Trading Basics for Beginners: Charts, Orders, Stops and Risk

Know your planned loss before you enter.

Know your planned loss before you enter.

Eight free lessons teach you to read a chart, place an order, set a stop, choose a target and calculate how many shares to buy. Bring it together in a written trade plan, then rehearse a loss and a win on real historical charts.

START HERE
Watch the introduction. Download your four tools. Work through Lessons 1–8 in order: video, worksheet, quick quiz, explained answers.

YOUR LESSONS
What Trading Is; Reading Your First Chart; Reading Candlesticks; Placing a Practice Trade; Stop Loss; Profit Targets; Position Sizing; Your Trade Plan.

INCLUDED FREE
Risk Calculator, Trade Journal, Trade Checklist and eight-lesson Workbook.

Professional Trading School is led by Martin George, former hedge fund owner with over 35 years in financial markets.

Learn to trade. Manage risk. Run your account like a hedge fund.

Education only. Trading involves risk.

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