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Everything we have published, newest at the top. For the lessons in order, use the curriculum.
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.
The 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.
Most 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.
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.
A 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.
The circuit breaker tripped before ten in the morning, the index closed with the biggest percentage fall in its history, and a national lockdown was announced the next evening. What the day felt like, what the people who sold did next, and why the recovery is the part worth studying.
A 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.
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.
A 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.
Ask a chatbot which share to buy and it will answer, confidently and badly. What language models actually do, why their numbers cannot be trusted without a source, where they genuinely save hours, and what SEBI's rules say about advice from anyone, human or machine.
The 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.
In the 1850s a few dozen men traded shares under a banyan tree outside Bombay's Town Hall. One cotton boom, one spectacular bust and several evictions later, they had a street, a rulebook and the institution that became the BSE.
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.
Before 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.
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