Rotation Alert
Free class

Practice investing with fake money.

A free class on opening a practice trading account and placing your first order — real market prices, no real money, nothing at risk. Twenty-five minutes, narrated, and you can stop and start whenever you like.

Length
About 25 minutes, 27 slides
Cost
Free. No card, nothing to cancel.
Format
Slides that advance as they're read aloud — or read them yourself, at your own pace
Level
Complete beginner. No jargon assumed.
You need
An email address. That’s it.

What's in it

The stuff nobody explains, in one sitting.

  1. 1

    What a paper trading account is

    A free practice account at a real broker. Real prices, fake money — and the one big limitation nobody mentions.

  2. 2

    Where to open one, and what to avoid

    What a legitimate practice account asks you for, and the four things it should never ask for.

  3. 3

    The words on the screen

    Ticker, share, bid, ask, spread, fill. Nine words, and then the screen makes sense.

  4. 4

    Placing an order, field by field

    Every order form asks the same five things. We walk one all the way through with a worked example.

  5. 5

    Closing the position

    Selling is the same form. The hard part is deciding your exit before you ever click buy.

  6. 6

    How to judge an alert service

    Six questions to ask anyone selling you signals, and the red flags that mean walk away.

Who made this

The class is sponsored by Rotation Alert.

Rotation Alert is a sector rotation alert service — that's our product, and this class is free because we'd rather you learned to practice properly before you pay anyone, including us. We say so plainly in the class itself.

We tell you what our system did. We don't tell you what to buy, and we can't advise you on your own situation. We are not financial advisers.