Stock Trading 101
What you’ll learn
- Understand how the stock market works and who participates in it
- Read a stock quote and interpret basic chart data
- Identify trends, support levels, and resistance levels on a price chart
- Place your first trade using a brokerage account with confidence
- Manage basic risk and know when to exit a position
- Avoid the most common mistakes beginner traders make
Course curriculum
What Is the Stock Market?
How stocks are created, what exchanges do, why prices move, and the difference between investing and trading.
Reading a Stock Quote and Chart
Open, high, low, close, volume, market cap, and how to interpret a candlestick chart from scratch.
Trends, Support, and Resistance
Drawing trend lines, identifying key price levels, and understanding why markets bounce and break at the same zones repeatedly.
Basic Risk Management
Setting a stop-loss, calculating how much to risk per trade, and knowing when to cut a position before it becomes a serious loss.
Making Your First Trade
Choosing a broker, placing a market and limit order, reviewing the trade, and building the habit of journaling every position.
Who this course is for
- Complete beginners with no prior knowledge of stocks or trading
- People who want to understand how markets work before putting money in
- Investors curious about short-term trading for the first time
- Anyone who started trading without a plan and wants a proper foundation