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At a Glance: Free Stock Market Glossary for Indian Learners

This is a free A–Z glossary of 110+ stock market and trading terms, explained in plain English for the Indian market (NSE, BSE, Nifty and Sensex). It is prepared by Chart Code Academy, Boisar, for learners in Boisar, Dahanu, Palghar and online across India.

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Six categories: market basics, technical analysis, fundamental analysis, derivatives (F&O), orders and risk, regulation and institutions.
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Why This Glossary Exists

Most people quit learning the stock market not because the concepts are hard, but because the vocabulary gets in the way first. A single candlestick chart video can throw twelve unfamiliar words at you before it explains a single strategy — bid, ask, open interest, resistance, lot size, stop-loss. Without a plain-English reference to fall back on, beginners either give up or, worse, start trading with a half-understood picture of what these words actually mean.

This page is that reference. It's organised as a proper study index — alphabetically from A to Z, and by topic (Market Basics, Technical Analysis, Fundamental Analysis, Derivatives, Trading Orders & Risk, and Regulatory & Institutional terms) — so you can either browse term-by-term or jump straight to the category you're stuck on. Every definition is written the way we'd explain it in a classroom at Chart Code: short, direct, and free of unnecessary jargon.

Use the search bar above to jump to a specific word, use the category pills to filter by topic, or use the A–Z bar to browse letter by letter. When you're done, grab the free PDF version below to keep offline, or explore our structured courses if you'd rather learn these terms with live chart examples and a mentor guiding you.

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Market Basics & Structure

Demat accounts, exchanges, indices, market cycles — the vocabulary every beginner needs first.

20 terms
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Technical Analysis & Indicators

Candlesticks, RSI, MACD, chart patterns, Support/Resistance and Smart Money Concepts.

23 terms
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Fundamental Analysis

EPS, P/E ratio, book value, dividends, and how to read a company's financial health.

20 terms
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Derivatives (F&O)

Futures, options, lot size, open interest and everything you need before trading derivatives.

12 terms
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Orders, Strategy & Risk

Order types, position sizing, stop-loss, hedging and the discipline side of trading.

20 terms
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Regulatory & Institutions

SEBI, KYC, FIIs/DIIs, IPOs and the rules that keep Indian markets fair.

15 terms

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A
ADX (Average Directional Index)
Technical Analysis
A momentum indicator, ranging from 0 to 100, that measures the strength of a trend rather than its direction. Traders often use it alongside the +DI and -DI lines to confirm whether a trend is strong enough to trade or too weak and choppy to bother with.
Annual Report
Fundamental Analysis
A yearly document every listed company publishes, containing audited financial statements, management's commentary on performance, and future outlook. It's the single most important document for anyone doing fundamental analysis on a stock.
Arbitrage
Orders, Strategy & Risk
Simultaneously buying and selling the same asset in two different markets to profit from a temporary price difference between them. It's considered low-risk in theory because both legs of the trade happen at (almost) the same time.
Ask Price (Offer Price)
Orders, Strategy & Risk
The lowest price at which a seller is currently willing to sell a security. Along with the Bid Price, it forms the "bid-ask spread" you see in every order book.
Averaging (Cost Averaging)
Orders, Strategy & Risk
Buying additional shares of a stock you already own at a lower price, which brings down your overall average purchase cost. Useful when done with a plan and a strong conviction on the stock — risky when done purely out of hope.
B
Bear Market
Market Basics
A sustained period of falling prices — typically a decline of 20% or more from recent highs — accompanied by widespread pessimism among investors.
Beta
Fundamental Analysis
A measure of how volatile a stock is compared to the overall market. A beta above 1 means the stock tends to move more sharply than the market; below 1 means it tends to move less.
Bid Price
Orders, Strategy & Risk
The highest price a buyer is currently willing to pay for a security. The gap between this and the Ask Price is the "spread" — see the diagram below.
Blue Chip Stocks
Fundamental Analysis
Shares of large, financially strong, and well-established companies with a long track record of reliable performance — usually the least volatile names on the index.
Bollinger Bands
Technical Analysis
A volatility indicator made of a moving average with two bands plotted a set number of standard deviations above and below it. Price hugging or breaking a band often signals overbought or oversold conditions, or a coming breakout.
Book Value
Fundamental Analysis
A company's net worth per share — total assets minus total liabilities, divided by shares outstanding — as recorded on its balance sheet.
Broker
Regulatory & Institutions
A SEBI-registered intermediary — a person or firm — through whom all your buy and sell orders are placed on the stock exchange. No individual can trade directly on the exchange without one.
Bull Market
Market Basics
A sustained period of rising prices, usually driven by investor optimism and strong underlying economic conditions — the opposite of a bear market.
BTST (Buy Today, Sell Tomorrow)
Orders, Strategy & Risk
Selling shares the day after buying them — before they're even credited into your demat account — instead of waiting for full delivery. It carries settlement risks that plain delivery trading doesn't.
C
Call Option
Derivatives (F&O)
A derivative contract giving the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to buy an underlying asset at a fixed "strike" price on or before a set expiry date.
Candlestick Chart
Technical Analysis
A price chart where each "candle" shows the open, high, low and close for a chosen time period. The size and colour of the body, and the length of the wicks, reveal how buyers and sellers fought over that period.
Capital Gains
Regulatory & Institutions
The profit made when you sell an investment for more than you paid for it. In India, capital gains are taxed differently depending on whether the holding period counts as short-term or long-term.
Circuit Breaker
Regulatory & Institutions
An exchange-imposed trading halt triggered when a stock or index moves beyond a preset percentage in a session, designed to curb panic-driven volatility and give the market a "cooling off" period.
CMP (Current Market Price)
Market Basics
The most recent price at which a security was traded on the exchange — the number you see updating live on your broker's app.
Correction
Market Basics
A short-term drop of roughly 10–20% in a stock or index from its recent peak, occurring within what's still considered a broader uptrend — smaller and shorter-lived than a bear market.

