Stock Market Trading & Investing: 8 Courses In 1 Bundle!

Learn how valuation ratios, especially the price to earnings ratio, assess fair value, compare stocks to peers, and guide decisions on profitable and emerging companies.

Explore the price/earnings ratio (p/e) to compare stock price with earnings per share on the income statement, identifying overvalued or undervalued stocks versus industry peers.

Learn how the peg ratio refines the price/earnings ratio by dividing it by projected earnings growth per share. Use peg values below one to spot undervalued stocks with growth.

Technical analysis uses supply and demand to identify trends, breakouts, and retracements, but it’s not perfect and you’ll apply stop losses and exit strategies while deciding investment amounts.

Explore price bars to learn how open, high, low, and close reveal sentiment and the trading range. See how closing prices indicate buy or sell pressure and guide trend interpretation.

Interpret candlestick price bars by reading open, high, low, and close. Analyze the upper and lower shadows, body color, and patterns like doji to spot bullish or bearish opportunities.

Draw a resistance line from the highest high to trace a downtrend, updating with highs before lows and extending the line. A break ends the downtrend and suggests short selling.

Strategize around false trend line breaks using support and resistance, stop-loss orders, and partial profit-taking. Use the Trader Vic 1-2-3 rule to confirm breakouts, evaluate pullbacks, and protect profits.

Identify triangle chart patterns formed by converging support and resistance lines; a breakout continues the prior trend, with ascending or descending triangles defined by horizontal lines and multiple touches.

Discover how moving averages serve as a key lagging indicator in technical analysis, smoothing price action to reveal trends and guide trading decisions using simple and other averaging methods.

Compare simple, weighted, exponential, and adaptive moving averages to weight recent prices more. Explore crossovers, the Kaufman adaptive moving average (KMR), and platform defaults shaping trading signals.

Recognize moving averages as indicators, but there are no magical numbers; common frames like 20-day and 200-day influence support, resistance, and cross signals such as death cross and golden cross.

Examine moving average limitations, learn to use them with other indicators, manage noise and lag, and recognize channels, support and resistance for smarter crossovers in sideways markets.

Use moving average crossovers to signal buys and sells by comparing a short-term average (like 5-day) with a longer one (like 20-day), not price itself.

Explore how dividend paying stocks provide regular passive income and potential price growth, with resilience in bear markets and diversification through REITs and MLPs.

Learn to evaluate dividend stocks using dividend amount, forward dividend yield, and payout ratio to compare income potential and sustainability across Coca-Cola, Pepsi, and Apple.

Dividends reward owners and attract investors by providing quarterly income and signaling financial strength, while promoting discipline and retaining shareholders as dividends may grow over time.

Explain why profitable companies skip paying dividends, reinvesting cash into R&D and expansion or stock buybacks, guided by earnings confidence and growth goals.

Understand that dividends are not guaranteed and can vary quarterly; assess balance sheets, cash on hand, profits, and the risk of payout cuts.

Explore how stock splits increase the number of shares and adjust price and dividends without changing total value, making stocks more accessible and boosting investor flexibility.

Identify distressed, unloved stocks ripe for unlocking value through spin-offs, divestitures, or bankruptcy recovery, and capitalize as the market revalues their underlying assets like Kraft, Alibaba, or Yahoo.

Explore economies of scale as a moat, where big upfront costs yield cost savings and higher production, creating barriers to entry for competitors.

Learn to recognize value traps by evaluating seven factors—earnings and cash flow, business plan, management, accounting, balance sheet, competitive advantage, and future growth—to distinguish traps from value opportunities.

Avoid catching a falling knife by using qualitative and quantitative criteria to judge a stock's value. Rely on moving averages, support levels, and margin of safety for buy decisions.

Explore the wide range of mutual funds—from stock and bond funds to international and sector funds, broad stock market options, and socially responsible choices.

Compare mutual funds and ETFs to see diversification across baskets of securities, differences in active versus passive management, and cost structures such as expense ratios and load/no-load options.

Choose an online stockbroker by verifying country availability, trust, and account types, and understand order placement types; then compare fees, interface, and education to fit your investing style.

Explore how the spread, bid and ask prices, and stock quotes determine transaction costs and market liquidity, and learn how market makers facilitate trades.

Learn how to place buy and sell orders using different order types, understanding their strengths, weaknesses, and purposes to improve trading success with your online broker.

Explore market and limit orders. Market orders execute at the market price, subject to timing, while limit orders set max buys or min sells and may not fill.

Set bracketed orders to lock profit targets while protecting downside with a trailing stop and an upper limit on a market order.

Examine the incredible growth of SPACs as a faster, lower-cost path for private companies to go public, with strong oversight and reliance on established managers.

Explore whether SPACs typically buy growth or value targets, focusing on fundraising, marketing, and exceptions through examples like travel amid COVID and space ventures.

Evaluate SPACs by analyzing the management team, stated goals, and the prospectus, including warrants and terms. Compare pre-deal and post-deal timing, diversify holdings, and start small to build a strategy.

Explore the SPAC timeline from formation to closing, covering the two-year window, target searches, negotiations, shareholder votes, and conversion to a new public company.

Learn how SPAC warrants act as investor sweeteners, covering units, common stock, and warrant terms, including strike price, exercise, five-year term, calls, and separation of common stock and warrants.

Look ahead to a promising SPAC future as established managers and stronger regulation boost confidence, while watchful eyes on celebrity investors and deal quality guard against volatility.