30-day structured target plan to
learn trading in India
📆 30-Day Trading Target Plan (Beginner to
Intermediate)
🔹 Week 1: Market Basics & Setup
Day Topic Goal
Day Understand stock, forex, and commodity
What is Trading?
1 markets in India
Day Stock Market
Learn about NSE, BSE, indices (Nifty, Sensex)
2 Structure
Day Demat & Trading Open a Zerodha/Upstox account or understand
3 Accounts the process
Day Market, limit, stop-loss orders; understand
Types of Orders
4 execution
Day
Types of Trading Delivery, intraday, swing, scalping
5
Day Margin &
Understand how leverage works in India
6 Leverage
Day Review Week 1, take a small quiz or make
Summary + Quiz
7 notes
🔹 Week 2: Technical Analysis
Day Topic Goal
Candlestick Learn common patterns: Doji, Hammer,
Day 8
Basics Engulfing
Day 9 Trends Learn about trendlines, higher highs/lows
Support &
Day 10 Draw levels on a TradingView chart
Resistance
Day 11 Moving Averages Understand SMA, EMA (20/50/200)
Day 12 RSI & MACD Use momentum indicators to spot entries
Day 13 Volume Analysis Volume spikes, confirmation
Summary + Try identifying 1 setup on TradingView
Day 14
Paper Trade (paper trade)
🔹 Week 3: Trading Styles & Risk
Day Topic Goal
Intraday vs Pick what style suits your
Day 15
Swing schedule/personality
Building a
Day 16 Entry, exit, stop-loss, target
Strategy
Risk
Day 17 Manageme Position sizing, 1–2% capital risk rule
nt
Trading Greed, fear, discipline—key to long-term
Day 18
Psychology survival
Journal Learn how to track performance (Excel or
Day 19
Your Trades Notion)
Live Chart
Day 20 Mark levels, test patterns on TradingView
Practice
Trade 1 Create a complete trading plan and
Day 21
Mock Plan "paper" execute it
🔹 Week 4: Options Basics + Practice
Day Topic Goal
What is an Learn about Call/Put, strike price,
Day 22
Option? premium
Option Chain Use NSE India site to read option
Day 23
Analysis chain
Simple Option
Day 24 Buy Call, Buy Put, Covered Call
Strategies
Day 25 Greeks (Intro) Know Delta, Theta in simple terms
Day 26 Risk in Options Avoid common beginner mistakes
Combine your knowledge for a test
Day 27 Build a Strategy
setup
Paper Trade Try placing a sample paper trade
Day 28
Options using strategy
🏁 Final 2 Days: Review & Next Steps
Day Topic Goal
Day Review All Write or record your learnings, fix weak areas
29 Concepts
Day Decide your next step: real trading, advanced study, or
Plan Forward
30 niche (F&O, Algo, etc.)
📘 Tip: Use tools like:
📈 TradingView – for charts
📊 NSE India – for data
📚 Zerodha Varsity – for deep reading
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