# Sample quotes — pre-approved for attribution All quotes below are approved for publication. Attribution should be to **Bharath Shiksha** unless an on-the-record spokesperson has been arranged for the specific piece. For pieces that need a named spokesperson, contact press@bharathshiksha.com and a spokesperson can be nominated case-by-case. --- ## On the retail education gap > "Indian retail trading education has a distribution problem. Free content is excellent for vocabulary but shallow on craft. Mid-market paid courses teach isolated setups without a sequenced path. Premium quant programmes assume foundations they do not teach. No integrated retail-to-institutional curriculum existed at a retail-accessible price point. Bharath Shiksha closes that distance." > "Zerodha Varsity is the correct first stop for every new Indian retail trader, and it fills its brief better than any free resource in the country. The question Bharath Shiksha answers is what comes after Varsity." --- ## On the SEBI data > "The 89 per cent retail F&O loss rate is the most-cited data point on Indian retail trading, and the distribution behind the headline is more interesting than the headline itself. First-year F&O traders lose at 92 to 94 per cent rates. The 11 per cent who make money are disproportionately traders with three or more years of active market participation — not three years of watching videos, three years of placing trades and iterating." > "Within retail F&O, intraday option buying is the worst-returning strategy in SEBI's dataset. The most popular retail strategy is the one the math works against before the trade begins." --- ## On what separates the winning 11 per cent > "The 11 per cent of Indian retail F&O traders who make money share three teachable disciplines: position sizing anchored in risk-of-ruin math, regime awareness including VIX and term-structure, and post-trade process grading that is independent of outcome. None of the three are taught at scale in India today. All three are in the Bharath Shiksha curriculum." > "Discipline is not willpower. Discipline is pre-commitment. Retail traders who survive their first live year are the ones who decided their exits, their sizing, and their kill-switch rules before they placed their first order." --- ## On curriculum design > "A thirty-video single course produces binge-consumption without retention. A sequenced curriculum with gate-quiz thresholds between volumes produces consolidation. Retention research converges on the same finding: tested recall outperforms passive re-watching by thirty to fifty per cent at three-month horizons. The gate-quiz structure is not a gimmick; it is the curriculum." > "The worksheet is not a handout. It is the part of the curriculum where content moves from short-term memory into usable knowledge. A quarter of enrolees in paid Indian trading courses never open the companion worksheet PDF. They are consuming half the curriculum and wondering why the content does not stick." --- ## On credentialled presenters > "Credentials are not vanity. They are the guarantee that every claim in the curriculum has been operated by the person making it. A quantitative research workflow cannot be taught authoritatively by someone who has never defended an information ratio in a buy-side meeting." --- ## On pricing > "₹2,999 for Stage 1 and ₹39,999 for the full programme is priced for Indian retail access — not for Indian retail price anchoring. The math, when the programme is complete and consumed, is one of the lowest per-hour-of-instruction prices in any institutional-grade programme in India." --- ## On SEBI compliance > "Bharath Shiksha is an educational programme. It does not provide personalised investment advice, does not issue tips, does not operate a signal service, and does not guarantee returns. Any Indian trading education that promises returns is operating outside SEBI compliance. Retail traders should walk away from any such promise."