🌱 Beginner Investing Path

From your first brokerage account to your first informed investment.

A 16-guide learning path: 6 securities-account guides plus 10 beginner investing guides covering orders, hours, costs, dividends, risk, and scam prevention.

16 learning guides

Four stages

1Account & settlement
2Orders & market rules
3Costs & long-term investing
4Risk & scam prevention
Shiba Finance Guide beginner investing
Stages 2–4

Learn market mechanics and risk

10 new beginner core guides.

Beginner core

Your First Taiwan Stock Trade: From Funding and Order Entry to T+2 Settlement

Beginners often confuse order entry, execution, and settlement. Follow one complete Taiwan-stock trade from funding to final settlement.

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Beginner core

Taiwan Stock Trading Hours: Regular, Odd-Lot, and After-Hours Sessions

Understand Taiwan regular-session, intraday odd-lot, and after-hours trading times—and the difference between order-entry and matching times.

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Limit, Market, ROD, IOC, and FOK Orders for Taiwan Stock Beginners

Taiwan continuous trading supports several order combinations. Learn price type and time-in-force before using them.

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Taiwan Price Limits and Intraday Price-Stabilization Measures

Most Taiwan stocks have a daily 10% price limit, while a separate intraday stabilization mechanism can temporarily delay matching.

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Taiwan Stock Trading Costs: Brokerage Fees, Transaction Tax, and Spreads

Stock return is not only about price change. Brokerage charges, transaction tax on sales, and bid-ask spreads affect realized results.

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Reading Taiwan Market Data: Last Price, Volume, and Five-Level Order Book

The five-level order book shows outstanding bids and offers, not guaranteed future prices. Learn the basics of market depth.

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Your First Ex-Dividend Date: Why the Reference Price Adjusts

Ex-dividend dates adjust the reference price. Beginners should view dividends and price changes together rather than treating the adjustment as a sudden loss.

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Dollar-Cost Averaging for Beginners: A Contribution Method, Not a Guarantee

Recurring investing reduces timing pressure but does not guarantee gains. Understand funding, eligible securities, and a sustainable contribution level.

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Beginner Position Sizing: Do Not Put the Entire Portfolio Into One Idea

A good investment can still fall. Beginners should think about position size and household risk capacity before maximizing exposure.

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Investment Scam Prevention for Beginners: Fake Groups, Apps, and Credential Theft

Investment scams impersonate regulators, brokers, influencers, and teachers. Verify official sites, app sources, and protect credentials before investing.

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Suggested beginner order

Do not make leverage and day trading your first lessons

First understand cash equities, odd lots, trading hours, limit orders, settlement, fees, and recurring investing. Consider more complex tools only after you can explain the costs and downside of each trade.

beginner risk guide
🏦 Brokerage account

Read the neutral account-opening guide first

Referral details are kept on the account-opening page with a clear disclosure. Topic hubs do not link directly to the referral URL.

Read the account-opening guide