Markets, Trading & Crypto — Interactive Course
A hands-on, plain-English course on how markets, trading and blockchains actually work — built for finance and banking interviews and for curious beginners. Learn by doing: interactive charts you build yourself, worked examples, and drills that mirror the questions markets interviews ask.
Start free → Read Any Price ChartMarkets 101
How markets, prices and the big economic forces actually work — from zero.
- How the Stock Market Actually WorksStart here Understand shares, buyers and sellers, and why a price is just an agreement. Free · Open →
- What Is Inflation and Why Markets Care See what inflation really is and why it moves everything from savings to rates. Free · Open →
- What a Central Bank Does How central banks steer rates — in plain English, no jargon. Free · Open →
- Stocks vs Bonds vs Cash The three building blocks of every portfolio and how they differ. Free · Open →
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🔒 Bond Yields & the Yield Curve Read the yield curve with an interactive widget and know what it signals. 18 min
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🔒 GDP, Jobs & the Data That Moves Markets The economic releases traders watch and why they matter. 16 min
Reading Price Charts
Read any price chart with confidence — candlesticks, trends and volume.
- How to Read Any Price Chart in 5 MinutesStart here Build a candlestick with your own hands and read any chart afterwards. Free · Open →
- 🔒 Candlestick Patterns That Actually Mean Something The handful of candle patterns worth knowing — and the many that aren't. Members →
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🔒 Support, Resistance & Trend What the lines on a chart really represent, and how traders use them. 15 min
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🔒 Volume: the Story Behind the Move Why the number of shares traded changes what a price move means. 12 min
Instruments & Market Structure
Order books, spreads, and the main instruments — the plumbing of markets.
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🔒 The Order Book & How a Trade Happens Watch buyers and sellers meet in an interactive order book. 16 min
- 🔒 Bid, Ask & the Spread The market-maker's world, and why the spread is the price of liquidity. Members →
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🔒 FX, Commodities & Derivatives A plain-English tour of the markets beyond stocks. 18 min
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🔒 Long, Short & Leverage How betting up, betting down and borrowing actually work — and their risks. 16 min
Valuation Intuition
The intuition behind what a company is worth — the mental models, not the jargon.
- Supply & Demand: the One Diagram Behind Every Price The single most useful picture in all of economics, made interactive. Free · Open →
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🔒 What a Company Is Worth: the Idea Behind DCF The concept of discounting future cash — the intuition, not the spreadsheet. 18 min
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🔒 Multiples & Comparables Reading the market's yardstick: P/E and the other multiples. 14 min
Know Your Markets (Interview)
The markets-interview playbook: the question types and how to answer them.
- 🔒 The 4 Question Types Every Markets Interview Uses The fit / market / product / brainteaser framework that organises it all. Members →
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🔒 “Pitch Me a Stock” — a Repeatable Structure A structure you can reuse for any pitch, with graded practice. 18 min
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🔒 “Walk Me Through a Trade” How to reason out loud about a trade idea and its risks. 16 min
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🔒 The Illustrative Markets Dashboard Practise “what are markets doing?” on an illustrative, non-live dashboard. 14 min
Mental Math Under Pressure
The fast, no-calculator arithmetic commonly used in trading and finance interviews.
Probability & Decision Games
Expected value and the probability games that trading interviews love.
- 🔒 Expected Value & the Bets Behind Trading The one idea that underpins every good trading decision. Members →
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🔒 Probability Brainteasers Practise the classic interview brainteasers with instant feedback. 15 min
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🔒 The Market-Making Game Quote a bid and ask and manage your position — decision quality, not profit. 20 min
Blockchain & Crypto, Soberly Explained
What a blockchain really is, and the risks — evergreen fundamentals, no hype.
- What Is a Blockchain? The shared-ledger idea, built up from scratch with a tamper demo. Free · Open →
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🔒 Consensus: How Strangers Agree Without a Boss How a network agrees on one history — and what it costs. 16 min
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🔒 Wallets, Keys & Custody Public and private keys, and how people lose everything. 14 min
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🔒 Stablecoins & DeFi The mechanics and the risks, treated soberly. 16 min
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🔒 Crypto Market Structure vs Traditional Markets How crypto markets differ from the exchanges you already know. 14 min
The full course is laid out above so you can see exactly where you're headed. Start with the free lessons — the candlestick lesson takes about five minutes and you'll come away able to read any price chart.