Guides and tutorials

Step-by-step paths to build a method: find opportunities, validate a strategy and practice risk-free.

• The complete beginner's guide to trading

  Everything you need to understand before placing your first order: reading a chart, choosing your style, using the right indicators, managing risk, and practicing without risking a cent.

• Building your first screener, step by step

  How to turn a strategy idea into objective rules, pick the right asset universe, read scan results and iterate until you get a genuinely actionable list of opportunities.

• Backtesting a trading strategy, step by step

  Before risking a cent, replay your strategy on historical data: backtest setup, reading the key metrics, and the traps of over-optimization.

• Setting up trading alerts with autoscans

  Let your screeners watch the market for you: create an autoscan in two clicks, get an e-mail as soon as an asset matches, and avoid noise with a few best practices.

• Creating and using effective watchlists

  A good watchlist turns an endless market into familiar ground: learn how to create your lists, organize them by strategy and plug them into your scans, autoscans and backtests.

• Getting started with paper trading: practice without risking a cent

  Paper trading lets you test both your strategy and your discipline with virtual capital: create an account, place your first orders, track your positions and analyze your results before even thinking about real money.

• Running a manual market scan

  A manual scan runs your screener on demand over the universe of your choice: learn how to pick that universe, read the results, refine your rules and know when to move on to automation.