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Stock market basics

Owning a share is owning a claim on a business. Most of the vocabulary around stocks follows from that one fact.

  • ✓ 18 lessons
  • ✓ 18 minutes end to end
  • ✓ Free in the app
  • ✓ No sign-up to start reading

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A price-to-earnings ratio is not high or low in the abstract, it is a statement about expected growth relative to peers. A dividend is a transfer from the company to you, and the share price adjusts for it on the ex-dividend date.

These lessons build the vocabulary first, then the metrics, so the numbers in a quote mean something.

Beginner lessons 13

Intermediate lessons 5

Guided paths that use these lessons

A path is an ordered run through lessons from several categories, which is how the app presents them. One path draws on stock market basics.

Stocks & Indices Basics

What a stock actually is, how exchanges and indices work, and the metrics behind every quote.

10 lessons

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FAQ

Stock market basics: questions

How many stock market basics lessons are there?
18, and they are all in the MarketPro app. This page lists every one of them. Each lesson takes about 1 minutes to read.
Do I have to pay to read them?
No. The academy is free on every MarketPro account, including free ones, with no lesson cap and no paywall inside the app. On this website the first part of each lesson is open and the rest is in the app, which is where the quizzes and the progress tracking are.
Do I need a broker account to start?
No. The academy, the calculators on this site and the free weekly signals all work without one. A broker account is only needed when you decide to place a real trade, and that decision is yours alone.
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All 18 lessons in this category, plus the other 302 in the academy, quizzes and progress tracking. Free on any MarketPro account.

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