What Are Stocks? How Shares Work and How Investors Make Money
A stock is a share of company ownership. Learn how stocks make money (price gains plus dividends), key terms, how a trade settles (T+1) and the main risks.
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Category: Investing & Portfolio Management
Stock Position Sizing: How Many Shares to Buy
How many shares to buy: shares = (account × risk %) ÷ (entry − stop), then apply a position cap and a liquidity check. Worked examples for cheap and expensive stocks.
Read ArticleRisk-to-Reward Ratio for Stock Trades
A deep dive into risk-to-reward (R:R) for stock trading: what the ratio really measures, why it matters more than win rate, how to calculate it, and how to pair it with disciplined position sizing.
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Stop-Loss Strategies: Where to Place Stops (With Examples)
Compare fixed, structure, ATR and time stops, see how each changes position size, how trailing stops work, and stop-market vs stop-limit orders on gaps.
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Technical Indicators for Stocks: RSI, MACD, Moving Averages and ATR
The four families of technical indicators (trend, momentum, volatility, volume), their formulas, how to pick one per job, and why RSI overbought misleads.
Read ArticleSupport and Resistance in Stock Trading
How to identify, draw, and trade support and resistance levels on stock charts — including role reversal, supply/demand zones, and how to place stops and targets relative to the most important levels.
Read ArticleTrend-Following Strategies for Stocks
How to identify, enter, and ride stock trends with discipline — using moving averages, higher highs and lows, pullback entries, and trailing stops to capture large moves while controlling risk.
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Stock Breakout Trading: Entries, Volume and Stop Placement
How to trade stock breakouts: tight bases, pivot points, volume confirmation, three entry methods compared, stop placement and why breakouts fail.
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Stock Volume Analysis: Relative Volume, OBV and Breakouts
Volume shows the conviction behind a move. Learn relative volume (RVOL), on-balance volume, volume divergences and a pre-trade volume checklist, with examples.
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Portfolio Diversification and Correlation: The Math Explained
How diversification and correlation reduce portfolio risk: the two-asset volatility formula, how many stocks you need, and why correlations rise in crashes.
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