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ADFM Advanced Diploma in Finance Markets
(1-Year Program)

4.9 (193 Ratings)

The Advanced Diploma in Financial Markets (ADFM) is designed to help learners gain in-depth knowledge of the share bazaar, trading strategies, investment analysis, and risk management.

Skills You Will Gain:

Equity & Commodity Analysis, Advanced Technical & Derivative Analysis, Fundamental Analysis, Investment Advisory, Research Analysis, Mutual Funds

Great For:

Job Seekers, Beginners, Pro Traders, Students, Career Growth, NISM & NCFM Certifications, SEBI Certification Aspirants

Program Overview

The Advanced Professional Market Program covers advanced trading strategies, risk management, and wealth creation techniques, while also opening career opportunities in brokerage firms, banks, and financial institutions, helping learners boost their skills. The program blends theory with practical market exposure, ensuring participants are job-ready and industry-recognized. It includes 8 professional market modules, covering everything in DIFM — Equity, Derivatives, Technical Analysis, Fundamental Analysis, Commodities, and Currency — plus advanced modules such as Research Analyst, Investment Advisor, and Mutual Fund Distributor. 

Learners also receive NISM certification and advanced licensing preparation, with mock tests, live case studies, and complete guidance for Research Analyst, Investment Advisor, and Mutual Fund certifications. The career-focused curriculum is designed for those aiming to build careers in advisory, research, fund management, and portfolio consulting roles. With live projects, practical assignments, and internship assistance, this program is India’s most comprehensive financial market diploma, equipping learners with the skills needed to go beyond trading and become professional market experts.

Program Overview

The Advanced Professional Market Program covers advanced trading strategies, risk management, and wealth creation techniques, while also opening career opportunities in brokerage firms, banks, and financial institutions, helping learners boost their skills. The program blends theory with practical market exposure, ensuring participants are job-ready and industry-recognized. It includes 8 professional market modules, covering everything in DIFM — Equity, Derivatives, Technical Analysis, Fundamental Analysis, Commodities, and Currency — plus advanced modules such as Research Analyst, Investment Advisor, and Mutual Fund Distributor. 

Learners also receive NISM certification and advanced licensing preparation, with mock tests, live case studies, and complete guidance for Research Analyst, Investment Advisor, and Mutual Fund certifications. The career-focused curriculum is designed for those aiming to build careers in advisory, research, fund management, and portfolio consulting roles. With live projects, practical assignments, and internship assistance, this program is India’s most comprehensive financial market diploma, equipping learners with the skills needed to go beyond trading and become professional market experts.

What's in the Advanced Diploma in Finance Markets Program?

7 Professional Market Modules Covers everything in ADFM

Equity, Derivatives, Technicals, Fundamentals, Commodities & Currency — plus advanced professional modules: Research Analyst, Investment Advisor, and Mutual Fund Distributor.

Career-Focused Professional Curriculum

Designed for those aiming to build careers in advisory, research, fund management, and portfolio consulting roles.

India’s Most Comprehensive Financial Market Diploma

Learn, practice, and apply — from classroom to corporate — with live projects, practical assignments, and internship assistance.

Industry-Recognized Certification

Get a verified certificate to boost your trading career and portfolio.

