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Finance Lessons
68 courses / 472 lessons / ~107h of learning / 0 prerequisites

Learn finance the way you'd learn to ride a bike .

Not by memorising definitions — by grabbing the thing and feeling how it moves. Start not knowing what compound interest is; finish reading a fund factsheet like a pro.

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↓ a real lesson — press play
Same return, different risk
Steady EddieRollercoaster
01

Start from absolute zero

No ticker, no balance sheet, no jargon assumed. Course one assumes you have never thought about money on purpose — and every later course only leans on the ones before it.

02

You poke it, not read it

Sliders, races, step-throughs, quizzes in every lesson. The idea moves when you move it, which is the difference between "I read that" and "I get that".

03

It doesn’t stop at “intro”

Most finance explainers tap out right after compound interest. These keep climbing — alpha, beta, Sharpe, Sortino, drawdown, reading a real fund factsheet — until the advanced stuff is just stuff you know.

One ladder, no gaps

Every course stands on the one below it.

Most sites give you scattered explainers. This is a single dependency graph: each course only assumes the ones before it, from "what is money?" all the way to pricing options. You are never expected to know something you weren't taught.

  1. Beginner 1/4
    9 courses

    What money even is. Interest, inflation, budgets, your first investment.

  2. Intermediate 2/4
    10 courses

    Markets, funds and ETFs, bonds, loans, stablecoins, AMMs.

  3. Advanced 3/4
    9 courses

    Portfolio theory, Sharpe and Sortino, factor models, behavioural traps.

  4. Expert 4/4
    40 courses

    Options pricing, Greeks, Value-at-Risk, Kelly, Monte Carlo, MEV.

The full map lives in the catalog — a real dependency graph you can follow course by course.

The whole map

68 courses. This is all of them.

From your first euro to exotic derivatives — every chip below is a full course you can open right now.

Money & Value Economics for Finance Interest & Yield Crypto, From Scratch Mental Models for Finance Bonds & Rates Stock Markets & Funds Stablecoins History of Finance Futures & Forwards DeFi Lending & Borrowing Market Microstructure Options Basics FX & Currency Markets Options Pricing MEV & Transaction Ordering Monte Carlo in Finance Bayesian Finance Greeks & Hedging Fixed-Income Analytics Time-Series Finance Portfolio Optimization Swaps & Rate Derivatives Credit Derivatives & Securitization Algorithmic Trading & Execution Counterparty Risk & XVA DeFi Options & On-chain Volatility High-Frequency Market Making Reinforcement Learning for Trading Cross-Chain Arbitrage & Bridge MEV Deep RL for Execution & Market Making Agent-Based Models & Market Simulation Causal Inference for Alpha & Execution Adversarial Machine Learning & Model Robustness in Trading
A History of Money The Time Value of Money Investing Basics Investment Psychology Zcash Loans & Mortgages Bitcoin Ethereum Automated Market Makers (AMMs) Investment Metrics Company Financials and Valuation Portfolio Theory Statistics for Finance Commodities & Real Assets Value at Risk DeFi Derivatives & Perpetuals Kelly & Geometric Growth Factor Models Polymarket & Prediction Markets Stochastic Processes Risk of Ruin Extreme Value & Tails Volatility Trading Taleb & Uncertainty Exotic Options & Structured Products Systematic & Statistical Arbitrage Machine Learning for Alpha On-chain Arbitrage & Cross-DEX MEV Deep Learning for Market Data Order-Flow Auctions & MEV Redistribution Generative Models for Synthetic Market Data Foundation Models for Financial Time Series Graph Neural Networks for Financial Networks & Systemic Risk Quantum Computing for Finance
Not slides. Not videos.

Stuff you can actually grab and pull.

These are the real widgets from inside the courses — drag a slider, hit play, watch the numbers move. Go on, mess with them.

🌱 Interest & Yield · Beginner

Why your money snowballs.

Nudge the rate up one point and watch the curve peel away from the straight line. That gap is compounding — the whole reason starting early beats starting big.

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Compounding pulls awayStart: $1,000
Compound growthSimple growth
Final value
$4,661
CAGR
8%

Simple growth adds the same amount each year. Compound growth earns interest on past interest — so it curves upward and leaves the straight line behind.

⏳ Time Value of Money · Beginner

A dollar later is worth less. Exactly how much less?

Push the payment further into the future and the bar shrinks before your eyes. This one chart is the engine behind every valuation you'll ever do.

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Discounting: what a future dollar is worth todayFuture payment: $1,000
Present valueFace value
Worth today
$215
Cents on the dollar
21¢

A promised payment loses value the longer you wait and the higher the discount rate. The curve is compounding played backwards — each year divides by another (1 + r).

