Trading Foundations
Learn how markets, orders and charts work, how to size every trade with a fixed risk, and how to follow one simple written strategy, plan and journal. The focus is on process and risk control, not on promises of profit.
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Trading Foundations · Beginner · 14 lessons
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Gold & Precious Metals: Owning, Trading and Managing Risk · Beginner · 10 lessons
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Bitcoin & Crypto Foundations · Beginner · 10 lessons
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ETFs, Funds & Long-Term Investing · Beginner · 13 lessons
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- Investing versus Saving and Trading: Time Horizon, Goals and Risk Capacity Free
- What Investment Funds and ETFs Are: Structure, Special-Asset Protection and How They Trade Free
- How Indices Are Built: Market-Cap Weighting, MSCI World, FTSE All-World, S&P 500 and Concentration Free
- Replication and Distribution: Physical vs Synthetic, Accumulating vs Distributing Free
- The Real Costs of a Fund: TER, Tracking Difference, Spreads and Order Costs Free
Personal Finance & Money Management · Beginner · 13 lessons
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- Your financial starting point: net worth statement and monthly cash flow Free
- Budgeting methods that work: 50/30/20, zero-based and envelope budgeting Free
- The emergency fund: how big, where to keep it and when to use it Free
- Debt: nominal vs effective annual interest rate, and payoff strategies (avalanche vs snowball) Free
- Bank savings in Germany: current account, Tagesgeld, Festgeld and deposit protection Free
Business Foundations · Beginner · 8 lessons
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Business Foundations
Learn to define your customer, test your idea with simple interviews and calculate the key numbers of a small business: profit, cash flow, contribution margin, break-even and price. You finish with a one-page business plan you can test and update.
Bitcoin & Crypto Foundations
Learn how Bitcoin works, how to buy and store it safely, and how to manage its risks, costs and German tax basics with a written plan.
Gold & Precious Metals: Owning, Trading and Managing Risk
Learn what moves gold and other precious metals, how to compare ways to own or trade them, and how to calculate costs, conversions and position sizes with clear risk limits.
Silver: Owning, Trading and Managing Risk
Learn how the silver market works, from mine supply and industrial demand to quotes, VAT, ETCs, futures and mining shares, and practise the calculations you need to own or trade silver with a defined risk.
Technical Analysis in Depth
Go beyond the basics: read market structure precisely, combine timeframes, zones, patterns and indicators, and test a setup honestly with results recorded in R.
Risk & Trade Management
Learn to measure trades in R, size positions in any market, control leverage, correlation and drawdowns, and write your own risk policy. The course builds skills for managing risk; it does not promise profits.
Markets & Macro: Forex, Rates and the Dollar
Learn how currencies, interest rates, inflation, bonds and the US dollar connect global markets, and build a simple weekly routine that uses macro for context and the chart for timing.
Stocks & Fundamental Analysis
Learn how shares and stock exchanges work and how to read and analyse a company's financial statements, ratios and valuation in a structured, repeatable way. The course builds analytical skills; it does not promise returns.
ETFs, Funds & Long-Term Investing
Learn how funds, ETFs and the indices behind them work, what they really cost, and how to build, maintain and document a diversified long-term portfolio that fits your goals and risk level.
Trading Psychology & Discipline
Learn how emotions and cognitive biases shape trading decisions, and build concrete protocols, routines and review habits that help you follow your own rules under pressure.
Forex & Currency Trading in Depth
Understand how the currency market really works, from sessions, cross rates and carry to central banks, pegs and broker choice, and turn that knowledge into a written, risk-aware forex trading plan.
Derivatives: Futures, Options, CFDs and Certificates
Learn how futures, options, CFDs and German retail certificates work, how they are priced and margined, and how to measure their risks before you decide whether to use them at all.
Personal Finance & Money Management
Learn to measure your financial position, build a working budget, protect yourself with an emergency fund and the right insurance, handle debt, and plan for retirement in Germany.
Commodities: Oil, Gas, Metals & Agriculture
Learn how the main commodity markets work, from crude oil, gas and power to industrial metals and crops, how to read the key supply and demand reports, and what futures curves, products and supply shocks mean for the returns and risks you actually face.
Bonds & Fixed Income in Depth
Learn to price bonds, measure interest-rate and credit risk, and choose between government, corporate, inflation-linked and foreign bonds, single bonds and funds for the fixed-income part of a portfolio.
Real Estate & REITs
Learn to calculate the true costs, financing, yields and risks of owning or renting out property in Germany, and to compare direct property with listed and fund-based real estate investments.
Crypto Beyond Bitcoin: Ethereum, DeFi & Stablecoins
Learn how Ethereum, Layer 2 networks, stablecoins and DeFi protocols work, and calculate their fees, liquidation levels and risks before you use them. The course builds skills for informed decisions; it does not promise returns.
