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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.

4 units · 16 lessons · 90 min read · plus hands-on practice, at your pace

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Why does one stock turn into fourteen thousand rows?

An Option Chain as Data · 4 min read · practitioner

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Unit 1 An Option Chain as Data

  1. Why does one stock turn into fourteen thousand rows? 4 min
  2. What does AAPL271217C00420000 tell you before you fetch anything? 4 min
  3. Why is the last price on this option two months old? 4 min
  4. Whose model produced the delta in this row? 7 min
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Unit 2 Currencies Have No Home Exchange

  1. Which exchange does EURUSD trade on? 6 min
  2. Why is there no row for the euro? 4 min
  3. Why is the volume column zero on every FX row? 7 min
  4. What is actually inside a thousand-pair universe? 5 min
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Unit 3 Commodities and Crypto

  1. What is actually in a row of commodity history? 7 min
  2. What exactly does one commodity number measure? 7 min
  3. What breaks when a market never closes? 7 min
  4. Why do two crypto sources disagree about the same coin? 6 min
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Unit 4 Indices

  1. Why does an index have a price but no trades? 5 min
  2. What would it take to rebuild the S&P 500 yourself? 6 min
  3. Why does a backtest on today's index look so good? 5 min
  4. Derivatives, FX, commodities and crypto — course checkpoint 6 min
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Last Course exam

One exam, the whole course Unlocks when you have read all 16 lessons

Passing it earns the course certificate. It also counts toward the Builder track (course 6 of 13): pass every course exam in a track to earn its track certificate.