Course overview
The JMC Finance Foundation Course is designed for beginners who want to understand the stock market, investing and financial markets from the ground up. The course develops a strong foundation in stock market concepts, investment principles, technical analysis and risk management through practical, market-oriented learning.
The objective is not merely to provide information, but to help students understand how financial markets work and develop the knowledge and discipline required to participate in markets responsibly.
What you’ll learn
By the end of this course students will be able to:
Key topics covered
- 1Stock Market Fundamentals
- 2
Investment Principles
- 3
Market Indices & Exchanges
- 4
Introduction to Technical Analysis
- 5
Risk Management & Price Behaviour
- 6Trading & Investment Discipline
Course curriculum
Objective: To understand the basic structure of the stock market, how it functions and the role of different participants in the financial market.
Understanding the Stock Market
Understand what the stock market is, how shares represent ownership in companies and why companies raise capital through the market.
Primary & Secondary Markets
Learn the difference between primary and secondary markets, including how companies issue securities and how investors trade them in the secondary market.
Market Participants
Understand the roles of investors, traders, companies, brokers, exchanges and other important participants in the stock market.
Objective: To understand the basic principles of investing and how investors can make informed decisions based on financial goals, risk, return and time horizon.
Understanding Investment & Its Purpose
Understand the difference between saving and investing, and how investments can help individuals build wealth and achieve long-term financial goals.
Risk & Return
Learn the relationship between risk and return and understand why different investment avenues carry different levels of risk and potential return.
Diversification & Asset Allocation
Understand the importance of diversification and how spreading investments across different asset classes can help manage risk.
Investment Horizon & Compounding
Understand how the time horizon of an investment influences financial decisions and how the power of compounding can support long-term wealth creation.
Objective: To understand the role of stock exchanges and market indices and how they help investors track and interpret market performance.
Stock Exchanges & Their Role
Understand the role of stock exchanges in facilitating the buying and selling of securities and providing an organised marketplace for investors and companies.
NSE & BSE
Learn about India’s major stock exchanges, the National Stock Exchange (NSE) and Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE), and their importance in the Indian securities market.
Understanding Market Indices
Understand what market indices represent and how indices such as the Nifty 50 and Sensex are used to measure overall market performance.
Reading Market Movements
Learn how changes in indices and market prices reflect broad market behaviour and develop a basic understanding of interpreting market movements.
Objective: To understand the basic principles of technical analysis and how price and market behaviour can be studied to make informed trading and investment decisions.
What is Technical Analysis?
Understand the basic concept of technical analysis and how historical price and volume data can be used to study market behaviour.
Price, Volume & Market Behaviour
Learn how price movements and trading volume provide useful information about market activity, demand and supply.
Trends, Support & Resistance
Understand the basic concepts of uptrends, downtrends, sideways markets, support and resistance levels.
Introduction to Charts & Price Patterns
Learn how to read basic price charts and recognise simple patterns that can help in understanding market behaviour.
