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Direct Equity — Arc 4, Article Three Tax is the one cost in investing that is entirely predictable and almost entirely ignored until March. This article covers how LTCG tax on shares in India works alongside short-term gains, how dividends and buybacks are treated, what happens when trading becomes business income, and — the part

Direct Equity — Arc 4, Article Two Two earlier articles in this pillar promised that the numbers on futures and options in India would be delivered here, in full, from the regulator’s own studies rather than from anyone’s opinion. This is that article. It explains what futures and options actually are in plain language, works

Direct Equity — Arc 4, Article One Corporate actions in the stock market are the things a company does to your holding, usually without asking you. Shares appear in your account. The price halves overnight. Money arrives in your bank. Almost all of it looks like something for nothing, and almost none of it is.

Direct Equity — Arc 3, Article Four IPO investing in India generates more excitement per rupee than any other part of the market, and excitement is exactly what the seller is selling. This article covers the mechanics you need — how to apply, how ASBA and UPI work, how allotment is actually decided — and

Direct Equity — Arc 3, Article Three Knowing how to research a company and knowing how to build a stock portfolio in India are separate skills, and the second one is where most of the money is actually made or lost. This article turns everything so far into a structure with numbers in it: how

Direct Equity — Arc 3, Article Two The common stock market mistakes in India are not exotic and they are not about picking the wrong company. They are a small set of predictable errors that repeat across every generation of investors, in every market, and they cost far more than any research mistake ever will.

Direct Equity — Arc 3, Article One Everything in this pillar so far has been about choosing — how the market works, how to read a business, how to tell a sound company from a cheap-looking one. This article is about how much, and it is the decision that actually determines whether you survive being

Direct Equity — Arc 2, Article Five This is the article a stock-picking pillar owes its readers: the honest evidence on the index fund vs active fund question in India, and on whether picking your own shares beats simply owning the market. The data comes from SPIVA — S&P’s long-running scorecard comparing active funds against

Direct Equity — Arc 2, Article Four Technical analysis — reading price charts to decide when to buy and sell — is the most heavily marketed skill in Indian retail investing and the least honestly described. This guide to technical analysis for beginners in India does both jobs properly: it teaches the core ideas well