STOCK TRADING COURSE

1. Opening a Brokerage Account

Opening a brokerage account is one the first steps that most traders make when getting started with trading. The problem is that there are so many companies to choose from and this overwhelms a lot of new traders.

The companies that roll off the tongue are TD Ameritrade, Charles Schwab, E-Trade, Fidelity, and Interactive Brokers. Some other popular companies that aren't as well known are SpeedTrader, CMEG, LightSpeed, and Centerpoint. Again, the list goes on and on. Check out our list of companies.

New traders will sometimes find it hard to choose the right broker at first because they don't know of their trading niche. Are you a day trader or a swing trader? Do you want to trade stocks or options?

These questions are all really important to ask yourself before choosing a broker because they all have their positives and negatives. For instance, TD Ameritrade is great for options and trading stocks, however, they aren't the greatest for day trading low float stocks that need instant order execution.

Brokers like SpeedTrader, LightSpeed, Centerpoint, and CMEG are great for trading low floaters with lightening speed order execution. 

Trading brokers like Robinhood and Webull were known for zero commission trades and now many of the big brokers are offering zero commissions to place a trade.

2. How to Read the Stock Market

Knowing how to read the stock market is one of the most critical aspects as a trader. Things like support and resistance, exponential moving average lines, simple moving average lines, candlesticks patterns, reversals, bid-ask spread, price action, liquidity, market cap, and trendlines are incredibly important to learn, which we will teach you.

We will also teach you terms such as Wall Street, NYSE (New York Stock Exchange), DOW ($DJI), S&P 500 ($SPY), Nasdaq ($COMP), Russell, S&P Futures ($/ES), ETF'S, commodities and more.

The trend is your friend. Buy low and sell high, right?! These terms roll of the tongue, however, it's hard to find a company that you can trust to teach you the ropes.

If you've been around the industry for any length of time you'll see ads for other companies all over the place. Every time you place a YouTube video nowadays it seems like you see a new trading company popping up all over the place.

On Facebook as well...just scroll through your feed and I'm sure that you'll see several of them popping up. Some of them are also offering free stock trading courses. So, how do you know which company to trust? 

That can be a bit tricky, however, we recommend doing a quick Google search to read the reviews that other members have to say about them. If you're wondering about us, just do a Google search and you'll see that we have very positive reviews.

Research the Company

Also, check if the company offers a trial or refund for the services or stock courses that they offer. If a company is confident in the services that they provide then they won't have any issues putting their money where their mouth is. We offer a 14 day free trial to our members because we are confident in the value that we provide to our community members. Our service offers both online stock trading for beginners as well as advanced training.

We aren't afraid to say that trading is hard and takes a lot of time to learn. We provide you with the necessary resources to succeed as a trader but it's up to you to put them to good use (we have a lot of stock market training online free on our website). Our stock trading classes are free!

1. Stocks & Options

Options and stocks have many important components to learn and we will teach you them in our courses. Stocks allow you to go long or short, but you need a good broker for share locates if you are looking to go short. Options allow you the ability to make money in any market and you don't need a specialized broker to buy options contracts.

One of the greatest secrets that we can tell you is that becoming a successful trader isn't about learning more technicals. It's more about learning how to overcome your emotions and setting proper risk management if you want to become a sustainable trader long-term. Learning how to control your emotions is one of the most important online stock trading for beginners tips that we can give you.

2. Technical Analysis & Fundamental Analysis

Technical analysis and fundamental analysis are critical components to becoming a successful trader.

Fundamental analysis requires learning things like EPS (earnings per share), market capitalization, earnings date, shares outstanding, 52 week high, 52 week low, total return (1 Year Annualized), EPS growth, P/E (price to earnings), dividend yield, total revenue, revenue growth, and institutional ownership.

Anyone can learn about the fundamentals and technicals of trading if you put in the hard work that trading deserves. It will take some time to learn technical analysis and fundamental analysis but you can learn them if you invest in yourself. It takes looking at thousands of charts, over the course of several months, for trading analysis to start becoming a familiar process. We teach how to trade the technicals and research the fundamentals in our advanced free stock trading courses.

Study & Practice

Learning how to overcome emotions when trading is a different story. This is much harder to teach and takes many traders more time to learn. That's why we provide a community of support to help our members. Our community is a great place to interact with other community members, bounce ideas and questions off of them, and then implement what you learn in our course in a paper trading account.

Oh, and please be sure to practice in a virtual account first before trading with real money. Once you are comfortable paper trading then start slowly scaling your way up trading with real money. Don't be in a hurry. If you run before you can walk, you'll end up hurting yourself. Not on our watch! Click here to check out our day trading room. Make sure to check out our stock market training online free resources above as well. ThinkorSwim is a great online stock trading for beginners platform.

