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Course · Beginner
How Financial Markets Work
A plain-language tour of exchanges, brokers, market makers and what actually happens when you place an order.
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What you will learn
- Explain who the participants in a market are and what each does
- Read a quote: bid, ask, spread and volume
- Place and compare market, limit and stop orders
- Understand trading hours, settlement and fees
Who it is for
Anyone new to trading who wants the vocabulary and the mechanics before risking money.
Course outline
- Module 1: Markets and participants
- Exchanges and over-the-counter markets
- Brokers, market makers and clearing
- Module 2: Reading a quote
- Bid, ask and spread
- Volume and liquidity
- Module 3: Order types
- Market and limit orders
- Stop orders and time-in-force
- Module 4: Costs and logistics
- Commissions, spreads and slippage
- Settlement and trading hours
Educational content only. Nothing in this course is investment advice, and trading involves a risk of loss.
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