Modules In This Course

INTRODUCTION TO INVESTMENT & FINANCIAL PRODUCTS
  • Basics of Investment
  • Investment Avenues
  • Investment Quotes
  • Why Invest in the Stock Market ?
  • Financial System & Securities
  • Equity Shares, Debentures, Bonds, ETFs, Mutual Funds
  • Primary & Secondary Market
  • IPO, FPO, Right Issue, Book Building
  • Market Index, Depository, Market Capitalisation
  • Stock Broker & NSE Membership
  • Sub Broker & Client–Broker Relationship
  • Trading Mechanism: Online, Auction & Retail Debt Market
  • Order Management, Market Phases, Price Bands, Circuit Breakers
  • How Stock Exchanges Operate ?
  • Order Types and Trade Execution
  • Market Indices and Benchmarks
  • Short Selling, Margin Trading, and Leverage
  • Securities and funds settlement
  • Shortages handling
  • Risks in settlement
  • Risk management
  • International Securities Identification Number (ISIN)
  • Data and report downloads
  • Time Value of Money
  • Understanding Financial Statements
  • Market Regulator & Major Legislations
  • SCRA 1956, SEBI Act, Depository Act, Contract Act, Income Tax Act
INTRODUCTION & CLASSIFICATION
  • Commodity Markets
  • Commodity Indices
  • Commodity Futures
  • Commodity Options
  • Metals: Gold, Silver, Copper
  • Non-Metals: Industrial Metals and Minerals
  • Agricultural Commodities: Wheat, Corn, Soybeans
  • Non-Agricultural Commodities: Cotton, Rubber
  • Energy Markets: Crude Oil, Natural Gas, Renewable Energy Sources
  • Impact of Different Time Zones on Trading
  • International Market Dynamics
  • Trading Across Global Markets
  • Factors Affecting Commodity Prices
  • Tips for Doing Commodity Trading
  • Hedging and Risk Management
  • Speculation and Arbitrage Opportunities
  • Portfolio Diversification Benefits
  • Mechanisms of Margin Maintenance
  • Mark-to-Market Settlement System
  • Trading System in Commodity Derivatives Exchanges
  • Understanding the Delivery Process
  • Entities Involved in the Clearing and Settlement Process
  • Explanation of the Margining Mechanism
  • Regulatory Framework for Commodity Trading
  • Compliance Requirements and Best Practices
  • Understanding Market Surveillance and Enforcement
TYPE OF CHART
  • Introduction about chart
  • Various types of price chart
  • Line chart
  • Bar chart
    Candlestick chart
  • Kagi chart
  • Point & figure chart
  • Ranko chart
  • Three line break chart
  • What is the purpose of drawing trend lines?
  • How to plot trend lines?
  • One candlestick pattern
  • Doji
  • Hammer
  • Hanging man
  • Inverted hammer
  • Shooting star
  • Spinning top (bullish & bearish)
  • Marubozu (bullish & bearish)
  • Double candlestick pattern
  • Bullish engulf & bearish engulf
  • Bullish harami & bearish harami
  • Piercing pattern & dark cloud cover
  • Tweezer top & tweezer bottom
  • Triple candlestick pattern
  • Morning star & evening star
  • Three white shoulders & three black crows
  • Abandoned body (bullish & bearish)
  • Tsauki gap (bullish & bearish)
  • Five candlestick pattern
  • Rising three methods
  • Falling three methods
  • What is support?
  • What is resistance?
  • Change of support to resistance and vice versa
  • FOUR STAGES:
    Accumulation, Markup, Distribution and Panic Liquidation
  • ELEMENTARY TRENDS:
    Uptrend
    Downtrend
    Range Bound Trend
  • CHART PATTERNS

    Head & shoulder, Inverted head & shoulder, Double top, Double bottom, Flag & pennant, Symmetrical triangles, Ascending triangles, Descending triangles, Wedge patterns, Rounding top & rounding bottom, Cup & handle, Bullish rectangles Bearish rectangles, Triple top, Triple bottom

