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Free online courseTrading for beginners

Duration of the online course: 2 hours and 26 minutes

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Build confident trading skills with a free online course: risk management, backtesting basics, and smarter entries—learn at your pace and boost results.

In this free course, learn about

  • Basics of trading: markets, instruments, timeframes, and core terminology
  • How trends work and how to recognize bullish vs bearish market structure
  • Pullback vs continuation phases and how pullbacks create trade entry opportunities
  • Bearish pullback sell setup: spotting lower highs and rejection at resistance/MA
  • Purpose of stop losses: limit downside risk and define trade invalidation points
  • Risk management foundations: position sizing and risk-to-reward planning
  • Backtesting workflow: define rules, gather data, simulate trades, record results
  • Why backtest: validate an edge, estimate performance, and reduce strategy uncertainty
  • How to formulate clear trading questions/exercises from course concepts

Course Description

Trading can feel overwhelming at first: charts move fast, opinions are loud, and a single mistake can cost you real money. This free online course is designed to replace guesswork with a clear foundation, helping you understand how trading decisions are made and how disciplined traders manage risk. You will learn to read market context, think in probabilities, and approach every position with a plan rather than emotion.

Instead of chasing tips, you will focus on the mechanics that influence consistency. You will explore how trends develop, why timing matters, and how to recognize higher-probability moments to participate. A key part of that process is risk control, including the purpose of a stop loss and how it protects your account and your mindset. You will also connect trading to practical decision-making: defining your idea, setting conditions that invalidate it, and assessing whether the potential reward is worth the risk.

The course also introduces backtesting, a critical step for anyone who wants to trade with more confidence. You will get a practical overview of what backtesting is, why it matters, and how it can reveal whether a strategy has merit before you risk money. By evaluating setups across historical data, you start to see patterns more clearly, uncover common pitfalls, and learn how small rule changes can dramatically affect outcomes. This shifts your approach from hope-driven to evidence-led.

To help you apply what you learn, you will work through guided exercises and questions that reinforce core concepts, including identifying trade opportunities in different market conditions such as bearish trends and pullbacks. By the end, you will have a stronger framework for analyzing price action, controlling downside risk, and developing habits that support long-term growth. If you are looking for a straightforward way to start trading with structure, this course gives you a solid first step.

Course content

  • Video class: Trading for Beginners Part 1 - FULL TRADING COURSE TUTORIAL 2h26m
  • Exercise: Provide a brief overview of the backtesting process for a trading strategy.
  • Exercise: Create a trading question for students based on the 'Trading for beginners by Jason Graystone' information provided.
  • Exercise: What is the primary goal of establishing a stop loss in trading?
  • Exercise: Why is it important for traders to perform backtesting on their trading strategies?
  • Exercise: In a bearish trend, identifying the pullback phase is crucial for entering a trade with a high probability of success. What specific pattern in the price action indicates a potential selling opportunity during the pullback phase in a bearish market?

This free course includes:

2 hours and 26 minutes of online video course

Digital certificate of course completion (Free)

Exercises to train your knowledge

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Course comments: Trading for beginners

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Bolai Machabe

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new in this video and want to learn a lot more

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Boipelo Mojewa

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fantastic presentation and i can understand it well because of the illustration provided.

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