Magic Formula

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news but there is no magic stock trading course or "stock market training secrets" on getting rich in the stock market. Will we fill you in on helpful tips, strategies, and insider trader secrets in our online trading course...ABSOLUTELY!

Are we telling you this because we are trying to scare you away? Absolutely not! In fact, we just want to set proper and realistic expectations for those that are looking to enter the world of stock trading and become serious traders. As a result, we are looking for people that want a hand-up and NOT a hand-out. This free stock trading course will help you get started. So, now that we've got your attention...are you ready to get all of the magic secrets on how to get rich quickly in the stock market?

Here's the un-sexy truth. Trading is hard. In fact, the emotions of trading can be brutal at times...BUT...there's a way to overcome all of this with persistence and having the necessary knowledge that it takes to become a profitable trader long-term. It takes more than going through a free stock trading course to become successful as a trader.

3. Stock Sectors

There are 11 different sectors in the stock market, however, you don't have to trade every one. It's just important to know the different sectors and how some of them move inverse of each other.

• Financials
• Utilities
• Consumer Discretionary
• Consumer Staples
• Energy
• Healthcare
• Industrials
• Technology
• Telecom
• Materials
• Real Estate

4. Stock Volume

Stock volume is a very important component when trading because liquidity allows you the ability to get in and out of stocks. If there isn't much volume in a stock then it's harder to get in and out of trades.

Also, many of times the more liquidity, the tighter the bid/ask spread, meaning you get tighter entries and exits. Small cap and large cap stocks also play a factor on spreads as well. 

As far as order entry goes, we are big proponents of using limit orders over market orders, so you don't get stuck with bad entries and exits from the market makers.

5. How to Trade Candlesticks

Candlesticks are the foundation to price action when trading. They are the best trading indicator by far and knowing how to read them will be key to your trading success.

This free stock trading course for beginners will help you. We have stock lessons for beginners as well as advanced stock courses that will teach you candlestick patterns and how to trade them.

We also cannot overstate the importance of having a solid community of support along your stock trading journey. 

In fact, trading can be a lonely road at times and having a good support network of like-minded people to help you grow as a trader is important to your success. Our trade room has multiple streamers throughout the day, and mods hanging out to help!

Community

Hence, we have an incredible trading service and community both on Facebook and in our trade room to help support you and answer any questions that you may have. We like to think of our community as the "pay it forward" movement within the stock market. As a result, you'll find a ton of support and great camaraderie each day in both our trade rooms and Facebook community. Ask us questions while you are in there, we'll help.

Again, feel free to come and integrate yourself into our community and ask questions. Bounce ideas and questions off our mods and other members. Our trading rooms are open 24 X 7, so you can chat any time day or night with other members. It's a great place to put into practice what you learn in our course.

Bookmark our swing trade watch list page: Watch Lists

We also have a playlist on our YouTube channel of a ton of videos teaching you exactly how we build our stock watch lists and set our trade alerts. As a result, make sure to study these videos so you'll know exactly how our trade alerts work. Also, please read our alerts page first before making any trades and take our free stock trading courses for beginners. Subscribe to our real time alerts.

1. Practice Paper Trading While Studying Our Stock Trading Course

How do you make money trading stocks? Study, study, study! Practice, practice, practice! Looking to learn stock trading? Watch all of the videos in our online stock trading course videos multiple times if need be. Let the information really soak in. Please practice with a virtual trading account first until you feel comfortable investing with real money.

In fact, you should make at least 100-200 practice trades in a virtual trading account first before you ever invest real money and do trading live. This is the safest and smartest way to get started. ​We know it seems silly to practice trade with fake money. However…believe us, you’ll be glad you did when you make mistakes (and you will make mistakes).

And...what's really great is that you can take what you've learned from our stock lessons for beginners course and practice implementing it in our trade rooms in your virtual account.

Take our stock trading course as well as practice what you learn using ThinkorSwim’s free simulated account platform to implement your training in a virtual setting. Their platform is advanced and a bit complicated to get used to. However, they are well worth the effort with all of the features that they offer. TD Ameritrade also offers free commission trading now! They also have courses on how to setup their platform.

Furthermore, make sure to check out our ThinkorSwim Playlist on our YouTube channel for more stock courses videos on how to get your platform set up.

Practice with making winning trades, rather than winning big money. Make sure to never trade with money that you can’t afford to lose.

2. Watch Us Stream Live Each Day in Our Trading Room

Our website is filled with incredibly value content that will help you to become a profitable trader. As a result, we will save you thousands of dollars of paying for online stock trading course videos like ours elsewhere. However, all of the valuable free content in the world doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to put in the work that it takes to succeed as a trader.

We've already laid the foundation and now the rest is up to you...Are you ready to get started and learn stocks? Register below to take our free stock trading course for beginners as well as our advanced free stock trading courses.