SEBI study, FY25 · ~91% of F&O traders lost money
A genuinely educational live masterclass on how the market actually works — risk first, process always. No tips. No signals. No income promises. Just the honest skills the small minority of consistent traders rely on.
Taught by Abul Kalam, NISM‑Certified Research Analyst · 4,200+ learners · Rated 4.8★ · No buy/sell tips, ever.
Learners
4,200+
Indian traders trained since 2021
Rating
4.8★
Verified, unedited reviews
Tips given
0
No buy/sell calls — ever.
Refund window
7‑day
No‑questions, full refund.
§ 01 — The Problem
You opened a demat account. You watched the reels. You took a few trades on a “gut feeling” or a tip from a Telegram group — and the account is bleeding.
You’re not stupid. You were never taught a system.
F&O loss‑makers, FY25
91%
of individual F&O traders ended the year in the red.
Aggregate losses
₹1.05L Cr
net P&L deficit across retail F&O participants.
Average per person
₹1.1L
average annual loss per loss‑making trader.
The difference between the nine who lose and the one who doesn’t is almost never “a better tip.” It’s a repeatable process and ruthless risk management — which nobody ever sat you down and taught. Until now.
§ 02 — The Reframe
Here’s the part the gurus won’t tell you, because it doesn’t sell dreams: trading is a learnable skill, not a jackpot.
It’s closer to flying a plane than to buying a lottery ticket. Pilots don’t “feel” their way through a flight — they follow checklists and manage risk relentlessly. We teach trading the same way: a defined process, a written plan, position sizing, and the psychology to actually follow your own rules.
We can’t promise you profits. Anyone who does is lying or breaking the law. What we can do is teach you to think and act like a disciplined trader — and tell you the honest truth about the odds while we do it.
The 9 — Lottery thinking
The 1 — Pilot’s checklist
§ 03 — Methodology
Most courses teach this backwards — strategy first, risk as an afterthought. That’s exactly why most students still lose. We flip it.
Risk rules, position sizing, max‑drawdown limits — taught first, on purpose. Before you learn a single chart pattern, you’ll know exactly how much you’re allowed to lose on a trade, in a day, and in a month, and what stops you when you hit it.
Read price honestly: trend, support and resistance, market structure. Worked through on historical charts only — no live calls, no “this stock now” — so the lesson is the method, not a tip in disguise.
A written, rules‑based trading plan — entries, exits, and, most importantly, when not to trade. If a setup isn’t in your plan, you don’t take it. That single discipline removes most of the trades that bleed accounts.
Psychology, journaling, review — the habits the 1‑in‑10 actually keep. Weekly self‑review of every trade, an honest read on FOMO and revenge‑trading, and the systems that let you follow your own rules even on a bad day.
→ Notice the order. Survive comes before Strategy. That ordering is the curriculum.
Abul Kalam
NISM‑Certified Research Analyst · 12+ yrs in markets
Credentials
§ 04 — The Founder
I came into the markets the way most retail traders do — convinced I could “figure it out,” chasing whatever was moving on the screen, and quietly burning through capital while telling myself the next trade would fix the last one. In my first eighteen months I wiped out more than half of what I had put in. There was no tip, no setup, and no broker to blame; the problem was that I had never been taught a single thing about risk, process, or plan.
What changed wasn’t a magic strategy. It was the order of operations. I sat down, wrote actual rules, capped how much I was allowed to lose in a day, and forced myself to journal every trade — winners and losers — for a year. The strategy I ended up using was almost embarrassingly simple. The difference between the trader I was at month 18 and the trader I was at month 30 was not skill at finding trades; it was discipline at refusing them.
I built the Anti‑Loss Academy because I’m angry at the version of this industry that sold me dreams and at the version that still sells them to people I know. I teach a defined, written, risk‑first process — the same one I use myself — and I refuse to pretend trading is easy or that anyone can guarantee what your account will do. We can only guarantee the quality of the education and the honesty of the conversation. That is, on purpose, the entire promise.
§ 05 — Student Results
We measure success by how our students think and act — checklists, position sizing, stop‑loss discipline — not by claims about their account balance.
Before this I was randomly buying options on tips and losing every month. Now I have a checklist, I size my positions, and I actually follow my stop‑loss. I treat it like a skill now, not a gamble.
Rohit S.
Bengaluru · learner, 2024 cohort
The biggest change wasn’t a strategy — it was that I finally understood why I’d been losing. I stopped revenge‑trading. That alone changed everything for me.
Priya M.
Pune · learner, 2024 cohort
I have a full‑time job and was trying to trade between meetings — badly. The course made me admit I shouldn’t be in a trade at all on most days. My “do‑not‑trade list” is the most valuable thing I’ve written all year.
Vikram T.
