Smarter Stock Investing and Stock Trading Foundation Course

Explore the basics of stock trading and investing, decide your trader type, and compare share dealing versus CFDs, plus what stock is and differences between public and private companies.

Compare private and public companies and learn why public stocks trade on NASDAQ or LSE, with examples like Google, Apple, Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft.

Explore the origins of stock exchanges, from coffee shop gatherings and commissions to the creation of the New York Stock Exchange, and understand how assets trade via brokers on Nasdaq.

Set up your eToro trading account profile, switch between demo and real portfolios, deposit funds, and learn about CFDs, fractional shares, and currency risk.

Learn to find stocks using exchange and industry filters, search by company name or ticker, and verify listings on a broker platform like eToro for precise stock selection.

Explore three core stock order types—market orders, limit entry orders, and stop entry orders—and how traders use them to enter positions, set price targets, and follow trends.

Learn how to buy a stock with a market order and set stop loss and take profit on eToro. Understand reward-to-risk ratios and the role of leverage in trading.

Explore how bid and ask prices determine the spread in stock trading. See why this trading cost affects every buy or sell.

Identify key market players, retail investors, mutual funds, ETFs, and hedge funds, and learn how their buying and selling power, in the order book, moves prices by supply and demand.

Understand how market cap is calculated (share price times shares outstanding) and compare mega to micro caps, including liquidity, dividends, and risk profiles.

Explore growth stocks versus value stocks, comparing volatility, dividend patterns, and business models to help investors choose between high-growth potential and steady, dividend-oriented opportunities.

Compare technical, fundamental, and macroeconomic analysis to time buys and sells, learn key terms like bullish and bearish, and use historical price charts to spot trends and patterns.

Explore line charts, bar charts, and candlestick charts on TradingView to perform technical analysis, interpreting opening, closing, highs, lows, and timeframes from daily to hourly.

Identify gaps in price charts, including gap up and gap down, caused by opening prices and earnings reports, and recognize how these gaps can affect stop-loss orders for short-term traders.

Master candlestick analysis to read patterns that signal reversals, such as bullish and bearish engulfing, hammer, and doji. Apply the logic behind these formations to identify buying or selling opportunities.

Explore how support and resistance define price levels or ranges where demand rises and supply increases. See examples and charts, including drawing a rectangle to highlight price ranges.

Identify uptrends, downtrends, and sideways trends by analyzing higher highs, higher lows, and the opposite, then draw trend lines as support and resistance and trade them via rejection and breakout.

Explore how volume, average volume, and relative volume illuminate trading activity on daily and intraday charts. Learn to apply the volume indicator thoughtfully within technical analysis and short term investing.

Learn to place stop loss and take profit using support and resistance, RSI, and moving averages, and apply patterns like pennants, rejections, and breakouts.

Opportunities in the market aren’t guaranteed; treat charts like a football match, spotting setups when present and moving on when they aren’t. With over 4000 US stocks, avoid unclear charts.

Apply fundamental analysis and value investing to gauge a stock's intrinsic value by reviewing balance sheets, income statements, cash flow statements, and qualitative factors.

Discover how to use the price to earnings ratio and earnings per share to evaluate stock value while noting trailing versus forward PE and the risk of one-time earnings.

Compare growth and value stocks using the PEG ratio, calculated as the PE ratio divided by earnings growth; evaluate analyst estimates and sources, and recognize PEG's limitations.

Explore the price to book ratio, comparing market capitalization to equity to judge value; below 1 is undervalued, above 1 overvalued, considering tangible versus intangible assets.

Identify durable competitive advantages, or economic moats, in a company's business model by analyzing cost advantages, network effects, high switching costs, and intangible assets such as brand recognition.

Assess a company's management by examining tenure of the CEO and top executives, their strategy and goals, insider buying and options, and compensation to gauge alignment with shareholders.

identify industries with growth potential, diversify across at least five sectors with no more than 20% each, and rely on reliable sources and personal observation to spot evolving trends.

Master macroeconomic analysis by examining GDP, unemployment, inflation, and how fiscal and central bank measures, especially interest rates, shape stock markets.

Learn how expectancy, not win rate, drives profitability by comparing risk to reward ratios and calculating expected value across trades, with practical examples and a trading journal.

Learn to use a trading journal to record and review investments, track risk and reward, analyze patterns, and improve trading with a free Excel template and dashboards.

Learn to manage risk in stock investing by balancing unsystematic and systematic risk, diversifying portfolios, and setting per-trade risk to control drawdown according to your risk tolerance, attitude, and capacity.

Compare four risk management approaches for trading—standard risk per balance, expectancy-based methods including the Kelly Criterion, D'Alembert and Martingale systems, and percentage of balance—to optimize risk while acknowledging drawdowns.

Learn to spot scammers by comparing sustainable returns of Buffett and Burry with flashy 20% monthly promises, demand third-party proof, and stay grounded in realistic expectations.

Explore how loss aversion and anchoring shape trader decisions in behavioral finance. Implement risk-management practices like stop losses and take profits to curb overtrading and revenge trading.

Allocate 20–80% of your account to stocks and keep the rest in liquid assets for downturns. Diversify across 10–30 stocks to reduce unsystematic risk, and rebalance as needed across sectors.