15 Essential Trading Tips for Beginners in 2025: Must-Know Strategies
Trading in the stock market is not easy but do not get demotivated by reading this first line of mine because the rest of the article will motivate you and will be very beneficial for beginners who are just going to start trading in the stock market. 📈
In this article, I will give you 15 such useful trading tips based on my 11 years of experience which no online trading course or fake tips provider can give you even after spending lakhs of rupees. 💵
First of all know your nature - are you aggressive or conservative
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 1 – First of all try to know your personality. What is your mindset? Are you able to take quick decisions? Are you mathematically very strong? Do you have the desire to learn? Do you have enough time to sit in front of the trading terminal for 6 to 7 hours? Or are you a person with a very conservative, defensive approach? 🤔
Ask all these questions to yourself, it is very important to get answers to all these questions, only then will you be able to choose the right format to earn money in the stock market.
There is no need to study much for investment, you can invest in mutual funds through SIP, there is no need to devote full time either, you have checked your portfolio 3 to 4 times in a month, which stock to take out and which stock to put in. 👍
But while trading you have to be very careful and monitor the changing prices in your trading terminal every moment. You have to learn technical analysis so that you can enter and exit stocks at the right time.
In trading, you have to decide immediately which stock to buy and when to sell.
So, if your nature matches the trading format, only then you should enter trading, otherwise make do with investing. ✅
Understand Your Trading Goals
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 2 – After defining your nature, set your trading goals, why you want to trade, whether you want to earn short term profit or create long term wealth. Keep your mindset clear. While trading, leave your emotions and confusions outside the trading room.
Set Realistic Financial Targets
When you are starting to trade, do not set absurd financial targets. Do not think of becoming a crorepati overnight, this is trading, here you do not know when even the best of the crorepatis became roadpatis.
In the beginning, think of earning 1 to 3% profit from every trade. Set a specific and achievable target that I have to earn this much profit in the beginning, gradually when I learn trading, then I will set bigger financial targets for myself
Choose Your Trading Style
Keep only one trading style from the beginning, intraday trading, scalping trading, swing trading or positional trading. If you practice only one trading style, you will soon become a master of trading.
One day you are doing intraday trading, then the next day you are doing scalping trading and then you get into swing trading, this will not work. ❌
If you do this, you will be neither at home nor at the ghat because in every trading style, physiology, technical analysis, stop loss – target, preparation, all are different.
You should stick to one trading style and become an expert of that.
Learn the Stock Market Fundamentals
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 3 – Whenever someone asks me where to start trading, my answer is always the same, start from the basics Nifty, Sensex, Nifty Midcap, Nifty Small cap, Nifty 500. 📊
First of all, try to understand all these indices. How many stocks are there in all these indices, how are these stocks included. Try to learn, trading is not just a game of buying and selling, its game is to be fully prepared before buying and selling. 📄
Start from the basics, then slowly try to understand the companies, what business do the companies do, how much profit do they make. Keep learning, the more you learn, the more you will grow but always keep the basics in your hold.
You will get complete information about all these indices on the official website of Nse. Start with cash trading and for cash trading you will need data every day and then when you go to options trading then you will need open interest data, options chain data etc. You will get complete authentic data from the official website of Nse.
Understand Key Terms
In key terms, you should focus on technical analysis because if you are in trading, you should focus a lot on technical analysis. What is support? What is resistance? What are the technical indicators?
Today, there are technical indicators from all over the world, there is no need to break your head over them. I will tell you the important indicators, with the help of these indicators you can make your trading strategies.
1. RSI
2. MACD
3. STOCHASTIC OSCILATOR
4. EMA (Exponential Moving Averages)
5. Supertrend
6. Pivot Points
7. Fibonacci Retracement
Learn these technical indicators well, they are enough to do technical analysis in trading. I have written articles on all technical indicators on my website, you can go and read them.
Follow LATEST STOCK Market News
Every morning, first of all read the latest news related to the stock market. Also check how the worldwide stock market performed, because USA’s DOW Jones, NASDAQ, S&P 500, all these indices, when it is night for us, it is day there, trades happen.
It is very important to stay updated with stock market news; this will give you an idea about how the Indian stock market will perform.
MONEYCONTROL.COM, ECONOMICS TIMES, these are some websites where you can check news related to stock market
Choose a stock broker after thorough research
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 4 – Now the question comes how to trade i.e. how to buy and sell shares. For this you will need a demat account in which the shares purchased by you will be kept. 🏦
Just like there is a savings account in the bank to keep your savings, similarly there is a demat account to keep your shares. In the olden days, shares were kept in the form of papers. 📄
Now your next question will be how to choose the right broker? Brother, my simple answer is that while choosing a broker, first of all talk to the broker about the brokerage fees.
