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Trading 101

Written by Ryan Mallory | 20 July 2010

For many of you, coming to this site can seem overwhelming at first. I use terms such as stochastics, Fibonacci, support/resistance, along with a myriad of other terms that may seem foreign to you at first. But I am set on bringing you up to speed - to where you understand the essentials of trading and doing so successfully in the stock market. Often times, trading is made far too complicated, when in reality all you really need is price and volume - those two things alone are everything to a stock and what it does. So my plans here is to educate you through a series of articles and videos. I will cover a myriad of topics, which you will find below to help you become a far better trader in the long-run. As more topics are covered they will be hyperlinked to that specific article.

Now don't get me wrong, trading takes a lot of devotion and a willingness to constantly improve upon your abilities. It doesn't happen overnight, and most of the time, trading is learned through experiences and the desire to learn from them. Success and failure go hand-in-hand through winning trades and losing trades. The key is how you handle both of these. Losses must be expected and taken - failure to recognize a loss for what it is, and to hold out hope that eventually the trade will work out for you is the path to self-destruction.

So, with that in mind, here is a good starting point for using this website to your benefit, and gaining a solid foundation for trading stocks and succeeding at it in the process. Below is my blue-print for what I'd like to cover (in no particular order) - more details and topics to come!

TOPICS

Trading vs. Investing

Day-Trading Strategies

- Trading the Morning Gap

Order Types