Stock Day Trading, Swing Trading & Investing 3-Course Bundle

Learn what stocks are: shares of ownership in a company and claims in earnings, with market capitalization guiding small-, mid-, and large-cap investments for buying low and selling high.

Define day trading as selling shares within the same day to exploit short-term fluctuations. Contrast it with swing trading, held for days to months, and investing, held for years.

Explore unlimited profit potential in day trading within a few hours, trade from anywhere with internet, start with less capital, but note higher risk and no guaranteed income.

Compare buying and short selling in day trading, showing how to profit from rising and falling prices, and outline when to buy, sell, short and cover.

Learn how technical analysis forecasts stock price directions using past market data, patterns, and chart channels to guide day traders on when to buy and sell.

Compare line charts, candlestick charts, and high can charts to read price action, then use support and resistance and trend lines to time entries and exits.

Explore candlesticks and their open, high, low, close structure across time frames. Learn green and red candles, upper and lower wicks, and doji patterns as potential reversals.

Explore Level 2 and time & sales to read real-time price action, identify hidden buyers and sellers, and spot supply and demand imbalances for day trading.

Use price action with RSI and VWAP to confirm ideas and spot RSI overbought/oversold signals and intraday support and resistance.

Evaluate a stock's value through fundamental analysis by examining a company's earnings, profitability, revenue, assets, liabilities, and recent news to inform swing investing decisions.

Prioritize trading psychology, which accounts for about 80 percent of success. Avoid greed, fear, and missing out by following a clear plan.

Learn to manage risk in day trading by building a trade plan around support and resistance, cutting losses quickly, and targeting a 2-to-1 reward-to-risk ratio.

Learn to trade breakouts with high accuracy by waiting for resistance to become support, recognizing false breakouts, and using that level as a low-risk entry for intraday stocks.

Learn how limit, market, and stop orders work and when to use them. Limit orders fill at price or better; market orders fill with slippage; stop orders automate loss limits.

Explore intraday charts on thinker swim to apply technical analysis, using support, resistance, and trend lines to identify uptrends and downtrends, and plan entries, exits, and RSI-based signals.

Practice price action techniques in part 1 to sharpen day trading, swing trading, and investing skills.

Master price action techniques through focused practice in part 2 of the stock day trading, swing trading, and investing bundle.

Learn how part-time swing trading works by using free scanners and screeners to find opportunities, create a trade plan, and automate exits with market alerts and pre-placed orders.

Spot and trade the trend by identifying uptrends and downtrends, noting higher highs, higher lows, lower highs, and lower lows, and apply trend lines as support or resistance.

Learn to quickly identify top swing trade candidates using finviz screeners, applying criteria like monthly performance, price, volume, rsi, and institutional ownership to spot uptrends and shortlist short selling.

Analyze shortlisted stocks by examining SEC filings for dilution red flags, assess upcoming catalysts and earnings events, then apply technical analysis to time entries or exits for swing trades.

Apply basic technical analysis to time entries, using support and resistance, trend lines, and pivot highs and lows to secure the best prices for long or short positions. Identify uptrends with trend lines below pivot lows and downtrends with trend lines above pivot highs to guide entries at support or at overhead resistance.

Define a pre-trade plan with reward-to-risk targets, identify exit points using trendline support and resistance, and place linked orders to lock in profits or cut losses.

Explore practical swing trading by identifying uptrends with criteria, evaluating dilution risks with SEC filings, and applying basic technical analysis to plan buy and sell entries and short sales.

Start small with stock market investing and invest only money you can afford to lose; study to build a solid strategy and aim to beat the S&P 500’s 10% return.

Navigate a brokerage account, view balances and positions, and manage deposits, withdrawals, and history. Explore order types, research tools, market overview, earnings calendar, stock profiles, and news to identify investments.

Learn to identify winning stocks through fundamental and technical analysis. Explore 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K filings, 25 percent EPS growth, institutional ownership thresholds, and uptrend signals via a market screener.

Understand how quarterly dividends provide extra income while evaluating a stock's fundamentals and technicals, and learn to read ex-dividend and payment dates.

Diversify your portfolio by investing in stocks, ETFs, bonds, and mutual funds to manage risk, reduce losses, and balance potential winners across market sectors.

Develop an investment plan by setting position size, defining risk level, and mapping profit targets with technical analysis, resistance levels, and locking in profits.

Learn how to rebalance a diversified stock portfolio by periodically selling underperformers and adding to winners, while tracking risk, return targets, and investment performance in Excel or Numbers.

Discover how to tax stock market profits and losses, including long-term vs short-term capital gains, tax rates, and write-offs such as computers and education that reduce taxable income.

Learn the top investing rule: do not follow gurus or analysts for buy or sell alerts. Invest on your own by learning how to invest properly to succeed long term.

Respect your plan by exiting at risk or target levels and sticking to the strategy; use support and resistance levels to guide exits and minimize risk.

Apply investing rule #3: do not get emotional; rely on computer algorithms that trade without emotion, stay level-headed, and avoid greed, anxiety, and fear; do not monitor P&L until exit.

Start with a small position and add to it only after price confirms your plan, to minimize risk and avoid buying all at once.

Invest in the company, not the stock, by focusing on strong fundamentals and improving financials for longer-term investing. When fundamentals lead, the stock’s technicals tend to follow.

Explore the thinker swim platform by TD Ameritrade, set up a workspace with linked charts, live news, and watch lists, and learn to trade with active trader and bracket orders.

Practice risk-free stock trading with 100% free paper trading on TD Ameritrade's platform, mastering market and limit orders and auto sandbox for long and short positions.

Explore key stock market terms from arbitrage and bear markets to short squeezes and liquidity, with definitions for day trading, swing trading, IPOs, and margins.