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Price Action Trading for Beginners: Read the Chart Without Indicators (2026) | IITA

Price Action Trading for Beginners: How to Read the Chart Without Indicators Strip every indicator off your chart. Remove the moving averages, the RSI, the MACD, the Bollinger Bands. What you are left with is price action – the raw movement of price expressed through candlesticks. Price action trading is the discipline of making all […]

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Stock Market Order Types Explained: Market, Limit, Stop Loss, GTT (2026) | IITA

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Stock Market Order Types Explained: Every Order a Trader Needs to Know Knowing what to buy is only half of trading. Knowing how to buy – which order type to use, when, and why – is the mechanical skill that turns your analysis into an actual position. Using the wrong order type can mean getting

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A gap up occurs when a stock or index opens significantly higher than the previous day's close, creating a visible gap on the chart. A gap down is the opposite. Gaps happen due to overnight news, global market movements, or event reactions. Common gap strategies include gap-and-go (trading in the gap direction) and gap fill (trading the retracement back to the previous close).

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Gap Up and Gap Down in Trading: What They Mean and How to Trade Them Every trader has experienced it: you check the market at opening and Nifty is already 150 points higher or lower than yesterday’s close – before a single trade has happened during the session. That jump is called a gap. A

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Straddle and Strangle Options Strategies Explained (2026) | IITA

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Straddle and Strangle Options Strategies: Complete Beginner Guide Most beginners learn options as directional bets: buy a call if bullish, buy a put if bearish. But what if you believe the market will make a big move but you do not know which direction? Or what if you believe the market will stay flat? Straddle

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How to Build a Trading Plan (Step-by-Step Template) 2026 | IITA

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How to Build a Trading Plan: A Step-by-Step Template A trading plan is a written set of rules that defines exactly how you will trade: what you trade, when you enter, when you exit, how much you risk, and how you review your performance. It is the single biggest difference between disciplined traders who succeed

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Options Greeks Explained Simply: Delta, Theta, Gamma, Vega (2026) | IITA

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Options Greeks Explained Simply: Delta, Theta, Gamma, and Vega If you trade options without understanding the Greeks, you are driving a car without knowing what the dashboard gauges mean. The car still moves, but you have no idea why it is accelerating, slowing down, or about to run out of fuel. Options Greeks are the

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Swing trading is a style of trading where positions are held for several days to a few weeks to capture medium-term price moves. Unlike day trading, swing traders do not close positions within the same day and use daily and hourly charts. It is popular among people with jobs because it does not require constant market monitoring.

What Is Swing Trading? A Complete Beginner’s Guide (2026) | IITA

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What Is Swing Trading? A Complete Beginner’s Guide Swing trading is a trading style where you hold positions for several days to a few weeks, aiming to capture medium-term price moves (the “swings” in the market). Unlike day trading, where positions are closed within the same day, swing traders hold overnight and let trades develop

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What Is Futures Trading? A Beginner’s Guide to F&O (2026) | IITA

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What Is Futures Trading? A Beginner’s Guide to F&O in India Futures trading involves buying or selling a contract that commits you to buy or sell an asset (like a stock or index) at a fixed price on a specific future date. Along with options, futures make up the world of derivatives, often called F&O

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What Is a Demat Account? How to Open One in India (2026) | IITA

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What Is a Demat Account? How to Open One in India (Step-by-Step) A demat account (short for dematerialised account) is an account that holds your shares and other securities in electronic form, just like a bank account holds your money. Before demat accounts existed, shares were held as physical paper certificates, which were easy to

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What Is MACD Indicator? How to Use It in Trading (2026) | IITA

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What Is the MACD Indicator? A Simple Guide for Beginners MACD (Moving Average Convergence Divergence) is a popular momentum indicator that shows the relationship between two moving averages of a stock’s price. It helps traders identify the direction of a trend, the strength of momentum, and potential reversal points. MACD is one of the most

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