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Guided tracks
A track is a path across several domains, in the order it reads best. Pass every course exam in a track and you also earn that track's certificate.
foundational
Investor
Understand what you own before you own it.
6 courses across 2 domains · ~5 h
The path, course by course
- 1 Your First Market Steps
- 2 How Markets Work
- 3 Reading the Market
- 4 Risk & Return Essentials
- 5 Why Portfolios Beat Picks
- 6 Asset Allocation
Pass all 6 course exams to earn the Investor track certificate.
intermediate
Trader
Read a chart, size a position, and survive your own decisions.
9 courses across 3 domains · ~9 h
The path, course by course
- 1 Charting Basics
- 2 Indicators that Matter
- 3 Patterns & Signals
- 4 Risk Management for Traders
- 5 What Are Derivatives?
- 6 Options, Explained
- 7 Futures & Forwards
- 8 The Mind Under Uncertainty
- 9 The Open Position
Pass all 9 course exams to earn the Trader track certificate.
intermediate
Analyst
Value a business from the numbers it files.
8 courses across 3 domains · ~8 h
The path, course by course
- 1 Reading Financial Statements
- 2 Ratios & Company Health
- 3 Valuation by Multiples
- 4 DCF & Intrinsic Value
- 5 Sector & Industry Analysis
- 6 Macro for Markets
- 7 Bonds Foundations
- 8 Credit & Spreads
Pass all 8 course exams to earn the Analyst track certificate.
technical
Builder
Get the data out, know exactly what it is, then build something with it.
13 courses across 3 domains · ~17 h
The path, course by course
- 1 Start From Zero
- 2 API Foundations
- 3 Price and Trading Data
- 4 Company and Corporate Data
- 5 Macro, Rates and Credit
- 6 Derivatives, FX, Commodities and Crypto
- 7 News, Signals and Discovery
- 8 Crypto Markets & Data
- 9 Build Your First Tool
- 10 Build a Screener
- 11 Backtest Strategies
- 12 Build a Dashboard
- 13 Ship Your Tool
Pass all 13 course exams to earn the Builder track certificate.
The library
Every course, grouped by domain. The tracks above draw their courses from here, so a course you start in either place is the same course.
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Markets Foundations
How markets actually work — from your first stock to macro forces.
5 courses
- Your First Market Steps A calm, jargon-free entry into markets, anchored to a company you already know. 16 lessons · 48 min read · Foundations Investor track, course 1
- How Markets Work The machinery behind the prices — players, venues, indices and the rules that keep it honest. 17 lessons · 50 min read · Foundations Investor track, course 2
- Reading the Market Charts, volume, news and the data itself — learning to observe like a professional. 17 lessons · 49 min read · Foundations Investor track, course 3
- Macro for Markets Rates, inflation and central banks — the weather system above every market. 16 lessons · 45 min read · Foundations Analyst track, course 6
- Risk & Return Essentials The numbers behind every investment story — time, return, risk, and the first free lunch. 16 lessons · 39 min read · Foundations Investor track, course 4
Fundamental Analysis
Read a company's numbers and judge what it is worth, from statements to intrinsic value.
5 courses
- Reading Financial Statements The three statements from scratch — balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow in full — and how they connect into one honest picture of a business. 16 lessons · 51 min read · Practitioner Analyst track, course 1
- Ratios & Company Health Turn financial statements into judgement — profitability, liquidity, leverage, efficiency and the DuPont tree that ties them together. 16 lessons · 59 min read · Practitioner Analyst track, course 2
- Valuation by Multiples Relative valuation done properly — price and enterprise multiples, comparable sets, and reading a multiple in context. 16 lessons · 60 min read · Practitioner Analyst track, course 3
- DCF & Intrinsic Value Intrinsic value from first principles — forecast cash flow, discount it, and see how your assumptions, not the market, drive the answer. 16 lessons · 61 min read · Professional Analyst track, course 4
- Sector & Industry Analysis Read a business in its context — sectors, competitive structure, cycles, and why the same numbers are worth different amounts in different industries. 16 lessons · 63 min read · Professional Analyst track, course 5
Technical Analysis
Read price action itself — charts, indicators, patterns, and the risk rules that keep traders honest.
