Nowadays, many students are opting for certifications from private coaches and traders for learning basic + advance (strategies, technicals, ratios, tools, etc.) of stock markets
Why avoid certification from traders and stock market coaches?
A rise in YouTube & Meta ads is the cause of distraction of financial concepts understanding. Anyone having a big budget and good marketing team can distract students to buy their expensive programs which doesn’t meet SEBI standards.
Here’s what SEBI wants from finance students & professionals:
- Become 100% compliant with knowing major regulations and avoid taking part in unethical practices
- Have a valid NISM certificate with some practical industry knowledge
- Read market news & articles to stay updated about specific sectors
- To upskill with different NISM Certification as per your current profession
- Try to become SEBI registered by becoming a highly professional in one section
- Help SEBI to find potential scams and allegations around you for immediate investigation
Here’s what stock market coaches want from you:
- Follow the given recommendations on daily basis until your membership is active
- Apply the strategies blindly without explaining the foundation of application in nature
- Make profit in the silver program to help you upgrade to gold pack
- To give you LIFETIME support through telegram and WA community
- Follow all the future YT video to never miss any update
- Purchase ebooks on monthly subscription with pro support & community
- Guest lectures and expert sessions to share their journey
Plus the certifications given by stock market coaches & traders aren’t valid at all anywhere with charging triple or quadruple than NISM programs.
Students are recommended to opt for NISM basic foundation for learning security market foundation as everything is in sequence and you’ll have valid certificate (YouTube is ready to distract you with too many creators and increase the confusion level)
It is better to opt for new & advanced NISM programs where SEBI regulations and compliance is included in their syllabus (with high chances of getting good placements)
NISM have published various long webinars and guest sessions with many feedback video to help you choose the right certification (few attached below)
Finance is becoming super competitive because of its’ lucrative nature (BFSI being the most profitable sector on YouTube).
So just passing NISM certification never gets you job, finance firm working experience, expertise of 1 domain (banking, insurance, mutual funds, commodities market, etc.) need to have.
Here’s a list of keywords related to NISM and what students actually searching for:

The first list of keywords shows that students are interested in knowing what is NISM and what exams it conducts, passing ratio, etc.
The second list of keywords shows..after understanding the value NISM brings. Students are taking action for pursing their relevant certification (NISM XV Research Analyst being the most popular). This is just the monthly data in India (each month thousands of new students are searching for NISM certifications because of the value it brings to their financial career)
So, do your research and see where your interest lies. Accordingly, choose the NISM series and specialise in it.
Tell us below in the comments, what is your academic background and why do you want to continue or have chosen finance? Accordingly you’ll get your answer in the comments