STOP · THINK · TRADE
A course by प्रज्ञा Pragya · For India

A calm course on the stock market.
For Indian beginners.

A plain-English course on investing. I'm writing it slowly because most courses are written quickly, and that's why most of them shout at you. If you'd like to read it when it's ready, leave your email.

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Written for India, in your language.

I write the lessons in English. The other languages are translated by computer.

English
English
Available now
हिन्दी
Hindi
Coming soon
తెలుగు
Telugu
Coming soon
ગુજરાતી
Gujarati
Coming soon
தமிழ்
Tamil
Coming soon
मराठी
Marathi
Coming soon
ಕನ್ನಡ
Kannada
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മലയാളം
Malayalam
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The lessons are written. The translations are in progress. हिन्दी, తెలుగు, ગુજરાતી, and three more should appear on the site over the next few weeks, one at a time.

What's inside

Six phases. Thirty-one lessons.

Each lesson is short enough to read in one sitting and patient enough to actually teach you something. You move through the course in order, building from "what is a stock?" to "how do I think about a portfolio?"

Phase 1
Before We Begin
Intake · 1 lesson
A short conversation with yourself. Why are you here? What do you hope to walk away with? Your answers stay on your device.
Phase 2
Foundation
5 lessons
Stocks, sectors, indices, portfolios. The vocabulary you'll use for the rest of your life as an investor.
Phase 3
Stop · Strategy
7 lessons
Before you act. Goals, time horizons, risk tolerance. The work that protects you from your own enthusiasm.
Phase 4
Think · Research
7 lessons
How to read a company. How to read a market. How to know when you're being told a story versus shown a fact.
Phase 5
Trade · Action
7 lessons
Your first trade. Position sizing. Knowing when to do nothing — which is most of the time.
Phase 6
Review · Climax
4 lessons
Looking back honestly. What worked, what didn't, what surprised you. The quarterly habit that turns one good year into many.

How it teaches

Pause. Think. Act. Repeat.

Every lesson uses the same four-colour rhythm. By the end you'll have read more red lights than green ones — and that's the point.

🔴 Pause
Stop and notice
A risk you'd otherwise miss. A belief worth questioning. A pattern people have lost money on for centuries.
🟡 Think
Sit with it
A nuance, a counter-example, a trade-off. The places where simple answers stop being simple.
🟢 Action
Try it
A small, concrete thing you can do today. Not "go buy a stock" — something quieter than that.
🪷 Pragya
A note from the course
When the lesson wants to step back and tell you why — calmly, in plain words — it sounds like this.

Who this is for

A few people I'm writing this for.

First-time investors
You opened a Demat or Zerodha account and mean well. The videos online feel like they're shouting at you.
The commuter reader
Twenty minutes on the train each morning. One short lesson per day, in the time you already have.
The family-curious
Your parents invest. Your cousin trades. Conversations about money at dinner go fast and you nod along.
A personal note

I started writing this course because I couldn't find one I'd want a younger version of myself to read.

The investing content I see in India is loud — countdown timers, "make ₹1 lakh by Friday," charts coloured to look urgent. None of it teaches the slow, patient thinking that actually keeps a beginner safe in their first year. So I'm writing the version I wish I'd had.

It's free, in English first, with several Indian languages on the way. If you find one thing in it useful, that's enough.

— Srinivas Padavala · Solution architect · Sydney

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