4 courses
- Charting Basics Reading a chart properly — candle anatomy, chart types and scales, trend structure, and the levels traders watch. 16 lessons · 61 min read · Practitioner Trader track, course 1
- Indicators that Matter What an indicator really is — a transformation of price and volume, never an oracle — and the handful worth knowing: moving averages, RSI and stochastics, MACD, Bollinger Bands, ATR and volume, together with the lag, redundancy and curve-fitting that limit every one of them. 16 lessons · 59 min read · Practitioner Trader track, course 2
- Patterns & Signals Chart patterns done honestly — what the shapes encode about buyers and sellers, how often they mislead, and how to test whether a pattern carries any information at all. 16 lessons · 64 min read · Practitioner Trader track, course 3
- Risk Management for Traders The part that actually decides survival — position sizing, stops, expectancy math, drawdown arithmetic, and why a backtest is not the future. 16 lessons · 58 min read · Practitioner Trader track, course 4
Portfolio Management
Build and judge a portfolio — diversification, allocation, performance measurement, and the duties that come with managing money.
7 courses
- Why Portfolios Beat Picks Why holding many different things is not the same as holding one thing many times — correlation as the real engine, the only free lunch in finance, the efficient frontier without the algebra, and exactly where the advantage runs out. 16 lessons · 54 min read · Practitioner Investor track, course 5
- Asset Allocation How the mix gets decided — what each asset class is for, why the mix explains most of a portfolio's variability, horizon versus capacity versus tolerance, the famous reference mixes and the arguments about them, rebalancing, and the frictions of going global. 16 lessons · 68 min read · Practitioner Investor track, course 6
- Measuring Performance Judging results honestly — fair benchmarks, risk-adjusted return, drawdown and time under water, alpha versus beta, your return versus the headline, and how much of any record is simply luck. 16 lessons · 59 min read · Professional
- Behaviour, Ethics & Suitability The biases that quietly cost real money, and the duties that arrive the moment the money is someone else's — from the behaviour gap to fiduciary care, conflicts and conduct. 16 lessons · 66 min read · Practitioner
- Advanced Portfolio Risk How professionals put numbers on what could go wrong — Value at Risk and its blind spots, expected shortfall, fat tails, stress tests, correlation breakdown, liquidity, and risk budgeting. Risk models are maps, not the territory. 16 lessons · 68 min read · Professional
- ETFs & Funds The wrapper most money actually lives in — what a fund is, why an ETF's price stays near its value, what the fee waterfall and the tracking gap really cost, where leveraged, synthetic and commodity funds bite, and how to read a fund's own data block before buying it. 16 lessons · 70 min read · Practitioner
- Factor Investing Why some groups of shares have earned more than the market for decades, how a factor is measured, what a factor fund actually holds, and why the premium is paid in years of losing — value, size, momentum, quality and low volatility, with the data to check each claim. 16 lessons · 66 min read · Professional
Fixed Income & Rates
Bonds, yields and the machinery of interest rates — including how borrowing and short selling actually work.
5 courses
- Bonds Foundations A bond from the ground up — the contract, the quote, the price-yield seesaw, the issuers, and the institutions that own the biggest market on earth. 16 lessons · 76 min read · Practitioner Analyst track, course 7
- Yield & Duration The measurement toolkit for bonds — what each yield number really answers, duration and convexity done properly, the price of a basis point, and how the curve and a matched liability fit together. 16 lessons · 64 min read · Professional
- Credit & Spreads What you are paid for taking default risk — spreads and what they are made of, ratings, recovery, seniority, and reading credit as a market-wide risk barometer. 16 lessons · 66 min read · Professional Analyst track, course 8
- Money Markets & Rates The plumbing under every other market — the overnight rate, repo, reference rates, and the short-dated instruments where stress always shows up first. 16 lessons · 68 min read · Professional
- Short Selling & Securities Lending The mechanics of selling what you do not own — locating and borrowing stock, collateral and the rebate rate, daily financing, margin, recalls and buy-ins, squeezes, settlement fails, and the securities lending business sitting on the other side of every short. 16 lessons · 65 min read · Professional
Derivatives & Leverage
Contracts whose value comes from something else — options, futures, swaps and CFDs, and the leverage they carry.
