Stock Market College
Quick Guide
This site is dedicated to people interested in learning how to make money in the stock market. If you want to quickly get up-to-speed on the key concepts, use the links on this page to go to the most important topics.
1. Investment concepts
Why invest? Can an ordinary person make decent returns? How does the stock market work? Why do stock prices move?If you need answers to these questions then check out the Beginners Guide to Investing
2. Stock Chart Analysis
Stock charts give us a visual representation of a stock's dynamic characteristics. Trades shouldn't be entered before stock charts are analyzed. Some people make technical analysis seem a whole lot harder than it actually is. Your task as a student of the stock market is to find the things that work and practice them. Technical analysis is a great place to start your journey. Go to Stock Chart Analysis
3. Moving averages
Moving averages are used to analyze trends. They identify trend direction, trend strength and can be used as the basis of an effective trend following system.Learn How to Use Moving Averages
4. Support and resistance
Is this stock likely to go higher or lower? Is it time to enter or exit a position?Analysis of support and resistance levels help us to make better trading decisions. Learn about Support and Resistance Levels, and how to use them.
5. Stock trend analysis
This is a key skill that you need to master. Mastery comes firstly from knowing what to look for and then recognizing these things in your stock charts. The more charts you analyze, the better you will become at identifying stocks that have the best profit potential.Learn how to analyze stock trends
6. Stock market trends
You don't want to be placing trades while the overall market is in a downtrend. Market trend analysis tells us when it's a good time to put on a trade (from an overall market perspective). It can also let us know when it's time to monitor our open trades more vigilantly due to increased market risk.Go to Stock Market Trends
7. Fundamental analysis
A stock is the market's representation of an actual company. Before putting money into a stock I like to know how profitable the company is and how efficiently they are managing the capital invested in the business.For a quick primer on fundamental analysis look here: Fundamental Analysis in a Nutshell
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