Foundations · Beginner
Foundations: money & markets
Start here. What money costs you, how a market actually works, and how to build a plan you will still follow in a drawdown.
7 lessons
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Swiss playbook · All levels
The Swiss playbook
The part nobody writes in English: the three pillars, Säule 3a, pillar-2 buy-ins, what the taxman counts, and when Switzerland decides you are a professional trader.
9 lessons
Explore course →Investing · Beginner
Long-term investing
Signal over noise — reading a business, valuing it, sizing it, and knowing when to sell.
8 lessons
Explore course →Trading · Intermediate
Trading: mechanics, risk, method
What happens when you press buy, how risk actually kills accounts, and how to test a strategy without fooling yourself.
8 lessons
Explore course →Startups · All levels
Founders & fundraising
From a problem worth solving to a Swiss cap table — validation, AG vs GmbH, pre-seed reality, and the deck that earns a second meeting.
8 lessons
Explore course →Crypto · Beginner
Crypto & blockchain
No hype. What the technology does, where custody goes wrong, how stablecoins break, and how Switzerland taxes it.
6 lessons
Explore course →AI · Beginner
AI for business
For an owner, not an engineer: what these systems can and cannot do, where they actually pay, and how to judge a vendor.
5 lessons
Explore course →Investing · Beginner
Reading financial statements
The three statements, what each one hides, and how to read a real annual report without being led by the narrative.
16 lessons
Explore course →Investing · Intermediate
Valuation
What a business is worth, why every model is an argument, and how to be wrong in a controlled way.
18 lessons
Explore course →Investing · Intermediate
Portfolio construction
Turning individual opinions into a portfolio that survives being wrong — allocation, correlation, rebalancing and cost.
14 lessons
Explore course →Investing · Intermediate
Bonds and fixed income
The market that sets the price of everything else — yields, duration, credit and why bonds are not the safe asset people assume.
14 lessons
Explore course →Investing · All levels
Behavioural finance
The predictable ways investors destroy their own returns, and the process design that limits the damage.
12 lessons
Explore course →Investing · Intermediate
Real assets: property, gold and commodities
The assets you can touch — how they are valued, what they hedge, and where the stories are wrong.
12 lessons
Explore course →Trading · Beginner
Technical analysis
Reading price without pretending it is magic — structure, trend, volume and the honest evidence on what works.
18 lessons
Explore course →Trading · Intermediate
Risk and position sizing
The part that actually decides whether you survive. Expectancy, sizing, drawdown and ruin.
14 lessons
Explore course →Trading · Advanced
Trading systems and backtesting
Turning an idea into a testable rule set, and testing it in a way that does not lie to you.
14 lessons
Explore course →Trading · Advanced
Options and futures
Instruments that let you shape a payoff — and that punish anyone who trades them without understanding the mechanics.
16 lessons
Explore course →Trading · Advanced
Market microstructure
What happens between pressing buy and owning the asset — order books, liquidity, and who is on the other side.
12 lessons
Explore course →Economics · Intermediate
Macroeconomics for investors
The machine behind the market — output, employment, prices and the data that actually moves assets.
16 lessons
Explore course →Economics · Intermediate
Money and central banking
Where money comes from, who controls it, and how policy reaches the price of your assets.
14 lessons
Explore course →Economics · Advanced
Inflation, rates and the yield curve
The single most important price in finance, and how to think about it without slogans.
12 lessons
Explore course →Economic history · All levels
A history of money and banking
How we got here — from grain receipts to floating currencies, and the lessons that keep repeating.
16 lessons
Explore course →Economic history · Intermediate
Financial crises
Manias, panics and crashes — the recurring structure, studied case by case.
16 lessons
Explore course →Geopolitics · Intermediate
Geopolitics and markets
How power, borders and policy translate into prices — without punditry.
14 lessons
Explore course →Crypto · Intermediate
Blockchain technology
How the machinery works, from hashes to rollups — the engineering, not the price.
18 lessons
Explore course →Crypto · Advanced
Crypto economics and markets
Token supply, incentives, market structure and the recurring ways value evaporates.
12 lessons
Explore course →Foundations · Intermediate
Quantitative methods for markets
The statistics you actually need — enough to test a claim and to spot a bad one.
12 lessons
Explore course →Foundations · Beginner
Personal financial planning
The unglamorous work that determines most outcomes — budget, buffer, debt, insurance and a plan you will keep.
12 lessons
Explore course →Educational material for discussion and independent learning. Courses do not provide personalized financial advice.