Learning path

Learn trading

I want to understand how short-term trading and options actually work.

Ground yourself in risk first, then learn market mechanics, options from scratch, and where leverage helps and hurts.

A straight word first: Trading is probability-based speculation, not investing. Most active traders underperform a simple index fund after costs. This path teaches the mechanics and the risks — it is not a strategy to copy, and nothing here is advice.

1. 1 Risk, return & your time horizon beginner
2. 2 What is a stock? beginner
3. 3 What moves a stock's price beginner
4. 4 Market mechanics advanced
5. 5 Short selling & margin advanced
6. 6 Risk & position sizing advanced
7. 7 Behavioral pitfalls & market efficiency advanced
8. 8 What is an option? beginner
9. 9 Calls vs puts beginner
10. 10 In, at, and out of the money beginner
11. 11 What drives an option's price beginner
12. 12 Buying vs selling options beginner
13. 13 Time decay & expiration beginner
14. 14 Meet the Greeks intermediate
15. 15 Understanding volatility intermediate
16. 16 Vertical spreads intermediate
17. 17 Risk management intermediate
18. 18 Leverage in derivatives beginner
19. 19 The risks of derivatives beginner
20. 20 Leverage & margin in FX intermediate

Lessons are pulled from across the tracks in a sensible order. You can always jump around in all lessons — this is just a guided route. Education, not financial advice.