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 →
- 🔒 Bond Yields & the Yield Curve Read the yield curve with an interactive widget and know what it signals. Members →
- 🔒 GDP, Jobs & the Data That Moves Markets The economic releases traders watch and why they matter. Members →
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 →
- 🔒 Support, Resistance & Trend What the lines on a chart really represent, and how traders use them. Members →
- 🔒 Volume: the Story Behind the Move Why the number of shares traded changes what a price move means. Members →
Instruments & Market Structure
Order books, spreads, and the main instruments — the plumbing of markets.
- 🔒 The Order Book & How a Trade Happens Watch buyers and sellers meet in an interactive order book. Members →
- 🔒 Bid, Ask & the Spread The market-maker's world, and why the spread is the price of liquidity. Members →
- 🔒 FX, Commodities & Derivatives A plain-English tour of the markets beyond stocks. Members →
- 🔒 Long, Short & Leverage How betting up, betting down and borrowing actually work — and their risks. Members →
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 →
- 🔒 What a Company Is Worth: the Idea Behind DCF The concept of discounting future cash — the intuition, not the spreadsheet. Members →
- 🔒 Multiples & Comparables Reading the market's yardstick: P/E and the other multiples. Members →
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 →
- 🔒 “Pitch Me a Stock” — a Repeatable Structure A structure you can reuse for any pitch, with graded practice. Members →
- 🔒 “Walk Me Through a Trade” How to reason out loud about a trade idea and its risks. Members →
- 🔒 The Illustrative Markets Dashboard Practise “what are markets doing?” on an illustrative, non-live dashboard. Members →
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 →
- 🔒 Probability Brainteasers Practise the classic interview brainteasers with instant feedback. Members →
- 🔒 The Market-Making Game Quote a bid and ask and manage your position — decision quality, not profit. Members →
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 →
- 🔒 Consensus: How Strangers Agree Without a Boss How a network agrees on one history — and what it costs. Members →
- 🔒 Wallets, Keys & Custody Public and private keys, and how people lose everything. Members →
- 🔒 Stablecoins & DeFi The mechanics and the risks, treated soberly. Members →
- 🔒 Crypto Market Structure vs Traditional Markets How crypto markets differ from the exchanges you already know. Members →
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.