Imagine you buy a concert ticket for $100. Demand grows, the price goes to $110, and you sell it: a $10 profit. Trading is the same idea. You buy something at one price and sell it at another, only in a market like gold.

Trading means buying and selling something to profit from its price changes. You decide whether price will go up or down. If you are right you profit, and if you are wrong you lose.

Say you have a $1,000 account and buy one ounce of gold at $4,100. Price rises to $4,110 and you sell: a $10 profit. If it had fallen to $4,090 instead, you would have lost $10, which is 1% of the account.

You do not receive gold bars. You trade the price, and your profit or loss follows it. The same idea works for currencies, stocks and other markets.

A broker is your link to the market. An account holds your money while you trade. A platform, like MT5, is where you place your trades. You do not need to open an account yet.

Nothing is guaranteed. You can lose money, and most beginners do. A small size protects you: risking 1% of a $1,000 account means $10 a trade.

Learn first, practise second on a demo account, and trade last with real money when you are ready. Strategies come later, once you have practised. There is no rush.