  • TYPES OF GAPS:
    Common gap, 
    Breakaway gap, 
    Runaway gap, 
    Exhaustion gap, 
    Island cluster
  • What does a technical indicator offer?
  • Why use indicators?
  • Types of indicators:
    Leading indicator
    Lagging indicator
  • Simple moving average
  • Exponential moving average
  • What is better?
  • When to use?
  • Uses of moving averages:
  • Signals moving average price over
  • Signals multiple moving averages
    Support & resistance levels
  • What is the macd and how is it calculated?
  • Macd benefits
  • Divergence
  • What is momentum?
  • Calculation of the rsi
  • Divergence
  • Overview
  • Calculation
  • Overview
  • Construction
  • Slow stochastic
  • Fast stochastic
  • Signals
  • Difference between slow & fast stochastic
  • Overview
  • Signals
  • Divergence
  • Few rules for beginners
  • Overview
  • Signals
  • Divergence
  • Definition of elliot waves
  • Elliot waves theory
INTRODUCTION TO FUNDAMENTAL ANALYSIS
  • Fundamental Analysis and Equity Research
  • Sector Analysis
  • Industry Analysis
  • Company Analysis
  • Factors of Fundamental Analysis
  • Balance Sheet
  • Income Statement
  • Cash Flow Statement
  • Practical Example of Income Statement
  • Important Part in Annual Report
  • Introduction to Ratios
  • Liquidity Ratios
  • Cash Conversation Cycle
  • DSO DIO DPO
  • Solvency Ratios
  • Profitability Ratios
  • Du- Pont Analysis
  • Operating Leverage
  • Financial Leverage
  • Common Size Analysis
  • Introduction to Valuation
  • Concept of Risk Return
  • Valuation of Shares
  • Free Cash Flows
  • DCF Method
  • DDM Method
  • Estimating Cost of Capital
  • Relative Valuation
  • Practical Example of Relative Valuation
  • Top Line Analysis
  • Operating and non operating Analysis
  • Finance Costs & Bottom line
  • Sales Growth Analysis
  • Measuring Financial Health of a company
  • Company Costs Analysis
  • Practical Example of Relative Valuation
INTRODUCTION TO INDIAN FINANCIAL MARKET
  • Overview
  • Understand the macro-economic parameters of Indian Economy
  • Understand the features of Indian Financial Markets
  • Know the structure of Indian Financial Markets
  • Understand the role of the participants in the Indian Financial Markets
  • Understand the nature, functions and types of issues in Primary Markets
  • Know the role and function of Secondary Markets
  • Understand the various types of various Corporate Actions
  • • Understand the meaning and features of a mutual fund
  • Know the key terms and concepts associated with mutual funds
  • Know the regulatory framework for mutual funds
  • Know the various types of mutual fund products
  • Understand the taxation of Mutual Fund Products
  • Know the investment options in mutual funds
  • Know the processes associated with investing in mutual funds
  • Understand the uses and processes of conducting systematic transactions
  • List the benefits of investing with mutual funds
  • Understand the various types of small savings instruments
  • Understand the various types of fixed income / debt instruments
  • Know the various types of alternate investments
  • Know the concept of direct equity as an investment option
  • Know the concept of Risk
  • Know the Common Types of Risk
  • Understand the ways of measuring risk
  • Understand the concept of return
  • Understand the various return concepts
  • Understand the concept of compounding
  • Know the computation of Real rate of return vs. nominal return
  • Know the computation of Tax adjusted return
  • Understand the concept of Risk-adjusted Returns
  • Understand what constitutes financial planning
  • Know the need for financial advisory services
  • Understand the scope of financial advisory services
  • Understand the business model for the delivery of financial advice to client
  • Understand assets, liabilities and net worth
  • Understand the preparation of budget
  • Know the financial planning delivery process
  • Know the various Asset classes Learn about Portfolio construction
  • Understand the concept of Practical asset allocation and Rebalancing Strategies
  • Know the need for portfolio monitoring and re-balancing
  • Understand the need for insurance in personal finance
  • List the requirements for a risk to be insurable
  • Understand the role of insurance in personal finance
  • Know the various steps involved in Insurance Planning
  • Know the types of Insurance Products
  • Understand about the Life Insurance Products
  • Understand about the Non-Life Insurance Products
  • Understand the life insurance needs analysis (Human life approach, Needs approach)
  • Understand the retirement planning process
  • Understand and estimate retirement corpus
  • Determine the retirement corpus
  • Learn about the various retirement products and their features
  • Understand Income tax principles
  • Understand Tax aspects of Investment products
  • Learn about the Wealth Tax Act and its implication for clients
  • Know about Estate Planning
  • Understand the provisions of the SEBI (Investment Advisers) Regulations, 2013
  • Understand the overall framework of the regulatory system
  • Learn about the roles of regulators: MoF, MCA, SEBI, RBI, IRDA, PFRDA
  • Understand the role of Self-regulatory organizations
  • Understand the provisions of PMLA, 2002Know the codes of conduct by SEBI, AMFI, etc
  • Know the ethical issues in providing financial advice
  • Understand investor complaint redressal mechanism
INTRODUCTION TO RESEARCH ANALYST PROFESSION
  • Understand the Primary role of a Research Analyst
  • Know the Primary responsibilities of a Research Analyst
  • Know the Basic principles of interaction with Companies / Clients
  • Understand the Important qualities of a Research Analyst
  • Know about “Securities” and “Securities Market”
  • Understand Product Definitions / Terminology
  • Know the Structure of Securities Market
