The basics of making money on the stock market is to buy at a certain price in order to sell for more and make a profit. To do so, one can buy at a low price, confident that it will increase, or short sell in order to buy again at a lower price... In any case, the aim is obviously to make money.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.bestbrokers.co.uk/beginners/how-to-identify-stock-market-trends.html