Introducing Varsity Video Series
We launched Varsity 8 years back using this cover image and this was what we planned to attempt. Excerpts from the original post:
At Zerodha we took inspiration from the MOOC (Massive Open Online courses) world to attempt solve some of the biggest problems concerning the Indian Capital market:
- Lack of knowledge – Lack of knowledge prevents new entrants from participating in markets. Amongst the existing participants, a vast majority participate with limited knowledge
- Access to knowledge – High quality knowledge related to markets, though available in India, is limited to few who can afford it.
In our humble attempt to solve the above two issues, we take great pride in introducing our new education initiative – ‘Varsity @ Zerodha’.Varsity is powered by a simple but extremely powerful motto – knowledge, like other elements of life, should have no ownership. Therefore, high quality education should be made accessible to anyone and everyone without any financial obligations.
Today, Varsity is among the top MOOC initiatives on trading & investing around the world. We extended the website into a mobile app, trying to gamify the learning experience. The enthusiasm to share knowledge with no expectations and no strings attached continues even today.
Karthik has single-handedly built the content for Varsity while also answering tens of thousands of queries that have been asked over the years. We have both been discussing how the preferred mode of content has slowly moved from text to video, especially among the younger generation. So yes, we are super excited to introduce to you the Varsity Video courses by collaborating with Learnapp to produce the videos.
Find below a quick introduction to Varsity videos by Karthik, the heart, brain, & soul behind Varsity. By the way, Karthik and I had known each other for many years before he joined Zerodha. Here is that original email from 2014 that I had sent to Karthik asking him to join us as an expert on our other educational initiative Tradingqna, which quickly led to him joining us full time and starting Varsity. 🙂
We created the Varsity video series for an absolute beginner. We picked five essential topics from Varsity to help you get started:
- Basics of Stocks market
- Technical Analysis
- Fundamental Analysis
- Futures Trading
- Options Trading
We carefully structured the video content to follow the order in which the content is present on the Varsity web. We went chapter by chapter, picked the meat of the content and spun a video out of it.
We’ve tried to keep the videos crisp, to the point, and animated them to reinforce the key learning points.
For all the topics that have nuances, which we could not accommodate in the video, we’ve added links to the respective chapters in the video descriptions.
So if you are watching these videos, use them as a quick start tool. Use it to quench your curiosity, but come back to the main website or the app to learn all the technicalities.
It is best to supplement the video content with the web content and vice versa. Do not take the Varsity video series as your only source to learn the subject. I’m pretty confident that you will extract maximum value from the video series with this approach in mind.
We’ve added links to the videos on the homepage below each module.
Varsity videos
Lastly, I can’t think of another partner to produce these videos. Prateek and his entire team at Learnapp have done a phenomenal job in helping us build these videos. Prateek was gracious enough to agree to feature in most of these videos. Without Prateek and his team’s relentless efforts, this project would have gone nowhere.
I hope you enjoy watching these videos as much as we enjoyed making them for you.
Happy learning!
Nithin Kamath
Founder & CEO @ Zerodha. Partnering startups through Rainmatter. Love playing poker, basketball, and guitar. @Nithin0dha on Twitter. | Personal website: https://nithinkamath.me
Congratulations… Team Zerodha
Zerodha to me is just “Brilliant”
Wow. I have been waiting for this for so long and finally it’s here. Cannot wait to learn.
Just when this was highly needed…
Keep up the awesome work @Nithin
Great. I am waiting for learning….
Tq I’m always learner
Congratulations for more than 8m customers…
Zerodha se muze knowladge milta…waiting…
Brilliant. This is like team zerodha spirit. That’s why your customers are satisfied as team zerodha. Keep doing news experiments we will keep learning.
Hi, Nithin & Nikhil,
Good Morning and Great New Year for health and prosperity,
Great initiative to power retail investors. Go with full throttle, God bless Team Zerodha to Scale to NEW HIGH. After all Sky is limit for the your enterprising business in this great Sun rising field. Big Thank you to Great lad Mr Karthic who made unbelievable happened.
Cheers,
Bola Ravindra Kamath, Karkala
Good Morning and Great New Year for health and prosperity for you Team
Great initiative to power retail investors. Go with full throttle, God bless Team Zerodha to Scale to NEW HIGH. After all Sky is limit for the your enterprising business in this great Sun rising field. Big Thank you to Great lad Mr Karthic who made unbelievable happened.
Cheers,
Bola Ravindra Kamath, Karkala
Good Morning and Great New Year for health and prosperity for you Team
Great initiative to power retail investors. Go with full throttle, God bless Team Zerodha to Scale to NEW HIGH. After all Sky is limit for the your enterprising business in this great Sun rising field. Big Thank you to Great lad Mr Karthic who made unbelievable happened.
Cheers,
Bola Ravindra Kamath, Karkala
Hi, wonderful job. Congrats. But have you observed that while using varsity in Ipad, the contents are not aligned correctly. Please correct them. Thanks.
Excellent initiative from a leader in broking business. Looking forward for many such other initiatives in future. Thanks and Regards.
Zerodha is known for its uniqueness in every aspect of broking,disseminating knowledge about stock markets to make it exciting for rookie investors and Varsity is one exciting place you get to know everything about stock markets with absolute ease. Now with new additions it makes more interesting and easy to understand all the jargons of investment. God speed and new horizons for Zerodha in the days to come
Great Nitin Sir
I feel very happy with zerodha.
