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My Trading Skills equips its students with the right skill sets to trade over the long term, confidently and consistently, whilst avoiding many of the common pitfalls.

The skills taught cover an extensive range of technical and fundamental analysis techniques, risk management, trading psychology, planning, and strategy. This is done in a supportive, unpressed, and encouraging environment, where the emphasis is on practical application.

My Trading Skills is an award-winning, CPD-accredited (Continued Professional Development in the UK) provider of online education for individuals wanting to learn about the financial markets, private trading, and how to start doing it themselves using their own capital. Its courses have helped thousands of people a...
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Market Analysis: Japanese Candlesticks Decoded
4-5 hrs 11,403 learners
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You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain the similarities and differences between line, bar and candlestick chart types
  • State why traders favour candlestick charts
  • Describe how traders use Japanese candlestick pattern analysis to develop their edge
  • Identify 12 single candle Japanese candlestick patterns
  • Identify 10 multi-candle Japanese candlestick patterns
  • Explain how each candlestick pattern forms
  • Outline the market conditions when each pattern is valid and when it isn't
  • Describe what each pattern tells you about the sentiment of the market it appears in
  • Apply each pattern when analyzing live financial markets
  • Explain how patterns combine in shorter timeframes to create different patterns in longer timeframes
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Market Analysis: Japanese Candlesticks Decoded
4-5 hrs
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Market Analysis: Price Pattern Trading
3-4 hrs 11,497 learners
By My Trading Skills
You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain what a price pattern is
  • Describe the conditions when a price pattern is valid
  • Describe how traders use price pattern analysis to develop their edge
  • Identify 6 continuation price patterns
  • Identify 12 reversal price patterns
  • Explain how each price pattern forms
  • Describe what each pattern tells you about the sentiment of the market it appears in
  • Analyze live financial markets using each pattern
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Financial Analysis
Market Analysis: Price Pattern Trading
3-4 hrs
11497 enrolled
Trading with Indicators
3-4 hrs 13,588 learners
By My Trading Skills
You Will Learn How To

Having completed this course, you should be able to: 

  • Explain what technical indicators are
  • Describe the two types of technical indicators
  • Discuss what moving averages are
  • State the different variations of each type of moving average and how to calculate each
  • Recall what MACD is and what it is used for
  • Recognize how to set MACD up correctly and apply it to charts
  • Explain what Parabolic SAR is, what it’s used for and how to add it to a chart.
  • Discuss what Bollinger bands are and explain how to calculate them
  • Define the stochastics indicator
  • Summarize how to use and apply RSI
  • Discuss the golden ratio, known as God’s number, and how it is found throughout nature, architecture, astrophysics and trading
  • Describe how to use and apply pivot points
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Day Trading
Trading with Indicators
3-4 hrs
13588 enrolled
Trading Essentials
3-4 hrs 10,023 learners
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You Will Learn How To

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Explain what financial markets are
  • List the main participants in financial markets
  • Define margin trading
  • Describe how leverage links to margin trading
  • Explain what contracts for difference (CFDs) and spread bets are
  • Recall how to calculate the notional of an underlying position
  • Indicate what types of costs are incurred by traders and how to actively manage them
  • Analyze a broker’s offerings
  • Discuss what brokers are and what they do for traders
  • Recall the four main types of risk and how to identify each one
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Trading
Trading Essentials
3-4 hrs
10023 enrolled
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Very detailed and demo on chart was good
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i learnt a lot from this, i will recommend it for all those who want to learn forex trading.
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