Intraday trading is sold online as a way to make a daily income from a laptop. The reality is less comfortable. It requires attention during market hours, a temperament that can accept frequent small losses, and a cost structure that punishes overtrading. This course teaches it with those realities attached.
You will learn how a trading day is structured, how to prepare a watchlist, how to read opening behaviour and when to stand aside. You will also calculate what a round trip actually costs after brokerage, STT, exchange charges, GST, stamp duty and slippage. For many learners, that calculation is the most valuable session in the programme.
- Level: Intermediate
- Format: Live online, with recordings for revision
- Best for: People who can genuinely watch the market during the day and want to understand intraday methods, costs and limits before committing capital.
Who this course is for
It suits full-time traders, business owners with flexible hours, and experienced swing traders who want to understand shorter timeframes. It also suits anyone who has tried intraday trading from social media examples and wants an honest account of why the results did not match.
It is probably not the right fit if you have a full-time job with no access to a screen between 9:15 and 15:30, or you need a predictable monthly income. Intraday results are variable by nature, and the cost of frequent trading is a structural headwind.
What you will be able to do afterwards
The syllabus is written as capabilities rather than topics. By the end of the programme, a learner who has done the work should be able to:
- Build a pre-market routine and a watchlist process you can repeat daily
- Read opening-range behaviour and identify when there is no trade
- Calculate the real cost of intraday activity, including brokerage, STT and slippage
- Apply a daily loss limit and stop for the day when it is hit
Course syllabus
The course covers the demands of intraday trading, margin and product types, pre-market preparation, session structure, price action and volume, stop placement in volatile conditions, costs and daily loss limits.
- What intraday trading requires: hours, attention, capital and temperament
- Margin, leverage and intraday product types
- Pre-market preparation and watchlist construction
- Opening range, first-hour behaviour and the mid-session lull
- Volume, VWAP and intraday price action
- Stop placement when volatility is high
- Costs: brokerage, STT, exchange charges, GST, slippage and their compounding effect
- Daily loss limits, trade caps and the discipline of stopping
The session has a shape, and most of it is not tradeable
The first thirty to sixty minutes often carry the day’s largest moves and its widest spreads. The middle of the session is frequently quieter, with narrower ranges and more false breaks. The last hour can produce repositioning and volatility that has little to do with the morning’s trend. Recognising these phases stops a trader from forcing setups that belong to a different part of the day.
We mark opening ranges, the first pullback, the mid-session lull and the close, using index and liquid stock examples. The exercise is not to trade every phase but to decide which phase suits your method and to sit out the rest. “No trade” is a legitimate outcome of a well-run process.
Costs and the daily stop
A trader taking five round trips a day on a modest position can pay a meaningful percentage of the capital at risk in costs alone. Add slippage on entry and exit, and a method that looks profitable on a chart can be marginal in practice. You will build a cost sheet and apply it to your own intended frequency.
The daily loss limit is the other non-negotiable. It is set before the session, in rupees and in R-multiples, and when it is hit the screen goes off. The purpose is not to avoid a bad day; it is to stop a bad day from becoming a bad month through revenge trading. We rehearse the decision, because knowing the rule is easy and following it is not.
How the course is taught
Sessions are live and include market-hours examples where the schedule allows, plus recorded intraday sequences for review. You will prepare a watchlist and a written plan for a simulated session, then review it against what actually happened.
The course is taught honestly: intraday trading is high-risk, uses leverage, and does not suit every temperament. SEBI’s published research on individual traders in the equity derivatives segment has repeatedly found that a large majority make net losses. We teach the subject so you can judge it, not because we recommend it.
- Live sessions on a shared screen, using current NSE and BSE charts rather than static screenshots.
- Time for questions in every session, with doubts answered in plain language.
- Session recordings and revision notes, so a missed evening does not break the sequence.
- Exercises that ask you to mark a chart, size a position or explain a decision before you risk money on it.
Duration, fees and batch timings
We do not publish a fixed fee or a fixed calendar because both depend on the course and the batch you join. Contact us on WhatsApp for the latest course fees, available batches and complete course details.
When you enquire, ask for the session length, the number of sessions, the batch days and what happens if you miss a class. A provider should be able to answer all four before you pay.
Course completion and certificate
Learners who complete the programme receive a course completion record from Share Market Training. It confirms the training you attended and the topics covered. It is not a SEBI registration, a licence to advise others, or a guarantee of trading results, and it should never be presented as any of those things.
Completion means you attended the sessions and did the exercises. It does not mean you have passed a test of profitability, because no course can certify that.
What this course does not do
It does not give stock tips, model portfolios, buy or sell recommendations, or a signal service. It does not promise a return, a monthly income or a fixed number of profitable trades. It does not replace your own judgement or remove market risk.
Intraday trading uses leverage and is the highest-risk activity taught here. Research published by SEBI on individual traders in the equity derivatives segment has repeatedly found that a large majority of individual traders make net losses. We teach intraday trading so you can judge it properly, not because we expect it to suit everyone.
A sensible next step
Before enrolling, be honest about your available hours and your reaction to losing money quickly. If either answer is unfavourable, the swing trading course is a better use of your time. We will say so if you ask.