Online NSE Academy Certified Capital Market Professional (E-NCCMP)

Even though you are aware that capital markets provide the opportunity for wealth creation, you may find it difficult to manage stocks, bonds and other assets.

You might hesitate to enter the capital market because you think the market is risky, and you will end up making huge losses. This fear often arises from a lack of confidence in understanding financial instruments and market dynamics.

So, to help you gain confidence in understanding the markets, we have created a capital market course, which is a perfect blend of fundamental and technical analysis that covers the macroeconomic aspects, different investing approaches and basic concepts of technical analysis and derivatives markets.

Online NSE Certified Capital Market Professional is a self-paced course that will equip you with theoretical and practical knowledge of the stock market. It will walk you through the steps of finding and analysing companies, determining ideal entry and exit points, calculating the risk of a stock investment or trade, and understanding the factors impacting market movements. It will also help you pick the most appropriate trading strategy that aligns with your personal goals.  

Let us understand why you should learn this NCCMP course with us: 

• Experiential Learning: Each course provides an in-depth understanding of financial markets by diving deeply into essential concepts. You'll get hands-on knowledge through several sector-based case studies for a thorough understanding.
• Recorded Content: You will get access to recorded content for a thorough understanding of capital markets, including everything from analysing financial statements to mastering chart patterns, options Greeks, and advanced trading methods, allowing you to learn at your own pace.
• Interactive Learning Tools: Apart from case studies, you also get various self-evaluation tests, interactive financial quizzes, financial games, and financial calculators to make learning more enjoyable.
• Community Support: You get access to the discussion forum where you can post your queries and interact with your peers on a regular basis for query resolutions.
• Certificate of Completion: You will receive a joint certificate from the NSE Academy and Elearnmarkets after successfully clearing the NCFM examination.

Please find below the topics covered under this course: capital market certification.

Section 1: Introductory Module

Topic 1: Know the reason behind Investing 

• In this module, you will first understand the investment concept and how investing will impact your financial goals.
• Explore different investment options.

Topic 2: Interest Rate and Time Value of Money 

• You will then understand concepts such as Interest Rate, Future Value, and Present Value.
• Understand the power of Compounding. 

Topic 3: Functioning of the Financial Market

• You will understand the financial structure of the Indian economy with a focus on the capital markets. 
• Understand the various participants working as stock market intermediaries.

Topic 4: Understanding Initial Public Offering (IPO)

• You will then deep dive into the concept of IPO and understand its importance.
• Get to learn the different types of public issues
• Explore the IPO procedure in India
• Explore different investor categories for IPO.
• Understand the basis of allotment.
• Learn how to apply for an IPO through ASBA.
• Understand the IPO procedure with the help of a case study on Lodha Developers.

Topic 5: Corporate Action & Its Types

• You will gain an introduction to corporate actions such as Dividend, Bonus Issues, Right Issues, Stock Split and Buybacks of Shares. 
• Understand how corporate actions impact stock prices.

Topic 6: Introduction to Mutual Funds

• You will understand the basic concept of mutual funds, its advantages, types, and SIP. 
• Gain insights into how you can invest in mutual funds.
• See how different investors should approach mutual fund investing.

Topic 7: Understanding Stock Markets - the Practical Way

• You will learn how a stock market trading terminal looks and works.
• Understand how to start trading by selecting the right stock broker.
• Get to explore the important terminologies you should know
• Learn how to trade safely using leverage.
• See how a stock is delivered to you after trade execution. 

Topic 8: Introduction to Currency Markets

• Next, you will understand the basics of currency and foreign exchange markets.
• Explore the forex market features and how currency pairs are traded.

Section 2: Macroeconomics Module

Topic 1: Macroeconomics- Introduction & its Importance

• In this module, you will understand what economics is.
• Learn the difference between microeconomics and macroeconomics.
• Understand the importance of macroeconomics.

