Sources and credits

Every chapter on India Chart School is written in our own words, with our own examples and simulated charts. But we stand on the shoulders of many teachers. This page gives them credit.

Zerodha Varsity

Our module structure was inspired by Zerodha Varsity, one of the best free market-education resources in India, written mainly by Karthik Rangappa. If you want a second explanation of any topic, Varsity is an excellent place to read. Each of our chapters links to the related Varsity module under "Further reading".

People whose ideas we teach

• Charles H. Dow – Dow Theory; his editorials were organised by William P. Hamilton and Robert Rhea.
• Munehisa Homma – the Japanese rice trader linked with the origins of candlestick charting.
• Steve Nison – Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques (1991), which brought candlesticks to the wider world.
• J. Welles Wilder Jr. – the RSI, from New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems (1978).
• Gerald Appel – the MACD.
• John Bollinger – Bollinger Bands.
• Leonardo of Pisa (Fibonacci) – Liber Abaci (1202); and the Indian scholars Pingala, Virahanka and Hemachandra, who described the same sequence earlier.
• John J. Murphy – Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets.
• Thomas Bulkowski – Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns.
• Al Brooks – price action reading, bar by bar.
• Mark Douglas – Trading in the Zone, on thinking in probabilities.
• Alexander Elder – multiple-timeframe analysis (the Triple Screen).
• J. Peter Steidlmayer – auction market theory and Market Profile.

Official sources

• SEBI – regulations, investor education and the studies on F&O trader outcomes.
• NSE and BSE – market timings, indices and how trading works.
• NSDL and CDSL – depository services.
• NSE Indices – Nifty methodology.

About our charts

All practice charts on this site are simulated by our own code. They do not show live or recent prices of any security. This follows SEBI’s rules on the use of price data for education.

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