Visualising It: Bid vs Ask Spread

The gap between what buyers are willing to pay and what sellers are willing to accept — the tighter this spread, the more liquid the stock.

BID (Buyer wants) ₹98.50 ASK (Seller wants) ₹99.20 Spread = ₹0.70
D
Day Trading
Orders, Strategy & Risk
Buying and selling the same stock within a single trading session, closing every position before the market shuts for the day — used interchangeably with "intraday trading."
Delivery Trading
Orders, Strategy & Risk
Buying shares with the intention of holding them in your demat account beyond the trading day, as opposed to squaring off intraday.
Demat Account
Market Basics
An electronic account that holds your shares and other securities in digital form, replacing the old system of physical paper share certificates. You need one before you can buy or hold any stock in India.
Derivative
Derivatives (F&O)
A financial contract — like a future or an option — whose value is "derived" from an underlying asset such as a stock, index, or commodity, rather than having independent value of its own.
DII (Domestic Institutional Investor)
Regulatory & Institutions
Indian institutions — mutual funds, insurance companies, banks and pension funds — that invest large sums of domestic money in the stock market, often watched as a counterbalance to FII flows.
Dividend
Fundamental Analysis
A portion of a company's profit paid out directly to shareholders, usually declared as a fixed amount per share, on top of any price appreciation.
Double Top / Double Bottom
Technical Analysis
A reversal chart pattern where price tests the same high (double top) or the same low (double bottom) twice before reversing direction — a classic sign that momentum is running out.
E
Elliott Wave Theory
Technical Analysis
A technical analysis approach that views price movement as a series of repeating "waves" shaped by crowd psychology — five waves in the direction of the trend, followed by three corrective waves against it.
EPS (Earnings Per Share)
Fundamental Analysis
A company's net profit divided by its total number of outstanding shares — one of the most-watched profitability metrics, and a key input for the P/E Ratio.
Equity
Market Basics
Ownership stake in a company, represented by shares. When people say "equity market," they mean the stock market as opposed to bond or commodity markets.
ETF (Exchange Traded Fund)
Market Basics
A basket of securities, usually tracking an index or sector, that trades on the stock exchange throughout the day just like an individual stock.
Ex-Dividend Date
Regulatory & Institutions
The date on or after which a new buyer of a stock is not entitled to the most recently declared dividend — that payout goes to whoever owned the shares before this date.
F
Face Value
Fundamental Analysis
The nominal or "par" value assigned to a share for accounting and record purposes (often ₹1, ₹2, ₹5 or ₹10) — usually very different from the stock's market price.
F&O (Futures & Options)
Derivatives (F&O)
The derivatives segment of the market where standardised futures and options contracts, based on an underlying stock or index, are traded for hedging or speculation — distinct from the "cash" equity market.
Fibonacci Retracement
Technical Analysis
A technical tool using ratios drawn from the Fibonacci sequence (23.6%, 38.2%, 50%, 61.8%) to mark potential support and resistance levels where a retracing price move might pause or reverse.
FII (Foreign Institutional Investor)
Regulatory & Institutions
Overseas entities — foreign mutual funds, pension funds, hedge funds — that invest in Indian markets. Their daily buy/sell figures are closely tracked as a sentiment gauge.
Fundamental Analysis
Fundamental Analysis
Evaluating a company's true, or "intrinsic," value by studying its financial statements, management quality, industry position and the broader economy — as opposed to studying price charts alone.
G
Gap Up / Gap Down
Technical Analysis
When a stock opens noticeably higher (gap up) or lower (gap down) than its previous close, leaving a visible "gap" on the chart — usually caused by overnight news or results.