Topic 2: Market Segments- Its Roles & Interactions

• You will learn about market segments and their interactions.
• Understand their relationship with macroeconomic entities.
• Learn supply-demand and several other macroeconomic approaches.

Topic 3: Gross Domestic Product

• You will understand the key growth variable, i.e., Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
• Understand the types of approaches to calculating GDP.

Topic 4: Phases of Economic Cycles

• You will gain an in-depth understanding of economic cycles.
• Look at the different phases of the economic cycle, such as Recovery, Early Upswing, Late Upswing, and Recessionary phases.

Topic 5: Economic Indicators

• You will learn about the labour market and unemployment rate indicators.
• Gain an entire overview of inflation, deflation, and various inflation indices.
• Understand the importance of the housing market indicators.

Topic 6: Role of Government in an Economy & its Tools

• You will gain insights into the role of government in an economy.
• Understand fiscal policy and how the government can use it to manage the economy.
• Understand how the government uses monetary policy tools.

Topic 7: Indicators Related to International Trade: 

• You will understand various metrics related to International Trade, including those focused on consumers and businesses.

Topic 8: Case Study

• You will gain an insight into how macroeconomic events are crucial for trading with a case study on Black Wednesday, 1992.

Section 3: Fundamental Analysis Module

Topic 1: Introduction to Fundamental Analysis

• In this module, you will understand the basic concept of fundamental analysis and the philosophy behind doing it.
• Learn about various factors that affect stock prices, such as negative or positive newsflow, liquidity in the company, etc.

Topic 2: Different Approaches to Stock Investing

• You will explore the top-down and bottom-up approaches to investing.
• Learn how to carry out Economy and Industry.
• Understand the Porter's Five Forces and SWOT analyses. 
• Understand the pros and cons of various approaches discussed above.

Topic 3: Learn to analyse a company

• You will comprehensively understand the company using Quantitative and Qualitative approaches.
• Find an extensive annual report guide covering everything from an introduction to its detailed content.

Topic 4: Financial Statement Analysis

• You will look at the different financial statements of a company, such as the Cash Flow Statement and Profit and Loss Statement.
• Learn how to analyze them to understand the financial condition of a business.
• Learn how to calculate a company's profit and loss.
• Understand each section of an income statement individually using a case study on Pidilite Industries as an example.

Topic 5: Learn to Read a Balance Sheet

• You will understand what a balance sheet is and explore the assets and liabilities sides of the balance sheet. 
• Learn how to analyze a company's balance sheet.

Topic 6: Efficiency & Growth Ratios

• You will learn about the different types of Efficiency ratios, such as Earnings Per Share (EPS), PAT Margin(%), EBITDA Margin(%), EBIT Margin, and Book Value per Share.
• Explore Growth ratios, including EBITDA Growth, Earnings Per Share Growth(%), Net Profit Growth(%), and Net Sales Growth(%).
• Learn how we can use them to analyze a company and track it using the StockEdge App.

Topic 7: Return Ratios, Solvency Ratios & Banking Ratios

• You will explore return ratios such as ROCE, ROA, and ROE.
• Look at solvency ratios such as the current ratio, interest coverage ratio, and debt-to-equity Ratio.
• Understand banking ratios such as net interest margin, yield on advances, net non-performing assets (NPA), operating income growth, interest Expanded to total funds, interest income to total funds, etc.
• You will learn to track them using the StockEdge App.

Topic 8: Valuation Ratios

• You will learn to analyze valuation ratios, including Market Cap to Sales Ratio, EV to EBITDA Ratio, Price to Book Value Ratio, etc.

Topic 9: Key to Fundamental Analysis

• You will understand how you can use the historical financial statements to estimate the company's current position.
• To understand future forecasts, you will understand how to estimate the five-year P/L Statement and Balance Sheet of Pidilite Industries.
• Understand the importance of the historical balance sheet.
• Learn how to estimate and analyse the company's quarterly financial data.