  • Know Various market participants and their activities
  • Learn about the Kinds of transactions
  • Know about Dematerialization and Rematerialization of securities
  • Know about the Terminology in Equity Market
  • Know about the Terminology in Debt Market
  • Understand the Types of Bonds
  • Learn about investing
  • Understand the Research on businesses or stock
  • Understand Fundamental Analysis – Top down approach and Bottom up approach
  • Understand Technical Analysis
  • Know about Behavioral Finance
  • Understand the basic principles of microeconomics
  • Know the basic principles of macroeconomics
  • Know the Introduction to various macroeconomic variables
  • Know about the Sources of information for economic analysis
  • Understand Business and Business Models
  • Know the Competitive Advantages/Points of differentiation over the competitors
  • Understand Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) Analysis
  • Know about Quality of management (including independent directors) and governance
  • Understand Pricing power and sustainability of this power
  • Know about the Organization structure
  • Understand Critical business drivers/success factors
  • Know about the Risks in the business
  • Understand Compliance orientation of the company
  • Know about the Documentation on Guidance v/s Actuals
  • Know about the Sources of information for analysis
  • Understand the philosophy of corporate actions
  • Know the difference between Price and Value
  • Understand why Valuations are required
  • Know the Sources of Value in a Business – Earnings and Assets
  • Learn about the Discounted Cash Flows model for Business Valuation
  • Learn about Absolute Valuations vs. Price-Value sense
  • Know the Earnings based Valuation Matrices
  • Know the Assets based Valuation Matrices
  • Understand the Relative Valuations – Trading Multiples and Transaction Multiples. Know the Sum-Of-The-Parts (SOTP) Valuation.
  • Know the other Valuation Parameters in new age economy and businesses.
  • Understand the Capital Asset Pricing Model.
  • Understand the Objectivity of Valuations
  • Know some important considerations in the context of Business Valuation.
  • Learn about the Qualities of a good Research Report
  • Know about the Checklist based approach to the Research Reports
  • Know about the sample checklist for Investment Research Reports
  • Understand the Regulatory infrastructure in Financial Markets
  • Understand the Important regulations in Indian Securities Market
  • Know the Code of Conduct/Ethics for Research Analysts
  • Know the Disclosure Requirements for Research Analysts
  • Understand the Concept of return of investment and return on investment
  • Know the Calculation of simple, annualized and compounded returns
  • Learn about the Risks in investments
  • Know the Concepts of market risk (Beta)
  • Understand Sensitivity analysis to assumptions
  • Know the Concept of Margin of Safety
  • Know the Comparison of equity returns with bond returns
  • Know the Basic Behavioral Biases influencing investments
  • Know the concept of securities markets and its role in the Indian Economy
  • Understand the concept of mutual fund and compare and contrast with conventional investment avenues such as Bank Deposits, Post Office Deposits, Public Provident Fund
  • Understand the mutual fund industry and related concepts
  • List the advantages and limitations of a mutual fund
  • Know the basic legal structure of mutual funds in India and understand their role
  • Understand the role and support functions of service providers of mutual funds
  • Understand the organisation structure of Asset Management Company (AMC)
  • Understand the classification of mutual fund schemes
  • Explain the categorisation and definition of open-end mutual fund schemes
  • Understand the classification of mutual fund schemes
  • Understand the concepts of Entry Load and Exit Load and their application in calculating the Net Asset Value (NAV)
  • Understand the calculation of returns for an investor investing in mutual fund schemes
  • Understand the concept of risk in a mutual fund investment
  • Understand the measures of risk-adjusted return
  • Understand the different types of taxes associated with mutual fund schemes
  • Select different schemes of mutual funds based on their tax implication
  • Know the process of New Fund Offer (NFO)
  • Understand the key components of an offer document
  • Know various distribution channels for mutual funds
  • Know the pre-requisites to be fulfilled to become a distributor of a mutual fund
  • Know the types of investors eligible to invest in mutual fund schemes
  • Understand the compliance requirements for mutual fund investors
  • Know the KYC process followed by distributors through KYC Registered Agency (KRA)
  • List the types of investor transactions in mutual funds
  • Understand the different transaction mediums for purchase and repurchase (sale) of mutual fund
  • Understand various value-added investment services provided by mutual funds
  • Know about Systematic Investment Plans (SIP), Systematic Transfer Plans (STP), and Systematic Withdrawal Plans (SWP)
  • Understand dividend reinvestment and growth options
  • Understand the major asset classes such as equity, debt, and hybrid
  • Know the risk-return characteristics of different asset classes
  • Learn how mutual funds allocate investments across asset classes
  • Understand the concept of financial planning
  • Know the importance of goal-based investing
  • Understand time horizon, risk appetite, and asset allocation
  • Know how mutual funds fit into the financial planning process
  • Learn how to assess investor’s financial goals
  • Understand how to suggest appropriate mutual fund schemes
  • Know the process of portfolio review and rebalancing
  • Understand how to communicate with investors effectively and ethically

