r/IndiaInvestments
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  • Introduction
  • Disclaimers and Disclosures
  • FAQs
    • FAQs
    • Mutual Funds and ETFs
      • What is the best mutual fund app for investments?
      • Why should I invest in Direct Plans instead of Regular Plans?
      • What’s the best mutual fund I can invest in?
      • Which date(s) is/are best for SIP in a month?
      • I’ve to invest in ELSS for 80C tax saving. Which fund(s) should I pick?
      • Should I get a Demat Account to buy units in Mutual Funds?
      • Lumpsum investment vs SIP/DCA
      • Why are Index Funds in India not as cheap as Vanguard's Index Funds and ETFs?
    • Insurance
      • Should I invest in this LIC policy?
      • Opinions on investing in smart wealth plan by bank?
      • Up to what age should I take term cover?
      • Do I need my own health insurance? Employer already has group policy
      • Should I take top-up policy or super top-up?
      • Is it worth paying extra premium for term insurance?
    • Stocks
      • Should I invest in smallcase?
      • What is the best app for buying or trading stocks?
      • Which screener(s) should I use?
      • The Stock Market Has Crashed. Which Stocks Should I Buy?
    • Foreign Investing
      • Why should I invest in the US markets?
      • How should I invest in US equity?
    • Tax
      • I don't have any tax to pay. Do I still have to file ITR?
    • Miscellaneous
      • Where can I park money for a few days, a few months, or a few years?
      • What are chit funds? Should I invest?
      • Is Gold a good investment now? It has gone up ~50% this year
  • How To
    • How To
    • How to transfer shares from one demat account to another
    • How to move from one mutual fund platform to another
    • How to switch a Mutual Fund from Regular to Direct Plan
    • How to file SEBI SCORES complaint?
    • How to Update Nominee Details?
    • How to rematerialize mutual fund from demat form
    • How to Pay Advance Tax
  • STOCKS
    • Introduction to the Stocks Series
    • Can You Beat the Market?
    • Reading an Annual Report
    • Researching a Sector
    • Financial Metrics and Ratios
      • Profitability
    • Using Screeners
    • Due-Diligence Checklist
    • Work in Progress
      • Diving Deeper into Businesses
      • Efficiency
      • Liquidity and Solvency
  • EXCEL
    • Excel for Fun and Profit
    • Reactive UI & Updates
    • Using External Data : Google Finance
    • Using External Data : Working with CSV Format
      • CSV Format
      • Computing LTCG Eligible Equity Units
      • Process for Estimating Tax
    • Quantifying Returns: CAGR and XIRR
      • CAGR: Point-to-Point Annualized Returns
      • A Gentle Introduction to XIRR
      • A Rigorous Introduction to XIRR
  • BONDS
    • Bond Basics
    • Government Securities
    • Corporate Bonds
  • MISCELLANEOUS
    • Miscellaneous
    • US Investing
    • Recommended Reading
  • New to Investing
    • Zero to Investing
      • Getting Started
      • Part Two - Defensive Setup
      • Part Three - Spending Pattern
      • Part Four - How to Invest
    • Investment Philosophy and Strategy
      • Basics of Investment Strategy Plan
      • A simple Financial Planning Roadmap
      • Various types of Risks in Investments
      • Are you a Stock or Bond?
      • Assets and Asset Allocation
      • Critical Mass
      • Asset Rebalancing
      • Lumpsum or SIP/STP
    • Insurance
      • Life
        • Life Insurance: What it is exactly?
        • How to Evaluate Life Insurance Needs
        • ULIP - Unit Linked Insurance Plan
        • Some FAQs on Life Insurance
        • Links to Answers related to Life Insurance
      • Health
      • Others: Disability / Home
      • Child Plan
    • All About Mutual Funds
      • What is a Mutual Fund?
      • Types of Mutual Funds
      • What and Why of Mutual Fund Ratings
      • How to Select a Mutual Fund
      • FAQs for Mutual Funds
      • SIP and Mandates
      • How to Become Crorepati using Mutual Funds
      • Analysis using long term equity and debt funds in India
    • Retirement
      • Primer on Retirement Planning
      • Why You should not Opt for a Readymade Pension Plan
      • Studies of Long Term Portfolios and Retirement Withdrawal Rate Suggestions
      • Do-It-Yourself Retirement Plan
    • Personal Finance
    • Behavioral Biases
    • ELI5 Series
      • Time Value of Money
      • Inflation
      • Life Insurance
      • ELI5 guide to Selecting an Equity Mutual Fund
      • How do I start investing in mutual funds [ELI5 series]
      • Mis-selling of Insurance Products
  • BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO INVESTING
    • Zero To Investing
      • The First Step - Emergency Fund
      • The Final Step - Mutual Funds
  • Contributors Section
    • How Can I Start Contributing?
    • What is a Contributor License Agreement and why are we using it?
      • Contributor License Agreement
    • How to link FAQ via bot in Discord
    • Style Guides
      • General Style Guide
      • FAQ Style Guide
      • How To Style Guide
      • Excel Series Style Guide
      • Stocks Style Guide
  • Discord and Reddit
    • How to Search the Wiki From Discord
    • I'm unable to send messages to stocks-fundamentals channel on Discord. Why?
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How Can I Start Contributing?

