Trading Shares Online: Guide To Profits

The complete course in Online Investing in user-friendly steps with the help of a leading expert.

Created byAlpesh Patel

Last updated 10/2025

English

What you'll learn

Stand over the shoulder of an award-winning share picker
Trade and invest online in shares and funds with confidence and skill
Totally understand how to pick winning shares
Know the best online websites for researching winning shares
Spot the key difference between a winning and losing investment strategy
Choose the right online broker to suit their needs
Comfortably, confidently navigate the handful of essential websites to invest online profitably
Spend the least time online, to get the most from their investments and free up their research time
Screen for the best stocks in seconds
Invest online in US, UK, European and Emerging Markets with less risk and more return

Course content

11 sections • 75 lectures • 5h 41m total length

A Quick Hello From Your Instuctor3:07
Course Overview4:43
In this introduction you get an overview of the whole course; what will you be learning and also one great guarantee - just ask me anything at all, any extra materials or videos you need and I will provide them - forever!
All Your Trading and Investing Problems26:24
This lecture explains the major hurdles faced by all traders and investors. It will give you the confidence to know you are not alone in your trading.
All Your Trading and Investing Solutions10:47
In this lecture we now take an overview of the solutions to your major trading problems. This is in essence all the solutions we will examine in this course.
Introduction to Stock Exchanges6:29
This quick short lecture explains how stock exchanges work, so you can trade and invest online with more confidence.
Introduction to Stocks6:48
After this lecture you will:

Understand how stocks are issued

What a stock represents

Why stocks exist

The overview of the stock market
Stock Market Index10:39
By the end of this lecture you will be:

Understand what is an index like the FTSE or Dow or Nasdaq

Be comfortable to trade the index

Understand how to benchmark your stock picking against an Index
Trading & Investing9:52
What is the important distinction between online trading and online investing - which one are you suited to?

Valuing a Company Online In Simple Quick Easy Steps: Apple Example13:14
After this lecture you will be able to:

Value a company quickly

Understand how professionals value company

Know what to look for when valuing a company

Be professional in your approach to picking stocks
What Makes Analysts Say 'Buy': Harvard Business School0:03
Financial Strength of a Comany - The Apple Example6:03
How can you easily and simply and quickly find out the financial strength of a company? Is it spending too much? Can they survive at the same rate? Will they beat market expectations?
Finding Good Dividend Paying Stocks - The Microsoft Example4:59
How do you find online the information which let's you pick income generating stocks - how do you know the company will keep on paying dividends?
How Competitive is Your Share Pick - Apple Example8:04
When you pick a stock, you need to be able to evaluate whether the company is competitive against its peers. Using Apple as an example we see how this is done quickly and easily, showing some very important concepts in an easy to understand way to shave years off your financial education.
5 Essential Ratios of Stock Picking1:00
What do stock pickers look for to determine if a stock is undervalued or likely to grow?
Measuring Companies: Financial Ratios 17:28
By the end of this lecture you will have a good understanding of the major ways we professionals evaluate shares. You will also see why these measures of a company are important and how to use them.
Evaluating Stocks Through Ratios5:12
Following on from the previous lecture we continue to see which are the most popular way to evaluate companies.
Finding Undervalued Growth Stocks in 3 Minutes - The Terra Example2:48
Real time step by step we see how to quickly find undervalued growth stocks online.
Simple Steps To Tell You If A Stock Is Overvalued: Facebook Example3:31
After this lecture you will be able to:

Quickly tell if a stock is overvalued

Understand the measures of valuation

Be able like a professional to discuss stock valuations
Finding Undervalued Growth Stocks Using Screeners Free Online14:27
Let the internet do the hard number crunching for you which previously needed an army of analysts. Knowing what to look for, and where to look, are critical to making money online investing. We go through a real time live example to show you how it is done.
Investing Online Through Themes11:25
Stocks which are dependent on cybersecurity growth, or how about the theme of cancer, or companies involved in clean energy, Chinese online gaming companies, online casino companies, how about companies benefiting from the healthy eating theme? These and many more we explore how to find good growth companies who are profiting from these themes.
Investing Online In Global Shares4:46
By the end of this lecture you will learn:

How to invest in shares of foreign companies through the relatively safe mechanism of the US market.

Why it makes sense to invest in global companies
Why Most People Fail at Online Trading4:00
Before we begin on the road to becoming profiting online trading, we need to understand why so many people fail.
Profiting From Market Falls2:10
There are products which you can buy which will rise in the value as the market falls. This lecture explains those to you.
Missing the Best Market Days3:53
What happens if you try to time the market and miss some of the best days in the market? In this lecture we show you why you should sometimes buy and hold, and also the downside of that too. A complete picture of the stock market over the past 100 years.
Penny Shares: Quick Road to Riches or the Poor House?1:48
Should you trade in penny shares? You've heard of people making millions through investing in penny shares. So should you? What are the risks? How should you do it effectively online?

Forecasting Share Prices With The Ever Popular PE Ratio3:05
It's one of the most popular way of picking shares and their valuations. This overview lecture explains what is in the downloadable resources which you can examine in detail to learn more about this very important way of picking winning shares.
Forecasting Based On Stock Strategies I (Intermediate Level)2:21
This lecture introduces you to the downloadable resources which accompany it which delve deeper into value investing, growth investing and the famous GARP investing - how to find undervalued stocks which show potential growth.
Forecasting Based on Stock Strategies II (Intermediate Level)2:26
This overview lecture takes you through the resources you can download alongside it which explain some of the strategies behind stock investing and how you can use them. In this lecture we get introduced to income strategies and the famous 'Dogs of the Dow' strategy.
Financial Ratios For Predicting Share Prices (Intermediate)4:04
In this lecture you will learn how, why and when investors use popular ratios such as Price to Book Ratio.

