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PART 01

The Ground You Stand On

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Chapter 01.01

Ownership, Not Tickers

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  1. 01What a share of a company is
  2. 02Ownership vs lending: equity vs debt
  3. 03Authorised, issued, subscribed and paid-up capital
  4. 04Why price alone tells you nothing about size
  5. 05Market capitalisation
  6. 06What a shareholder is entitled to
  7. 07What a shareholder is not entitled to
  8. 08Limited liability
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Chapter 01.02

Where Shares Are Born and Where They Trade

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  1. 01IPO, FPO, private placement and QIP
  2. 02Fresh issue vs offer for sale in an IPO
  3. 03Why buying a share sends the company nothing
  4. 04Listing, delisting and suspension
  5. 05How to read an IPO prospectus
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Chapter 01.03

Who Is on the Other Side of Your Trade

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  1. 01Retail, HNI, DII and FII explained
  2. 02Promoters and insiders
  3. 03Market makers, prop desks and HFT
  4. 04Passive funds and index flows
  5. 05Same price, different reasons
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Chapter 01.04

How the Exchange Actually Works

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  1. 01Price-time priority: how orders are matched
  2. 02Pre-open, continuous session, closing auctionsoon
  3. 03Circuit limits, price bands, trading haltssoon
  4. 04Settlement cycles, delivery vs intradaysoon
  5. 05Demat, clearing corporation, counterparty risksoon
  6. 06Corporate surveillance: ASM, GSM, ban periodssoon
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Chapter 01.05

Mapping the Universe

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  1. 01Large cap, mid cap, small cap, micro cap — definitions and behavioursoon
  2. 02Sectors and industries: the classification hierarchysoon
  3. 03How an index is constructed (free-float weighting)soon
  4. 04Index rebalancing and the flows it createssoon
  5. 05Benchmarks: broad, sectoral, thematic, strategy indicessoon
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Chapter 01.06

Packaged Ownership

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  1. 01Mutual funds: active, passive, structure, expense ratiosoon
  2. 02ETFs: creation/redemption, tracking error, liquidity trapssoon
  3. 03Index funds and the cost of active managementsoon
  4. 04When a fund is the correct answer instead of a stocksoon
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Chapter 01.07

What the Company Does to Your Shares

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  1. 01Dividends: declaration, record date, ex-date, yieldsoon
  2. 02Bonus issues and stock splits (why nothing changed)soon
  3. 03Rights issues and dilutionsoon
  4. 04Buybacks: tender vs open marketsoon
  5. 05How corporate actions distort your chartsoon
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Chapter 01.08

The Rules of the Game

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  1. 01The regulator's role and investor protectionsoon
  2. 02Mandatory disclosures and where they are publishedsoon
  3. 03Insider trading rules and what "material information" meanssoon
  4. 04Shareholding pattern disclosuressoon
  5. 05What is legal, what is fraud, what is just bad practicesoon
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Chapter 01.09

What It Costs to Play

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  1. 01Brokerage, exchange fees, statutory chargessoon
  2. 02Spread and slippage as invisible costssoon
  3. 03Impact cost in illiquid stockssoon
  4. 04Short-term vs long-term capital gains treatmentsoon
  5. 05Building your personal cost model: your true break-evensoon
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Chapter 01.10

The One Principle That Precedes Everything

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  1. 01Asymmetry of loss: why −50% needs +100%soon
  2. 02Survival as the first objectivesoon
  3. 03What you can lose vs what you can afford to losesoon
  4. 04The three questions to answer before any trade (preview of PART 20)soon
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