4 courses
- What Are Derivatives? The mental model before any product detail — what derived value means, why hedgers and risk-takers both exist, the four families side by side, and what leverage, notional and counterparty risk actually do. 16 lessons · 71 min read · Practitioner Trader track, course 5
- Options, Explained Options until they finally click — the right-not-obligation asymmetry, what a contract is worth and why, the Greeks in plain language, and what writing one really costs. 16 lessons · 68 min read · Professional Trader track, course 6
- Futures & Forwards The contract that runs commodity and index markets — standardisation and clearing, margin and the daily settle, the carry curve, and how hedgers and speculators actually use it. 16 lessons · 64 min read · Professional Trader track, course 7
- Swaps & CFDs The two contracts that move exposure without moving assets — swapped cashflows, CFD financing, and the arithmetic of leverage told honestly. 16 lessons · 63 min read · Professional
Foreign Exchange
The largest market in the world — how currencies are quoted, what moves them, and how FX is actually traded.
3 courses
- Foreign Exchange Foundations Currencies from the ground up — why the market exists at all, how to read a quote, what a pip is worth, and the decentralised 24-hour structure behind every price. 16 lessons · 71 min read · Practitioner
- What Moves Currencies Interest rate differentials, parity conditions, central banks and flows — the real drivers of an exchange rate, stated honestly, including where each one stops working. 16 lessons · 71 min read · Professional
- How FX Is Traded The instruments and the plumbing — spot and T+2, forwards and forward points, the FX swap, NDFs, and exactly what a leveraged retail account charges you to hold a position overnight. 16 lessons · 72 min read · Professional
Commodities
The physical economy as a market — energy, metals and agriculture, and the curve that prices them through time.
3 courses
- Commodities Foundations What a commodity market actually is — a physical good with a grade, a place and a date; the personalities of energy, metals and agriculture; and the mechanics of the wrappers people use to hold them. 16 lessons · 82 min read · Practitioner
- The Futures Curve The central object of commodity investing — the storage model derived properly, convenience yield as the value of having the physical good on hand, contango and backwardation as arithmetic outcomes, the roll computed month by month, and how to read a curve for what it says about storage and supply. 16 lessons · 74 min read · Professional
- Drivers & Exposure What actually moves physical markets — elasticity, the capex cycle, producer groups, inventories, industrial demand and the dollar — and what owning commodity exposure does to a portfolio. 16 lessons · 61 min read · Professional
Crypto & DeFi
Blockchains as markets — how crypto assets work, how DeFi rebuilds finance in code, and where the real risks sit.
4 courses
- Crypto Foundations The mechanics from zero — what a blockchain is and what it solves, the scam patterns that empty wallets, why your keys are the asset, and how Bitcoin and Ethereum actually work underneath. 16 lessons · 68 min read · Practitioner
- Understanding DeFi Traditional finance rebuilt in code — automated market makers, impermanent loss, stablecoins, over-collateralised lending, oracles, and where the yield actually comes from. 16 lessons · 80 min read · Professional
- Crypto Markets & Data Crypto as a market — the 24/7 clock, fragmented venues and constructed prices, the perpetual future and its funding rate, and on-chain data with its limits stated honestly. 16 lessons · 68 min read · Professional Builder track, course 8
- Crypto Risk & Custody Where value is actually lost — custody models compared honestly, the documented exchange failures and what specifically broke, why proof of reserves proves less than it sounds, smart-contract and governance risk, the regulatory and record-keeping reality, and how to frame an allocation to something that can go to zero. 16 lessons · 74 min read · Professional
Market Data in Practice
How market-data APIs actually work — reading them, calling them, and trusting what comes back.
