Placing trades
Market vs. limit vs. stop orders
Choosing the right order type.
Pre-market and after-hours trading
Extended-hours times and risks.
How to read stock charts
Candlesticks, volume and moving averages.
Advanced strategies
Options trading basics
Calls and puts explained.
What is short selling?
Profiting from falling prices, and the risks.
Market events
What is a stock split?
Forward and reverse splits.
What is an IPO?
How companies go public.
How interest rates affect stocks
Why the Fed moves markets.
Bull vs. bear markets
Market cycles explained.
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