The whole path
Every chapter in the order we would teach it if you sat with us for a term.
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The ideas everything else rests on: what you own, what the big numbers measure, and who runs the show.
2 of 4 writtenBefore Sensex, demat accounts or candlesticks, there is one idea everything else rests on: a share is a slice of a real business. Here is what that slice gives you, what it does not, and why its price moves.
Every evening someone announces that the Sensex rose 400 points. Points of what? What the two big indices track, how they are built, why one heavy stock can drag them, and why you cannot buy them directly but can buy something very close.
From opening a demat account to understanding the piece of paper you get after your first trade.
1 of 4 writtenThe three accounts you need, the documents, what a broker charges beyond "zero brokerage", and the one-day journey a share takes from the exchange to your name. Read this before you open anything.
The route most people should start on, and how to tell a good fund from a loud one.
The documents a company must publish, and the handful of numbers inside them that matter.
2 of 4 writtenA listed company's annual report runs 200 to 400 pages, and most of it is there to be skipped. The order to read it in, the six pages that matter, and the warning signs that sat in Satyam's reports before anyone looked.
You do not need forty ratios. You need three, the arithmetic that connects them, and a list of the ways each one lies. With a worked example and the questions to ask before trusting any number an app shows you.
Why some companies keep earning well for decades and most do not.
What a price chart can and cannot tell you, and the hardest decision of all.
1 of 3 writtenA chart is a record of what other people paid, nothing more. How to read one candle, why volume tells you more than most lines, what a trend is, and SEBI's own numbers on how intraday traders actually do.
Futures and options as they actually work in India, and who they are for.
1 of 3 writtenA plain explanation of futures, calls and puts using Nifty numbers, what SEBI's 2024 and 2025 rule changes did to the market, and the regulator's own study of what happened to more than a crore of individual traders.
Sizing, allocation and the other asset classes that make equity survivable.
1 of 4 writtenMost investing books spend 300 pages on what to buy and three on how much. This lesson reverses the ratio: the one percent rule, the arithmetic of drawdowns, why leverage is a different animal, and a worksheet you can fill in tonight.
What you keep after the taxman, and what happens to it when you are not around.
1 of 3 writtenThe holding period that changes your rate, the 1.25 lakh exemption, what happened to buybacks, how intraday and F&O are taxed differently, and the set-off rules that let a bad year shrink a good year's bill. With worked numbers.
Also on Bazaar School
Not part of the path, but worth your time between chapters.
A step-by-step workflow for letting a language model do the page-turning on a 300-page annual report: the prompts, the extraction table, the verification pass that catches invented numbers, and the questions a model cannot answer for you.
Every Diwali the exchanges open for a single ceremonial session, brokers worship their account books, and a new Samvat year begins. Where the ritual comes from, what people actually do in that hour, and what the record says about buying on it.
Until 2025, automating your own trades through a broker's API lived in a grey zone. SEBI's February 2025 framework made it legal with conditions: registered algos, an order-rate threshold, broker accountability, and a line between strategies you can see inside and ones you cannot.
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