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How the market works. Not what to buy.
Read this first, because it defines everything below.
Epigenesis Edu Private Limited is not registered with SEBI as an Investment Adviser or as a Research Analyst. What we offer is education, and only education. We do not recommend any security. We do not give buy, sell or hold calls. We do not manage anyone’s money, run a portfolio service, or share tips in any channel, group or private message. We make no claim about returns, past or future, ours or anyone else’s. Case material uses company data that is at least three months old. Nothing taught here is investment advice. Decisions about your own money remain yours, and for advice on them you should speak to a SEBI-registered investment adviser.
If what you want is someone to tell you what to buy, we are the wrong people, and we would rather say so on this page than waste your time on a call.
There is no shortage of people willing to tell you which stock to buy. There is a real shortage of people willing to teach you how the machine works — what an instrument actually is, who is on the other side of your trade, what the costs really are, and why most of the confident people you follow are wrong more often than they admit.
What this course is
A structured, unglamorous grounding in how Indian securities markets are put together, taught the way a syllabus is taught rather than the way a tip is sold. It will not make you rich and it is not designed to. It is designed so that you can read a financial statement, understand what you are being sold, price risk honestly, and recognise a bad argument when you meet one.
The syllabus
| Module | What is covered |
|---|---|
| 01 | Market structure. Exchanges, clearing corporations, depositories, brokers and the regulator. What settlement actually means, why T+1 matters, and where your shares physically sit. |
| 02 | The instruments. Equity, debt, mutual funds, ETFs, REITs and InvITs — what each one is as a legal claim, not as a product pitch. Who issues it, who bears which risk, and what happens if things go wrong. |
| 03 | Reading a company. The three statements, the notes, cash conversion, leverage, related-party transactions, auditor language, and the specific places where accounting quality tends to fail. |
| 04 | Valuation, honestly. What a multiple is and is not. Why two sensible people reach different numbers. Why a valuation is a range and a forecast, not a fact. |
| 05 | Derivatives, explained properly. What a future and an option actually are, how leverage works both directions, expiry mechanics, and an unsentimental look at the published data on retail outcomes in this segment. |
| 06 | Risk and position sizing. Volatility, drawdown, correlation, concentration, and the arithmetic of recovering from a loss — which is the single most under-taught idea in retail finance. |
| 07 | Costs, taxes and records. Brokerage, STT, stamp duty, GST, exchange charges, the expense ratio, and how capital gains are actually computed and reported in India. |
| 08 | How people fool themselves. Survivorship bias, backtest overfitting, narrative and hindsight, and how to read a track record. Includes how to identify an unregistered adviser and what SEBI registration does and does not tell you. |
What we will never do
- Tell you what to buy, sell or hold — in class, on a call, or in any message.
- Run a tips group, a signal service, a “doubt group” that becomes one, or a paid channel.
- Show live or recent price data as though it were guidance. Case material is at least three months old.
- Publish or imply a return figure, a win rate, or a student’s profit as marketing.
- Take a commission, a referral fee or any other consideration from a broker, fund or platform for steering you anywhere.
- Suggest that any of this reduces your risk of losing money. It does not. It helps you understand the risk you are taking.
Who it suits
You invest, or are about to
You have a demat account and a suspicion that you do not really understand what you own. This is the course for that suspicion.
Commerce, management, economics
Your syllabus covers the theory. This covers the plumbing — and it is the plumbing that interviewers ask about.
Colleges running investor awareness
A structured, compliant financial literacy programme you can badge and evidence, without the regulatory exposure that comes with a tips-adjacent guest speaker.
Employee financial literacy
A neutral, non-selling session for staff who are being marketed to constantly and have nowhere impartial to ask a basic question.
Fees
Live sessions, recordings, reading list, worked case material and a certificate on assessment.
Private sessions, paced to you, with as much time on your actual questions as you want.
Delivered to your cohort or staff, online or in person, with attendance and assessment records handed over.
Fees are exclusive of GST. We do not offer refunds on the basis of investment outcomes, because we do not promise any.
Common questions
Will this teach me to trade profitably?
No. Nothing can promise you that, and the published data on retail derivatives outcomes in India should make you sceptical of anyone who says otherwise. This course teaches you to understand what you are doing and to size your risk. What you then do with your money is your decision.
Can I ask about a specific stock I own?
You can ask, and we will use it to explain a method — how to read that company’s disclosures, say. We will not tell you whether to keep it or sell it. That is advice, it requires SEBI registration, and we do not have it.
Why is this cheaper than the courses I see advertised?
Because we are not spending the fee on advertising, and because we are not selling an aspiration. The economics of a course that promises wealth are different from the economics of one that promises a syllabus.
Is a certificate from this worth anything?
It evidences that you completed a structured course and passed an assessment. It is not a professional qualification, it confers no licence, and we would rather you valued the understanding than the PDF.
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