Course library

Start from "what is a stock?": brokers, deposits, buying, selling, unrealized P&L, profit, dividends and IPOs, one animation at a time.

For: complete beginners who have never touched stocks

Order books, market orders, limit orders, slippage, call auctions, margin, short selling and stop-losses: see how trades actually get matched.

For: learners who can already buy and sell and want to understand how orders get filled

Exchange rates, currency pairs, pips, spreads, lots, leverage, margin, pip value conversion and overnight swaps: every core concept of forex trading.

For: beginners curious about forex trading

One lesson each for Buy Limit, Sell Limit, Buy Stop and Sell Stop, then stop-loss and take-profit, sizing by risk, and gaps and slippage.

For: learners who know the forex basics and want to master pending orders

What an option is, strike prices, premiums, calls, puts, in and out of the money, time value, reading an option chain and leverage: options from scratch.

For: learners getting started with options (take "Stock Basics" first)

The four basic positions, Theta time decay, LEAPS, covered calls, cash-secured puts, and exercise and assignment: how option value changes and how to use it.

For: learners who have finished "Options Basics"

Agree on a future price today: contract specs, margin and mark-to-market, going long and short, basis, rolling contracts, delivery and hedging.

For: learners who know the stock basics and want to understand futures

Blockchains, wallets and private keys, custody, high volatility, stablecoins, perpetual futures, placing orders on an exchange and on-chain transfers.

For: beginners curious about digital assets like Bitcoin and Ethereum

Coupons and principal, the price–yield seesaw, YTM, duration, credit spreads, the yield curve, clean vs. dirty price, and convertible bonds.

For: learners who want to understand bonds, interest rates and fixed-income investing

Energy, metals and agriculture: supply and demand shocks, storage and cost of carry, how gold and oil are priced, benchmark prices, physical premiums and seasonality.

For: learners interested in physical commodities like gold, oil and crops

How indexes are calculated, cap-weighted vs. equal-weighted, ETF creation and redemption, premiums and discounts, compounding fees, leveraged ETF decay, choosing a fund and dollar-cost averaging.

For: learners who want to invest long-term with index funds

Trade the price difference without owning the asset: long and short, leverage and required margin, margin level, margin calls and stop-out, financing fees and gap risk.

For: learners who understand leverage and want a solid grasp of CFD risk (take "Forex Basics" first)

Compounding and real interest rates, forward rate agreements, interest rate swap cash flows and valuation, DV01, hedging a loan, and cross-currency swaps.

For: advanced learners who want to understand institutional interest rate tools (take "Bonds & Fixed Income" first)

Candlesticks, classic candle patterns, volume, support and resistance, trendlines, multiple timeframes, chart patterns, Fibonacci, market structure and price gaps.

For: learners looking at a candlestick chart for the first time

SMA, EMA, golden and death crosses, MACD, Bollinger Bands, ADX/DMI, Parabolic SAR, the Ichimoku Cloud, MA alignment and pullbacks.

For: learners who can read candlesticks and want to judge trends with indicators

RSI, the stochastic oscillator (KD/KDJ), CCI, Williams %R, momentum and ROC, divergence, RSI range shifts in trends, and choosing settings.

For: learners who want to spot overbought and oversold conditions and shifts in momentum

OBV, VWAP, MFI, the A/D line and CMF, volume profile, ATR, historical volatility, and Donchian / Keltner Channels.

For: learners who want to read money flow and volatility

Indicator confluence, lag and false signals, backtesting and overfitting, ATR position sizing, exit rules and sample size.

For: learners who know the indicators and want to turn them into trading rules

Offset risk with opposite positions: futures, stock index futures, options, FX forwards, cross hedging, and hedging a multi-asset portfolio.

For: learners who know the basics of futures and options and want to manage real risk exposures

The same thing shouldn't have two prices: cash-and-carry, put-call parity, triangular and interest rate parity arbitrage, plus the traps behind "risk-free".

For: learners who know the basics of futures, options and forex and want to understand the forces behind pricing

The Greeks, implied volatility and the volatility smile, spreads, straddles, iron condors and calendar spreads: go from single legs to combinations, and pick a strategy to fit your view.

For: learners who have finished both options courses and want to express views and manage risk with options

Position sizing, drawdowns, expectancy, the Kelly criterion, the odds of losing streaks, and the traps your brain sets for you: survive long enough to make money.

For: learners who have started trading and want to control risk systematically and break bad habits

The income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement, then P/E and discounted cash flow: work out what a company is really worth.

For: learners who want to move from trading prices to buying businesses, and learn to read financial statements and value companies

Build strategies from rule blocks, score stocks with factors, use math for diversification and portfolio optimization, then puncture backtest illusions with out-of-sample testing.

For: learners who know technical analysis and backtesting and want to trade in a systematic, rules-based way