7 courses
- API Foundations The mechanics of calling a market-data API — requests, identifiers, the two kinds of limit, error handling, and the habits that stop a beginner producing confidently wrong results. 16 lessons · 76 min read · Practitioner Builder track, course 2
- Price and Trading Data Daily bars, intraday bars, ticks, delayed quotes, streaming and whole-exchange downloads — what each one contains, what it silently leaves out, and how to tell which you are holding. 16 lessons · 77 min read · Practitioner Builder track, course 3
- Company and Corporate Data Fundamentals, dividends, splits, calendars, insiders and market cap — what each endpoint really returns, which shape it returns it in, and the gotchas that quietly corrupt an analysis. 17 lessons · 86 min read · Practitioner Builder track, course 4
- Macro, Rates and Credit The economy, the risk-free curve, policy and funding benchmarks, and the price of credit — as endpoints, fields and units rather than as headlines. 16 lessons · 75 min read · Practitioner Builder track, course 5
- Derivatives, FX, Commodities and Crypto Everything that is not a share of stock — option chains, currency pairs, commodity series, coins and indices — and the very different shapes their data takes. 16 lessons · ~2 h · Practitioner Builder track, course 6
- News, Signals and Discovery News as rows, sentiment as model output, indicators computed server-side, and the screener and search endpoints that answer "which instrument do I even mean?" — with the traps in each. 16 lessons · 77 min read · Practitioner Builder track, course 7
- Statistics for Market Data The statistics a price series actually obeys — returns rather than prices, fat tails, volatility that clusters, correlations that flip, averages too noisy to trust — measured on the API's own data, with the pitfalls that turn a correct formula into a wrong number. 16 lessons · 65 min read · Practitioner
Trading Psychology
What happens to your own judgement while a position is open — the part of markets that cannot be rehearsed on paper.
3 courses
- The Mind Under Uncertainty Why markets are an unusually hostile environment for human decision-making — and what to call the things that happen to you in one. 16 lessons · 33 min read · Practitioner Trader track, course 8
- The Open Position Everything between entry and exit, taught as a sequence of specific moments rather than a list of virtues. 17 lessons · 40 min read · Practitioner Trader track, course 9
- The Long Run Months and years rather than minutes — living through a drawdown, measuring your own decisions, and where this stops being a markets subject. 17 lessons · 39 min read · Practitioner
Quant & Coding
Build your own market tools with an AI assistant — planning, safety, review, and the craft that transfers to any product.
6 courses
- Start From Zero No prior programming. Get a working machine, learn to read code before writing it, meet the internet your tools will talk to, learn how to find a fault and undo a mistake, and make your first commit — so that nothing in the build track is a word you have not met. 21 lessons · 76 min read · Foundations Builder track, course 1
- Build Your First Tool Go from a cached market feed to your own deployed watchlist, and learn the loop that lets you build anything else — plan it, read what your assistant wrote, keep the key on the server. 16 lessons · ~2 h · Foundations Builder track, course 9
- Build a Screener Narrow a whole market down to a shortlist you can defend — by rebuilding your watchlist rather than starting again, and by learning to review the code you were handed. 17 lessons · 83 min read · Practitioner Builder track, course 10
- Backtest Strategies Build a backtester you would defend in a quant interview — costs on from the first curve, biases found by tests you wrote, and an honest report at the end. 17 lessons · 70 min read · Professional Builder track, course 11
- Build a Dashboard Compose your watchlist, screener and backtester into one research cockpit — and learn where state belongs when three tools become one product. 16 lessons · 64 min read · Professional Builder track, course 12
- Ship Your Tool Turn a thing that works on your laptop into a public artefact someone else can run, read and trust — and find out what keeping it alive actually costs. 16 lessons · 60 min read · Professional Builder track, course 13
Deep dive: the EODHD APIs
For readers who want to go deep into the EODHD APIs — what the data covers, every way in, and how to find the right endpoint without asking anyone.
1 course