Financial Markets All in One

What Will You Learn?

• Understand the structure of financial markets and how the economy and financial markets are interdependent.
• Develop a comprehensive understanding of the equity market and its operations by gaining an overview of the NSE website and an introduction to the live terminal.
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of IPOs through infographics and case studies.
• Understand the various types of corporate actions and their impact on share prices. 
• Conduct diligent research and analysis on companies to make informed investment decisions by learning different approaches to stock investing.
• Evaluate and effectively manage the risks associated with trading and investing.

What Will You Learn?

• The fundamentals of macroeconomics and the functions of different market segments.
• In-depth understanding of Gross Domestic Product and various approaches to calculating it.
• Understand phases of economic cycles, including the recovery phase, early upswing, late upswing, and recessionary phase, along with their respective impacts.
• Develop the ability to assess employment, financial state, balance of payments, and income distribution.
• Interpret key indicators such as inflation, deflation, and other relevant metrics in the economy.
• Build the analytical skills to predict the effects of fiscal and monetary policy and their tools on stock markets and the economy.
• Understand the significance and interdependencies of global trade indicators in the economy.

What Will You Learn?

• Understand the pillars of fundamental analysis to evaluate stocks effectively.
• Conduct industry, economy and SWOT analyses to identify potential investment opportunities.
• Gain insights into a company by conducting company analysis and decoding the annual report, balance sheet, profit and loss statement, and cash flow statement.
• Evaluate a company's financials, liquidity, profitability, risk, solvency, efficiency, and fund utilization using efficiency, growth, return, solvency, cash flow, banking, and valuation ratios.
• Analyze the profit and loss statement and balance sheet using ratio analysis and gain an in-depth understanding of valuation through case studies.

What Will You Learn?

• Understand the concept of stock analysis and know the difference between technical and fundamental analysis.
• Get a comprehensive understanding of accounting manipulations done by the management and how to identify them.
• Decode and analyze the Annual Report, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow Statement.
• Understand valuation, its types, misconceptions, and different factors influencing the derived values.
• Learn to build financial models of various listed companies using the Dividend Discount Model (DDM), Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Model and Relative Valuation Theory.

What Will You Learn?

• Explore the formation and interpretation of various candlesticks such as Hammer, Spinning Top, Bullish and Bearish Engulfing, Marubozu, Doji, and many more.
• Understand market sentiments and trends and interpret buyer-seller interaction.
• Analyze trend continuity or reversal for informed trading decisions.
• Understand price behaviour and forecast future price movements by identifying the charts.

What Will You Learn?

• Understand the principles and tools of technical analysis and analyze the relation between volume and open interest for confirming trends.
• Identify and analyze market movements by drawing trendlines and identifying support and resistance levels.
• Identify and analyze classical chart patterns such as Double Top and Double Bottom, Wedges, Head and Shoulder, Symmetrical Triangles and many more.
• Trade using candlesticks such as Hammer, Shooting Star, Marubozu, Hanging Man, etc.
• Understand the risk-reward ratio and money management while trading.

What Will You Learn?

• Explore the fundamentals of the Relative Strength Index and its significance.
• Identify classical reversal trade opportunities with the relative strength index.
• Spot and analyze classical divergence for trading.
• Effectively utilize the StockEdge subscription for enhanced technical analysis.
• Implement a range of technical strategies for buying and selling using various RSI indicator in the stock market.
• Develop intraday trading strategies with RSI indicators.
• Track real-time technical scans and indicators to stay ahead in the market.

What Will You Learn?

• Understand the fundamental principles behind the Rate of Change indicator.
• Identify classical reversal trade opportunities with the ROC indicator.
• Spot and analyze classical divergence for trading.
• Implement a range of technical strategies for buying and selling using ROC indicators in the stock market in a daily timeframe setup.
• Develop intraday trading strategies with RSI indicators.
• Track real-time technical scans and indicators to stay ahead in the market.
• Effectively utilize the StockEdge subscription for enhanced technical analysis.

What Will You Learn?

• Understand the concept of Dow Theory and Gap theory to analyze the market trends to make informed decisions.
• Explore various indicators & oscillators such as Moving Averages, Bollinger Bands, MACD, RSI, ADX, and many more to predict future movements.
• Identify potential price levels, trends, and time-based opportunities using various tools and patterns.
• Determine optimal entry and exit points for your trades, understand risk management, and develop a disciplined mindset.

What Will You Learn?

When you talk about markets, you must know that risk & return are directly related to each other. The higher the return, the higher the risk associated with it & vice versa. So if you are someone expecting higher returns & are ready to take higher risk, trading in Futures & Options is something you may be looking for.

What makes Future trading different is the extent of leverage of margin that you get, which may not be available in the case of stocks. If you are able to make the most out of the exposure you get in the futures market, you will surely make gains.

Apart from risk-return, you must also be very clear about the fundamental concepts, technical charts & patterns, market movements, trading strategies etc. So it is very important to learn futures & options.

You should remember that as much as you can benefit from the upside, as much or even more can be the loss from the downside. To gain this understanding of how to make the most of the upside & how to minimize the effect of the downside on your trades, you must learn futures and options trading.

