Welcome to the 20-Day Stock Market Challenge, your step-by-step guide to building a solid foundation in stock market investing and analysis. Whether you’re just starting your investment journey or want to brush up on the basics, this challenge is designed to help you understand the fundamentals of the stock market in just 20 days, one concept at a time.
🔹 Milestone 1: Understanding Market Indices & Long-Term Trends
Learn how indices like Sensex reflect the market’s performance and what historical trends tell us about long-term investing.
🔹 Milestone 2: Mastering Screener.in
Explore Screener.in, a powerful tool to analyze financial statements, discover key metrics like ROE, PE Ratio, and learn how to filter stocks smartly.
🔹 Milestone 3: Face Value & Promoter Holding
Understand why face value matters in dividends and stock splits, and what high promoter holding reveals about a company’s future.
🔹 Milestone: Market Timings & Order Types
Get clarity on trading hours, pre-market sessions, and how to place After Market Orders (AMOs) effectively.
🔹 Milestone 5: Corporate Actions
Discover how actions like dividends, bonus issues, and stock splits impact shareholding and investor value.
🔹 Milestone 6: Key Market Participants & Stock Exchanges
Meet the key players in the market—retail investors, FIIs, DIIs—and understand the role of stock exchanges and SEBI regulations.
🔹 Milestone 7: Primary vs. Secondary Market
Differentiate between IPOs (primary market) and regular trading (secondary market), and how companies raise capital.
🔹 Milestone 8: Demat & Trading Accounts
Understand why both Demat and Trading accounts are essential for participating in the stock market, and explore popular stockbrokers in India.
🔹 Milestone 9: IPO Process & Promoter Selling
Dive deep into the IPO journey, understand Fresh Issues vs. OFS, and learn why promoters sell shares during public listings.
🔹 Milestone 10: P/E Ratio & Valuation Insights
Analyze how the P/E ratio is used in stock valuation, its limitations, and why high-growth companies often carry higher valuations.
A strong foundation in investing concepts that most beginners overlook