After a big scam of M/s Karvy, I have shifted all my stocks to Zerodha costing around sixty Lakhs including the accounts of my wife and daughter at VIjayawada, Andhra Pradesh. Since then, the way Zerodha is functioning systematically and adhering all the rules as directed by the Government of India from time to time. My self and all my family members greets Zerodha for their regular customer based activities. Thank you ZERODHA.
Very nicely written article and incredible story of Zerodha. I am astonished about true digital account management done by Zerodha. I have never met any person of Zerodha, in person…amazing!
Zerodha is bringing the financial revolution in India. These videos are really helpful for many people to understand the basics of stock market.
Wow!
Good morning n happy new year to team Zerodha.
Hopefully, after learnings from versity, I will unfreeze my a/c with Zerodha!
Good luck!
Good initiative, is useful for new commers like me. If possible please provide videos in telugu language.
Man, I just bought Learnapp subscription ₹4k.I feel like a bum
Nice!
Couldn’t find the videos for 4. Future Trading & 5. Options Trading, as specified in the article.
This will be available soon, Ankit 😀
Thanks
Very nice
Thanks you taught again about long term benifits.
Congratulations… Team Zerodha
Zerodha to me is just “Brilliant”I
Like zerodha kite app very safe and brilliant
Excellent
Excellent.. good job #Zerodha and all the best..
How to download the new series?
Thank you zerodha and happy new year
Hey Selvaraj, the series is available on YouTube.
Nithin and Karthik , great work, excellent.
Thanks to Nithin & entire Zerodha team of great work. Keep it up. Happy New year 2022.
Good initiative and keep it up because this is very important to protect new comer to avoid loss in stock market
Pl send links for study
Thank you
Zerodha is unique….keep it up & lot’s of love team Zerodha
We wish you to be the best brokerage firm not only in India but all over the world. We look forward to seeing you on your journey to success.
Best Brokerage firm. I wish more success in the coming years.
Hello sir,
Great of journey in your team members & your in zerodha & I Will be Hope one day associate in zerodha team members Like you.
I am wating for learning videos
Eger to learn here your guidence
I just started investing. I have no idea about stock market. I wish to learn where and when to invest that would give me best return of my investment.
Thanking you for develop a course for beginners.
Your guidelines are very important to me .I wish you more success in comming years
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great plan
i am eager to learn the fundamentals of stock market.
I am very beginner I need to learn s fundamentals
F and o.
How to trade
Thanks to Nitin g and kartik g zarodha team of great wark. Keep it up. Happy new year 2022
I am a avid reader of your Varsity app. Now video will give more clarity. Thanks a lot from Zerodha for a small investor. Regards.
Excellent.
God bless you for this initiative.
Please inform me.
200 ke aaspas fund kaha gaya mere Zerodha a/c se?
Hey Garavabhai, you can check out the statement of all your transactions in your ‘ledger’ on Console. If you’ve further queries, please create a ticket at http://support.zerodha.com. Our team will have this checked and assist.
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏. Penny stocks tips is required for long term investments
Great work sirji…thanks
Thank you very much…👌
Great..
Thank youuu sooo much Zerodha!!!!
Yor help is a lot for a beginner like me
Yes, please inform me
1. Please provide services to invest the entire world’s stocks in one ‘kite’ app. Although the section is different, but we can use it in an easy click to invest all over stocks.
2. And please make a section of suggestion box where we can drop our thoughts to communicate you to make a better&better platform.
3. Zerodha’s customer care service team is good, but sometimes it failed to communicate with their customer. We feel your customer care communication is needed some extra concentration to more & more better platform.
4. Don’t forget to give research and information about stocks to guide us while you will provide us country’s investment platform one by one, then the whole world platform.
There is no video for options chapter onward. Only 3 chapter have video.
Hey Umesh, we’re working on the video series for Futures and Options chapters 😀
Option trading
Technical & fundamental Analysis
infact i too wanted to ask the same question…Y no videos on option trading..
Hey Mohan, we’re working on video series for Futures and Options modules, we’ll keep you posted on it 😀
I am intrested pl let me know
I am interested
In the moving average video of techinical analysis, the example of voltas (50 day and 100 day ma) , the entry point is 625 and exit point is 595. That is a loss. The indicator is not working
सर् fundamental analysis का हिंदी में PDF उपलब्ध नहीं है कृप्या उसका हिंदी PDF उपलब्ध कराए या मुझे मेरी mail id पर mail कर दे धन्यवाद।
I Want to Know About Zeerodha Account
Hey Shan, could you please be more specific on what you’d like to know about?🙂
Tell me what is going to happen to Zerodha app and what will happen to our share
Hey Manoj, could you please elaborate on your query?
If I am unable to exit from positions of f&o on expiry date is kite automatically square off
Hey Jitendra, your position will be squared-off if you’re holding it in MIS. If you’ve taken a position using NRML, it won’t be squared-off. If your position is OTM (Out of the money) it will expire worthless. While if it is ITM, it’ll be settled by the exchange, if it is an index option position, it’ll be settled at intrinsic value, while a stock option position will be physically settled. You can check out more details here.
Wow,its realy very good