Stock markets offer the opportunity to create wealth and achieve financial growth. However, investing or trading involves a significant amount of risk. 

You might refrain from the stock market as you are probably confused by its complexities. You may have heard that the stock market is confusing, stressful and risky. 

However, if you holistically understand the workings of the market, then you can make informed investment decisions, manage risks effectively, and achieve your financial growth and wealth-building goals.

To make you proficient with the foundations of the stock market, we have created a stock market course for beginners to help you achieve your financial goals.

Stock Market Made Easy is a self-paced course that will help you understand the stock market practically. This course will help you by providing a practical and in-depth understanding of the stock market. You will gain a practical understanding of market dynamics using the NSE website and Live Terminal.

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Please find below the overview of the topics covered under the Stock Market Made Easy course: 

Topic 1: Functioning of Financial Markets

• You will learn the interdependence of the financial ecosystem, where participants such as buyers, sellers, and consumers help in the smooth functioning of the market. 
• Delve into the capital creation process through banks and financial markets.
• Understand SEBI's role in regulating the Indian stock market. 
• Explore the types of capital markets, i.e., primary & secondary markets and how they function. 

Topic 2: Participants in Capital Markets

• You will get an overview of various participants, such as investors, companies and stock market exchanges.
• Look at the types of investors, such as retail investors, high net worth individuals and institutional investors.
• Learn about the depositories - NSDL & CDSL, clearing corporations and custodians.

Topic 3: Understanding Initial Public Offering (IPO)

• You will deep dive into the concept of IPO and explore the reason why the company decided to go public.
• Understand the different types of public issues apart from IPO, such as Follow on Public Offer (FPO) and Offer For Sale (OFS).
• Learn about the IPO procedure in India, the basis of allotment and applying for IPO through ASBA.
• Explore different investor categories for IPO- Retail Individual Investors, Non-Institutional Investors and Qualified Institutional Buyers.
• Get to understand the entire IPO process with the help of a case study on Lodha Developers.

Topic 4: Key Concepts and Trading Terminologies

• You will learn about the indices based on small cap, mid cap and large cap, sector/industry, broad market, and free float market cap.
• Learn the concept of demat and trading accounts.
• Gain an introduction to contract notes, its contents and the format.
• Learn about the types of market sessions and timings- pre-open sessions, regular trading sessions, block deal sessions, and closing sessions.
• Understand various trading terminologies such as tick size, bid and ask spread, impact cost, market depth, circuit breakers, types of orders, market sentiment trackers, foreign institutional investors & domestic institutional investment, bulk deal, block deal, and insider trading.
• Understand who stockbrokers are and how you should choose the right broker for your investment.
• Understand the concept of margin trading system and rolling settlement.

Topic 5: Introduction to Live Terminal

• You will get an overall understanding of the live trading terminal. You will get an overview of the dashboard, watchlist, and order placement.
• Look at the importance of newspaper analysis for informed investment decisions.

Topic 6: Corporate Action & Its Types

• You will learn about corporate actions and how company decisions affect stock prices.
• Learn about the basic concepts of Dividends.
• Understand the impact of issuing Bonus Issues.
• Understand how the Bonus Issue differs from the Rights Issue.
• Understand the impact of Stock Splits.
• Learn about share Buybacks.

Topic 7: Introduction to Mutual Funds 

• You will understand the basic concept of mutual funds and their advantages to know how they work as investment vehicles. 
• Explore mutual fund schemes, such as open-ended and closed-ended, to gain insight into the options available in the market and to choose the most suited ones based on your financial goals and risk tolerance.

Topic 8: Concept of SIP

• You will learn about the SIP, which allows for monthly investments in stock markets.
• This topic will also help you decide whether to invest a large sum of money at once or in a Systematic Investment Plan (SIP) that divides it into 12 equal payments.

Topic 9: Macroeconomics- Introduction & Importance

• You will understand what economics is.
• Look at the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics.
• Understand the significance of macroeconomics in trading and investing decisions even though macroeconomics is a lagging indicator.

Topic 10: Key Growth Variables

• You will learn the significance of tracking economic health through GDP.
• See how keeping an eye on the GDP is important for predicting economic and market cycles and helping with strategic decisions in various asset classes. 
• Explore various approaches to calculating GDP, such as the Output, Expenditure, and Income approaches.

Topic 11: Price Level Indicators

• You will now understand the prices within an economy and how they change over time.
• Learn what inflation is and the ways that cause inflation: Demand-Pull Inflation and Cost-Push Inflation.
• Understand the impact of inflation on the stock markets.
• Learn the concepts of Nominal GDP and Real GDP. 
• Understand deflation and why it is worse for the economy. 
• Understand the specific indicators you need to monitor for tracking inflation, such as WPI and CPI.

Topic 12: Role of Government

• You will explore the role of government in an economy.
• Understand what fiscal policy is and how the government can use it to manage the economy by using fiscal policy tools such as increasing/decreasing taxes and increasing/decreasing government spending. 
• Understand the monetary policy and various related tools, including interest rate related tools, liquidity related tools and direct market action.

Topic 13: Introduction to Fundamental Analysis

• You will understand the basic concept of fundamental analysis and the reason behind doing it.
• Explore the factors that affect the stock prices, such as negative or positive newsflow, liquidity in the company, etc.

Topic 14: Different Approaches to Stock Investing: 

• You will explore the Top-Down and Bottom-Up approaches to investing.
• Learn to carry out the Economy and Industry Analysis.
• Look at Porter's Five Forces Analysis, an approach for identifying good businesses and promising sectors.
• Using real-world examples, you'll study SWOT analysis.

Topic 15: Learn Technical Analysis

• You will now look at the philosophy behind the technical analysis. 
• Understand price over time and the concepts of volume and open interest in trading.