Beginners who try to follow everything follow nothing well. Picking one market early mirrors how the platform's own regular users work, and it gives the rest of this course one thread to pull on.
Crypto never closes. The largest coins are liquid, which means you can trade in and out without moving the price much, and the barrier to a first trade is low. That is why it is the common first market for people who grew up online. It is also why it can swallow your evenings if you let it.
Stocks are shares of real companies. They trade in exchange hours, so there are stretches when nothing can happen, and they come with decades of prices, results and analysis to lean on. The pace is slower and the record is longer.
Gold and currencies behave differently again: gold as the thing people hold when they distrust everything else, currencies as the largest market in the world, moved by interest rates and economic news. Both have their own pages on the desk. This module keeps to the two most common starting points.
Open Crypto (F7) and look at one coin: its chart and the framed read the page gives you.
> open Crypto (F7) on the desk →Open Stocks (F2) and do the same for one company whose name you already know.
> open Stocks (F2) on the desk →Pick one of the two as your home base, below. The rest of this course refers back to it.
> on this pageName one practical difference between how crypto and stocks trade: hours, ease of trading, or length of record.