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Stock market Fundamentals

Everything you need to know.

Created byZachary Hartley
BeginnerUpdated Jan 22, 2025

What You'll Learn

  • check_circleHow the stock market works and what drives the price of a share
  • check_circleHow to read and understand stock charts
  • check_circleHow to find and compare company financials
  • check_circleHow to build a strategy to meet their own personal financial goals

About This Course

Hi Everyone!

My name is Zac Hartley and in this course, I am going to teach you everything you need to know in order to feel confident making your first investments in the stock market.

This is the perfect course for somebody interested in getting into day trading, swing trading or dividend investing and we are going to cover all of the fundamentals to get you started.

We are going to start at the beginning and talk about how the stock market was founded, what a stock is, and the history of the stock market.

After we get through the easy stuff we are going to start looking at how to read charts, make decisions, and actually invest our money in a way that helps us achieve our time-based financial goals.

We are going to finish the course by looking at fundamental investing and understanding the financial statements so that you have a full range and understanding when it comes to looking at a company stock.

I started trading 7 years ago and I began making courses in 2019. Since then I have helped over 3,000 students learn how the stock market works and helped them take that first step in their plan to financial freedom.

Join my trading group chat and get access to my weekly analysis, trading journal, investment spreadsheet and much more: www.zachartley.com

Best regards,

Zac Hartley

Course Content

3 activities • 44 videos • duration: 7h 1m

  • videocam2. History of the Stock Market
    Duration 3:25
  • videocam3. Stocks and Bonds
    Duration 9:18
  • videocam4. Index's
    Duration 6:45
  • videocam5. How the stock market works
    Duration 11:06
  • videocam6. Types of Analysis
    Duration 7:53

Your Instructor

Zachary Hartley

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My name is Zac Hartley and I have been trading financial securities for the past 6 years. I am a Graduate of Mount Royal University Business School and now manage my own investments and teach people about the capital markets.

Credit Information

Is this course eligible for my CPD requirements as a Canadian CPA?

Provincial regulators of CPAs in Canada do not require that independent providers of CPD be approved to offer courses. Instead, individual CPAs are responsible for assessing whether a CPD activity meets their requirements, and may take activities from any source provided those requirements are met.

Every course offered on LearnFormula is delivered by a qualified subject matter expert or learning organization, and advances learning objectives that are relevant to the responsibilities or professional competencies of Canadian CPAs. All activities on LearnFormula are quantifiable in terms of hours, and are also verifiable, in that users receive documented evidence of their attendance via a certificate of completion after finishing a course (and this certificate is stored by LearnFormula indefinitely). Nearly 100,000 Canadian CPAs successfully satisfy their CPD requirements via LearnFormula on an annual basis.

What Students Are Saying

4.7 out of 5
Student's Choice
115 reviews
  • GR
    Geoff R.
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    Well done.

  • TK
    Torey K.
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    love the history of the market! great content!

  • EM
    Eileen M.
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    Really interesting. I've used chart tools on my bank investing site, but I love this tool that allows you to annotate and draw the lines to help with the analysis.

  • RU
    Ruan U.
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    Enjoyed the course

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