Parent guidance
How to supervise the step from pretend money to a real, tiny, parent-owned trade.
🚗 You are the driving instructor
Nobody hands a learner the keys and walks inside. Module 8 works the same way: your child has done the theory, the games and hundreds of pretend trades. Real money is the first supervised lesson on a quiet road, not the motorway.
Sit next to them. They talk you through the trade; you press the buttons on your own broker account. That single rule removes almost every risk of this going wrong.
🗣️ What to ask before any trade
Four questions, every single time: What is the trend? Where is your level? Where does the trade stop being right? How much are we risking, in pounds?
If your child cannot answer all four in plain English, the answer is no trade — not because they were wrong, but because there wasn't a plan.
🧊 Keep the emotion small
Sizes should be small enough to be boring. If a win makes anyone shout or a loss makes anyone sulk, the size was too big. Halve it.
Celebrate good decisions, not good outcomes. A well-planned losing trade is a better lesson than a lucky win, and saying so out loud is the whole point of Module 8.
🛑 When to stop
Stop for the day after two losing trades, after any trade taken without a plan, or the moment either of you wants to 'win it back'. Close the laptop and go and do something else.
Stop altogether for a while if your child starts checking prices outside your sessions. That's a signal to go back to the simulator, not to trade more.
⚖️ The legal bit, plainly
Children cannot hold a trading account. Any real trade belongs to your account, in your name, under your responsibility — and money you can genuinely afford to lose.
Trade Quest is educational. It does not connect to a broker, does not give financial advice, and cannot place an order. Everything you see inside the app is practice.