Trading basics

The One Up Solution team will help you understand what the stock market is, how to make money on it, and how to choose the best trading strategy for you.

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FAQs

  • What is a stock
    exchange?

    It is a place of making transactions between buyers and sellers, most often using the services of intermediaries. Such mediators represent at the exchange the interests of both producers of goods and owners of securities, and the interests of their buyers.

  • How does the
    stock exchange work?

    It is an organized market where the rules of perfect competition apply. Prices are formed solely under the influence of supply and demand and are published daily. They are fixed and published at the beginning and end of each working day.

    All market participants are offered the same conditions for making deals and trading operations. All market participants are subject to unified rules established by the Exchange. Exchange transactions are conducted according to the auction principle for buying and selling raw materials, commodities, securities and currency.

  • What is the main feature of stock trading?

    Exchange trading does not imply physical presence of trading objects — commodities and securities — at the moment of transaction. Availability of goods of appropriate quality and in sufficient quantity in warehouses, as well as securities in banks with the ownership right to them, is confirmed by appropriate documents

The pros of trading on the stock exchange include all parties involved in the transaction:

  • Profitable realization

    Suppliers on the exchange sell their commodities profitably

  • Free access

    Customers have free access to product and price information

  • Free competition

    Buyers are able to use free competition between sellers to their advantage

  • Receipt of commissions

    Exchange players receive commissions for trades executed

What is the difference between a professional and a non-professional trader?

Professional traders must have a license from the Central Bank

Professional traders must have special training

The difference between a professional trader is that he is completely independent in making his decisions

  • Availability of license

  • Specialized education

  • Pro independent

Pros

  • With some luck and expertise, there is an opportunity to make a lot of money
  • Independence
  • Excitement of constant “playing”

Cons

  • Risk of losing
  • Attitude of some people towards traders as fraudsters and speculators
  • High emotional tension