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Trading for Beginners

Take your trading skills to the next level and learn how to become a professional trader in 20 sessions. This course is suitable for all trading levels.

1. What is Online Trading?

Want to trade but don’t know where to start?

Discover what is online trading, how it works and why you might want to try it

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2. Choosing a Market to Trade

Explore different types of markets and how they work. This lesson covers:

Basics about forex trading
Basics about shares, indices, commodities and precious metals

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3. How Trading Works

Learn what and who creates and influences market movements. This lesson covers:

Buyer and seller
The spread
“Going long and short”
Who are the brokers, retail traders and professional traders
Basics about liquidity

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4. How OTC & CFD Trading Works

Before you start trading, or even thinking about trading strategies, you need to know how the contract that you’re trading works. This lesson covers:

Basics about OTC trading and CFD trading
Basics about derivatives

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5. Trading with Orders & Leverage

Build the bridge between knowledge and action. This lesson covers:

How to place a trade
Types of orders and position size
Leveraged trading
Live trading on the MT4 platform

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Trade Responsibly: CFDs and Spot FX are complex instruments that come with a high risk of losing funds due to leverage. You should not engage in this form of investing unless you understand the nature of the transaction you are undertaking and the true extent of your exposure to financial loss. Your profit and loss will vary according to the extent of the fluctuations in the price of the underlying markets on which the trade is based.

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