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Trading lessons, organised by topic

Each lesson below covers one area of trading education. You can pick a single topic or combine several, and the order is set around what you already know. Lessons explain how markets and tools work; they do not give personal investment advice or promise any result.

Market Basics for Beginners

A first lesson for anyone who has never placed a trade. It explains what shares, currencies, indices and commodities are, how an order reaches the market, and what terms such as spread, volume and liquidity actually mean. Examples use sterling and UK-listed companies where that helps. By the end you can read a basic price quote, understand a trading platform screen and know which questions to ask next.

Reading Price Charts

This lesson walks through candlestick and line charts, time frames, support and resistance zones, and trend direction. You learn how to open a chart, mark levels by hand and describe what the price has done, rather than guess what it will do. We work through charts of past price movement so you can practise spotting patterns, and we cover the limits of chart reading and why it can mislead.

Risk Management Principles

Losses are part of trading, and this lesson deals with them head on. Topics include position sizing, stop orders, the relationship between risk and reward, and why leverage magnifies losses as well as gains. You build a simple written risk rule using made-up account figures, so you see the arithmetic without putting real money at stake. The aim is to understand how capital can be lost, not to suggest it can be protected completely.

Building a Trading Plan

A plan puts your rules on paper before emotion gets involved. This lesson covers setting goals that are realistic, choosing which markets to follow, defining entry and exit conditions, and deciding how much time you can give to it each week. You finish with a written template you can edit and reuse. We also explain how to keep a trade journal so you can review your own decisions honestly over time.

Fundamental Analysis and News

Prices respond to company results, interest rate decisions, inflation figures and political events. This lesson shows how to read an earnings report, what central bank announcements are, and where to find an economic calendar. We discuss how the same headline can move markets in opposite directions and why reacting to news quickly is harder than it looks. The focus is on understanding information sources, not predicting outcomes.

Technical Indicators Explained

Moving averages, relative strength index, MACD and Bollinger Bands appear on nearly every platform. This lesson explains how each one is calculated, what it is designed to show and where it tends to give misleading signals. You apply indicators to historical charts and compare results with and without them. The goal is to help you decide which tools are worth using, and to avoid cluttering a chart with signals that contradict one another.

Practice Account Sessions

Using a demo account lets you place trades with virtual money while you learn how a platform behaves. This lesson shows you how to set up an order, add a stop and a target, read the account statement and review what happened afterwards. We point out where demo conditions differ from live trading, such as execution speed and the feel of real losses, so your expectations stay realistic when you move on.

Trading Psychology and Discipline

Many mistakes come from behaviour rather than a lack of knowledge. This lesson looks at fear of missing out, revenge trading, overconfidence after a win and the urge to move a stop. You learn to recognise these patterns in your own notes and to set simple habits that slow decisions down, such as pre-trade checklists and daily limits. It is educational material on decision-making, not therapy.

How a lesson is organised

Every topic follows the same four stages, so you always know what comes next.

1

Request

You send the contact form with the topics that interest you and a short note on your current level.

2

Outline

We reply with a suggested order of lessons and the format, and the cost is discussed at this point.

3

Lesson

Each session explains the concept, works through examples on historical data and ends with a few questions to answer.

4

Review

You go over your answers, note what is still unclear and decide whether to continue with the next topic.

Ready to choose a topic?

Trading involves risk and you can lose money. Our lessons are for education only. Send a request and we will come back to you with a lesson plan.

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