Step by step from basic terms to charts and indicators, so even complete beginners can follow. Each chart step has several example charts, and a quiz at the end checks your understanding.
The basics of stocks and orders, and how US stocks differ from Korean ones.
What a stock is, market cap, trading hours, limit and market orders, bids, asks and fills, and fees and taxes — the basics you need when you start.
US trading hours (in Korea time), pre-market and after-hours, tickers, how exchange rates affect returns, Korean capital gains and dividend taxes, and earnings and economic data schedules.
Start with what one candle and volume mean.
Organize trends and price zones with lines, and learn the named shapes.
Tell uptrends from downtrends and draw trendlines through lows and highs, and learn what a trendline break means and its limits.
Find price zones that blocked or held the price several times, and see support and resistance switch roles with range, breakout and breakdown examples.
See named chart shapes such as double bottoms and tops, head and shoulders, V shapes, rounding bottoms and triangles in examples, and draw necklines and trendlines yourself.
Moving averages filter the noise to show direction.
How strong recent moves were, in numbers.
Learn with charts how RSI is calculated (Wilder smoothing) and what the 70 and 30 lines mean and do not mean.
Learn how the stochastic (%K, %D) — where the close sits within the recent price range on a 0–100 scale — is calculated and what to watch out for.
Learn with charts how the MACD line, signal line and histogram are calculated and what to watch out for.
Bands that show whether prices are moving more than usual.
Layer indicators and draw lines, then practice decisions with random charts and the 40-stage challenge.
A practice board where you layer several indicators on 43 example charts and 120 virtual stocks, draw trendlines and horizontal lines yourself and compare them with the automatic ones.
Practice trading decisions on randomly generated charts, then take on 40 real-world stages such as earnings shocks, rate hikes, theme stock spikes and bubble bursts, collecting stars by difficulty. Virtual money only.
Market rules, orders and matching, settlement and taxes, disclosures, financial statements, valuation, risk management, US market structure, SEC filings, macro factors and the VIX, read in order like a book.
Look up unfamiliar words as you study. Over 100 terms from stock basics to US stocks and taxes.