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Course 1 · 12 lessons

Foundations of Investing

Start from zero, skip nothing — the ideas that carry every investor who lasts.

Twelve lessons for the very beginning: what you actually own when you buy a stock, how prices really get made, the quiet superpower of compounding, the honest case for index funds, what moves markets, and how to write the one-page plan that outlives every headline.

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Unit 1 — What You Own and How It Trades

Stocks, markets, quotes, and prices — the machinery, demystified.

01
What a Stock Actually Is

Let's start where almost nobody starts: with what you're actually buying.

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02
How the Market Actually Works

The stock market sounds like a place, gets drawn as a graph, and behaves like neither.

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03
How to Read a Stock Quote

Pull up any stock and you get a wall of numbers.

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04
What Actually Moves a Stock Price

Here's the day-one paradox that confuses everyone: a company reports record profits and the stock falls.

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Unit 2 — The Forces That Do the Work

Compounding, dividends, interest rates, and the market cycle — the tides underneath every position.

05
Compounding: The Quiet Superpower

If this school could teach exactly one idea to everyone, it's this one.

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06
Dividends: Getting Paid to Own

Remember lesson one — owners get paid two ways?

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07
Bonds and Interest Rates: The Gravity of Markets

You came here for stocks, so why a bond lesson?

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08
Bull Markets, Bear Markets, and Why Both End

Markets breathe.

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Unit 3 — Building Your Practice

The honest index-fund conversation, autopilot investing, accounts, and the one-page plan.

09
Index Funds vs Picking Stocks

Now the conversation most stock-picking sites won't have with you — which is exactly why this school has it.

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10
Dollar-Cost Averaging: Discipline on Autopilot

Here's the beginner's most paralyzing question — 'is now a good time to invest?' — and the technique that deletes it.

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11
Brokers and Accounts: The Plumbing

One practical lesson before your plan: where investing physically happens.

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12
Your First Investing Plan

Graduation lesson.

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