Course 01 · Markets & Instruments
The markets you can actually trade, from stocks and forex to CFDs and futures, and how each one really works.
Trader Faculty Course
Markets & Instruments
8 lessons
Before any strategy or chart, you need to know what you are buying and where. This course walks through the main markets and instruments in plain language, so you can decide what to trade instead of guessing.
Trading is not investing, and it is not gambling. Here is what it really means to trade.
Shares, exchanges, and what actually happens when you buy a stock.
How companies raise money by selling shares, and how you make or lose money owning them.
The world's largest market, traded in pairs, 24 hours a day.
Contracts to buy or sell an asset at a set price on a future date.
Trade price movements without owning the asset. Powerful, and easy to misuse.
Contracts giving the right, not the obligation, to buy or sell at a set price.
The two market conditions every trader has to read.
After all 8 lessons
Best taken after you've finished all 8 lessons.
Complete beginners who want to understand the markets before risking any money.
Traders who already know the instruments and want strategy or execution.
Begin with the first lesson and work through the course at your own pace.
8 lessons
100 questions