Growth Stock
Fundamental Analysis
Shares of a company expected to grow its earnings faster than the market average, often reinvesting profits back into the business rather than paying dividends.
GTT Order (Good Till Triggered)
Orders, Strategy & Risk
A standing order that stays active until a specified trigger price is hit, even if that takes several trading days — useful for setting a buy or stop-loss level and walking away.
H
Head & Shoulders Pattern
Technical Analysis
A reversal chart pattern with three peaks — a taller middle peak (the "head") flanked by two smaller peaks (the "shoulders") — commonly read as a signal that an uptrend is about to reverse.
Hedging
Orders, Strategy & Risk
Taking an offsetting position — often through options or futures — to reduce the risk of an adverse price move in an investment you already hold.
Holding Period
Regulatory & Institutions
The length of time an investor keeps an asset before selling it — a figure that directly determines whether any profit is taxed as a short-term or long-term capital gain.
I
Index
Market Basics
A statistical measure — like the Nifty 50 or Sensex — that tracks the combined performance of a basket of stocks, used as a benchmark for the broader market or a specific sector.
Insider Trading
Regulatory & Institutions
Buying or selling a security based on material information that isn't yet public — strictly illegal under SEBI regulations, regardless of how the information was obtained.
Intraday Trading
Orders, Strategy & Risk
Buying and selling within the same trading session, without taking actual delivery of the shares into your demat account. See also: Day Trading.
IOC Order (Immediate or Cancel)
Orders, Strategy & Risk
An order that must be executed immediately, in full or in part — any portion that can't be filled right away is automatically cancelled rather than left pending.
IPO (Initial Public Offering)
Regulatory & Institutions
The first time a company sells its shares to the public, after which it becomes listed and tradeable on a stock exchange.
J
Jobber
Market Basics
An older trading floor term for a participant who bought and sold purely to profit from small, quick price movements while providing liquidity — a precursor to today's intraday scalper.
Junk Bond
Fundamental Analysis
A corporate bond rated below investment grade, offering a higher interest rate to compensate investors for the higher risk that the issuer might default.
K
Kicker Pattern
Technical Analysis
A sharp two-candle reversal pattern where price gaps abruptly in the opposite direction of the prior trend, signalling a sudden, forceful shift in sentiment.
KYC (Know Your Customer)
Regulatory & Institutions
The mandatory identity and address verification process every broker must complete before opening your demat and trading account, as required by SEBI.
L
Leverage
Derivatives (F&O)
Using borrowed capital or margin to control a market position larger than your own funds would normally allow — it magnifies both potential profits and potential losses.
Limit Order
Orders, Strategy & Risk
An order to buy or sell at a price you specify, or better — it will only execute at that price or a more favourable one, never worse.
Liquidity
Market Basics
How easily an asset can be bought or sold without significantly moving its price. Highly liquid stocks have tight bid-ask spreads and heavy daily volume.
Long Position
Orders, Strategy & Risk
Buying an asset with the expectation that its price will rise, so you can profit from the increase — the standard, default way most people invest.
Lot Size
Derivatives (F&O)
The fixed number of units that make up one futures or options contract, set by the exchange for each underlying stock or index — you can't trade F&O in smaller fractions than this.
M
MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence)
Technical Analysis
A trend-following momentum indicator built from the relationship between two moving averages, plotted with a signal line — widely used to spot shifts in momentum and potential crossovers.
