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Pre-Market Analysis Routine: How to Prepare Before Market Opens (2026) | IITA

Pre-Market Analysis Routine: How Professional Traders Prepare Before 9:15 AM The best traders in the market have already done their most important work before the opening bell rings at 9:15 AM. They do not stare at the screen waiting for inspiration. They arrive with levels marked, scenarios planned, and trades defined – so that when […]

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How to Pick Stocks for Beginners: A Simple Screening Guide (2026) | IITA

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How to Pick Stocks for Beginners: A Simple Fundamental Screening Guide Picking individual stocks is one of the most rewarding and dangerous things a beginner can do in the stock market. Rewarding because a well-chosen stock can deliver returns far above the market average. Dangerous because a poorly chosen one can lose most of its

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Stock Market Taxes in India: STT, Capital Gains, Tax Rules (2026) | IITA

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Stock Market Taxes in India: What Every Trader and Investor Must Know Making money in the stock market is one skill. Keeping it – after the government takes its share – requires understanding how stock market taxation works in India. Tax rules differ based on what you traded (shares, options, futures), how long you held

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Mutual Funds vs Stock Market: Which Is Better for You? (2026) | IITA

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Mutual Funds vs Stock Market: Which One Is Right for You? This is one of the most common dilemmas for anyone looking to grow their money in India: should I invest through mutual funds, where a professional manages the portfolio, or should I invest directly in stocks, where I pick and manage my own positions?

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IPO Investing in India: A Complete Beginner Guide (2026) | IITA

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IPO Investing in India: Everything a Beginner Needs to Know When a company that has been private – owned by founders, investors, and private equity – decides to sell its shares to the general public for the first time, that event is called an IPO (Initial Public Offering). IPOs generate enormous excitement in India: long

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Commodity Trading in India: Gold, Silver, Crude Oil Guide (2026) | IITA

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Commodity Trading in India: How to Trade Gold, Silver, and Crude Oil Beyond stocks and indices, there is an entire parallel market where traders buy and sell commodities – gold, silver, crude oil, natural gas, copper, and more. Commodity trading in India happens on the MCX (Multi Commodity Exchange), and it attracts traders for a

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

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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).

Gap Up and Gap Down Trading Explained for Beginners (2026) | IITA

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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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