{"id":4358,"date":"2026-06-24T09:05:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T09:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.uexo.com\/?post_type=academy&#038;p=4358"},"modified":"2026-06-25T10:24:37","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T10:24:37","slug":"what-is-trading","status":"publish","type":"academy","link":"https:\/\/uexo.com\/it\/academy\/start-trading\/what-is-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"Trading Explained: A Beginner&#8217;s Guide to Financial Markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trading is the activity of buying and selling financial instruments from currency pairs and shares to commodities and derivatives &#8211; with the aim of profiting from changes in market prices over timeframes that can span seconds to several weeks. Online brokers and trading platforms have made this activity accessible to individuals across the world, opening participation in financial markets that were once the domain of institutional players. The central questions for any beginner are what exactly constitutes a tradable financial instrument, and what causes its price to move.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trading is the activity of buying and selling financial instruments from currency pairs and shares to commodities and derivatives &#8211; with the aim of profiting from changes in market prices over timeframes that can span seconds to several weeks. Online brokers and trading platforms have made this activity accessible to individuals across the world, opening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":4310,"template":"","class_list":["post-4358","academy","type-academy","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","academy_category-start-trading"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uexo.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/academy\/4358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uexo.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/academy"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uexo.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/academy"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uexo.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uexo.com\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}