Social trading, and why it isn't copy trading
Following results instead of follower counts — and the difference between watching how someone trades and having their orders mirrored into your account automatically.
Earnings calendar: how to read one
What before-the-bell and after-the-bell actually mean, why a company can beat and still fall, and how to see what is coming this week.
How to read a stock heatmap
Tile size, colour and sector blocks, the three-second scan — and why the same seven companies dominate the top of almost every US map.
Stock charts, explained
Candlesticks, the three main chart types and moving averages, in plain language — plus what earnings and dividends look like marked on the price itself.
Paper trading — and what it can't teach you
Practising with simulated money builds the process and the muscle memory. It cannot hand you the real-money psychology, and this is honest about which is which.
How to build a stock watchlist you actually use
Adding is free and removing is not, which is why most lists reach ninety names and stop being read. Several short lists beat one long one, and here is why.
Stock market sectors, and what rotation tells you
The eleven GICS sectors, and how to read a day when the index barely moves but everything underneath it does — plus why your stock's fall may not be about it.
Price alerts — what is worth being told about
An alert is a promise to interrupt you. The test is not "would I like to know" but "if this fires, what will I do" — and why an alert is not a limit order.
Analyst ratings and price targets, decoded
Why the consensus target is almost always above the price, what "Buy" actually means, and why the disagreement between analysts is the informative part.
The VIX, in plain language
It does not measure fear — it measures how large a move the options market is pricing in. What levels around 12, 20 and 30 mean, and why it is not a forecast.
Reading market news without drowning in it
There is always a headline explaining the move. It was written afterwards, and the test that separates an explanation from a cause is simply its timing.
Looking for how the app works rather than how the market works? That is the guide — 24 chapters covering every screen, also free and also open without an account.