WEA Beginner Courses

WEA Beginner Courses

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The Workers’ Educational Association of South Australia Incorporated (WEA) was founded in 1913, is Australia’s largest non-government adult community education organisation. See the WEA website https://www.wea-sa.com.au.

I have tutored at the WEA since 2007.

These courses are topic based short courses. They are stand alone and are complimentary of each other. These links will work if the WEA has uploaded the course details.

64835 DAY TRADING STOCKS AND OTHER MARKETS Mon 12-Jan-26 6:00 pm
64802 CYCLE ANALYSIS AND MARKET TIMING [FLEXI] Mon 19-Jan-26 6:00 pm
64836 BUY AND HOLD – OR BETTER? Tue 27-Jan-26 6:00 pm
64801 GETTING STARTED IN FINANCIAL MARKETS Mon 02-Feb-26 6:00 pm
64803 BITCOIN & CRYPTOCURRENCIES EXPLAINED Sat 14-Feb-26 9:30 am
64841 DEVELOPING A FINANCIAL MARKET PLAN Sat 21-Feb-26 9:30 am
64837 MINING BITCOIN CRYPTO AND CHIA Mon 23-Feb-26 6:00 pm
64840 CRYPTO BUY SELL HOLD [FLEXI] Wed 25-Mar-26 6:00 pm
64847 TIMING THE FINANCIAL MARKETS [FLEXI] Wed 08-Apr-26 6:00 pm
64843 THE PSYCHOLOGY OF TRADING & INVESTING Mon 13-Apr-26 6:00 pm
64801A GETTING STARTED IN FINANCIAL MARKETS Sat 18-Apr-26 9:30 am
64844 LEVERAGE THROUGH FUTURES, CDFs & OPTIONS Mon 04-May-26 6:00 pm
64802A CYCLE ANALYSIS AND MARKET TIMING Sat 30-May-26 9:30 am
64803A BITCOIN & CRYPTOCURRENCIES EXPLAINED [FLEXI] Sat 20-Jun-26 1:00 pm
64801B GETTING STARTED IN FINANCIAL MARKETS [FLEXI] Mon 13-Jul-26 6:00 pm
64835B DAY TRADING STOCKS AND OTHER MARKETS [FLEXI] Tue 14-Jul-26 6:00 pm
64803B BITCOIN & CRYPTOCURRENCIES EXPLAINED [FLEXI] Wed 23-Sep-26 6:00 pm
64836A BUY AND HOLD – OR BETTER? Tue 06-Oct-26 6:00 pm
64801C GETTING STARTED IN FINANCIAL MARKETS Mon 12-Oct-26 6:00 pm
64802B CYCLE ANALYSIS AND MARKET TIMING [FLEXI] Wed 25-Nov-26 6:00 pm

On the WEA website, you can do a quick search on a key word or two from the course name in the search box.

By clicking enrol and then selecting another course (if you wish) your basket of courses builds. Then you can move on to the WEA checkout. The WEA sets the course fee and takes payment for WEA courses.

WEA Course Descriptions

The courses below are offered but do not necessarily run each year.

Bitcoin And Cryptocurrencies Explained

This course is a beginner’s guide to cryptocurrencies – what are they, what is their history, how do they work, what are their advantages, disadvantages and risks? How can I profit from cryptos? What are the benefits and pitfalls and how can I employ risk management when mining, trading or investing? Links to further quality information will be provided and there are no prerequisite requirements.

Buy and Hold Or Better

The ‘buy and hold’ strategy is often touted for share market investing. Does it work or doesn’t it? If so, when in each case, and is it possible to know ahead of time? By looking at the stock market history there are many lessons to be learned. There are many ways to view the markets and there are many strategies an investor can use. This course takes a look at a range of approaches. No prior experience required.

Crypto, Buy Sell Hold

This course is for beginners who want to learn what to do, how to do it, when to do it – and importantly – what NOT to do with crypto. There are key principles that must be followed when investing or trading crypto (or any market). There is profit potential but not everyone is consistently profitable. This session is designed to help you to make profits – or at least to minimise loses. It involves education, not advice. No prior experience necessary.

Cycle Analysis and Market Timing

Cycles are everywhere in our lives and can be used as very effective predictive tools (sunrise, tides, seasons etc). Cycles exist in financial markets. This course looks at the parameters that define cycles and their behaviour and moves on to study the work of ‘master’ cycle analysts. We will then investigate how to utilise cycle theory to time market entries and exits. No prior experience required.

Day Trading Stocks and Other Markets

Key market principles need to be understood and heeded to gain consistent profits in the markets. There are many intraday strategies and various of these will be investigated. A proven profitable plan is a sensible and logical requirement. The components of a plan will be explained and the process to develop one will be outlined. Practical requirements will be discussed including a computer, internet connection and broker platform. No prior experience required.

