Unit 1 — The Cockpit
2 lessons
What the app is, what every screen is for, and how money actually gets in.
First, the honest framing: Robinhood is a legitimate, regulated brokerage wrapped in an interface designed to make you open it daily and act often.
Money in, money out, and the two concepts that confuse every new investor: instant deposits and settlement.
Unit 2 — The Controls
4 lessons
The order ticket, order types that protect you, and the automation that quietly compounds.
The moment your written plan says 'buy' — and only then — you meet the order ticket.
Every broker offers the same little zoo of order types, and most tutorials either oversell the exotic ones or pretend market orders are reckless.
Somewhere in your settings sits a toggle that, over an investing lifetime, matters more than a hundred clever trades: automatic dividend reinvestment.
Foundations taught the law: automatic beats heroic, every time.
Unit 3 — The Discipline
2 lessons
The upsells to skip, and the full workflow: running a written plan through the app.
Every free brokerage monetizes somewhere, and Robinhood's somewheres are presented as features: margin, subscriptions, options access, crypto, and a notification system tuned like a slot machine.
Graduation lesson: assembling the previous seven into one repeatable operating rhythm.
Not financial advice · Educational only