🎓 Learn the market

A short course for someone who has never bought a share. Every lesson ends on the page of this site where you can see the thing on today's real prices — which is the part a book cannot do.

Starting out

What a share is, what the exchange is, and what you need before you can buy one.

○ What you actually own → ○ When the market is open → ○ The account you need first → ○ A, B, N and Z →

Reading the price

What a chart is showing you, and what it is not.

○ The four numbers in a candle → ○ Volume, and why it matters more than the price → ○ The daily limit → ○ Where it sits in its own year →

Reading the company

The handful of figures that tell you what you are buying.

○ Earnings per share → ○ Price to earnings → ○ What the company owns → ○ Dividends, and the trap in the percentage → ○ Reading a quarterly result →

Not losing money

The rules and warnings that cost people the most when they are ignored.

○ You cannot sell it the same day → ○ When the auditor will not sign → ○ Everything in one share → ○ A crowd is not information →

Practising

Where to make your mistakes for free.

○ The practice account → ○ The four kinds of order → ○ Reading your own record →