Money Tree SchoolLevel 1 of 8
Seed: Markets from zero
What a market is, why prices move, what trading means, and what people trade.
- 1What is a market?A market is just people buying and selling. Prices move because of how many people want something.
- 2Bulls and bearsPrice is a tug of war between buyers and sellers. Traders call them bulls and bears.
- 3What is trading?Buy low, sell high. Or sell high, buy back low. Plus the difference between a trader and an investor.
- 4What can you trade?Stocks, ETFs, futures, forex, options and crypto, explained in one sentence each.
- 5Who trades, and when?Regular people, banks, farmers and companies all trade, and each market keeps its own hours.
- 6Brokers and how a trade gets placedOpening an account, and buy, sell, limit and stop orders.
Next level: Sprout, charts and candlesticks
Money Tree School is education, not financial advice. Examples use made-up or historical numbers to show how things work; they are not recommendations to buy or sell anything. Markets can lose money.