Lessons
Finance 101
A start-to-end course for anyone new to finance who doesn't yet know which seat they want — equities, fixed income, commodities and FX, how markets actually trade, M&A, asset management, and valuation, thirteen chapters in order. Every chapter ends with a short quiz and a real reason to go use another module on this site — Company Profile, Central Bank Room, Markets Overview, Simulations, Model Templates — so the concepts don't stay theoretical.
Foundations
Chapter 1: How the Industry Fits Together
Buy-side vs. sell-side, and what every major seat in finance actually does day to day
Asset Classes
Chapter 2: Equities: What a Stock Actually Is
Ownership, market cap, and the handful of numbers everyone quotes without explaining
Asset Classes
Chapter 3: Fixed Income & Credit
Bonds, yield curves, and credit spreads — the other half of the market that isn't stocks
Asset Classes
Chapter 4: Commodities & FX
Physical goods and currencies — the two asset classes even finance students tend to skip
The Seats
Chapter 5: Sales & Trading: How Markets Actually Trade
Market makers, spreads, and order books — what a trading desk does that isn't just guessing direction
The Seats
Chapter 6: Options & Derivatives
Calls, puts, and the Greeks — how an S&T desk actually thinks about risk beyond spot price
The Seats
Chapter 7: Asset & Investment Management
Active vs. passive, portfolio construction, and the risk metrics a real portfolio manager watches
Foundations of Analysis
Chapter 8: Three-Statement Modeling
How the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement actually link — the most commonly failed technical question in real interviews
Corporate Finance
Chapter 9: Investment Banking & M&A: Historical and Recent
What IBD actually sells, why companies merge, and two famous deals worth knowing as case studies
Foundations of Analysis
Chapter 10: Valuation & Technical Interview Fundamentals
DCF, LBO, M&A models, and comps — turning this site's own templates into a real, walkthrough-ready skill
Corporate Finance
Chapter 11: Reading a Real Deal
What an actual M&A deal announcement contains, and how to read one like an analyst instead of a headline
Corporate Finance
Chapter 12: Reading the Market Today
How to actually read a day's market move — sector rotation, narrative vs. fundamentals, and why it all connects
Capstone
Chapter 13: Capstone: Build Your Own Pitch
Put every chapter together into one real, defensible stock pitch — the actual output this whole course has been building toward