Learn About Stocks
A calm, beginner-friendly starting point. The guides below explain how TickerPosts works, how to read a ticker page, how to research a stock before buying, and how to recognise the most common forms of stock-tip fraud. The glossary at the end covers the terms you will hit first.
Start Here
New to TickerPosts or new to stocks. These two short reads explain what the site does and how the watchlist works.
- Welcome to TickerPosts
A short tour of the site: ticker pages, discussion, the watchlist, and what makes TickerPosts different from louder forums.
- Getting the Most Out of Your Watchlist
How to turn the tickers you are tracking into a focused, scannable list instead of a noisy hundred-name pile.
Research The Basics
Beginner-friendly guides for understanding what a ticker page is telling you, how to size up a stock before placing a trade, and how to read the primary-source SEC filings the rest of the research framework relies on.
- Understanding Market Movers: Gainers, Losers, and Volume
What the daily highlight cards on the homepage actually mean, and how to read price and volume changes together rather than separately.
- How to Read Stock Volume
Volume is a confirmation read, not a direction read. What the bars under the chart actually measure, what unusual volume can signal, and how to read price and volume together.
- How to Research a Stock Before You Buy
A plain-English framework for sizing up a stock: what the company does, the basic numbers, float and volume, insider activity, the bear case, and position size before clicking buy.
- How to Read SEC Filings Without Getting Lost
A short tour of the four filings beginners hit most often: the 10-K, the 10-Q, the 8-K, and Form 4. Which sections actually matter and how to find them on EDGAR for free.
- How to Read an Earnings Report
How the press release, conference call, and 10-Q come together on earnings day, which six numbers actually move the stock, and the common traps that make a headline beat read very differently once you check the detail.
Spot Fraud And Hype
Stock-tip fraud has a recognisable shape. These two guides walk through what coordinated promotion looks like from the outside, and the short checklist you can run before acting on any tip.
- How to Spot Red Flags Before You Follow a Stock Tip
A short checklist for telling thoughtful investor posts apart from coordinated promotions: guaranteed-gain language, urgency, missing risk side, and more.
- What Is a Pump-and-Dump?
How the four-stage scheme works, the kinds of stocks promoters target, what the pump looks like online, and how to recognise one before putting money behind it.
Reference
A growing glossary of the stock-market terms you will hit first on TickerPosts, in plain English. Each entry has its own anchor so you can link directly to a definition.
- Stock Market Glossary
Ticker, market cap, float, volume, P/E ratio, EPS, dividend, short interest, RSI, MACD, penny stock, ETF, IPO, OTC, stock split, and more.
- Stock Market Hours
When the US stock market opens and closes, plus the premarket and after-hours windows in Eastern Time. Holiday schedule notes from the NYSE and NASDAQ.
More Reading From Regulators
For careful background on stock-market basics and the kinds of fraud most often targeted at retail investors, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission publishes free investor education at investor.gov, and FINRA publishes investor alerts and how-to guides at finra.org. Both are non-commercial, kept up to date, and worth bookmarking. Nothing on TickerPosts is investment advice; see the disclaimer.