Road Map For ADFM Course

ADFM Interactive Financial Roadmap

Schedule of Classes

Monday, Wednesday & Friday
  • 10:00 A.M to 12:00 P.M
  • 12:00 P.M to 02:00 P.M
  • 03:45 P.M to 05:30 P.M
  • 07:00 P.M to 09:00 P.M
Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday
  • 10:00 A.M to 12:00 P.M
  • 12:00 P.M to 02:00 P.M
  • 03:45 P.M to 05:30 P.M
  • 07:00 P.M to 09:00 P.M
Saturday
  • 07:00 P.M to 09:00 P.M
Sunday
  • 10:00 A.M to 1:00 P.M
Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday
  • 10:00 A.M to 12:00 P.M
  • 12:00 P.M to 02:00 P.M
  • 03:45 P.M to 05:30 P.M
  • 07:00 P.M to 09:00 P.M
Monday, Wednesday & Friday
  • 10:00 A.M to 12:00 P.M
  • 12:00 P.M to 02:00 P.M
  • 03:45 P.M to 05:30 P.M
  • 07:00 P.M to 09:00 P.M
Saturday
  • 07:00 P.M to 09:00 P.M
Sunday
  • 10:00 A.M to 1:00 P.M

Fees Structure

One-Time Payment Plan (Best Value)

100000
90,000
  • One-shot payment — No hidden charges
  • Lifetime mentorship included
  • Priority access to all updates and webinars
  • Certificate of completion
  • Personalized career guidance

EMI / Easy Installment Plans

100000
  • ₹100,000 (3 Easy Installments)
  • Pay in 3 EMIs of ₹33,334
  • Instant course access after 1st EMI
  • Flexible payment option for learners
  • All features included

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  • Access to all modules
  • Certificate + Mentorship included

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the ADFM (Advanced Diploma in Financial Markets) course?

The ADFM course is a 6-month program designed to provide in-depth knowledge of stock markets, trading, investment strategies, and risk management. It prepares students for NSE, SEBI, and other financial certifications.

The course is suitable for students (12th pass & above), working professionals, traders, investors, and job seekers who want to build a career in financial markets.

Yes! YourTrader offers both online and offline learning modes, with live classes, interactive sessions, and practical training through real market simulations.

Upon successful completion, you’ll be prepared for NSE, SEBI, and NISM certifications, enhancing your credibility and opening multiple job opportunities in financial markets.

Graduates can work as Equity/Derivatives Trader, Research Analyst, Investment Advisor, Portfolio Manager, or Risk Manager, with opportunities in brokerage firms, investment houses, and corporate finance roles.

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