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Interactive course · Beginner

How Markets Work: What you are really trading, what a move is worth, and when markets are open

The mechanics under every chart: what a CFD is, how currency pairs, indices, gold and synthetic indices work, how pips, points and lots turn a price move into money, and when each market is open in South African time. Eight short lessons, ending with the markets and hours that fit your life.

Ways to get it
  • 46 minutes in total
  • 72 activities
  • Opens in your account once your payment is approved
  • In Foundations: 7 courses for R699
What you'll be able to do

Learn it in minutes, then use it

Each lesson is a few short ideas, each one tried straight away in a small activity: a calculation, a chart to mark up, a trade to take or skip.

  • Explain what a CFD is and what you do and don’t own
  • Read a currency pair and say what buying or selling it means
  • Say what moves gold, US30, NAS100 and synthetic indices
  • Count pips and points and find a contract size in MT5
  • Work out what any price move is worth: move × contract size × lots
  • Convert the main sessions to SAST, summer and winter
Unit 1

What you trade

  1. What you are actually tradingCFDs: the price change, never the asset, with your broker on the other side.5 min · 7 activities
  2. Currency pairsBase and quote, what buying a pair means, and majors, crosses and exotics.6 min · 9 activities
  3. Indices, gold and other commoditiesUS30, NAS100 and US500; gold per ounce; oil; and why each market has its own character.6 min · 9 activities
  4. Crypto and synthetic indicesCrypto CFDs, and synthetic indices: generated by a program, open 24/7, no news behind them.5 min · 9 activities
Unit 2

Moves and money

  1. Pips, points and lotsPips, MT5 points, thinking in price on gold and indices, and contract sizes.6 min · 10 activities
  2. What a move is worthPrice move × contract size × lots, on forex, gold and indices.6 min · 10 activities
Unit 3

When to trade

  1. When markets are openThe sessions in SAST, summer and winter; the overlap; the US open; rollover; server time.6 min · 10 activities
  2. Markets that fit your lifeMatch markets and hours to your week, and save your own list.6 min · 8 activities

General education, not financial advice. Examples use made-up numbers.

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Course group · 7 coursesFoundations

Start properly, from your first chart to your first planned trade.

  • Start Here: Trading Without the Hype (free)
  • Read the Chart, Plan the Trade
  • How Markets Work (this course)
  • Costs, Leverage and Margin
  • MT5 from Zero
  • Size Every Trade
  • The Pre-Trade Checklist
R699R1,245Save R546 · 44%Once-off, VAT included. Pay by EFT.See the group
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