All trading guides
9 guides, written for people who have never placed a trade. If you are new, start with What Is Stock Trading? and work down the Foundations list, then move to Getting started.
Foundations
Foundations
What Is Stock Trading?
What a share actually is, how exchanges match buyers with sellers, why prices move every second, and what trading really costs.
Foundations
Trading vs. Investing
Time horizon, source of profit, costs, taxes, and odds compared side by side, with help deciding which approach fits you.
Foundations
Day vs. Swing vs. Position Trading
Holding periods, time required, capital needed, and the pattern day trader rule, so you can pick a style that fits your life.
Getting started
Getting started
How to Start Trading Stocks
Seven practical steps from zero to your first trade: goals, broker, funding, plan, paper trading, execution, and review.
Getting started
Stock Order Types Explained
Market, limit, stop, stop-limit, and trailing stop orders with examples, and which one to use when.
Analysis
Analysis
Technical Analysis Basics
Candlesticks, trends, support and resistance, volume, moving averages, and RSI, plus what technical analysis cannot do.
Analysis
Fundamental Analysis Basics
Reading the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow, plus P/E, EPS, and the other ratios that matter.
Risk
Risk
Risk Management in Trading
The 1% rule, a position sizing formula with examples, stop-loss placement, risk/reward, expectancy, and loss limits.
Reference
Reference
Trading Glossary
Plain-English definitions of 80+ terms you will meet on every broker platform and in every trading guide.
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