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# MochaLearn: Free US Markets Course for Indian Traders
URL: https://mochatrade.com/learn
Last modified: 2026-10-21

MochaLearn is a free course on the US market, its assets, and how to trade them, built for people who already trade Indian markets.

Short video lectures on the Mochatrade YouTube channel, each with notes, key takeaways and a quiz. It is for someone who trades futures and options on the NSE: it assumes you know futures, option chains, margin and expiry, and runs in a fixed order — the market, then the assets, then the instruments and the risks.

## Modules

- Module 0: Start here (3 lectures) — Three short lectures before the course proper: who it is for and the order it runs in, one NVIDIA trade followed from entry to exit in the Mochatrade terminal, and a four-question routine for reading US market news. A five-question quiz on futures, options, margin and expiry closes the module. https://mochatrade.com/learn/start-here
- Module 1: US market structure (8 lectures) — Seven lectures on the US market itself: the institutions and their history, how a stock's price forms across exchanges, who moves prices through policy and through trading, and how the Fed, inflation, jobs and earnings reach a position. Each is a short video from the Mochatrade channel with notes, key takeaways and a quiz. https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure
- Module 2: Real-world assets (2 lectures) — Where commodity trading came from and where its prices are made today, then the assets themselves, starting with the precious metals: what gold is, who holds it, the four reasons its price moves, and how silver, platinum and palladium differ. Energy and base metals follow as they are recorded. https://mochatrade.com/learn/real-world-assets
- Module 3: Trading instruments — The instruments you trade with, and the mechanics of each. (coming soon)
- Module 4: Taxes and regulations — The rules and the tax treatment that apply, and the records to keep. (coming soon)
- Module 5: Risk management and position sizing — How much to put on, where to get out, and what it can cost. (coming soon)
- Module 6: An end-to-end testnet trade — Everything in the course, run once as a single trade on the testnet. (coming soon)

## Lectures

- 0.1 Global Markets for Indian Traders: Start Here: Who the free MochaLearn course is for, what it covers from the US stock market to gold, oil and taxes, and why the lessons run in this order. https://mochatrade.com/learn/start-here/us-markets-for-indian-traders
- 0.2 NVIDIA Trade Walkthrough: From Entry to Exit: A short position on NVDA in the Mochatrade terminal, from opening it to checking the order history. https://mochatrade.com/learn/start-here/nvidia-trade-walkthrough
- 0.3 Finding US News, Fast & Accurately: Four questions to run a headline through before it changes what you do. https://mochatrade.com/learn/start-here/how-to-read-us-market-news
- Module 0 quiz: Five questions. They check the things lecture 0.1 asked you to know and nothing more. If you get one wrong, its explanation tells you what to read again. https://mochatrade.com/learn/start-here/quiz
- 1.1 US Stock Market Jargon and History explained: Start Here: Who does what in the US market — the Treasury, the Fed, the SEC, the exchanges — told through the problems each was built to solve. https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/us-stock-market-explained
- 1.2 How US Stock Prices Form: Order Books & Exchanges: From the order book to the consolidated quote: how one stock trades across many venues, and when the US session falls in India. https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/how-us-stock-prices-form
- 1.3 US Government Structure: Regulators & Market Makers: The institutions that shape the market through policy, and the participants that move it through trading. https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/who-moves-us-stocks
- 1.4 How the Fed Moves Markets: Rates, Expectations & FOMC: The federal funds rate, how expectations reach Treasury yields and stock valuations, and why a cut can be quiet while a sentence moves prices. https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/how-the-fed-moves-markets
- 1.5 US Inflation Explained: CPI, PPI & PCE for Traders: The inflation releases traders follow, how to compare a print with what was expected, and how it reaches a stock position. https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/us-inflation-explained
- 1.6 US Jobs Report Explained: NFP, Unemployment & Wages: The BLS employment report, the two channels through which jobs reach stocks, and why good news can be bad news. https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/us-jobs-report-explained
- 1.7 US Earnings Explained: Reports, Guidance & Market Expectations: Earnings season's documents, a practical order for reading results, and why a beat can still fall. https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/us-earnings-explained
- 1.8 How Tariffs & Wars Affect US Stocks: Market Shocks: What a market shock is, the four moves the market makes in the first hour, how to tell whether a shock is over, and why a tariff is the one shock that pushes both doors. https://mochatrade.com/learn/us-market-structure/how-tariffs-and-wars-move-us-stocks
- 2.1 Commodity Market for Beginners: History, MCX & Futures: Where commodity trading came from, where your F&O rules were written, and the five rooms where every commodity price is made today. https://mochatrade.com/learn/real-world-assets/commodity-markets-explained
- 2.2 Why Gold & Silver Prices Move: Precious Metals Explained: What gold is, who holds it, the four reasons its price moves, and how silver, platinum and palladium differ, with the times each price moves in IST. https://mochatrade.com/learn/real-world-assets/why-gold-and-silver-prices-move

## Glossary

US Stocks, Leverage and Commodities Glossary for Indian Traders: https://mochatrade.com/learn/glossary

## About MochaLearn

MochaLearn is a free A to Z course on understanding and trading US stocks and commodities, built for Indian traders. It starts with the basics of the US stock market: how the US government and regulators shape it, how a price forms on the NYSE and Nasdaq, and when each session falls in IST. Then it covers what moves the market: the Federal Reserve and interest rates, inflation (CPI, PPI and PCE), the jobs report and earnings. Next come commodities and other real-world assets: gold, silver, crude oil, natural gas, copper and US government bonds. The last modules cover trading instruments, tax and regulation in India, and risk and position sizing, and the course ends with one complete trade on a practice venue, with no money at risk. It is built around the questions Indian traders ask, such as how to trade US stocks from India, when the US market opens in IST, and why a Fed decision at night moves Nifty the next morning. Each lecture is a short video with notes and a quiz, and a glossary defines each term the course uses, from FOMC to USD/INR. You do not need to know the US market. If you are new to futures and options (F&O), the course points you to a free primer first. MochaLearn is made by Mochatrade. It is free to read and watch with no signup, and it never gives tips or calls. Educational content only. Not investment advice.