The four arenas

Same candles. Different rules.

Chart-reading transfers everywhere — but leverage, hours, costs, and risk change per market. Pick your arena; each module shows how a trade actually works, what it costs you, and the honest math of winning.

Stocks

Beginner friendly

You own a piece of a company. Leverage: none by default. Risk: slow, visible, survivable. The place almost everyone should learn in first.

market vs limit orders · trading hours · position sizing

Options

Leverage + expiry

Contracts, not shares. Defined-risk plays or account-killers — the difference is one click. The P/L diagrams make it click in minutes.

calls vs puts · hockey-stick P/L · theta decay · breakeven

Forex

24 hours · leveraged

Currencies in pairs — every trade is long one and short the other. Open around the clock; the session clock tells you when it actually moves.

pairs & pips · session clock · lots & leverage

Binary options

Know the math first

A fixed bet: right or wrong, nothing between. Simple to understand, brutal to win — the breakeven math is on the page, in the open.

payout anatomy · the 52% wall · broker red flags

Where should a beginner start? Stocks → read charts with real ownership and no expiry breathing down your neck. Then forex or options once position sizing is second nature. Binary last, if ever — and only with the math from its page firmly in mind.