📈 Chapter 5: Stocks

🎯 In this chapter

Shares, trading, IPOs and reading a stock page.

Units in this chapter

1. What a Share Is - Understand share ownership, why prices move, market cap, dividends, splits, bonus shares and indices.
2. How Trading Works - Understand order matching, market/limit/stop-loss orders, settlement, delivery vs intraday, and circuit limits.
3. IPOs and Listing - Learn how IPOs work in India, including UPI application, allotment, lot size, listing risk and SME IPOs.
4. Reading a Stock Page - Learn to read price, volume, EPS, P/E, book value, ROE, debt-equity ratio and promoter holding on a stock page.

📖 How to read

Go in order. Every new term is explained the first time it appears, and each unit ends with a keywords table.