Developing a Financial Market Plan

If you don’t have a proven profitable plan in the financial markets then at best you are guessing and at worst you are gambling. You have to know exactly what you are going to do when to have the probabilities on your side to be consistently profitable. The following questions will be answered in this course: What is an ‘edge’ and why is it so important? What are the key elements of a financial market plan? How do I select a trading vehicle (shares, futures, forex, CFDs, options etc)? How do I select an entity for investment of trading? What are some approaches that could be used to develop an edge? No prior experience required.

Day Trading Stocks and Other Markets

Key market principles need to be understood and heeded to gain consistent profits in the markets. There are many intraday strategies and various of these will be investigated. A proven profitable plan is a sensible and logical requirement. The components of a plan will be explained and the process to develop one will be outlined. Practical requirements will be discussed including a computer, internet connection and broker platform. No prior experience required.

Getting Started In Financial Markets

Interested in trading or investing but don’t know where to start? If you don’t know what information or methods are useful and you don’t know who to trust then this course is designed to be a starting point. It has broad scope and will touch on fundamentals, technical analysis, stocks, commodities, CFDs, futures, options, brokers and financial planners. You will learn about some of the traps for the inexperienced and how to avoid them. A range of educational resources will be discussed and your questions will form an important part of what is covered. No prior experience required.

How Do I Trade Forex?

The foreign exchange market facilitates the trading of international currencies and is the largest single market with trillions of dollars transacted per day. The following questions will be answered in this course: What is the Forex market and how does it work? How do I set up a Forex broker account? How much money do I need? How do I obtain and use a brokers trading platform? How do I place buy, sell, stop and target orders? What approach, method or ‘edge’ do I use to assist my decision making? What is computer based MT4 trading and how does it work? No prior experience required.

Leverage through Futures, CDFs and Options

Stock trading requires having and committing a lot of money for returns that are relatively low – even when you get it right. There are other markets out there and these days everyone has access to them with very little required capital (less than $500) and potential percentage returns that might surprise. The following questions will be answered in this course: What is Leverage and how does it work in Financial Markets? Is leverage dangerous? How can the risks associated with leverage be effectively managed? What are the futures market, CFD market and options market and how do they work? What is involved in trading or investing in them? No prior experience required.

Mining Bitcoin Crypto and Chia

We will take a look at Bitcoin mining via ASICs (beware the equipment scams) and GPUs as well as Ethereum as an example of mining other Cryptos. Chia plotting and farming is considered the ‘green’ alternative. It involves utilising hard drive space and is less power hungry. Although this can all be a bit technical, the material will be kept simple with road maps for each path: buy the equipment, set it up, run it and make money – possibly. We will also consider the benefits of solar electricity. This session is very much beginner level and should be seen as a starting point only.

Day Trading Stocks and Other Markets

Key market principles need to be understood and heeded to gain consistent profits in the markets. There are many intraday strategies and various of these will be investigated. A proven profitable plan is a sensible and logical requirement. The components of a plan will be explained and the process to develop one will be outlined. Practical requirements will be discussed including a computer, internet connection and broker platform. No prior experience required.

The Psychology of Trading and Investing

The psychology of trading and investing is the most difficult aspect to master and yet to ignore it is to almost certainly guarantee your under-achievement or complete failure. The following questions will be answered in this course: Why do so many fail? How do beliefs affect us in the financial markets? How can I overcome the herd mentality? What are fear, greed, hope and regret and how can I overcome them? What do the professionals know and do? How can we minimise and overcome our psychological shortfalls? No prior experience required but please bring your brain.

Timing the Financial Markets

Cycles exist in financial markets. This course looks at cycles and their behaviour and moves on to teach you how to locate longer term cycles. We will then investigate how to utilise cycle knowledge to time investment entries and exits. If your approach is not working for you, the knowledge related to TIME contained in this course may be the KEY you are missing. No prior experience required.

Trading Systems using Technical Analysis

Step through a process to take technical analysis to an effective trading system. Through research and testing, we will develop a system and then quantify its probabilities of profit goal achievement, capital preservation and bankruptcy, as well as determine the capital needed for the system to achieve success. Prerequisite: an elementary knowledge of technical analysis with or without trading experience.

Trend Is Your Friend

The ‘trend is your friend’ is an old trading and investing adage. What exactly is trend? How is it determined? When will it change? We will investigate how to track trend with trend lines, moving averages, ‘time’ and other trend indication tools. It is important to confirm when trend has reversed. Getting in with the trend and getting out when the trend has reversed tends to maximise profits and minimise loss of paper profits. A simple trend-trading plan will be demonstrated. Charting will also be covered because it is key to establishing trend as part of ‘technical analysis’ and charting can be a vital adjunct to ‘fundamental analysis’ in financial markets. No prior experience required.

 

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