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Course · Beginner
Stock Market Fundamentals for Traders
What drives a stock price: earnings, news, sectors and the calendar events that move whole markets.
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What you will learn
- Read an earnings report headline and what the market reacts to
- Use market capitalization, sectors and indexes for context
- Know which scheduled events can move prices
- Distinguish trading from long-term investing
Who it is for
Beginners who want to understand the stock market before trading it.
Course outline
- Module 1: What moves a stock
- Earnings and guidance
- News, rumors and sentiment
- Module 2: Context
- Indexes and sectors
- Market capitalization
- Module 3: The calendar
- Earnings season
- Economic releases and central banks
- Module 4: Trading vs investing
- Time horizons
- Different questions, different tools
Educational content only. Nothing in this course is investment advice, and trading involves a risk of loss.
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