Stock Trading and Analysis Basics

Distinguish long-term investing, swing trading, and short-term trading by their time horizons, evidence requirements, and risk profiles.

Compare US/UK shares, exchange-traded commodity products, and spot major cryptocurrencies by ownership or exposure, trading hours, volatility, currency risk, and potential leverage risk.

Construct a paper-trade order plan by selecting a market, limit, stop, or stop-limit order and estimating the effects of spread, commission, slippage, and currency conversion.

Configure a TradingView workspace with a cross-asset watchlist, reusable chart layout, alerts, and a paper-trading account.

Extract revenue, operating profit, net income, margins, operating cash flow, and free cash flow from financial statements, and distinguish accounting profit from cash generation.

Assess a company's liquidity, debt burden, and changes in shareholder equity using its balance sheet.

Calculate and interpret earnings growth, return on equity, P/E, price-to-sales, and free-cash-flow yield relative to the company's history or comparable firms.

Write a concise stock thesis that cites relevant evidence and identifies business quality, valuation, possible catalysts, and material risks.

Interpret OHLCV data and explain how timeframe selection changes the price and volume information shown on a candlestick chart.

Identify doji, hammer, shooting-star, and engulfing candlestick formations from chart examples without treating them as standalone signals.

Classify a chart as an uptrend, downtrend, range, or transition using swing highs and lows, and mark relevant support and resistance zones.

Evaluate a candlestick setup using trend, support or resistance, volume, confirmation, and invalidation context.

Configure and compare simple or exponential moving averages and Supertrend for trend assessment, dynamic support or resistance, and susceptibility to whipsaws.

Configure and interpret RSI for momentum, regime-dependent overbought or oversold conditions, and candidate divergence without using it as a standalone trigger.

Configure and interpret Bollinger Bands to assess volatility contraction, volatility expansion, and price position without assuming every band touch predicts a reversal.

Build a TradingView chart template in which market structure, volume, trend, momentum, and volatility tools have explicit, non-redundant roles in a coherent market assessment.

Convert a market hypothesis into testable entry, exit, invalidation, and no-trade rules while distinguishing contextual evidence from executable triggers.

Produce a trade risk plan by placing a technically justified stop, calculating reward-to-risk, and sizing the position from account value and maximum acceptable account risk.

Execute and journal a short sequence of rule-based trades with TradingView Bar Replay without using information unavailable at each simulated decision point.

Calculate win rate, average win, average loss, expectancy, and maximum drawdown from a trading journal, then evaluate the effects of costs, sample size, and rule violations on the results.

Explain Pine Script's bar-by-bar execution model, distinguish series values from inputs or constants, and identify common causes of repainting.

Create a Pine Script indicator with user inputs, calculations, and plotted output.

Encode a non-repainting rule-based signal with visual markers and alert conditions.

Convert indicator rules into a basic Pine strategy with entries and exits, then interpret Strategy Tester results while accounting for trading costs, look-ahead bias, sample size, and overfitting.