Section 4: Technical Analysis Module

Topic 1: The Basics

• In this module, you will learn the philosophy behind technical analysis.
• Understand price movements over time. 
• Understand the concept of volume and open interest.

Topic 2: Dow Theory and Trendline, Support and Resistance

• You will learn to analyze the market trend with the six tenets of Dow Theory.
• Understand how to find support & resistance to trade.

Topic 3: Classical Chart Patterns and Gap Theory

• You will understand what gap theory is.
• Explore various classical chart patterns such as Double Top, Double Bottom, Triple Top, Triple Bottom, Head and Shoulders, Inverse Head and Shoulders, Wedges, Flags, Pennants, Symmetrical Triangles, Ascending and Descending Triangles, Cup and Handle, Inverse Cup and Handle, Bullish Rectangular, and Bearish Rectangular. 

Topic 4: Candlestick Chart Patterns

• You will learn about various candlestick patterns such as Hammer, Shooting Star, Inverted Hammer, Hanging Man, Spinning Tops, Doji, Tweezer Tops, Tweezer Bottoms, Bullish Engulfing, Bearish Engulfing, Piercing, Dark Cloud Cover, Morning Star, Evening Star.
• Explore how to track bullish and bearish reversal, continuation, and Doji scans using the StockEdge App.

Topic 5: Indicators and Oscillators

• You will learn about Indicators and oscillators, Moving Averages, MACD,  MACD Histogram, ADX, Bollinger Bands, MFI, RSI, and Stochastics.
• Learn how to track companies with MACD, RSI signals, and Bollinger Bands using the StockEdge App.

Topic 6: Fibonacci and Markets

• You will understand the importance of Fibonacci by learning various tools such as Fibonacci Retracements, Fibonacci Projections, Fibonacci Extensions and many more.

Topic 7: Trading Strategies

• You will explore different setups for trend-following, contrarian, and swing strategies.

Topic 8: Trading Psychology, Risk Management, and Money Management

• You will get to understand three essential aspects of technical analysis, i.e., the psychology behind trading, money, and risk management.

Section 5: Derivatives Module

Topic 1: Basics of Derivatives

• You will first understand the basics of derivatives with an example.
• Learn about its types, including Futures, Forwards, Swaps and Options.
• Get to know about the derivatives participants.

Topic 2: Introduction to Forward and Futures Contracts

• You will explore the concepts of futures & forward, margin and MTM, delivery & settlement, rollover, volume and open interest. 
• Learn how futures prices are derived.
• Understand futures trading strategies.

Topic 3: Introduction to Options

• You will gain an in-depth understanding of terminologies related to call options and put options.
• Understand the risk-reward and payoff for options buyers and sellers.
• Learn about the intrinsic and time value of options.

Topic 4: Options Pricing

• Now that you know the basics of options, you will learn how to calculate the pricing using the Black Scholes and Binomial models. 

Topic 5: Options Moneyness

• You will understand the concept of moneyness, such as In The Money (ITM), At The Money (ATM) and Out of The Money (OTM).
• Get to learn the factors affecting the premium, including the spot price of the underlying, strike price, expiry, dividend, interest rates, historical volatility and implied volatility.

Topic 6: Options Greeks

• You will learn the concept and implications of Option Greeks - Delta, Gamma, Theta, Vega and Rho.

Topic 7: Practical aspects of trading in Options

• You will understand the practical aspects such as Delivery vs. Cash Settlement, American vs. European Option, Squaring Off before Expiry and Margins. 

Topic 8: Volume, Open Interest and PCR

• You will learn how to analyze the Volume and Open Interest.
• Learn how to interpret the Option Chain from the NSE website.

Topic 9: Options Strategies: 

• You will gain insight into directional, non-directional and advanced options strategies with case studies.

Topic 10: Resources to Analyze the Data

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

Topic 11: Income Tax on Futures and Options Trading

• You will explore taxation basics on F&O Trading.
• Learn to determine the tax on your F&O turnover.