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The first ideas for complete beginners: money, markets and prices, shares, crypto and currency pairs, a first chart, risk, and why this app uses practice money only.

1. Money: spend, save or investMoney is a tool for swapping, and you can spend it now, save it for later or invest it so it might grow, knowing it could also shrink.
2. Where buyers meet sellersA market is any place, in a street or online, where buyers and sellers meet to trade, and a stock exchange is a big, organised market for company shares.
3. How a price is madeA price is simply where a buyer and a seller agree, so when more people want to buy than sell the price rises, and when more want to sell it falls.
4. Owning a slice of a companyA share is one small, equal slice of a company, so owning shares makes you a part-owner whose slice can rise or fall in value.
5. Crypto: digital coins that never sleepCrypto is a digital asset recorded on computer networks that trades all day, every day, with prices that can swing far more than most shares.
6. Currency pairs: money priced in moneyA currency pair tells you how much of the second currency one unit of the first buys, such as how many rupees or yen one US dollar buys.
7. Your first chartA chart is a picture of price over time: time runs left to right, price runs bottom to top, and each candle sums up one period.
8. Risk: the chance of losingRisk is the chance that you get back less than you put in, so only ever risk a small amount you can afford to lose.
9. Practice money before real moneyPractice money lets you learn from mistakes that cost nothing real, so you build skills and habits before any real money is ever at stake.
10. How to learn with this appLearn one idea, use it on a practice chart with pretend money, come back for a little practice each day, then prove it in an exam.