Forthcoming · By Solomon Kurtys
How to Trade Like a Fifth Grader
Understand the Stock Market, Manage Your Risk, and Make Your First Trade with a Plan
A beginner’s guide built around clear questions, fictional businesses, simple math, and the habit of showing your work.
In development. Release date and purchase links will be added when available.
Explore the twelve lessonsTwelve lessons. One thoughtful beginning.
- What a share actually represents
- Why stock prices move
- Investing versus trading
- Prices, percentages, and market value
- Understanding a business and its price
- Reading charts without assuming the future
- Orders, spreads, and settlement
- Position size and the possibility of loss
- Writing a trade plan
- Win rates, costs, and expectancy
- Emotions and decision-making
- Practice, recordkeeping, and review
Simple enough to follow.
Useful enough to practice.
Follow Maya and her fictional lemonade business as ownership, prices, and risk become ideas you can explain at a kitchen table. Each chapter includes review questions, with an answer key and a complete practice case to connect the lessons.
Built for adult beginners. Accessible to curious young readers.
Young readers should learn with a parent or guardian and use pretend money. Understanding a market does not guarantee trading profits. Choosing a long-term investment approach—or deciding to wait—is a valid outcome of learning.