PosiCourse · Beginners
Free Stock Market Course: the Share Market in 20 PosiSteps
From "what is a share?" to checking a company yourself. Short lessons in plain words, a small exercise and a quick quiz in every PosiStep, and live practice on PositoAI's real company pages.
100% free20 PosiSteps5–8 min eachEnglish & हिन्दीNo sign-up
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Week 1: How the market works
- PosiStep 1 What the stock market is: shares, IPOs and everyday trading✓
- PosiStep 2 Exchanges and regulators: NSE, BSE, SEBI, NYSE, Nasdaq, SEC✓
- PosiStep 3 Shares and ownership: face value, outstanding shares, promoters✓
- PosiStep 4 Share price vs company size: market cap and PosiCap✓
- PosiStep 5 How a trade works: orders, bid and ask, liquidity, settlement✓
Week 2: Market and mindset
- PosiStep 6 Indices and market moods: Nifty, Sensex, S&P 500, bull and bear✓
- PosiStep 7 How you make or lose money: capital gains, dividends, risk✓
- PosiStep 8 Types of stocks: blue-chip, growth, value, dividend, cyclical✓
- PosiStep 9 Corporate actions: dividend, bonus, split, buyback✓
- PosiStep 10 Who owns the company: promoters, FII, DII, pledging, bulk deals✓
Week 3: Reading a company
- PosiStep 11 Profit and loss: revenue, expenses, profit, margins, EPS✓
- PosiStep 12 Balance sheet: assets, liabilities, debt and Owes vs Owns✓
- PosiStep 13 Cash flow: why profit and cash can differ✓
- PosiStep 14 Key ratios and their limits: P/E, P/B, ROE, ROCE, debt✓
- PosiStep 15 Valuation: is a stock cheap or expensive?✓
Week 4: Research and safety
- PosiStep 16 News and announcements: signal vs noise✓
- PosiStep 17 Red flags, fraud and governance✓
- PosiStep 18 Risk and psychology: diversification, FOMO, tips and scams✓
- PosiStep 19 Researching with PositoAI: scores, screeners and their limits✓
- PosiStep 20 Your first complete company analysis✓
🌈 Final exam
Answer all 8 questions correctly to earn the rainbow badge.
PosiCourse is for education only. It does not recommend buying or selling any share. Examples with made-up numbers are not real companies. An advanced course will follow. PositoAI is for research and education only and is not investment advice.