Margin Trading
Derivatives (F&O)
Buying securities using funds borrowed from your broker, putting up only a fraction of the trade's full value as collateral — a form of leverage available in both cash and F&O segments.
Market Capitalization
Fundamental Analysis
The total market value of a company's outstanding shares (share price × total shares), used to classify companies as large-cap, mid-cap or small-cap.
Market Order
Orders, Strategy & Risk
An order to buy or sell a security immediately, at whatever the best available price is right now — prioritises speed of execution over price precision.
Moving Average
Technical Analysis
The average price of a security over a fixed number of periods (like 50 or 200 days), plotted as a smooth line on the chart to make the underlying trend direction easier to see.
Mutual Fund
Market Basics
A professionally managed investment pool that collects money from many investors to build a diversified portfolio of stocks, bonds or other securities on their behalf.
N
NAV (Net Asset Value)
Fundamental Analysis
The per-unit value of a mutual fund scheme — total assets minus liabilities, divided by the number of outstanding units — updated at the end of each trading day.
Nifty 50
Market Basics
The benchmark index of the National Stock Exchange (NSE), tracking the weighted performance of 50 of India's largest, most liquid companies.
Notional Value
Derivatives (F&O)
The total value of the position you actually control in a derivatives trade (lot size × price) — usually far larger than the margin you put down, which is what makes leverage risky.
NSE (National Stock Exchange)
Market Basics
India's largest stock exchange by trading volume, and home to the Nifty 50 index.
O
Open Interest
Derivatives (F&O)
The total number of outstanding futures or options contracts that haven't yet been closed, exercised or settled — used by traders to gauge how much money and conviction is sitting in a particular strike or contract.
Options
Derivatives (F&O)
Derivative contracts giving the buyer the right, but never the obligation, to buy (a call) or sell (a put) an underlying asset at a fixed price before a set expiry date.
Order Book
Orders, Strategy & Risk
The real-time list of all pending buy and sell orders for a security at different price levels — also called "market depth" — showing where liquidity is stacked above and below the current price.
OTM (Out of the Money)
Derivatives (F&O)
An options position with no intrinsic value at the current price — a call option with a strike above the spot price, or a put option with a strike below it.
Oscillator
Technical Analysis
A technical indicator, like the RSI or Stochastic, that swings between a fixed range (often 0–100) to flag overbought or oversold conditions in price.
P
P/E Ratio (Price-to-Earnings Ratio)
Fundamental Analysis
A valuation metric comparing a company's share price to its earnings per share (EPS). A higher P/E generally suggests the market expects stronger future growth — or that the stock is simply expensive.
Penny Stock
Market Basics
A very low-priced, often small-cap and thinly traded stock — generally considered high-risk due to poor liquidity and a tendency for sharp, unpredictable price swings.
Pivot Point
Technical Analysis
A price level calculated from the previous session's high, low and close, used by intraday traders to identify likely support and resistance zones for the current day.
Portfolio
Market Basics
The complete collection of investments — stocks, bonds, mutual funds, and other assets — held by an individual or institution.
Position Sizing
Orders, Strategy & Risk
Deciding how much capital to put into a single trade based on your total account size and risk tolerance — one of the most under-taught, and most important, skills in trading.
Put Option
Derivatives (F&O)
A derivative contract giving the buyer the right, but not the obligation, to sell an underlying asset at a fixed strike price on or before expiry.

