The Complete Foundation Stock Trading Course

Master placing stock orders with your broker by using the ticker, choosing buy or sell, and selecting market or limit orders to balance price and speed when trading online.

Discover how orders drive price movements using the order book, level 1 and level 2 quotes, and time of sales, including bids, asks, price priority, and market versus limit orders.

Learn three ways to make money in the stock market: go long by buying, go short by selling borrowed shares, and stay flat to avoid risk.

Warn viewers about fake profiles on Instagram and YouTube impersonating the creator, and explain how to spot impersonators. Advise reporting scammers, avoiding Bitcoin, and sticking to Udemy courses.

Choose Interactive Brokers for wide access to global exchanges, abundant shortable stock, low commissions, and a feature-rich TWS platform with demo trading and reliable customer service.

Discover a shareable Google Sheets resource that helps you find brokers, news providers, charting software, and country-specific tools, with user contributions and editor-approved updates for the foundation stock trading course.

Explore technical analysis basics and its relation to fundamentals, then examine charts, candlesticks, trends, support and resistance, volume, moving averages, and indicators to guide short-term trading decisions.

Explore how charts represent historical prices, compare line charts and candlestick charts, and learn candlesticks with open, high, low, and close data to predict price moves.

Explore candlesticks and patterns from big candles to doji and engulfing signals, using supply and demand to time entry points across daily and intraday charts.

Explore how trends define price direction: uptrends, downtrends, and sideways channels; draw trend lines to spot entries and exits with support and resistance.

Explore chart patterns like head and shoulders, double tops and bottoms, triangles, wedges, cup and handle, and rounding bottom, and learn how supply and demand shape continuation or reversal.

Explore how volume precedes price, and use relative volume and three-month average to judge whether price moves are supported.

Learn how Bollinger bands, a mean reverting indicator built from a 20-day moving average and standard deviation, predict price ranges and signal potential reversions amid changing volatility.

Explore the relative strength index (RSI), how it measures momentum and identifies overbought and oversold conditions, and apply a mean reversion approach using a 14-day default.

Learn how the average true range (atr) measures how much a stock moves in a day, a commonly used indicator for setting stop losses and take profits.

Explain expectancy, risk management, and money management, showing how to use probability and percentage outcomes to guide stock trading decisions.

Compare gambling and educated betting by emphasizing positive expectancy and probabilities, then apply risk and money management to build repeatable trading strategies, not luck.

Follow the new Bloom Trading social media handles for this course, as MTG links are no longer valid; pause the video to view the new social media handles.

Explore batting average and win/loss ratio as core trading metrics, and learn to compute total and average returns, winners, and losers to evaluate performance and secure funding.

Identify systematic and unsystematic risk, and diversify to reduce unsystematic risk. Apply risk avoidance and risk limitation with stop losses to cap losses; avoid risk transference due to cost.

Learn how to manage your entire portfolio with money management, set max losses per trade and position sizing, and understand why disciplined, small losses protect long-term gains.

Learn how position sizing combines money management and risk management to determine how many shares to buy, set stop losses, and manage risk per trade.

Explore how psychology governs trading success by managing emotions under stress, addressing misconceptions, and recognizing biases like loss aversion, endowment effect, anchoring, and confirmation bias while improving instincts.

Explore loss aversion, a bias where losses feel stronger than gains, and examine studies and reference points that shape trading decisions.

Explore the endowment effect, a bias where ownership inflates value, and its impact on trading decisions, loss aversion, and the need for disciplined trading plans.

Identify status quo bias as an emotional bias that favors the current state, amplified by loss aversion, leading traders to hold underperforming stocks, unless a defined holding period is enforced.

Learn to recognize the anchoring effect, a cognitive bias that relies too heavily on the first piece of information when making stock decisions, and evaluate new data fairly.

Expose how confirmation bias steers stock trading by seeking confirmatory information and ignoring contradictions. Learn to test beliefs with opposite evidence to avoid anchoring effect and improve objectivity.

Explore how genes and instincts shape trading biases through evolution, including loss aversion, endowment effect, and the status quo bias, and how modern trading triggers fight-or-flight.

Navigate Finviz's screener to filter stocks by fundamentals, valuation, dividends, ownership, and technical signals, then tailor growth or value criteria to build a focused watch list.

Discover why TradingView is the leading charting platform, exploring its intuitive charts, trend lines, indicators, alerts, and top authors. Log in, compare markets, set alerts, and save watchlists.