# Journalist FAQ The questions editors and producers have asked most frequently, with prepared answers. For any question not covered here, email press@bharathshiksha.com. Response time is under 24 hours on weekdays. --- ## On the academy **Q. What is Bharath Shiksha in one sentence?** A. An institutional-grade trading curriculum for Indian retail traders — thirty video volumes across six stages, from chart reading to AIF Category III operations. **Q. Who is the academy aimed at?** A. Indian retail traders who want to move beyond free YouTube content and basic paid courses, toward the pedagogy used on the buy-side. The curriculum is sequenced for three audiences: a new trader starting from zero (Stage 1 entry), an experienced retail trader seeking systematic discipline (Stage 2 or 3 entry), and a serious retail trader preparing for a professional transition (Stages 4-6). **Q. How does Bharath Shiksha differ from Zerodha Varsity?** A. Varsity is excellent introductory material and the correct first stop for any new Indian retail trader. It ends at options basics. Bharath Shiksha starts at systematic thinking and continues through quantitative research, production systems, and institutional operations. Varsity and Bharath Shiksha are complementary, not competitive. **Q. How does it compare to Quantra, Elearnmarkets, Upsurge, or CFA/CQF preparation?** A. Elearnmarkets and Upsurge are course marketplaces with no integrated path. Quantra is ₹1.5 lakh or higher and assumes pre-existing programming and statistics foundations. CFA/CQF are excellent institutional credentials that do not teach execution craft. Bharath Shiksha is the only integrated Indian curriculum that spans from foundations through quantitative execution and institutional operations at a retail-accessible price. --- ## On pricing and access **Q. Why ₹39,999 for the full programme?** A. The pricing is designed to be accessible to a serious Indian retail trader while priced at a level that supports the production quality and credentialled-presenter fees the programme requires. The per-hour-of-instruction cost works out to among the lowest in any institutional-grade programme in India. **Q. Is lifetime access really lifetime?** A. Yes. Once a stage is purchased, the videos, worksheets, and quizzes are accessible for the life of the Bharath Shiksha service. Should the service ever close, enrolees receive the content via downloadable archive. **Q. What does the 7-day money-back guarantee cover?** A. Any SKU, no questions asked, within 7 days of the purchase. Refund is processed to the same payment instrument within 7 working days of request. --- ## On curriculum and production **Q. How much of the curriculum has been authored?** A. All 30 volumes are fully authored in screenplay form, with all 30 companion worksheets and all 300 gate-quiz questions written. Twenty long-form companion articles are also published. **Q. How are presenters selected for Stages 4-6?** A. The credential bar is deliberate. Stage 4 requires CFA, CQF, and buy-side research experience. Stage 5 requires senior trading-systems engineering experience with a live production desk in the presenter's history. Stage 6 requires ex-buy-side portfolio management, AIF leadership, or ex-chief risk officer experience. Every presenter signs an exclusivity agreement narrowly scoped to three named competitors, preserving their ability to work elsewhere. **Q. Is the curriculum available in Hindi or other Indian languages?** A. Currently English only. Hindi subtitles are under consideration for Stages 1-3 based on enrolee demand data. --- ## On SEBI compliance **Q. Is Bharath Shiksha SEBI-registered?** A. Bharath Shiksha is an educational programme. Educational content in India that does not provide personalised investment advice is not subject to SEBI registration requirements for investment advisors. The academy does not issue tips, does not operate a signal service, and does not make return guarantees. Any Indian trading education that promises returns is operating outside SEBI compliance — retail traders should walk away from any such promise. **Q. Does the curriculum teach specific trading strategies that students will deploy?** A. Yes, but within a pedagogical framework. The curriculum teaches the underlying frameworks (structure reading, regime detection, risk-of-ruin math, backtesting validation, execution discipline) and demonstrates them on specific Indian-market setups (ORB on Nifty, 20-EMA pullback on Bank Nifty, Wyckoff spring on individual stocks, cointegration pairs on NSE energy pair). Students are taught how to audit and adapt, not merely to copy. --- ## On the Indian retail market **Q. What is the most-cited SEBI data point the academy works from?** A. The SEBI 2024 individual trader study — 89.4 per cent of retail equity F&O traders lost money in FY24, with an aggregate loss pool of ₹51,689 crore and an average loss per losing trader of ₹1.10 lakh. The full detail is in [05-key-stats.md](05-key-stats.md). **Q. What do the 11 per cent who make money do differently?** A. Three teachable disciplines. First, position sizing anchored in risk-of-ruin math, not vibes. Second, regime awareness — VIX zones, term structure, trend breadth. Third, post-trade process grading independent of outcome. Every volume of the curriculum reinforces at least one of these three. --- ## On media engagement **Q. Can I interview a founder or senior team member?** A. On-the-record interviews are available on request. Email press@bharathshiksha.com with the outlet, piece scope, and expected publication date, and a spokesperson can be nominated for the specific piece. **Q. Can I have pre-publication access to a volume?** A. Worksheet samples are available under embargo. Video samples for Stages 1-3 are available once production ships for the stage; Stages 4-6 video samples are available in coordination with the presenter. **Q. Do you offer exclusives?** A. Yes. Exclusivity windows of up to 14 days can be arranged for long-form pieces that add original reporting. Shorter exclusivity of 72 hours is the standard embargo on syndicated fact-sheet or one-pager pieces. **Q. Do you compensate journalists?** A. No. Editorial is expected to be independent; Bharath Shiksha does not pay for coverage, does not place advertorials as journalism, and does not sponsor opinion pieces written by sitting journalists. **Q. Fact-check rights?** A. Offered on curriculum claims, pricing, and cited statistics — not on editorial interpretation. Send the specific passages to press@bharathshiksha.com and a response arrives within one working day.