry trade has been all over the news lately. The term ‘Carry trade’ may come across as a fancy new trading technique, especially to newbies to the capital market.

Head of educational initiatives at Zerodha.
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31 Jul 2024
 

Introducing Varsity Live

I vividly remember, in early 2014, Nithin and I discussed how difficult it was for an investor to learn about the capital markets in India. At that point, there was hardly any learning material available online. Content was fragmented, scattered across several sources, and there was nothing specific to the Indian markets. To learn a […]

Head of educational initiatives at Zerodha.
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27 May 2024
 

Zerodha Varsity in 2023

2023 has been a phenomenal year for Varsity. We kickstarted many new initiatives with a long-term vision of simplifying markets. Here’s an update on Varsity in 2023.

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23 Jan 2024
 

Children’s financial literacy playbook

India is full of pleasant surprises, and the country never ceases to amaze you. A few months ago, the CEO of Nagpur Zilla Parishad (Mrs Saumya Sharma) asked if I could volunteer to help them build a framework to impart financial literacy to children across 1500+ schools, each with an average of 125 children. I […]

Head of educational initiatives at Zerodha.
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19 Mar 2023
 

Introducing Varsity Junior

While continuing to build Varsity to educate traders and investors, we decided to experiment with the idea of educating children on basic concepts of Finance. As the country’s largest broker, we felt it was not just enough to educate adults and help them become financially literate but also to educate young Indians to embrace financial […]

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13 Jan 2023
 

Introducing the Varsity mobile app

Traders and Investors, Education and sharing knowledge has always been at the forefront of everything we do at Zerodha. Over the years, we have done this relentlessly via various channels and formats – Varsity, Webinars, TradingQnA, Z-Connect itself, and through partner platforms such as LearnApp. We are now pushing ourselves to take this effort to […]

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01 Apr 2019
 

How to use the option calculator?

To learn more about options, check out this module on Varsity. The Framework In this three part series, we introduced the Option Greeks in the first post. In the second post, we discussed the practical Application of Option Greeks with respect to options trading. In this concluding post, we will understand the usage of an option calculator. […]

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15 Sep 2014
 

Application of Option Greeks

To learn more about options, check out this module on Varsity. In the previous post, we discussed the Option Greeks and got a perspective on what they are. An understanding of the previous article is important for this article. In this article we will attempt to help you understand the practical uses of Option Greeks, […]

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19 Aug 2014
 

Say Hello to The Greeks!

To learn more about options, check out this module on Varsity. Why are the Option Greeks important? What do you think makes a bollywood movie successful at the box office? Chances are you’d say – the success of the movie depends on the lead actors. Well, this is true to some extent. But in reality […]

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25 Jul 2014