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Welcome 👋

If you're reading this, we can't thank you enough 😃

It's our pleasure to have someone as interested as you going through this. It's ok, it might seem overwhelming at first, but everyone has something to offer.

This section is for contributors who plan on taking part, in creating and maintaining our wiki & FAQ content. You can write content, review content created by others, or check for spelling or grammatical errors. No contribution is small. Every drop matters, that go on to form oceans.

If you wish to work on technical side of things (Discord / GitHub automation and other cool stuff), then this document is probably not for you.

Who are we? 🧠

Yes yes, you're thinking well, duh, if I'm here I know who you are!, but we do need to address the elephant in the room and set clear ground-rules.

We're a bunch of anonymous internet surfers who decided it's time retail investors have access to decent guide on all things investing. That's all.

Why anonymous? Because we (well, some of us) value our privacy, and don't have any plans of creating a cult of persona around ourselves.

We aren't registered with any regulatory body, like SEBI, or even AMFI. We don't represent any financial institution. In fact, you should assume, unless explicitly stated otherwise, none of us have any formal financial background.

Most of the time, we hang out in , or its .

If these all seem vague details, keep in mind that our hands aren't tied by business interests. This project is being built as a non-profit open-source project, because we feel that most for-profit businesses would intentionally omit information that could be important for making financial decisions.

Banks and insurance companies haven't exactly done a great job at educating the retailers in this process, and that's quite an understatement. Studies show that ( | ) simply by falling victim to financial mis-selling.

Think of this project as a way to bridge this information asymmetry.

There might be other documentations and guides out there for some financial guidance; but to the best of our knowledge, nothing exists with such lofty goals!

How do I start? 🚀

Head Over To Our Public Task Board

Alternatively, find a column that has Lift off in its name. It's all the content that's been undergoing review right now.

If you've decided on how to contribute - reviewing existing content, or adding new content; head over to next section.

Find The Owner Of The Card

A card represents a unit of task. One of our core-team members would be tagged on that card, with display name / profile pic visible on it. This is the contact person for that card or the underlying task. If the card doesn't have any owner yet, no worries!

Someone there will guide you on what's required to complete that task, what has already been done etc. Once you've full context of all relevant work that has been done, or needs to be done, you'd be in a better position to contribute.

Using The Right Tools

If you plan on writing content, you can use any of the following tools for composing content:

If you're comfortable with Markdown and can handle more tech oriented tools, you can use

Use any of the above tools, as per your convenience, to create and share an early draft with us. Use the Discord channel mentioned above for sharing this. The owner of the card / task would take care of entering it into our repository, and you'd receive public credit for this work.

Your first few contributions would have to be merged to our wiki following this process. When your content is being reviewed, you'd receive comments with suggestions for improvements, if any. If your contributions meet the bar, and you seem engaged enough, we'll send you an invite to join our team and work with us directly on writing the wiki.

Advanced Contributors ✨

This section is not for every contributor. It's only for those whom we've invited to join our team.

We're Using GitBook

Once you get invited to join our team, it's expected that you'd put in some effort to understand how to use GitBook, what to do in it, and more importantly, what not to do!

We've made a small video that you can watch, to get a glimpse on how you can create and view content on our wiki, using GitBook.

Using Markdown and Git

You'll have to know how to use:

  • Git & GitHub you don't need to be proficient at using Git and GitHub, but it's appreciated if you know how to use them and do basic things like forking repositories and raising pull requests

Contributing to build a knowledge-base can be rewarding, often in unexpected ways. If nothing else, you get more clarity around your own understanding of some aspect of investing.

Here, you'd find . These are ripe for picking!

Head over to our channel, and share the card you wish to work on.

/ / editors with Markdown plugins

/ editors with Markdown plugins, if modal text editing is your thing or if using a text editor like an OS sounds appealing to you

It would help if you can create an account on and share your GitHub profile name with us (we highly recommend creating one, although it's not mandatory), so that we can .

, that you can refer to, if you have any specific query along the lines of how to do X in GitBook.

Markdown markdown is probably the most widespread markup language used for writing documentation on the Internet and it's

Once you've gone through the above, you'd be ready to help other contributors, especially beginners, shipping their contributions

Parting Thoughts

r/IndiaInvestments
Discord server
Indian households have collectively lost $28 billion
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It's hosted here on Trello
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GitBook has fantastic documentation
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This is how a Beginner label looks on our Trello board.
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The kb-discussions channel is the one you need!