Trading stocks
Markets have a vocabulary that keeps outsiders out, and most of it describes simple ideas. This course explains what shares are, how prices are set and where the costs and risks sit. It explains how markets work; it is not advice about what to buy.
What you'll learn
12 chapters, then the quiz
- 01What a share isOwnership, not a loan.
- 02Exchanges and brokersWho stands between you and the market.
- 03How a price is setThe order book, bid and ask.
- 04Order typesMarket, limit and stop.
- 05What it costsThe fees, spreads and taxes that eat returns.
- 06Reading a companyRevenue, profit and the ratios.
- 07Dividends and returnsTwo ways a holding pays you.
- 08Indexes and fundsBuying the market instead of picking.
- 09Risk and diversificationWhat can go wrong, and what helps.
- 10Market cyclesBulls, bears and corrections.
- 11Psychology and mistakesWhy most losses are self-inflicted.
- 12Learning furtherWhere to go after this.
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