Visualising It: Support & Resistance

Price tends to bounce off Support from below and get rejected at Resistance from above — until, eventually, it breaks through one of them.

Resistance Support
Q
QIB (Qualified Institutional Buyer)
Regulatory & Institutions
A category of large, SEBI-recognised institutional investors — mutual funds, banks, FIIs — eligible to bid for a reserved portion of shares in an IPO.
Quarterly Results
Fundamental Analysis
A listed company's financial performance report released every three months, closely tracked by traders and analysts for earnings surprises that often move the stock sharply.
R
Rally
Market Basics
A sustained, sharp rise in the price of a stock, sector, or index over a relatively short period.
Resistance
Technical Analysis
A price level where selling pressure has historically been strong enough to halt an upward move — often tested multiple times before either holding firm or breaking.
Rights Issue
Regulatory & Institutions
An offer allowing existing shareholders to buy additional new shares, usually at a discount to the market price, in proportion to what they already hold.
Risk-Reward Ratio
Orders, Strategy & Risk
A comparison of how much you stand to lose versus how much you stand to gain on a trade — used to judge whether a setup is worth taking before you even enter it.
RSI (Relative Strength Index)
Technical Analysis
A momentum oscillator ranging from 0 to 100 that measures the speed and size of recent price changes, commonly used to flag overbought (above 70) or oversold (below 30) conditions.
S
SEBI (Securities and Exchange Board of India)
Regulatory & Institutions
India's market regulator, responsible for protecting investors and overseeing stock exchanges, brokers, and listed companies to keep the market fair and transparent.
Sensex
Market Basics
The benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), tracking 30 of the largest and most actively traded Indian companies.
Sector Rotation
Fundamental Analysis
The strategy of shifting investment capital between different industry sectors based on where the economic cycle or market trend currently favours growth.
Short Selling
Orders, Strategy & Risk
Selling a borrowed security with the plan to buy it back later at a lower price, profiting from a decline rather than a rise in its price.
Smart Money Concepts (SMC)
Technical Analysis
A trading approach that studies how large institutions — "smart money" — build liquidity pools, order blocks, and market structure shifts, and how retail traders can read those footprints on a chart.
Stop-Loss
Orders, Strategy & Risk
A pre-set order that automatically closes your position once price hits a specified level, capping your loss if the market moves against you — arguably the single most important risk-management tool a trader has.
Support
Technical Analysis
A price level where buying pressure has historically been strong enough to halt a downward move — the mirror image of resistance.
T
T+1 Settlement
Regulatory & Institutions
India's current settlement cycle, under which shares and funds from a trade are credited to your account one working day after the transaction ("T") date.
Technical Analysis
Technical Analysis
Studying historical price and volume data — through charts, patterns and indicators — to forecast likely future price movement, rather than analysing the company's underlying business.
Trading Volume
Market Basics
The total number of shares or contracts traded in a security during a given period — a rising price on high volume is generally read as a stronger, more reliable move than the same rise on thin volume.
Trend Line
Technical Analysis
A straight line drawn connecting a series of highs or lows on a chart, used to visualise the direction and strength of the underlying trend.
U
Underlying Asset
Derivatives (F&O)
The actual stock, index or commodity on which a derivative contract — a future or an option — is based.
Unrealized Gain/Loss
Orders, Strategy & Risk
The paper profit or loss on a position that is still open — it doesn't become a real, "realized" gain or loss until you actually close the trade.
Uptrend
Technical Analysis
A price pattern marked by a series of higher highs and higher lows, indicating sustained buying interest over time.
V
Volatility
Market Basics
The degree and speed of price fluctuation in a security — higher volatility means larger, faster swings in either direction, and generally higher risk.
Volume
Market Basics
The number of shares or contracts that change hands in a given period — see also Trading Volume.
VWAP (Volume Weighted Average Price)
Technical Analysis
The average price a security has traded at throughout the day, weighted by the volume traded at each price — widely used by intraday and institutional traders as a fair-value reference line.
W
Wash Trading
Regulatory & Institutions
An illegal, manipulative practice of simultaneously buying and selling the same security to create a false impression of trading activity or interest.
Wedge Pattern
Technical Analysis
A chart pattern formed by two converging trend lines, either rising or falling, which typically resolves into a continuation or reversal move depending on the broader context.
Working Capital
Fundamental Analysis
A measure of a company's short-term financial health, calculated as current assets minus current liabilities — a key indicator of whether a business can comfortably meet its near-term obligations.
X
XIRR (Extended Internal Rate of Return)
Fundamental Analysis
A method for calculating the annualised return on an investment with irregular cash flows — like SIPs or staggered stock purchases made on different dates — rather than a single lump-sum investment.
Y
Yield
Fundamental Analysis
The income — dividend or interest — generated by an investment, expressed as a percentage of its current price or face value.
YoY Growth (Year-on-Year Growth)
Fundamental Analysis
The percentage change in a financial metric — like revenue or profit — compared to the same period exactly one year earlier, commonly used to judge a company's real growth trend.
Z
Zero Coupon Bond
Fundamental Analysis
A bond issued at a discount to its face value that pays no periodic interest — the investor's entire return comes from the difference between the discounted purchase price and the full value paid at maturity.
Zone (Supply/Demand Zone)
Technical Analysis
A price range, rather than a single line, where significant past buying (demand zone) or selling (supply zone) has occurred — a core Smart Money/ICT-style alternative to marking support and resistance as one exact price.

