Basic
Free startFrom a shop to your first chart and your first report
L01Business and money
- What is a business
- Cost, price and profit
- Revenue is not profit
- How a business starts
- Borrowing: loans and interest
- How a business grows
- Maya's year in numbers
- Sole owner, partnership, company
- Limited liability
- Private and public limited companies
- Why companies need outside money
L02Shares and owners
- What is a share
- Face value: the Rs 100 piece
- Market price vs face value
- Authorised, issued and paid-up capital
- Market capitalisation
- Large and small companies
- Reserves: profit kept back
- Profit drives value over time
- Promoters: the people who started it
- Promoter shares vs public shares
- What a shareholder gets
- Two ways owners gain
- The AGM: how owners vote
- Kitta: counting shares
L03How companies raise money
- IPO: the first sale to the public
- Issue manager and prospectus
- Applying for an IPO in MeroShare
- IPO allotment: the lottery
- Reserved quotas: locals and migrant workers
- FPO: selling more shares later
- Right share: a chance to buy more
- If you skip your right shares
- Debentures and bonds
- Mutual funds
L04Corporate actions
- Cash dividend
- Where a dividend comes from
- Bonus share
- Book close date
- Ex-date and price adjustment
- Adjusted vs unadjusted chart
- Tax on dividends
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Share swap ratio
- Suspension and delisting
- Reading a company announcement
L05The market and its institutions
- What is a market
- Primary and secondary market
- NEPSE: the stock exchange
- SEBON: the regulator
- CDSC and your Demat account
- MeroShare: your online window
- Brokers and broker numbers
- Opening a trading account
- Trading hours and pre-open
- The sectors of NEPSE
- The economy behind the market
L06Placing and matching orders
- TMS: the trading system
- Buy and sell orders
- Limit orders
- Bid, ask and the order book
- How an order matches
- Partial fills
- Settlement: T+2
- EDIS: transferring sold shares
- Broker commission and other fees
- Capital gains tax and a full example
- Costs and a small gain
L07Price: supply and demand
- Supply and demand
- Buyers and sellers: why a share price moves
- What changes demand
- Results day and demand
- Interest rates and share prices
- Inflation and your savings
- Reading a price row
- Point change and percent change
- Daily price limit (circuit)
- When the whole market halts
- Liquidity
- Volume and turnover
- The NEPSE index
L08Floor sheet and the first candle
- What is the floor sheet
- Reading one floor-sheet row
- Buyer broker and seller broker
- Day totals from the floor sheet
- Odd lots
- Same broker on both sides
- Price over time: why we draw charts
- The line chart
- Why a candle, not a line
- How a candle forms
L09Inside a candle
- The open
- The close
- The high and the low
- The body
- The wicks
- Green, red and doji
- From trades to a 1-minute candle
- From 1-minute candles to a day candle
- Timeframes
- One day, many timeframes
- Volume bars under candles
L10Your first chart
- Gaps
- Bonus gaps and adjusted prices
- Circuit candles
- Reading a chart left to right
- Price axis and time axis
- Using the NChartPro chart
- A first look at direction
- Your watch list
- A moving average: first look
- A share against the index
L11Trend, support and resistance
- Swing highs and swing lows
- Uptrend, downtrend, sideways
- Dow theory basics
- Drawing a trend line correctly
- When a trend line breaks
- Channels
- Steep and shallow trends
- Pullbacks within a trend
- Reversal or pullback?
- Higher-timeframe trend first
- Range trading in a sideways market
- What is support
- What is resistance
- Levels on your watch list
- One share's year, read in full
L12Reading a company's numbers
- Financial statements and quarterly reports
- Income statement
- Balance sheet
- Debt: a first look
- Cash flow: where the cash went
- EPS: earnings per share
- P/E ratio
- Book value per share
- P/B ratio
- Dividend yield
- Dividend per share and payout
- Growth year on year
- Comparing two companies' numbers
- Screening by fundamentals
- When fundamentals and price disagree
L13Risk basics and staying safe
- Your money plan before you buy
- Risk and reward
- Stop loss: what and why
- Where to place a stop
- Reward-to-risk ratio
- Win rate is not everything
- Averaging down: the trap
- How much in one share
- Diversification basics
- Paper trading first
- A simple trade log
- Normal swings and patience
- Do not chase a circuit
- Money you can afford to lose
- Rumours, tip groups and scams
L14The market screens
- First look: menus and top bar
- Help is on every page
- Where the numbers come from
- Dashboard: mood dial and index
- Dashboard: who moved today
- Dashboard: breadth and brokers
- Opening a stock's chart
- The chart page, part by part
- Candles and timeframes
- Chart types
- Bonus and splits on the chart
- Heat Map: the market as a picture
- Comparison: stocks side by side
- Season: which months rise
L15Records and the floor sheet
- Knowledge Base: the directory
- IPO, FPO and right shares
- Dividends, bonus and AGMs
- Mergers, auctions and bonds
- The floor sheet: every trade
- Stocks traded today
- Market and company news
- A company's quarterly report
- Mutual funds
- The market calendar
L16Tools, community and help
- Trade charges calculator
- Dividend, bonus and right maths
- Risk and growth calculators
- Discussion and Share Here
- Public Choice: the prediction game
- Help menu: news, FAQ, feedback
L17Getting around faster
- The three bells in the top bar
- Locked pages and your plan
- The Stock List and sector indices
- Dashboard: the other cards
- Finding answers in the App Document
- Before sign-in, and on a phone
