Stock Trading Simple Beginner Guide

Name: Stock Trading Simple Beginner Guide
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Learn how to trade stocks without the use of any complicated technical explanations.

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Created byAdley Telfort

Last updated 5/2025

English

What you'll learn

Basic understanding of how the stock market works.
How to understand charts, Candlestick Patterns, Chart Patters, Volume and Technical Indicators.
How to Buy/Sell stocks and different Order Types.
Risk Management: how to reduce losses by placing automatic Stop loss and Take Profit settings.
How to use Stock Screener to identify Stocks that are in uptrend.

Course content

5 sections • 23 lectures • 1h 15m total length

Introduction Course Objective & Outline1:07
Learn to read line and candlestick charts, and use indicators to gauge market direction. Discover resources for filtering stocks, live economic news, and practical trading strategies.
What is Stock Trading1:22
Discover stock trading as buying and selling stocks on the stock market to profit from price moves, using timing to buy low and sell high.
Stock Market vs Stock Exchange1:18
Learn the difference between a stock exchange and the stock market, with NYSE and Nasdaq as main examples, and how exchanges list companies for public trading.
What's a Broker0:49
Learn what a broker is and how online platforms like Robinhood, E-Trade, and Interactive Brokers let you buy and sell stocks without calling a broker.

Intro0:30
Explore essential tools and resources for this stock trading course, including free and paid brokers, stock screeners, charting tools, and newsfeeds, with free options available.
Recommended Brokers0:50
Use any broker you like; this course uses a trading simulator with paper money. Recommended brokers include interactive trading station, Webull, OANDA, AMP futures, Tastytrade, and forex.
Recommended Stock Screener3:33
Learn to use Finviz stock screener to filter stocks by price (20–50), average volume over 2 million, and ATR above $2, for a $500 account.
Recommended Charting Tool1:19
Sign up for the free version of TradingView, one of the best charting tools used by many professional traders. Learn to read and set up the chart, and add indicators.
Recommended News Feed4:51
Learn to use investing.com's economic, holiday, and earnings calendars to filter US reports, prioritize three-star releases, and time trades by release times and affected industries.

Intro0:42
Set up your stock chart and learn the key indicators professional traders rely on to predict price direction, including line versus candlestick charts, trends, and support and resistance.
Line Chart vs Candlestick Chart9:03
Explore the difference between line charts and candlestick charts, showing open, close, high, and low data. Learn candlestick parts—the body and upper and lower wicks—and how color signals price movement.
Trends6:45
Identify three trends—uptrend, sideways trend, and downtrend—using a Boeing four-hour chart, with pullbacks defining the uptrend and lower lows defining the downtrend. See how price ranges indicate sideways movement.
Volume3:07
Learn to use the volume indicator and volume bars in Trading View to gauge potential trend changes by analyzing candlesticks on the one day time frame.
Support & Resistance4:30
Add and use the support and resistance indicator to define price zones, identify entry and exit points, set stops, and save it as a favorite for default charts.
Gx/Dx Indicator11:19
Identify uptrends and downtrends with the gx/dx indicator, using green and red lines to spot true and fake golden cross and death cross signals and time entries and exits.
Average True Range (ATR)2:41
Add and use the average true range indicator (atr) to visualize daily and intraday price movements across timeframes, showing how much Apple stock typically moves and guiding trading decisions.

Setting up practice account3:55
Set up your virtual trading account by connecting to paper trading on Trading View, adjust commissions to $1.25, set 1:1 for stocks and other assets, and load a $500 balance.
Market Order3:52
Place a market order in a paper trading account, buy one share at 34.84, and monitor price movements, commissions, unrealized profit, and available funds.
Stop Loss - Take Profit5:33
Set stop loss and take profit levels either after entering a trade or when opening it, using price points that automatically exit to lock in profits or limit losses.
Limit Order4:29
Learn to place a limit order to buy a stock when its price drops to a set point, using the chart's blue line to set and adjust the price.
Stop Order2:53
learn how stop orders trigger a buy when price rises above a level. compare stop, limit, and market orders, and understand stop loss and take profit on pending orders.
Trading Station Setup0:17

Requirements

A laptop or desktop computer.
No experience needed.
Free version of all learning software.

Description

In this course you will learn how to trade stocks without the use of any complicated technical explanations. You will learn how to read charts, understand indicators which are all of the additional lines and graphics you typically see on the computer screens of most professional traders. This course will only focus on the key indicators that you need to make successful stock trades.

I'll teach you how to use stock screeners to filter through thousands of stocks

I'll teach you how to identify an entry point take profit point as well as a stop loss point.

We'll go over the different order types that you can put in when buying stocks.

This course is catered mainly to beginners who will be starting off with a small account anywhere between $300 to $500.

This course is targeted at beginners that want to start trading stocks but don't necessarily want to or have the time to sit in front of a computer watching the stock market for hours on a daily basis.

You will learn how to use an economic calendar to determine what days you should and should not trade as well as which industry stocks you want to avoid based on the economic calendar, which is reports that the government release in regards to different sectors of the economy you will also learn how to use and earnings calendar which let you know when companies are releasing their earnings report which can affect a company's stock.

Who this course is for:

Beginners with no experience who want to learn in the simplest way.
Self-Taught Traders who want to learn more like, how to better time their trade entries and exits.
Individuals who want to learn the most important but basic information that are needed in trading.

Stock Trading Simple Beginner Guide

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Course content

Basic Trading Knowledge4 lectures • 5min

Recommended Tools/Resources5 lectures • 11min

Setting Up Charts7 lectures • 38min

Placing Trades6 lectures • 21min

Conclusion1 lecture • 1min

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