What brokerage will be charged in options trading, what brokerage will be charged for intraday trading, what brokerage will be charged if you buy shares for delivery.
You should be completely sure about brokerage. It should not happen that after opening the account you find out that the brokerage is very high, the brokerage is eating up all the profit.
First of all, the brokerage and then the nature of the relationship manager should be cooperative. If you face any kind of problem in the future, then he should support you or he should not avoid you.
The third thing is that today is the era of AI, many brokers provide the facility of algo trading for free, while many brokers charge separately for this. So why not go with the free ones.
Other charges like GST, STT, other taxes are all common and there is no need to worry much about them. Before opening an account, download the mobile app of the broker and check the interface and other features of the app so that there is convenience while trading.
Reading charts is very important for doing technical analysis and for that, charting tools should be available. Check if charting tools are available in the desktop and mobile versions of the broker.
Main things to consider while choosing a broker in trading
1. Be completely sure about the brokerage fees
2. Personality of the relationship manager
3. Facility of free algo trading
4. Features in the mobile app
5 charting tools
Sky Broking is a very good broker company. In this you can open a trading account for free in both equity and commodity.
The link is given below, click on it, enter your phone number, you will get a call from the company and after completing your formalities you can open your trading account.
CLICK HERE: 👇👇👇
Start with a paper trading
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 5 – Before investing directly in the trading account, engage yourself in learning trading. Invest but first on yourself. Start with paper trading. 🖊️
Analyze the market daily on the charts. In the beginning, take only 5 large cap stocks like Reliance, Tata Steel, ICICI Bank, Infosys, HDFC Bank. Make a watchlist of these 5 stocks on the charts and analyze them daily in the live market and practice reading the charts even after the market closes.
See at what price Reliance stock opened today, where it closed, how high it hit, how low it hit. Where is the support, where is the resistance. Apply the Technical indicators I mentioned above on the charts. Note all these readings on a paper.
Do such analysis for 2 to 3 months when you have some confidence that now you know where the support of the stock is and from where the stock bounces back, from where it falls after hitting a high, what is the movement in the stock when divergence is formed on RSI.
What is the movement in the stock when MACD crossover happens. Start practicing all this, then take trades on paper itself, note where you have bought, where you have placed stop loss, what target you have kept. Note all this on paper.
Make a trading journal for the whole month and check how many trades went right, how many trades went in loss. By doing paper trading, your confidence will increase, and your trade winning accuracy will increase. After opening a demat account, do not start trading by putting money directly.
"Trading without learning is like shooting an arrow in the dark."
Master Risk Management in trading
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 6 – This trading tip is the most important among all the other 15 trading tips for beginners. Because in this part I am going to talk about that tool which I myself understood very late.
The name of this tool is – Risk Management in Trading. Look, it is a simple thing, you will be able to fulfill your dreams only if you stay alive, if you die then your dreams also die. If you trade without managing risk and without placing stop loss orders, it will not take long for your capital to end.
First thing, never invest the whole capital in a single trade. Suppose you have a capital of 1 lakh, then instead of investing that 1 lakh in a single trade, invest it in 10 different trades. Or it is not necessary to take 10 trades. Invest only 10 thousand and take 1 trade.
Your whole capital will not be at risk, only 10 thousand will be at risk, the rest of the capital will be safe in your trading account.
Second thing, never trade without placing a stop loss order, whether you are taking a trade of 10 rupees or 10 lakhs. Stop loss works as insurance for you in trading. It protects your capital.
What is a stop loss order and how does it work?
Suppose you bought Reliance stock at Rs. 1000 and now you want to take a risk of only Rs. 5, then set the stop loss order at 995. If your trade backfires and Reliance stock comes to 995, then the stop loss of your trade will be hit, and you will automatically exit the trade. Because your stop loss order was already set in the system.
If you had not set a stop loss order in advance and Reliance stock fell to 990, then you would have suffered a loss of Rs. 10 instead of Rs. 5 and maybe you would not have cut the trade at 990 out of fear and would have let the trade continue. I have also talked about emotions in trading in the next article.
build a strong trading strategy
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 7 – It is very important to have a strategy to set up every business. Trading is also a business and in the stock market where there are so many fluctuations, it is very important to have a good backtest trading strategy.
While doing paper trading, make your trading strategy and practice on it, take trades on the same trading strategy and note it down.
You can use technical indicators in trading strategy. You can use price action trading strategy in which only candles move on the charts, you draw support and resistance in it. You identify breakout and breakdown levels. No indicator is used in this.
Many traders make their trading strategy only on ema and trade. For short term trading, 9 ema and 20 ema strategies are very famous.
You must own a high accuracy trading strategy if you want to make regular profits in trading
Avoid Overtrading - This is a disease
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 8 – I consider overtrading a disease. Do you know why? Let me tell you.
