How to Place Your First Trade - Step by Step (PDF)

Your first trade usually goes wrong before price moves at all. You type 500 into the wrong box, press buy on a fast candle, set no stop because you plan to watch it, and only find the fee afterwards. None of that is bad luck. Nobody showed you the screen.

This guide walks you through one trade from the very start: the two prices on the screen, every field on the order ticket, where the stop goes, how big to make the trade, and what it all costs. It is 42 pages, written for someone who has never traded, with every word explained before it is used.

Every idea sits on a picture with the words written on it: a labelled order ticket with all seven fields, the bid and ask side by side, where a stop goes on a real Dogecoin chart, the measured stop size on 1-hour and 1-day candles, and what fees and the spread cost as a share of that stop. A first trade is worked from signal to size to fee on a real XRP chart, then you do two yourself, and it ends with a tick-box checklist to run before you press buy.

WHAT'S INSIDE

- Every field on the order ticket: Buy or sell, order type, price, amount, stop loss, take profit and the fee, each labelled on a picture of the ticket.

- The two prices on every screen: Why you buy at one price and sell at another, and what the gap between them is called.

- How big your first trade should be: Size worked out from where your stop goes, not from how you feel, with the arithmetic shown step by step.

- What a trade really costs: At a 0.05% fee, a round trip is 12.30% of a normal stop measured on ten coins' 1-hour candles and 1.79% on 1-day candles.

- A first trade worked from start to finish: On a real chart, with the entry, stop, target, size and fees written on it.

WHAT YOU'LL BE ABLE TO DO

- Read an order ticket and know what every field does.

- Place a stop where your idea is wrong, then size the trade from it.

- Work out what fees and the spread cost as a share of your risk.

- Avoid four common first-trade mistakes.

AN HONEST NOTE

No trading guide can tell you what will happen next, and this one does not try. It contains no win rates, no profit figures and no promises. Educational, not financial advice.

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