What is an Index? (The "Fruit Basket" Analogy) Imagine you want to know if the price of fruit in your city is getting more expensive. You could check the price of every single apple, banana, and grape in every shop—but that would take forever. Instead, you create a "Sample Basket"  containing the 10 most popular fruits. If the total price of that basket goes up, you can say "Fruit prices are rising." If it goes down, "Fruit prices are falling." In the stock market, an Index  

Digital Supermarket In the old days, a stock exchange was a loud room full of people shouting and waving papers. Today, it’s a giant, super-fast computer network. Think of the Stock Exchange (like the NSE  or BSE ) as a highly regulated digital supermarket. The Companies  are the products on the shelves. The Stock Exchange  is the building that ensures the lights stay on, the prices are fair, and the transaction is safe. The Investors  are the shoppers. The Big Names: NSE and

Imagine your favourite local pizza shop wants to open five new locations across the city. They need money to build the kitchens and hire staff, but they don’t want to take a massive loan from a bank. Instead, they decide to split the ownership of the business into 1,000 small pieces. Each of those pieces is a "Share." 1. What does it actually mean to own a share? When you buy a share, you aren't just betting on a price moving up or down. You are becoming a part-owner  of that