What we will learn
Analyzing financial statements using different tools
ratio analysis

a)Investment Valuations Ratios

Price to Book ratioPrice to Cash Flow ratio

Price to earnings ratioPrice Earnings to Growth

Price to SalesDividend Yield

b)What Works

Charting For Forecasting2:26
In this lecture you will learn the very important basics of the ever-popular way of picking winning shares based on their share price charts alone.
Forecasting Using Chart Patterns3:08
What we will learn
Support and Resistance
Various chart patterns that are used by technical analysts to study the historical trend of price movements
Series of data points used to compare the past and current price levels.
Indicators and Oscillators

Charting Made Easy1:22:00

Looking at share price charts, how do you pick winning shares?

Should You Just Give Your Money To A Professional Fund Manager?5:31
What is Diversification and how do I do it cheaply?7:10
You are often told not to put all your eggs in one basket - but what does that mean? How do you professionalise stock picking so you get the most return for risk? And what is risk exactly?
How Many Shares Should You Own?3:49
How many shares should you own to make a well diversified portfolio?
Balancing Return, Risk and Time4:46
After this lecture you will understand:

The important relationship between return, risk and time - and why you can't get rich quick

How to maximise your return for any level of risk

How to minimise your risk for any level of return
Clever Money Asset Allocates3:17
Smart money doesn't just pick stocks, it picks asset classes, it understands how risk and reward works, it knows to diversify. This lecture shows in the simplest most compelling easy to understand terms what the wealthiest do, and you can copy, and what professionals are paid millions to achieve and why - and how you can do the same for yourself.
Conservative to Aggressive Portfolio Mixes1:24
How do you mix the portfolio if you want to be an aggressive investor? Or a conservative one? How do you pick the right assets so you maximize the rewards for the risks you are taking?
Cycle of Market Emotions and Asset Allocation1:16

Exchange Traded Funds: Window to the beating fund managers16:39
How is it possible to beat fund managers, outperform the market, diversify, and pay less money doing it than you do with a professional money manager? This lecture shows you exactly how.
Exchange Traded Funds - An Introduction21:30
This brief lecture introduces index trackers and where they fit into your investing universe. You will learn why they are so exciting and profitable for online share traders.
Buying a Bundle of Stocks in One Click - Why It Makes Sense12:00
Tracking an index is a great way, if done right, to having a 'buy and forget' portfolio which you do not need to constantly monitor.
Essential Facts & Dangers of Investing with Professional Fund Managers3:02
You may think you want to just invest online with a fund managed by a professional. But these startling facts will show you why you are better off investing online yourself, and how you can beat the market, and the professionals with some simple rules.
Investing in a Basket of Europe's Largest 50 Stocks5:47
How do you invest in Europe's largest companies in one click? Why does this make sense for diversification? What do all the key terms mean when you make such an investment?
Invest in Emerging Markets Online4:00
Brazil, China, India - how about Mexico? Maybe even Nigeria? This simple overview shows you how to invest online in emerging markets.
Investing In Property Through Online Shares4:32
The real estate market is often on a rising streak, yet investing in a variety of properties through a single share investment can be a very clever way of exposing yourself to the market.

A Step by Step Guide To Opening a US Online Trading Account2:15
Trading Platforms - Part 17:20
By the end of this lecture you will:

Navigate around the key parts of an online trading platform
Trading Platforms - Part 22:47
Helping you through opening an online trading account online.
Trading Platforms - Part 35:43
Choosing the right online trading platform is very important, so in this final video on the subject we cover the key things to look for, for the beginner to more advanced trader.
How To Open An Online Trading Account - UK5:12
Placing the Right Order To Profit3:37
A good online share trader knows how to translate what they think will happen with a share into the correct order; when do you want to buy, stop your losses or take your profits. This lecture teaches you how to translate your thoughts into actual orders.
Investment Scams1:00
Just watch out for these warning signs when you are looking for opportunities online.
A Tax Free Way of Trading Online1:25
Fancy trading shares online tax free? A quick introduction for those in certain countries which allow this type of trading online.
Trading v Investing Instagram
The South Sea Bubble: Harvard Business School0:06

What Would Warren Buffett Advise?3:00
Sometimes you need the advice of the world's greatest investor. So what would he advise?
10 Commandments of Equity Investors1:00
A quick easy simple guide to remembering the key lessons of how to invest well online and beat the markets.
Greatest Investors of All Time and How They Did It6:00
Get a better understanding of different exceptional investing approaches, and some inspiration.
Trading Order Types3:00
There are different ways to place an order to buy and sell shares online and it is important to understand the differences.

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Welcome to Online Investing8 lectures • 1hr 19min

How To Pick Winning Shares Online Using Company Information17 lectures • 1hr 35min

More Ways to Pick Winning Shares Online (Beyond Beginner Level)4 lectures • 12min

How To Pick Winning Shares Using Share Charts3 lectures • 1hr 28min

How To Build a Market Beating Online Share Portfolio: Part 1 - Diversification7 lectures • 27min

How To Build A Market Beating Online Share Portfolio: Part 2 - Funds7 lectures • 1hr 8min

Trading For a Living3 lectures • 11min

Picking Brokers and Opening Accounts10 lectures • 29min

Trading Pyschology2 lectures • 21min

Words of Wisdom from the Best in the World4 lectures • 13min

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