A classroom, not a brokerage
Learn to trade. Risk nothing.
Seven short lessons on how stocks, orders, and risk actually work — then a paper desk with $10,000 of play money. Lesson 1 is free. The rest is $29, once. No live quotes. No picks.
AAPL$196.20-0.82%MSFT$447.02+4.85%GOOGL$164.76-0.41%AMZN$189.19-1.28%NVDA$136.91+11.95%JPM$206.69-3.02%KO$67.06+0.99%JNJ$149.76-1.93%XOM$112.98+3.84%SPY$549.91+0.67%AAPL$196.20-0.82%MSFT$447.02+4.85%GOOGL$164.76-0.41%AMZN$189.19-1.28%NVDA$136.91+11.95%JPM$206.69-3.02%KO$67.06+0.99%JNJ$149.76-1.93%XOM$112.98+3.84%SPY$549.91+0.67%
What a tick is
The smallest move a price can make.
For most U.S. stocks that is a penny. An uptick is the last trade higher; a downtick is lower. The ticker is the name on the screen. The tick is the move. FirstTick is the first time you watch one with nothing on the line.
Learn
Ownership, bids and asks, market vs limit, sizing, charts, and the mistakes that empty accounts.
OpenPractice
A simulated tape, a real order ticket, and a ledger that does not care about your story.
OpenAsk
A coach that will explain the plumbing — and refuse to pick a stock for you.
OpenThe path
About an hour, if you do the quizzes.
- 01What a stock actually isA share is a sliver of a real company — not a lottery ticket.
- 02How a market matches buyers and sellersBids, asks, and the spread — the plumbing under every quote.
- 03Buying, selling, and cashShares in, cash out — and the other way around. Keep a simple ledger.
- 04Market orders vs limit ordersSpeed versus price. Choose on purpose.
- 05Risk, size, and not betting the farmOne name can ruin a month. Position size is the real skill.
- 06How to read a price chartOpen, high, low, close — and the humility not to see a prophecy.
- 07The mistakes that empty accountsFOMO, revenge, tips, and trading without a plan.