Trading Essentials

Name: Trading Essentials
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Learn about trading essentials and the seven key concepts of the financial markets in this free online course.

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Learning Outcomes

In this free course, you will learn how to:

Explain what financial markets are
List the main participants in financial markets
Define margin trading
Describe how leverage links to margin trading
Explain what contracts for difference (CFDs) and spread bets are
Recall how to calculate the notional of an underlying position
Indicate what types of costs are incurred by traders and how to actively manage them
Analyze a broker’s offerings
Discuss what brokers are and what they do for traders
Recall the four main types of risk and how to identify each one

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