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Invest Smart: Equities & the PSX
Learn how to invest in shares on the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX). Understand stocks, trading, financial ratios, company analysis, diversification, and build your own five-stock simulated portfolio.
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About this course
Invest Smart: Equities & the PSX is an introductory micro-course designed to help beginners understand and participate confidently in Pakistan’s equity market.
You will learn how the PSX works, how to buy and sell shares, understand market, limit and stop-loss orders, read basic financial statements, calculate key investment ratios, analyse companies and sectors, and build a diversified portfolio.
Through practical activities, quizzes, and a final simulated portfolio exercise, you will develop the foundational skills needed to make more informed equity-investment decisions.
What you'll learn
- Understand how the PSX and KSE-100 Index work.
- Explain the basic process of buying and selling shares.
- Understand market, limit and stop-loss orders.
- Read basic income statements and balance sheets.
- Calculate and interpret key financial ratios.
- Find reliable company information from PSX and SECP sources.
- Apply basic fundamental and qualitative analysis.
- Understand diversification and portfolio construction.
- Build and justify a diversified five-stock simulated PSX portfolio.
Requirements
- No prior stock-market experience required.
- Basic understanding of percentages and simple arithmetic is helpful.
- Internet access and access to the IFMP eLearning platform.
- No real-money investment is required; portfolio activities are simulated.
Curriculum
1 section · 13 lessons
Invest Smart: Equities & the PSX 13 lessons
- Lesson 1: What if you had bought Engro in 2010?
- Lesson 2: How the PSX works — structure and segments
- Lesson 3: Order types — market, limit, stop-loss
- Lesson 4: Clearing and settlement — the CDC/NCCPL cycle
- Lesson 5: Reading an income statement
- Lesson 6: Balance sheet basics and key ratios
- Lesson 7: Where to find financial data — PSX and SECP
- Lesson 8: Understanding the KSE-100 index
- Lesson 9: Fundamental analysis — top-down sector selection
- Lesson 10: Bottom-up stock analysis — qualitative factors
- Lesson 11: Diversification and portfolio construction
- Lesson 12: Tax, regulation and 5-stock portfolio — capstone
- DOWNLOADABLE RESOURCE — Invest Smart — Ratio Cheat Sheet
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