Beginner

Trading Foundations: From First Quote to First Plan

A step-by-step course for complete beginners. You learn how markets and orders work, how to control risk before anything else, how to read price, and how to turn an idea into a tested plan. Education only: nothing here is a recommendation to trade.

Lessons: 31
Duration: About 4 hours
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Lessons

Module 1

Orientation

What trading is, how it differs from investing, who takes part in markets and why prices move.

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#	Lesson	Time
1	How this course works: your roadmap	7 min
2	Trading and investing are different games	8 min
3	Markets, the people in them, and what is traded	8 min
4	Why prices move: orders, liquidity and news	9 min

Module 2

How trading works

Quotes, orders, currency pairs, leverage, the numbers in your account and what trading costs.

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#	Lesson	Time
5	Reading a quote: bid, ask and spread	7 min
6	Long, short and the main order types	10 min
7	Forex basics: pairs, pips, lots and sessions	10 min
8	CFDs, margin and leverage	10 min
9	Your account numbers: balance, equity and margin	8 min
10	What trading costs: spread, commission, swap and slippage	8 min

Module 3

Risk first

Deciding how much you can lose, where a trade is wrong and how large it may be, before you enter.

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#	Lesson	Time
11	Risk management: staying in the game	10 min
12	Stop loss and take profit: plan the exit first	9 min
13	Position sizing: how large a trade may be	10 min

Module 4

Reading price

Charts, candles, levels, trends and timeframes: describing what price has done without guessing what it will do.

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#	Lesson	Time
14	How to read a chart	9 min
15	Candlesticks without the hype	9 min
16	Support and resistance: levels that matter	9 min
17	Trends, trendlines and market structure	9 min
18	Using more than one timeframe	8 min

Module 5

Indicators

Moving averages, momentum, volume and volatility as supporting context, with their limits.

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#	Lesson	Time
19	Moving averages: a filter, not a signal	8 min
20	Momentum indicators: RSI and MACD	9 min
21	Volume and volatility: participation and risk	8 min

Module 6

Context and style

News, the economic calendar, what central banks do, and choosing a trading style that fits your life.

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#	Lesson	Time
22	News and the economic calendar	8 min
23	Inflation, interest rates and central banks	8 min
24	Day trading or swing trading: choosing a style	7 min

Module 7

Process and psychology

A written plan, a journal, the emotional traps every trader meets and the mistakes that cost beginners most.

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#	Lesson	Time
25	Building a trading plan	8 min
26	The trading journal	7 min
27	Trading psychology: discipline and bias	8 min
28	Common beginner mistakes, and how to avoid them	7 min

Module 8

Strategy and next steps

Turning one idea into rules, testing it honestly, and choosing a broker and platform with care.

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#	Lesson	Time
29	From an idea to a simple strategy	9 min
30	Testing a strategy: backtest, then forward test	9 min
31	Choosing a broker and platform, and where to go next	8 min

Education only. Nothing here is financial advice or a recommendation to trade. Trading involves risk and you can lose money.