About Market Vidyalaya

Who writes this

Market Vidyalaya is written and edited by Onam Sharma, who is responsible for everything published here.

The author elsewhere: GitHub

What makes a page here worth trusting is not a masthead, so the method is set out rather than asserted. Rules are taken from primary sources — SEBI and RBI circulars, exchange documentation, company filings and the text of the relevant Act — never from secondary commentary that may already have got them wrong. Worked examples show their arithmetic in full, so a reader can follow every step and catch an error rather than take the total on trust. Lessons are reviewed after drafting rather than published as written, and the curriculum is re-checked when a rule changes.

Some plain statements about what that does and does not mean. This is an independent project, not affiliated with any broker, exchange, fund house or distributor. It is not a SEBI-registered investment adviser or research analyst, and nothing on it is advice about what you personally should do with your money. It sells nothing and carries no advertising, so there is no commercial reason for any lesson to say anything other than what appears true.

If something here is wrong, unclear, or out of date, write to onamsharma@duck.com. Every correction is read and checked against the primary source — a lesson that teaches a rule incorrectly is a worse problem here than a missing one.

What this is

Most free market education in India is a funnel. It is produced by a broker who earns when you trade, a distributor who earns a commission, or someone selling a course at the end. That does not make it dishonest, but it shapes what gets taught and what quietly never comes up.

Market Vidyalaya sells nothing. There is no course, no subscription, no referral link and no advisory service. That is the whole editorial position, and everything else follows from it — which is why the curriculum spends as much time on costs, taxes, position sizing and the reasons not to trade as it does on chart patterns.

How the lessons are written

• Method over calls. Company names appear as worked examples of how to read a number, never as suggestions. The point is the technique, which outlives any stock.
• Primary sources. Rules are described from filings, exchange documentation and regulator material rather than from secondary commentary.
• The costs stay in. Brokerage, STT, slippage and tax are included in worked examples, because a strategy that only works before costs does not work.
• Limits are stated. Where a method is unreliable — Elliott Wave, divergence traded alone, backtests without slippage — the lesson says so instead of selling it.
• One plain-language example each. Every lesson carries a Hinglish example built on something ordinary — a sabzi mandi, an auto fare, a shaadi bill — so the idea lands before the vocabulary does.

What it deliberately does not do

No tips, no target prices, no model portfolio, no “stocks to buy this week”, no signals group and no performance claims. Market Vidyalaya is not a SEBI-registered investment adviser or research analyst and does not provide personalised advice. If you want a recommendation for your own situation, that is a job for a fee-only registered adviser.

Data and accuracy

Live market data comes from public Yahoo Finance endpoints. It may be delayed and can contain errors, so treat it as a learning surface rather than an execution tool. Tax rates, regulatory limits and scheme rules change; where a lesson states one, verify it against the current rule before acting. Corrections are welcome and are the main reason the contact page exists — it sets out what to include so a claim can be checked quickly.

Curriculum first published 13 August 2026. Last revised 6 September 2026.

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