What is overtrading?
In overtrading, you take 8 to 10 trades a day. I ask you what is the need to take 10 trades in a day? If you have an answer, then do tell me in the comment box. Whether your 1 trade went right or wrong, 1 to 2 trades are a lot in a trading session.
Who does overtrading?
Those traders who make a good profit in 1 trade, then a greed arises in their mind that friend, let me take one more trade, who knows I might get profit in that too. Now he gets greedy and assumes that he might make a profit in this as well and takes the second trade. Now if he incurs a loss in that, then what will the trader do?
Now to cover that loss, he will take one more trade because now he is irritated that he made a profit in the first trade and there is a loss in this trade. Now he has to make a profit again.
If he would have made a profit in the second trade, then again greed would have arisen in him that today is a good day, today there is only profit, let me take one more trade. By doing this, he keeps taking trades and in the end, he loses all the profit in one loss making trade.
That is why I consider overtrading a disease. Your one trade of the day is done, whether there is profit or loss, just take one trade and leave it.
Keep your emotions out of trading
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 9 – I Just like if you add too much salt or chilli in your food, then the taste of the food gets spoiled, similarly if you trade emotionally then your trading account can get cleared very soon. 🪹
I was very emotional in my starting trading career. I used to not cut the trades that were going in loss due to fear. 😱
I used to sit in the hope that this loss-making trade will definitely convert into profit, but it used to happen only 1 time out of 10. If it was a profitable trade then I used to book profit very quickly, I was afraid that the profit that I had got may get lost.
It is natural to have emotions in trading, it is not possible for a human being to not have emotions, otherwise we might become robots. But we can control emotions.
It is important to be more practical and less emotional in trading. The best way to get rid of fear and greed is to strengthen your technical analysis, make a good trading strategy, make a trading plan and stick to it. The more you stay disciplined, the more emotionless you will be.
When you know that this is my stop loss, if it is triggered then I will exit the trade. And the target is set that my analysis says that the stock should reach this price, then trust that analysis. You will not exit the trade quickly out of fear.
Make a solid trading plan
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 10 – A solid trading plan can also save you from getting emotional. A solid trading plan can also save you from a lot of losses. How? Let’s find out.
What is a trading plan?
You must have heard about the recent Iran-Israel war. In this war, Israel killed 9 Iranian scientists. Out of these, 1 scientist was killed by targeting his bedroom from 1500 km away. This is called a stick trading plan. When, whom, how and where to kill.
Same thing happens in trading as well. You cannot take trades whenever you want. Whenever you feel like it, you buy or sell a stock.
When a signal comes on your trading strategy to buy or sell, only then you should take trades, in fact I would say that even after getting the signal, you should confirm 100 times and then take the trade.
1. If you have a solid trading plan, then you will take the least number of trades.
2. If you take fewer trades, you will incur less losses.
3. Your patience will increase.
4. Your confidence in your trading strategies will increase.
5. You will also know whether your trading strategies give false signals or correct signals.
Monitor Global Market Triggers
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 11 – Keep an eye on every news related to the stock market in the country and the world. Any news can be very big for a stock or an index. Iran-Israel war is the biggest example of this.
On 12 June 2025, Nifty closed at 24888. On the night of 12 June itself, Israel attacked Iran. On 13 June, Nifty opened at 24473. Nifty opened down by almost 400 points. The news of Iran-Israel war was going on in the market for many times.
Now if you were unaware of this news, then you could have seen a lot of loss in your portfolio or trading position. If you were updated with the news, then you could have modified your position.
I will give one more example.
On 4 April 2025, US President Donald Trump imposed tariff on India. The news of tariffs was in the news since January when Donald Trump became the President of America for the second time.
Nifty closed at 22904 on 4 April. On Monday, 7 April, Nifty opened at 21758, down 1150 points due to the impact of this news. It happens very rarely that Nifty opens gap up or gap down by so many points.
Those who would have made adjustments in their trading position or investment portfolio to avoid the impact of this news would have been saved. You can yourself guess what would have happened to those who would not be aware of the news or its impact.
You should stay updated with every news, but it is not necessary to take a trade on the basis of every news. Understand the impact of the news properly and then take any action.
Use Trading Journals
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 12 – Making a trading journal is a very good habit. Every day, make an excel sheet and note down every trade you take. Whether the trade is loss making or profit making, note it with complete honesty.
What will happen is that you will come to know what mistakes you are making in trading. Are you entering and exiting your trade correctly or not. Your trading strategy will be completely exposed.
How many profitable trades and how many loss-making trades is your trading strategy generating? According to that, you can change your trading strategy.
