Stock Trading practice

How trading actually works — the major ETFs, the indicators traders watch, the correlations between markets, and what the evidence says about all of them — as education, never advice. Learn how an ETF (exchange-traded fund) is built and priced (creation and redemption, tracking, expense ratios, and why liquidity is not the same as volume); the major ETFs by what they hold, from broad US index funds such as SPY and VTI to QQQ, IWM, international, bond, sector and gold funds, and why leveraged, inverse and volatility products lose value over time; trend indicators (moving averages, MACD), momentum oscillators (RSI, stochastics), volatility measures (Bollinger Bands, ATR, the VIX) and volume measures (OBV, VWAP), each taught as what it computes plus what the research says about it; cross-asset correlations — stocks and bonds, the VIX and the S&P 500, the dollar and gold, oil and energy stocks, rates and growth stocks — always with the period and market conditions that shaped them, and why correlation is not causation; order execution and slippage; position sizing, stop-losses and drawdown math; leverage, margin and short selling; the pattern-day-trader rule; the research record of active traders; and the psychology and scams that cost traders most. Many items have a computed answer, and no indicator is ever taught as a prediction. Distinct from Investing (long-term principles), Securities Products (licensing-exam content) and Behavioral Economics. Educational only — never investment advice, trade signals or recommendations to buy or sell any security.