Hyderabad · learner, 2023 cohort
Disclaimer: Individual results vary. The testimonials above describe learning outcomes and discipline, not guaranteed financial returns. Trading and investing in securities carries the risk of substantial loss, including loss of capital. Past behaviour of a learner does not predict the future behaviour of any individual or of the markets.
§ 06 — Curriculum
Seven modules across the live masterclass and the on‑demand library. Notice that the first half is risk and process — that’s not an accident.
A clear‑eyed look at the real, structural reasons most retail traders lose — overtrading, asymmetric costs, the psychology of small wins and big losses, and the data behind every claim. You leave knowing exactly which of the “nine” mistakes you’ve been making, by name.
Position sizing from first principles, R‑multiples, expectancy, max‑drawdown rules and the math of ruin. You will leave this module with a written, account‑specific risk plan — a maximum loss per trade, per day and per month — that you can apply tomorrow.
Trend, support and resistance, and market structure — taught entirely on historical charts. You learn to identify what the chart is telling you without the noise of indicators stacked on indicators, and without anyone telling you what to do with the next candle.
A page‑by‑page workshop where you draft, edit and finalise your own written trading plan — entries, exits, instruments, timeframes, and an explicit “do‑not‑trade” list. By the end you have a one‑page document that decides for you when your emotions can’t.
FOMO, revenge‑trading, the dopamine loop of green candles, the way a single big loss rewires you for the next week — and the discipline systems that put a process between your impulse and your order ticket. Less inspiration, more checklists.
The compounding habit most traders skip. A simple daily journal template, a weekly self‑review ritual, and a monthly “what is my edge actually doing?” audit. This is how the 1‑in‑10 learn from their own mistakes faster than the market can punish them.
A paper‑trading framework: observed, educational practice — never live calls — where you execute your written plan against historical and live‑observed data, log it, and review it with the cohort. You leave with evidence of your own behaviour, not a promise about your returns.
§ 07 — Bonus Stack
Five practical assets included with the masterclass. Nothing is a “tips group.”
Risk & Position‑Size Calculator
A working Excel sheet (and the live widget below) so position size is never a guess again.
1‑Page Trading Plan template
The exact one‑page document we workshop in Module 04 — fillable, printable, no fluff.
“How to Spot a Trading Scam” guide
A field guide to “HNI calls,” fake screenshots, and the most common India‑specific scams.
Lifetime access to recordings
Re‑watch any module, any time. Future updates to the curriculum are included.
Private learning community
Q&A, journaling accountability, and weekly office hours with Abul. It is not a tips group. Anyone posting buy/sell calls is removed without warning.
§ 08 — Try it now
This is the first thing every disciplined trader does before entering a trade. Type your capital, your risk per trade (the textbook is 1–2%), and the stop‑loss distance — and never size a position by feel again.
Formula: Position Size = (Capital × Risk %) ÷ Stop‑loss %. Educational. Not a recommendation.
Position Size
₹2,50,000
Maximum capital you can deploy on this single trade so that hitting your stop‑loss costs exactly your defined risk.
You risk
₹5,000
on this trade if the stop is hit.
§ 09 — FAQ
If a question below makes you trust us less, it’s probably the most important one to read.
No. That would be illegal for an educator who is not a registered investment adviser, and frankly it’s not how you build skill. We teach you to make your own decisions and rely on no one’s calls — including ours.
No — and run from anyone who does. About 9 in 10 traders lose money; we teach the discipline that is shared by the skilled minority, but the result still depends on you, your capital, your discipline, and conditions in the market.
The opposite. People are going to trade whether we exist or not. We’d rather they go in with eyes open, with the right skills, and with a working understanding of the odds — instead of being sold a fantasy by someone who is happy to take their money.
Yes — that audience is exactly who this is built for. The masterclass is taught live, and every session is recorded so you can re‑watch on your own schedule. The journaling and review systems we teach are deliberately built around people with a day job, not full‑time screen‑staring.
The instructor is NISM‑certified (Series XV — Research Analyst; Series VIII — Equity Derivatives). The Anti‑Loss Academy operates strictly as an educator: we do not offer investment advisory, portfolio management, or buy/sell recommendations of any kind. If, in the future, we register with SEBI in any capacity, that will be disclosed explicitly on this page and in the footer — never implied.
§ 10 — Guarantee
7‑day, no‑questions‑asked refund.
If, within seven days of starting the course, the teaching isn’t clearly more rigorous and more honest than anything else you’ve tried, write to us once — and you get every rupee back. No forms, no objections, no friction.
We can’t guarantee trading outcomes — nobody can — so we guarantee the one thing we control: the quality and honesty of the education.
Live cohort — limited seats
The next live cohort starts Monday, 12 August 2026. Seats are capped at 80 so the Q&A stays personal — and so we can read every journal entry that comes in.
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Investments / trading in securities markets are subject to market risks. Read all the related documents carefully before investing. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The Anti‑Loss Academy is an educator; it does not provide buy/sell recommendations.