850 University
Reading a stock quote, company size, sectors and styles, finding and checking stock ideas on EDGAR, a five-minute fundamentals check, earnings season, placing your first buy, position size, dividends, splits and mergers, IPOs, selling smart, group-chat scams and the money mistakes your brain makes.
Learn to read a stock quote in about a minute: price, bid and ask, market cap, volume, the 52-week range, EPS, P/E, dividend yield, beta, float and short interest, using a fictional company.
Learn how to size up a company by market cap, sort it into one of the 11 GICS sectors, and understand growth, value and dividend styles without treating any as better.
Learn where stock ideas come from and how to check them with free official sources: screeners, earnings calendars, EDGAR filings, insider Form 4s and 13F reports, plus why analyst ratings lean toward Buy.
Is Buying and Selling Stocks free on 850 University?
Yes — 12 of 12 lessons in this course are free with an 850ai account. Watch on YouTube anytime; create a free account to take quizzes and track progress.
How many lessons are in Buying and Selling Stocks?
This course includes 12 short video lessons, each followed by a quiz when you learn inside the 850ai app.
Can I dispute errors on my credit report after this course?
850 University teaches the concepts; 850ai can analyze your credit report and generate dispute letters when you are ready. Start free at my850.ai/landing.
Learn the strategy here, then let 850ai analyze your credit report and generate dispute letters tailored to your accounts.
Learn a five-minute first look at any company: revenue growth, profit, debt, free cash flow and valuation against peers, using a fictional company and the SEC's free filings.
Learn how earnings season works: beats and misses against analyst estimates, why most companies beat, why guidance often matters more, and why a stock can fall on 'good' news.
Walk through placing a first stock buy on a generic trading app: the right ticker, shares or dollars, market or limit, time in force, extended hours, the review screen and T+1 settlement.
Learn how much to put in any one stock: the credit-first order, recovery math, why most stocks aren't the big winners, a simple size cap, and what research says about lump sum versus investing little by little.
Learn what happens to your shares around dividends, splits, reverse splits, mergers, tender offers and spin-offs, including the ex-dividend date under T+1 and the warning signs to watch for.
Learn how IPOs really work for everyday investors: who gets the offer price, why the first-day pop is hard to capture, what long-run research shows, how lock-ups work, and how to spot pre-IPO scams.
Learn when and how to sell a stock: five common sell reasons, rebalancing, short-term versus long-term taxes, loss limits and wash sales, and what stop, stop-limit and trailing stop orders really do in a gap.
Learn how group-chat stock scams work, from pump-and-dumps and ramp-and-dumps to fake trading apps, deepfake experts and the fake 'SEC froze your account' fee, plus where to report fraud.
Learn how fear of missing out, overconfidence and loss aversion can cost investors money, what the research measured, and why many investors use a broad index fund as the baseline to beat.