Please find below the topics overview of the Futures Trading Made Easy: Future and Option Trading Course:

Topic 1: Introduction to Derivatives

• You will first delve into the intricate world of financial derivatives. Using Gold as an example, you will thoroughly understand the derivatives market in this section.
• Explore several situations to understand the implications of this contract for the buyer and seller. 
• Learn about its types, including Futures, Forwards, Swaps and Options.

Topic 2: Understanding Forward Contracts

• You will now understand what forward contracts are. 
• Understand the advantages of forward contracts using a real-world scenario involving a wheat farmer and an FMCG firm.
• Look at the limits of forward contracts, such as their customisation, lack of regulation, and counterparty default risk. 
• Compare Over the Counter (OTC) instruments to standardised, exchange-traded goods like futures.
• Learn the liquidity issues associated with OTC instruments.

Topic 3: Basics of Futures Contracts

• In this topic, you will understand the concept of futures contracts and how they differ from forward contracts. 
• Understand the structure of organised and regulated futures trading. 
• Explore the difference between buying or selling futures contracts and buying or selling stocks directly. 
• Explore the unique characteristics of futures trading compared to traditional equities investing. 

Topic 4: Futures Terminologies

• You will now look at key terminologies related to futures contracts, using examples from the NSE website. 
• Gain knowledge of the various types of instruments, their expiry dates, the underlying values, the lot sizes, the open interest, and the basis (the price difference between futures and spot). 

Topic 5: Margin & Mark-to-market

• You will now delve into the concept of margin and mark-to-market.
• Discover how the margin money is blocked in the trading account and how margin needs are calculated depending on prospective losses. 
• Understand the concepts of exposure margin, span margin, and the impact of margin calls. 
• See how daily profits and losses are calculated for open futures positions based on price movements using a hypothetical situation. 

Topic 6: Delivery and Settlement: 

• Here, you will look at how to exit long positions in the futures. 
• Understand cash settlement and daily mark-to-market adjustments for index futures and physical delivery.
• Understand the implications of increased margin requirements for stock futures.

Topic 7: Payoff and Leverage

• Understanding the risks and rewards before entering into such contracts is essential for beginners. Here, you will see why a futures contract is called a zero-sum game.
• Understand the concept of leverage, which lets us manage a bigger investment with a comparatively smaller amount of funds. 

Topic 8: Volume, Open Interest & Rollover

• Here, you will learn about volume and open interest. By analysing these measures, traders may assess market participation, liquidity, and potential trends. 
• Learn how to analyze the open interest data.
• Understand the relevance of rolling over contracts before they expire.

Topic 9: Participants of the Derivatives Market

• Moving ahead, you will learn about the various market participants, including hedgers, speculators and arbitrageurs.

Topic 10: Pricing of Futures

• You will first understand the cost of carry model, which calculates futures prices by considering interest rates and dividends. 
• Look at another formula that uses continuous compounding. 
• See how market expectations affect futures prices, leading to concepts like contango and backwardation.

Topic 11: Futures Strategies

• In this futures trading course, you will learn futures trading strategies such as Bull Calendar Spread and Bear Calendar Spread.

Topic 12: Resources

• You will also learn how to analyze derivatives data using StockEdge and the NSE website.

Topic 13: Income Tax on Futures and Options Trading

• In this section, you will explore the basics of taxation on F&O Trading.
• Learn how to determine the tax on F&O turnover.

What Will You Learn?

• Understand the concept of Derivatives and types of Derivatives. 
• Gain a comprehensive understanding of option contracts and various terminologies associated with it.
• Understand risk reward and payoff, margin and Mark to Market (MTM) for buyers and sellers, intrinsic value and time value of call and put.
• Calculate the option premium using the Black-Scholes and Binomial models and know the factors affecting the premium.
• Explore the Option Greeks' concept, implication, and calculation - Delta, Theta, Gamma, Vega, Rho.
• Understand different types of directional, non-directional, hedging, and advanced strategies with the help of case studies.
• Analyze market data using the NSE website and StockEdge to make informed decisions.
• Explore the basics of taxation and its implications on derivative trading.

What Will You Learn?

• Gain a comprehensive understanding of commodity markets, their value chain, regulations of the physical market and the electronic spot exchange.
• Explore the role of derivatives, including futures, options, OTC, and exchange-traded derivatives, and understand how they work while trading.
• Understand the role of speculators and arbitrageurs in price discovery
• In-depth knowledge of the various factors affecting commodity prices.
• Develop effective trading strategies by learning technical analysis principles to analyze charts, trendlines, volumes, candlestick patterns, and technical indicators.
• Understand the fundamental commodities analysis and their classification- Energy, Metals and Agriculture.

What Will You Learn?

• Explore the fundamentals of blockchain and digital assets (mining, PoW, PoS, stablecoins, CBDCs, NFTs, De-Fi) and its rules and regulations.
• Recognize the significance of selecting secure cryptocurrency exchanges and wallets while exploring the strategies.
• Understand risks in crypto's illicit activities, like money laundering, and the role of blockchain analytics in countering them.
• Learn essential cryptographic concepts like hash functions, private and public keys, digital signatures, protocols, and nodes and explore terms like fork, hash rate, and tokenomics, and their role in the functioning of different cryptocurrencies.
• Gain insight into Ethereum and smart contracts, Layer 2 networks, ZK Roll-ups, Optimistic Roll-ups for scalability and privacy, DAOs revolutionizing organizations, encryption, multi-sig wallets, and programmable money's potential for financial innovations.