📈 Investment Metrics · Advanced

"Risky" has a shape. Here it is.

Two bets with the same average return — drag the volatility up and watch one bell curve spill into the tails. That spread is the risk, and it's what every metric in the course is trying to pin down.

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Same average return, different risk
Low volatilityHigh volatilitySame average return
-40%+8%+40%

Both curves peak at the same average return. The wider one just spreads its outcomes further from that average — that spread is volatility.

How a lesson works

Built on how memory actually works.

Reading feels like learning; it mostly isn't. Every lesson here forces the three things that do work: predict, interact, retrieve.

  1. 1

    Guess before you’re told

    Lessons open with a question you can’t answer yet. Committing to a guess first is what makes the real answer stick — it’s the testing effect, and it’s built into every lesson.

  2. 2

    Grab the idea

    Every core concept ships with a slider, race or animation. Compounding isn’t a formula here — it’s a curve you bend with your own hands.

  3. 3

    Prove you got it

    Quizzes, concept matchers, fill-in-the-blanks and spot-the-trap questions — varied on purpose, spaced through the lesson, never a wall of MCQs at the end.

  4. 4

    Pass the final

    Each course ends in a graded final exam: one shot per question, no retries, score at the end. Progress saves on your device — no account, ever.

Learning Paths

Curated tracks, not one giant list.

Pick the area you care about and follow the graph from beginner to expert — or jump straight to the course you need.

🌱

Investing Basics

From what money is to how bonds work — the absolute zero-to-investor path. No jargon assumed.

13 courses Beginner → Advanced
📈

Stocks & Company Analysis

How exchanges, funds, order books, and balance sheets really work — pick stocks with your eyes open.

3 courses Intermediate → Advanced

Crypto

Bitcoin, Ethereum, DeFi, and the mechanics of on-chain finance — from "magic internet money" to real understanding.

11 courses Beginner → Expert
📊

Quantitative Finance

Statistics, portfolio theory, risk models, Monte Carlo, stochastic processes, and Bayesian methods — the math that drives modern markets.

36 courses Advanced → Expert
🎟️

Derivatives

Futures, forwards, and options from first principles through pricing, Greeks, hedging, and on-chain perps — the full toolkit for risk management.

14 courses Intermediate → Expert
🎲

Prediction Markets

How Polymarket turns opinions into probabilities — order books, oracles, calibration, and sizing bets with Kelly.

3 courses Expert → Expert
🔁

DeFi

Finance rebuilt on-chain — Ethereum, stablecoins, AMMs, lending, perps, and the MEV games underneath it all.

10 courses Intermediate → Expert
⚖️

Trading & Market Mechanics

How orders actually become trades — exchanges, order books, futures, FX, and the psychology that wrecks traders.

14 courses Beginner → Expert
💵

Fixed Income & Rates

Everything interest rates — from compound interest and mortgages to bonds, duration, convexity, and the yield curve.

6 courses Beginner → Expert
🛡️

Risk Management

Measure what can go wrong before it does — VaR, expected shortfall, tail risk, Monte Carlo, hedging, and ruin.

7 courses Expert → Expert
🧠

Behavioral Finance

Why real investors are not rational — biases, heuristics, overconfidence, calibration, and being fooled by randomness.

3 courses Beginner → Expert
🌍

Macro & Currencies

The big picture — money, inflation, GDP, central banks, bond markets, and how currencies trade against each other.

5 courses Beginner → Advanced
📦

Portfolio Construction

Turn a pile of assets into a portfolio — risk-and-return metrics, mean-variance optimization, factor models, and sizing bets with Kelly.

5 courses Advanced → Expert
📐

Options & Volatility

Options from first contract to the vol surface — payoffs, Black-Scholes pricing, the Greeks, volatility trading, exotics, and on-chain options.

6 courses Advanced → Expert
🏦

Credit & Securitization

Default risk priced and traded — swaps and rate derivatives, fixed-income analytics, credit derivatives, securitization, and counterparty/XVA risk.

4 courses Expert → Expert
🦾

Algorithmic & Quant Trading

How quants actually trade — market microstructure, execution algorithms, statistical arbitrage, high-frequency market making, and RL for execution.

7 courses Advanced → Expert
🤖

AI & Machine Learning for Finance

Modern AI on market data — ML for alpha without leakage, deep learning, reinforcement learning, generative and foundation models, GNNs, and robustness.

10 courses Expert → Expert
⛏️

MEV & On-chain Trading

The hidden game beneath every block — ordering and MEV, cross-DEX and cross-chain arbitrage, bridge MEV, and order-flow auctions that redistribute it.

4 courses Expert → Expert

Start at zero. Finish an expert.

68 courses, 472 lessons, one ladder — free, no account, in English and Spanish. It takes about ten seconds to start.