Trading vs investing in India
The real difference between the two disciplines, and how to tell which one you are actually doing.
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The trading resource library
How to use this library
Everything Bharath Shiksha publishes is free, and this page is the map to it. The guides are grouped in the order most traders actually need them: start with the foundations, build the psychology and discipline that keep you consistent, then work through risk, execution, and the money and tax questions. The tools at the end let you put the numbers to work, so you can size a position, measure your edge, and estimate your costs before they eat your returns. Read straight down if you are new, or jump to the topic you came for.
Nothing here is gated and nothing is filler. Each guide is written to be read once and used for years, and each calculator does one job well. If you are not sure where you sit, the free diagnostic at the bottom of this page will point you to a sensible starting place in the curriculum.
Start here: foundations
How much money to start trading
The honest starting-capital floor, derived from your smallest position and your per-trade risk budget.
Read →Setting up a trading account
What a demat and trading account needs, and the settings to get right before your first order.
Read →Technical analysis for beginners
What to learn first, in what order, and the beginner mistakes that waste the first six months.
Read →Psychology and discipline
Trading psychology
Why FOMO, revenge trading and fear take over, and how to build the emotional control that lasts.
Read →Trading discipline
How to follow your own rules under pressure, and the systems that make discipline the default.
Read →Common retail trading mistakes
The mistakes Indian retail traders make most often, and the structural fix for each one.
Read →Finding a trading mentor
How to judge whether a mentor is worth learning from, and the red flags that mark a course to skip.
Read →Risk and edge
Risk management in trading
Position sizing, stops, R-multiples and the capital-preservation rules that keep you in the game.
Read →Risk of ruin, explained
The mathematics of going broke, and why bet size decides survival more than win rate does.
Read →Measuring your trading edge
What an edge really is, how to measure expectancy, and the sample size that proves it exists.
Read →Scaling trading capital
When and how to add capital as your process proves out, and the risk rules that scale with it.
Read →Stop-loss placement
The structural approach to stops, ATR-based distance, and the discipline to honour them once set.
Read →Orders and execution
Limit order vs market order
When each order type helps and when it costs you, and how spread and slippage decide the call.
Read →Trade management
What to do after entry: scaling, trailing, partial exits and the discipline behind each move.
Read →Large-cap, mid-cap and small-cap stocks
How the market-cap segments differ in liquidity, volatility and risk, and where a beginner belongs.
Read →Supply and demand trading
How to mark the zones where price actually turns, and trade from them instead of chasing.
Read →Money, tax and investing
Trading taxation in India
STCG, LTCG, F&O and intraday tax, STT, and the filing deadlines that protect your loss carry-forward.
Read →ETF investing in India
How ETFs work in India, where they fit alongside active trading, and how to build exposure simply.
Read →A career in trading
What a realistic path into trading looks like: skills, capital, timelines and honest expectations.
Read →Free tools and calculators
Trade journal grader
Log a trade, grade the execution against your process, and see exactly where discipline leaks.
Open tool →Position sizing calculator
Enter your stop and risk budget to get the position size that keeps every trade inside your rule.
Open tool →Risk of ruin calculator
Estimate the odds a losing streak ends your account, given your win rate and bet size.
Open tool →Expectancy calculator
Turn your win rate and average win and loss into a single expectancy-per-trade figure in R.
Open tool →Kelly calculator
Find the mathematically optimal bet fraction, and see why trading a fraction of it is safer.
Open tool →Cost estimator
Add up brokerage, STT and the other charges to see the real hurdle every trade must clear.
Open tool →All calculators
The full calculator suite: compound returns, drawdown recovery, R-multiple and the rest.
Browse all →Educational note. Everything in this library is published for education, not investment advice. Bharath Shiksha is an educational publisher, not a SEBI-registered investment adviser or research analyst, and nothing on these pages is a recommendation to buy, sell or trade any security. Any monetary example is illustrative only.