The academy is designed both for those who don’t want to deal with complex investment strategies and are looking for a simple way to grow their capital passively and with minimal effort, and for active traders. It offers them the opportunity to dive deeper into the world of investing, understand market principles, and learn to take advantage of short-term trading opportunities as well.
Basic knowledge
Start here if the vocabulary is still in the way. Two pieces save the most confusion later: our guide to investing for beginners and the explanation of how leverage works in CFDs.
Investing in commodities
Prices, charts and guides sit on our commodities hub, and the mechanics are covered in the beginner guide to commodity trading.
Investing in stocks
Two questions come up first: whether to buy the share itself or a CFD on it, which we work through in CFD shares against real shares, and how to spread money across industries, which is the subject of our sector comparison.
ETF
If you are deciding how to put money in rather than what to put it in, compare regular investing against a lump sum first.
Cryptocurrency trading
What these prices respond to is covered in what influences cryptocurrency rates, and rates and charts are on the cryptocurrencies hub.
CopyTrading
We tested it for two years and wrote up the result, good and bad, in is eToro copy trading worth it.
