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Free online courseBasics of Stock Market course

Duration of the online course: 31 hours and 39 minutes

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Learn to invest with confidence in this free stock market course—orders, analysis, taxes, risk, and more. Build real skills and earn a certificate.

In this free course, learn about

  • Stock market basics: exchanges, instruments, indices, why prices move
  • How to buy shares: demat/trading account flow and key order types
  • Order choice for short-term trading: bracket/cover orders with target & stop-loss
  • Futures & options basics: contracts, leverage, margin, basic payoff intuition
  • Short selling: concept, mechanics, risks, and when/why traders use it
  • Fundamental analysis essentials using FMCG stock examples and key ratios
  • Debentures vs fixed deposits: features, risk-return, and investor suitability
  • COVID-19 macro impact: recession effects and expected FMCG recovery trends
  • Bonus shares: meaning, record date, and typical price adjustment after 1:1 bonus
  • Taxation: LTCG/STCG, bonus share taxation, and grandfathering in LTCG rules
  • Return metrics: CAGR vs IRR vs XIRR; IRR vs XIRR difference in Excel cash flows
  • Pledging of shares: what it signals and what happens if pledged value falls
  • Market concepts: helicopter money and its role in supporting demand/liquidity
  • Practical market features: Mahurat trading, gifting stocks, and POA purpose

Course Description

Investing can feel intimidating when you are faced with charts, jargon, and a constant flow of opinions. This free online course helps you build a clear foundation in how the stock market works so you can make decisions with more confidence and less confusion. You will understand the core ideas that drive buying and selling shares, what actually happens when you place a trade, and how different market actions can affect your money. Instead of relying on tips, you will develop a practical mindset for evaluating opportunities and risks.

The course focuses on the real-world mechanics beginners often miss. You will learn how share buying works, the role of different order types, and how traders set targets and manage downside through stop-loss planning. You will also explore concepts that frequently appear in market news, such as short selling, futures and options, and why these tools can amplify both gains and losses. By seeing how these instruments are used, you will be better equipped to judge whether they fit your goals and risk tolerance.

To help you think like an investor, you will connect market moves with business fundamentals and sector trends, including how economic events can influence company performance. You will also learn about instruments beyond stocks, such as debentures, and how to compare choices when balancing return, safety, and time horizon. Corporate actions like bonus shares are explained in a way that clarifies what changes in your holdings, how key dates work, and what investors typically misunderstand when prices adjust.

Because returns are only meaningful after costs and taxes, the course also covers essentials like capital gains, concepts such as grandfathering, and performance measurement with metrics like XIRR versus related return calculations. You will gain awareness of common operational topics—demat basics, authorizations, pledging risk—and even modern practices like gifting stocks. By the end, you should be able to read market information more critically, ask better questions, and take your next step in investing with a stronger foundation.

Course content

  • Video class: Basics of Stock Market For Beginners Lecture 1 By CA Rachana Phadke Ranade

    1h35m

  • Video class: Basics of Stock Market For Beginners Lecture 2 By CA Rachana Phadke Ranade

    1h43m

  • Video class: Basics Of Stock Market for Beginners Lecture 3 by CA Rachana Ranade

    1h31m

  • Video class: What Is Futures And Options Trading? F

    11m

  • Video class: How To Buy Shares In Share Market For Beginners and Types of Orders In Stock Market By CA Rachana

    12m

  • Exercise: What type of stock market order is most suitable for short-term traders to define both target and stop-loss simultaneously?

  • Video class: Where to Invest? Top 2 Stocks In FMCG Sector! Fundamental Analysis By CA Rachana Ranade

    23m

  • Video class: What is Short Selling Explained by CA Rachana Ranade

    13m

  • Exercise: _What is the base concept of short selling in the stock market?

  • Video class: What Is Debentures? Should You Invest In Debentures OR FD Explained By CA Rachana Ranade

    23m

  • Exercise: What is a debenture in finance?

  • Video class: Effect of COVID-19 Lockdown on Indian Economy! 2020 Recession Year? By CA Rachana Ranade.

    18m

  • Exercise: What is the impact and expected recovery for FMCG during the pandemic?

  • Video class: What Is Bonus Share With Example | Bonus Shares ExplainedPart 1 By CA Rachana Ranade

    13m

  • Exercise: _What is a record date in relation to bonus shares?

  • Video class: 100K Subscriber Special Giveaway! | Basics Of Stock Market | Power Of Attorney By CA Rachana Ranade

    20m

  • Exercise: What is the purpose of a power of attorney in stock trading?

  • Video class: Preparing Maggie vs Opening a demat account | CA Rachana Ranade

    12m

  • Exercise: Which process is suggested as quicker, opening a d-mat account or cooking Maggi?

  • Video class: Stock Of The Month Analysis, Free Personal Finance Course, Vlog! CA Rachana's Memberships!

    05m

  • Exercise: _What is the purpose of the "join" button on the channel?

  • Video class: What Is Grandfathering Concept In Long Term Capital Gains Tax Explained By CA Rachana

    11m

  • Video class: What Is XIRR? XIRR Vs IRR Vs CAGR | XIRR In Excel Explained By CA Rachana Ranade

    17m

  • Exercise: What is the primary difference between IRR and X IRR in Excel?

  • Video class: Tax On Bonus Shares With Example , LTCG Tax, STCG Tax on Bonus Shares Explained Part 2

    09m

  • Exercise: _What happens to the price of a share after a 1:1 bonus is declared by a company?

  • Video class: What Is Pledging Of Shares? Watch This Before You Invest In Shares | CA Rachana Ranade

    07m

  • Exercise: What happens when a company pledges its shares and the market value decreases?

  • Video class: What is Helicopter Money? Can India have Helicopter Money? Explained by CA Rachana Ranade.

    08m

  • Exercise: What is the concept of helicopter money intended to address?

  • Video class: What's so special about Mahurat Trading this Diwali | CA Rachana Ranade

    08m

  • Video class: How to Gift Stocks? by CA Rachana Ranade

    12m

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