Key points to keep in mind in a trading journal:
1. Stock name
2. Trade action (buy or sell)
3. Entry point
4. Exit point
5. Stop loss level
6. Target level
7. Mistakes (why the stop loss was hit)
8. Target hit (what you saw when you took the trade)
Monitor this trading journal daily. If you want to improve your trading, then make it a habit to make a trading journal
Traders have confidence in themselves
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 13 – Traders cannot succeed in trading until they strengthen their analysis. You heard from someone, or someone told you that if you buy a particular stock, you will get a lot of profit, but the opposite happened, then what will you do?
What are the companies providing tips doing today? They call 10 clients and tell them to buy a particular stock and ask 10 clients to sell the same stock.
The poor new traders fall for their words and pay their huge fees but do not make any profit. Listen to everyone and do what you want, this saying is very true in trading. You have to keep an eye on everyone, but you have to do what your analysis says and what your trading strategy signals.
What good will you do with the knowledge of others? You will benefit only when you learn yourself, apply that knowledge, make mistakes and then correct those mistakes and become a better trader.
Deposit trading profits into savings account
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 14 – Whatever profit you make from trading, transfer it to your bank savings account. If you add the same profit to your trading account and then start trading with your entire capital, it can be risky.
It will be better to keep depositing whatever profit you make in the savings account. If you want, you can start SIP in mutual funds with that deposited money or if you get interest in savings account, then you can make money from the money.
I do the same, this is my personal opinion, do whatever you like.
"Savings is like your second brother"
Read trading/investing books
Trading Tips for Beginners No. 15 – Never stop learning. Read trading books to improve your trading skills. If you want to go into investing, then great vetron investors have written very good books. Read them. You can read a lot of books on trading mindset, trading strategies, value investing and many other topics.
I am suggesting some great books to you, you can buy and read them from the link given below. You will not have to pay any extra charges if you buy the book from my link, I will just get some commission from it.
CONCLUSION
15 trading tips for beginners are not enough. There are thousands of tips that can be useful for you. I will continue to bring articles related to such valuable tips for beginners.
Your job is to apply these trading tips in your work and life. Your trading will not improve just by reading them, you will have to implement all these trading tips. I wait for your suggestions, if you also have any such tips related to trading in your mind, then do tell me in the comment box.
After all, I am also a trader, it is possible that I am also doing something wrong, so your tips can help me and the readers too.
Keep trading, keep earning profits and keep reading tradingpatner.in
Before starting a trading career, you should know the basics of trading. You should know technical analysis. You should know about Nifty, Sensex, other indices, World Wide Stock Exchanges. If you take trading like a business, your mind will work automatically but if you play trading like a speculative market, it will not take much time for you to get out of the stock market.
To become a successful trader, you need to go through a lot of hard work. It is not like you just wake up from sleep and become a successful trader.
Empower yourself with trading strategies, stay updated with economy news, what is happening in world wide geopolitics, what movements are going on in stock exchanges around the world.
Strengthen your technical analysis. Make a trading plan, implement the trading plan with discipline. There are many things that you have to take care of. My entire article is on these successful trading tips.
Although there are not just 5 trading rules, there are many but here I am telling you 5 common trading rules.
1. Trading Strategy – It is very important to have a solid trading strategy if you want to take trading seriously.
2. Trading Plan – Trading strategy only gives you signals when to buy and when to sell but in the trading plan, how quickly you take action on that signal and how quickly you exit the trade. What is the risk reward ratio, this is also very important. Discipline is very important in a trading plan.
3. Updated with News – As long as you keep trading on the basis of analysis without being ignorant, you will not be able to achieve anything. Staying updated with news provides new trading opportunities.
4. Learn something new – reading books, learning new technical indicators, listening to vetron investors/traders’ interviews and podcasts. Meaning you have to add something new to your trading knowledge daily.
5. Avoid emotions – Although traders are humans, but when trading they should become robots because robots do not have emotions, so they enter and exit trades without being affected by emotions. Keep emotions and confusion out of your trading room
Your parents keep track of all the household expenses, right? Then when you are running your own trading business, isn’t it your responsibility to keep track of it as well?
Benefits of keeping a trading journal:
1. How many signals given by the trading strategy are right and wrong. The trading strategy gets fully exposed.
2. You get to know how many trades went in profit and how many went in loss.
3. You get an idea of how successful the trading plan is going or not. If you want, you can also change the trading plan later.
4. By writing trading mistakes, you get an idea that I will not make these mistakes in the next trade.
5. By writing the entry and exit points of the trade, you can get an idea of when to enter and exit the trade next time.
Emotions cause the most harm to trading. You are running at a loss in a trade and due to fear you are not exiting that trade because you are afraid of making a loss. You are in profit in a trade and you are afraid again that you are making profit with great difficulty, so I should book it quickly. Where a big profit could have been made, you exit with a small profit.
So avoid emotions, strengthen yourself technically and trade like a robot. Because robots do not have emotions