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31 guides from beginner to advanced. Explanations by topic, from basics to advanced.

Learning paths

Prefer a set route? Follow a learning path and read the tutorials in order.

Getting started with investing and trading

From choosing a broker to your first trade and tracking your results. Read the steps in order.

12 steps

  1. What is a broker and how do you choose one?
  2. Order types explained: market, limit and stop orders
  3. Understanding bid-ask spreads and liquidity
  4. Market hours and trading sessions worldwide
  5. Risk Management: The Basics
  6. Portfolio Basics: Spreading Risk
  7. Taxes on Investing in the Netherlands: The Basics
  8. Practising with a demo account: paper trading without risk
  9. Setting up your first trade, step by step
  10. Common beginner trading mistakes and how to avoid them
  11. Keeping a Trading Journal
  12. Reading Your Profit and Loss Statement

Active trading: analysis and risk

Chart analysis, indicators and risk management for active traders. Options and hedging are covered too.

14 steps

  1. Reading Candlestick Patterns
  2. Support and Resistance
  3. Moving Averages
  4. Volume Analysis
  5. RSI in Depth: Advanced Uses
  6. Combining Multiple Indicators
  7. Multi-Timeframe Analysis
  8. Risk and Reward in Balance
  9. Backtesting a Trading Strategy
  10. Trading Around the News
  11. Psychology and Emotions in Investing
  12. Options: the Basics
  13. Hedging Your Investments Against Price Falls
  14. Correlation and Pair Trading
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Beginner 8 min

Common beginner trading mistakes and how to avoid them

An overview of mistakes beginning investors and traders often make, such as having no plan, oversized positions and overtrading, with tips on how to avoid them.

Basics
Beginner 12 min

Fundamental Analysis: the Basics

Learn to read a company's numbers: price-to-earnings ratio, revenue, margins, debt and cash flow. With a worked example in euros.

Fundamental analysis
Beginner 7 min

Keeping a Trading Journal

Learn what to record in a trading journal, how to review it weekly and monthly, and how to learn from your own trades.

Risk and money
Beginner 6 min

Market hours and trading sessions worldwide

Learn when the exchanges in Europe, the US and Asia are open, what changes outside trading hours and how to deal with time zones.

Basics
Beginner 8 min

Order types explained: market, limit and stop orders

Learn how market, limit and stop-loss orders work, what their pros and cons are and when each one can be useful.

Basics
Beginner 8 min

Portfolio Basics: Spreading Risk

Learn what diversification is, how to divide your money across companies, sectors, regions and types of investments, and what rebalancing means. With worked examples.

Risk and money
Beginner 5 min

Practising with a demo account: paper trading without risk

Learn how to use a demo account (paper trading) to get to know a platform and order types, and where the limits of practising lie.

Basics
Beginner 9 min

Psychology and Emotions in Investing

Learn how fear, greed and thinking errors affect your decisions, and how fixed rules and a journal help you decide more calmly.

Psychology
Beginner 8 min

Reading Candlestick Patterns

Learn to read a candlestick chart and recognise the best-known patterns, including what they can and cannot tell you.

Technical analysis
Beginner 10 min

Reading Crypto Charts

How to read a crypto chart, what differs from stocks (24/7 trading, volatility, fragmented volume) and what market cycles do and do not tell you.

Crypto
Beginner 7 min

Reading Your Profit and Loss Statement

Learn to read the profit and loss statement from your broker: realised and unrealised results, costs, profit factor and maximum drawdown.

Risk and money
Beginner 10 min

Risk Management: The Basics

Learn how to decide in advance how much you risk per trade: position size, stop-loss and risk/reward ratio, with worked examples in euros.

Risk and money
Beginner 8 min

Securing your crypto wallet: seed phrase, hardware wallet and 2FA

Learn how to protect your crypto better: the difference between keeping it on an exchange and in your own wallet, how to store a seed phrase and how to secure your accounts.

Crypto
Beginner 10 min

Setting up your first trade, step by step

A step-by-step guide to your first stock trade: from preparation and position size to the order ticket and checking the execution.

Basics
Beginner 6 min

Taxes on Investing in the Netherlands: The Basics

How does box 3 work for investors in the Netherlands? What counts as assets, what is the reference date and why do the rules change? A first explanation, not tax advice.

Basics
Beginner 8 min

Understanding bid-ask spreads and liquidity

Learn what the bid-ask spread is, why it is a hidden cost on every trade and how liquidity affects it.

Basics
Beginner 6 min

What is a broker and how do you choose one?

Learn what brokers do, the different types available, and how to choose a broker that fits the way you trade.

Basics
Intermediate 12 min

Backtesting a Trading Strategy

Learn how to test a trading strategy on historical prices, which numbers to look at and which mistakes distort the result.

Technical analysis
Intermediate 10 min

Combining Multiple Indicators

How to combine indicators from different categories as confirmation, why more indicators is not automatically better and how to test a setup.

Technical analysis
Intermediate 11 min

Correlation and Pair Trading

Learn what correlation is, how to calculate it and how to use it to spread risk. Includes an explanation of pair trading and its risks.

Technical analysis
Intermediate 10 min

Moving Averages

What a moving average is, the difference between SMA and EMA, how crossovers work and where the limitations lie.

Technical analysis
Intermediate 13 min

Options: the Basics

Learn what calls and puts are, how an option works and which risks come with it. With worked examples in euros and an explanation of options in the EU.

Derivatives
Intermediate 11 min

Reading Annual and Quarterly Results

Learn to read a company's results: earnings per share, revenue and expectations. And understand why a price can fall after good results.

Fundamental analysis
Intermediate 9 min

Risk and Reward in Balance

How do win rate, risk/reward ratio and position size fit together? Worked examples, the Kelly criterion and the maths of recovering from a loss.

Risk and money
Intermediate 10 min

RSI in Depth: Advanced Uses

How the RSI is calculated, how to read it in different trends and what divergence means, with an honest explanation of the limitations.

Technical analysis
Intermediate 10 min

Sector Rotation

Learn what sector rotation is, how the economic cycle relates to sectors and why timing is hard. With a worked example in euros.

Fundamental analysis
Intermediate 10 min

Support and Resistance

How to spot, draw and use support and resistance levels, and why they are not hard boundaries.

Technical analysis
Intermediate 9 min

Trading Around the News

Learn which news can move prices, why the first reaction is often unreliable and how to limit risk around news.

Fundamental analysis
Intermediate 10 min

Volume Analysis

What trading volume is, how to use it to confirm price moves (including OBV and VWAP) and where it can mislead.

Technical analysis
Advanced 9 min

Hedging Your Investments Against Price Falls

What is hedging? An explanation of protective put options, inverse ETFs and other ways to limit price falls, with a worked example and the costs.

Risk and money
Advanced 12 min

Multi-Timeframe Analysis

How to look at the same market on three timeframes (from large to small), what to do with conflicting signals and where the pitfalls lie.

Technical analysis