How to Study This Glossary: A Four-Step Path

Reading 110+ definitions alphabetically is a slow way to learn. Follow this order instead, take a handful of terms a day, and come back to the A–Z list whenever a word trips you up.

  1. Learn how the market is builtAccounts, exchanges and indices come first.
  2. Understand prices and ordersHow a trade is priced, placed and protected.
  3. Read the chartThe vocabulary of price action.
  4. Move to derivatives lastFutures and options terms make sense once the steps above are solid.

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Commonly Confused Stock Market Terms, Side by Side

These pairs cause the most mix-ups for new traders. Each term links to its full definition above.

PairFirst termSecond term
Bid vs AskBid Price: the highest price a buyer is currently willing to pay.Ask Price: the lowest price a seller is currently willing to accept. The gap between the two is the spread.
Support vs ResistanceSupport: a price level where buying has historically been strong enough to halt a fall.Resistance: a price level where selling has historically been strong enough to halt a rise.
Bull vs Bear marketBull Market: a sustained period of rising prices, driven by investor optimism.Bear Market: a sustained period of falling prices, typically 20% or more from recent highs.
Nifty 50 vs SensexNifty 50: the NSE benchmark index tracking 50 of India's largest, most liquid companies.Sensex: the BSE benchmark index tracking 30 of the largest, most actively traded companies.
Call vs Put optionCall Option: gives the buyer the right, not the obligation, to buy at a fixed strike price by expiry.Put Option: gives the buyer the right, not the obligation, to sell at a fixed strike price by expiry.
Intraday vs DeliveryIntraday Trading: buying and selling within the same session, without taking delivery into your demat account.Delivery Trading: buying shares to hold in your demat account beyond the trading day.

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Common Questions

Start with the Market Basics & Structure category — terms like Demat Account, Equity, Index, NSE, Sensex and Nifty 50 — before moving on to order types, and only then to technical or derivatives terms. Reading a handful of terms daily beats trying to memorise the entire list in one sitting.
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This web page is the always-updated, searchable version with 110+ terms you can filter by category or jump to by letter. The PDF is a portable offline copy of the same core glossary — handy for printing or revising without an internet connection.
Before touching Futures & Options, get comfortable with Call Option, Put Option, Lot Size, Open Interest, OTM, Underlying Asset and Margin Trading — along with the risk-management basics: Stop-Loss, Position Sizing and Risk-Reward Ratio.
Yes. The Technical Analysis & Indicators category covers candlestick charts, RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, Fibonacci Retracement, classic chart patterns, Support & Resistance, Smart Money Concepts and Supply/Demand Zones.
Start with Demat Account, NSE, Nifty 50 and Sensex, then Bid Price, Ask Price and Stop-Loss, then Support, Resistance and Candlestick Chart, and finally Call Option, Put Option and Lot Size. Each is defined in plain English in this glossary, and the study path below shows the order.
Nifty 50 is the benchmark index of the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and tracks 50 of India's largest, most liquid companies. Sensex is the benchmark index of the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and tracks 30 of the largest, most actively traded Indian companies.
Intraday trading means buying and selling within the same trading session without taking delivery of the shares into your demat account. Delivery trading means buying shares to hold in your demat account beyond the trading day.
Chart Code Academy is at 208, Yash Padma Arcade, Boisar Tarapur Road, Boisar, Palghar, Maharashtra 401501. Students from Dahanu, Palghar and nearby towns can attend classes in Boisar or join the live online batch from home.
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This glossary was prepared by Deepak Kevadia, Founder and Mentor of Chart Code Academy in Boisar. He is NISM- and BSE-certified with 20+ years of experience as a stock dealer, arbitrageur and portfolio manager. Definitions are written the way they are explained in Chart Code classes.

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