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Our Mission

Learn about:

  • The Modern Trader

  • Our mission

  • What it means to be a Modern Trader

  • Starting your path

What is Stock?!

Learn about:

  • Stock & shares

  • Stock's correlation with ownership

  • Private & public companies

  • Initial public offering (IPO) process

  • Company valuation

  • Supply, demand, & stock price movement

  • How money is made trading

  • Capital gain, percent gain, & measuring your performance

Tearing through Shares

Learn about:

  • The different categories of shares

    • Authorized shares​

    • Issued shares

    • Treasury shares

    • Outstanding shares

    • Floating shares

Turn up the Volume

Learn about:

  • Volume

  • How volume is correlated to:

    • Shares​

    • Liquidity

    • Bid/ask spreads

    • Price movement

  • How traders use volume

  • Where volume comes from

  • Block trading

Don't Dread the Bid, Ask, Spread

Learn about:

  • Buyers, sellers, and market makers

  • Bid, ask, and market prices

  • The spread and its correlation to volatility and liquidity

  • Order size

Bringing Light to Candlesticks

Learn about:

  • The candle/candlestick chart type

  • How candlesticks portray the open, high, low, and close prices over any timeframe

  • How a series of candlesticks can  create recognizable chart patterns

Behavioral Fearnance

Learn about:

  • Behavioral finance

  • How trading elicits strong impulses similar to gambling

  • How behavioral finance leads to opportunities in the market​

Diving into Dividends

Learn about:

  • Dividends

  • How dividends are viewed by a company

  • How dividends are viewed by a shareholder or investor

  • The quality of a dividend

  • The process from start to finish of a dividend being announced to a dividend being paid out

  • Dividend payout ratio

  • Dividend percent yield

Breaking through Support and Resistance

Learn about:

  • Support and resistance

  • Liquidity pools

  • What it takes to break through support and resistance

Order Up!

Learn about:

  • Order types

    • Market orders​

    • Limit orders

    • Stop orders

    • Day orders

    • Good-til-canceled orders

  • The pros and cons of each order type

  • Applications of each order type

  • How the order type may affect your ability to get an order filled

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Disclaimer

This website and content is for information purposes only as The Modern Trader and Stephen Blucher are NOT registered as a securities broker-dealer nor an investment adviser. No information herein is intended as securities brokerage, investment, tax, accounting or legal advice, as an offer or solicitation of an offer to sell or buy, or as an endorsement, recommendation or sponsorship of any company, security or fund. The Modern Trader and Stephen Blucher cannot and does not assess, verify or guarantee the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any information, the suitability or profitability of any particular investment, or the potential value of any investment or informational source. The reader bears responsibility for his/her own investment research and decisions, should seek the advice of a qualified securities professional before making any investment, and investigate and fully understand any and all risks before investing. The Modern Trader and Stephen Blucher in no way warrants the solvency, financial condition, or investment advisability of any of the securities mentioned in communications or websites. In addition, The Modern Trader and Stephen Blucher accepts no liability whatsoever for any direct or consequential loss arising from any use of this information. This information is not intended to be used as the sole basis of any investment decision, nor should it be construed as advice designed to meet the investment needs of any particular investor. Past performance is not necessarily indicative of future returns.

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