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The Alphabet
These terms are like the letters of the alphabet: the basic units that make up the words of the market. Learn the letters and the market becomes something you can read. Ten short chapters, from why anyone looks at markets at all to the moment you are ready for your first chart. Plain words first; the broker’s word last, once you own the idea it names. Nothing here is advice.
Education only. Pumpstradamus is a paper trading app: no real money is traded, and we are not a broker or an adviser.
- Why look at markets at all?Money sitting still
- What is a share?A slice of a business
- What is a price?The last agreement
- Why do prices move?More want in than out
- What is a chart?The diary of agreements
- How does buying actually work?Asking and being answered
- What does losing look like?The dip everyone meets
- When do you get out?The exit, decided first
- How much should you put in?The bet that fits the miss
- What can nobody tell you?The honest wall
Each chapter says one idea four ways: the picture, the plain words, the story, and only then the word the trade wears. Above the last step sits the primer, inside the house. The door opens to any address. Nothing here is advice.