Written trading plan
Deliverable: A complete rule-based plan stating entry, exit, position size, maximum daily loss and the conditions under which you stop trading, written before any capital is committed.
Course
Stock Market and Advanced Trading
Markets taught with risk first — instruments, analysis, derivatives and position sizing — built around not losing capital, because that is the part that decides whether anyone lasts.
- Duration: 4 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: beginner to advanced
What you will be able to do
- Explain what each instrument is and what actually determines its price
- Read a chart for structure rather than for patterns you want to see
- Analyse a company from its financial statements rather than its story
- Size a position so a single loss cannot end your participation
- Build and backtest a rule-based strategy on historical data
- Keep a trading journal that shows what you are actually doing
Who this course is for
- Anyone over 18 with a genuine interest in markets
- Investors currently acting on tips who want to understand what they own
- Finance students and working professionals managing their own capital
- No finance background required
Syllabus
6 modules · 4 months
Module 1. How markets actually work
- Exchanges, brokers, depositories and settlement
- Equity, debt, mutual funds and ETFs
- Order types, spreads, liquidity and slippage
- Charges, taxes and what they do to a small edge
Module 2. Risk management, taught first
- Position sizing and the maximum acceptable single loss
- Stop losses, and why a mental stop is not a stop
- Drawdown, recovery mathematics and why a 50% loss needs a 100% gain
- Ruin, leverage and the arithmetic of blowing up
Module 3. Technical analysis
- Price structure, support, resistance and trend
- Volume and what confirms a move
- Moving averages, momentum and their failure modes
- Candlestick patterns, and being honest about their reliability
Module 4. Fundamental analysis
- Reading a profit and loss statement and a balance sheet
- Cash flow, and why it disagrees with profit
- Valuation ratios and their limits
- Screening for candidates and rejecting most of them
Module 5. Derivatives
- Futures — margin, mark to market and expiry
- Options — premium, strike and expiry
- The Greeks, explained without the calculus
- Hedging versus speculating, and the honest difference
Module 6. Strategy, testing and psychology
- Turning an idea into written, testable rules
- Backtesting and the ways a backtest lies to you
- Journalling every trade and reviewing it monthly
- Loss aversion, revenge trading and overconfidence after a win
Tools and technologies you will use
- NSE and BSE market data
- TradingView or equivalent charting
- Screener and financial statement sources
- Excel for position sizing and journalling
- Paper trading account
Projects you will build
Backtest with an honest report
Deliverable: One strategy tested over at least three years of historical data, reporting win rate, average win against average loss, maximum drawdown, and a written note on where the backtest may be flattering itself.
Paper trading journal
Deliverable: Eight weeks of simulated trades journalled with entry reasoning, exit reasoning and an outcome review, plus a monthly analysis of which rule you broke most often.
Company analysis
Deliverable: A written analysis of one listed company from its published financial statements, arriving at a view with the reasoning shown and the main risk to that view stated.
Where this course can take you
- Equity Research Assistant
- Dealer
- Financial Advisor
- Independent Trader
- Back Office and Settlement Executive
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 4 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode. The course uses paper trading throughout — no capital is required and none is handled by us.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
Risk comes first, and that is not a formality
Most market courses open with chart patterns because that is the exciting part. It is also the reason most of their students are gone within a year.
Here the second module is position sizing, stop losses and drawdown arithmetic — before a single chart. The reason is simple: a trader with mediocre analysis and strict sizing survives long enough to improve, and a trader with excellent analysis and no sizing discipline does not.
If you take one thing from this course, it should be that a 50% loss requires a 100% gain to recover, and that this asymmetry is the whole game.
What we do not do
We do not give tips. We do not recommend securities. We do not manage money, take a share of profits, or tell you what to buy on Monday.
This is education, and we are not SEBI-registered investment advisers. If you want personalised advice about your own money, that registration is what to look for, and an institute certificate is not a substitute for it. Being clear about this is not legal throat-clearing — the tip-selling industry around this subject is exactly what the course is trying to make you immune to.
Paper first
The eight-week journal is on a paper trading account, and that is deliberate.
Every beginner makes the same errors — moving a stop, doubling down on a loser, revenge trading after a bad day. Making them on paper costs attention. Making them with real capital costs the capital, and usually before any lesson has had time to land.
The journal is the course
The backtest tells you what a strategy did. The journal tells you what you did.
They are almost never the same, and the gap between them is where the money goes. Most people discover through the monthly review that their losses come from the handful of trades taken outside their own written rules — which is a more useful finding than any indicator.
Questions
Stock Market and Advanced Trading — frequently asked questions
Will this course teach me to make guaranteed profits?
No, and any course that says otherwise is lying to you. Markets involve real risk of real loss, most active traders lose money, and no technique changes that. What this course does is teach you to understand what you are buying, size positions so one mistake is survivable, and evaluate your own results honestly. That is the achievable outcome.
Why is risk management taught before analysis?
Because it is the module that decides whether you are still participating in a year. Good analysis with bad position sizing ends in ruin; ordinary analysis with disciplined sizing survives. Almost every beginner reverses this order, which is why almost every beginner runs out of capital before their analysis has a chance to improve.
Do I need a lot of money to start?
No, and you should not start with much. The course uses paper trading for the eight-week journal specifically so mistakes cost nothing but attention. When you do commit capital it should be an amount you can lose entirely without changing your life, and if you do not have that, the honest advice is to wait.
Is this SEBI registered investment advice?
No. This is education. We do not give tips, recommend securities, manage anybody's money or take a share of anybody's profits. If you want personalised investment advice, use a SEBI-registered investment adviser — that registration exists for a reason and an institute certificate is not a substitute for it.
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