Stock Trading for Beginners
Orders, brokers, charts and a rules-based plan before you risk money.
Taught by Aarav Shrestha · Trader & Markets Educator
What you'll learn
- Explain how exchanges, brokers, market makers and clearing houses move a trade from click to settlement
- Compare regulated brokers on fees, investor protection, account types and order execution
- Read a live quote, including bid, ask, spread, volume and market capitalisation
- Choose the right order type, from market and limit to stop-limit and trailing stop, for a given situation
- Size a position so the loss at your stop equals a fixed percentage of your account
- Write a trading plan and keep a journal that measures win rate and expectancy in R-multiples
About this course
Want to start trading stocks without learning every lesson the expensive way? This beginner stock trading course is for anyone who has opened, or is about to open, a brokerage account and wants to understand how the stock market really works before risking money. You will learn how exchanges, brokers and market makers fit together, how to choose a regulated broker, how to read a stock quote with its bid, ask and spread, and when to use market, limit, stop and stop-limit orders. You will read candlestick charts and volume, size every position so a single loss stays small, and write a rules-based trading plan and trading journal you can actually follow. No prior experience is needed beyond basic arithmetic, and optional Python examples show the maths behind position sizing and expectancy. The course is education, not financial advice.
Course content
7 lessons- 1How the Stock Market Actually WorksExchanges, brokers, market makers, indices and what happens after you press buy.Preview
- 2Choosing a Broker and Opening an AccountRegulation, investor protection, fees, account types and the checks to make before you deposit.
- 3Reading a Stock QuoteBid, ask, spread, volume, market cap and the other numbers on a quote screen, and what they cost you.
- 4Order Types and When to Use EachMarket, limit, stop, stop-limit and trailing stop orders, plus time-in-force settings and a pre-order checklist.
- 5Reading Price ChartsCandlesticks, timeframes, volume, trends and support and resistance for new traders.
- 6Risk per Trade and Position SizingThe 1% rule, stop placement, R-multiples and how to size every position from your stop.
- 7Your Trading Plan, Journal and Common MistakesWrite rules before you trade, journal every position and avoid the losses that sink most beginners.