Day Trading & Intraday Execution
Learn how to prepare, plan, execute and review intraday trades with written rules, realistic cost calculations and strict risk limits. The course builds practical skills for informed decisions; it does not promise profits.
Swing Trading Strategies
Learn to plan, size and manage trades that last several days to a few weeks: scanning for candidates, trading trend, breakout and counter-trend setups, handling earnings and overnight gaps, and reviewing your results with a written playbook.
Systematic Trading & Backtesting
Learn to turn trading ideas into precise rules, test them on clean historical data, measure the results with standard metrics and judge honestly whether a backtest is robust or overfitted.
Order Books, Liquidity & How Orders Are Filled
Learn how trading venues, order books and matching engines turn your orders into trades, and how to measure and reduce the real cost of execution.
Sector & Industry Analysis
Learn to classify companies into sectors, understand what drives each sector's profits, and apply sector-specific metrics so you can compare companies with the right peers and write a structured sector overview.
Market History: Bubbles, Crashes & Lessons
Study the major bubbles, crashes and currency collapses from 1637 to recent years, read historical data correctly, and turn their lessons into realistic stress tests for your own investment plan.
Islamic Finance & Sharia-Compliant Investing
Learn the core principles of Islamic finance, how stocks, sukuk, funds, gold and crypto are screened for Sharia compliance, and how to calculate zakat and purification amounts so you can build a structured, Sharia-aware investment plan.
Growing an Online Business: Marketing, Sales & Customers
Learn to position an online offer, attract visitors through search, content, social media, email and ads, convert them with clear pages and funnels, and keep customers with measurable, legally aware methods.
Reading Annual Reports & Spotting Red Flags
Learn to read a 10-K or a German Geschäftsbericht the way an analyst does: locate every number, read the notes and the auditor's report, measure earnings quality and apply forensic checks that expose aggressive accounting before it hurts your portfolio.
Dividend & Income Investing
Learn how to judge whether a dividend is safe, compare growth and high-yield strategies with real maths, understand income instruments such as REITs, preferred shares and option-income ETFs, and build a written income plan with sensible rules.
Factor Investing: Value, Momentum, Quality and the Evidence
Learn what equity factors are, how value, momentum, quality, size and low volatility are defined and tested, and how to judge whether a factor product gives you the exposure it promises.
Portfolio Construction in Depth: Risk Budgets, Regimes and Stress Tests
Learn to build and maintain a multi-asset portfolio the way professionals do: allocate risk rather than capital, read correlation regimes, set honest return assumptions, define rebalancing and drawdown budgets, and stress-test the result on paper.
Reading Economic Data Releases
Learn how the main inflation, labour, activity and survey releases from the US, Germany and the euro area are built, what their headline numbers really measure, and how to read a release critically before you react to it.
Central Banks & Monetary Policy in Depth
Learn how the Federal Reserve, the ECB and other central banks set and communicate policy, how their decisions travel through money markets and balance sheets, and how to read official documents and market-implied rate paths like a professional.
Emerging & Global Markets Investing
Learn how emerging and frontier markets are classified, how country, currency, access and governance risks change what a euro investor actually earns, and how to build a disciplined global allocation with clear country limits.
Sustainable & ESG Investing: Labels, Evidence and Greenwashing
Learn how ESG ratings, screens, climate benchmarks, EU fund labels and the EU taxonomy actually work, so you can read a sustainable fund's documents critically and judge for yourself whether it matches what you want.
Alternative Investments: Private Markets, Hedge Funds and Collectibles
Learn how private equity, venture capital, hedge funds, private credit, P2P lending, infrastructure and collectibles really work, how their returns and risks are measured, and how to judge fees, liquidity and track records before you commit money.
Options Strategies in Practice: Spreads, Income and Position Management
Learn to select, price, size and manage real option positions: vertical spreads, condors, calendars, earnings trades, the wheel, collars and rolling, with the numbers behind each decision and the German market context.
Python for Traders & Investors: From Price Data to a Backtest
Learn to set up a Python research environment, load and clean price data with pandas, compute returns and indicators correctly, and build, measure and review your own backtests in code.
Prop Firms, Funded Accounts & Trading as a Business
Learn how prop-firm evaluations and funded accounts really work, calculate the true cost and probability of passing, check the counterparty risk before you pay, and set up trading as a properly organised small business in Germany.
Fraud, Scams & Investor Protection
Learn how the most common investment frauds actually work, from Ponzi schemes and pump-and-dump groups to fake brokers and pig-butchering, and build a practical routine for checking any offer, protecting your accounts and knowing what German and EU rules really cover.
Taxes for Investors & Traders in Germany in Depth
Learn how German capital-income taxation really works behind the bank statement: withholding mechanics, allowances, loss pots, tax-loss harvesting, the Anlage KAP forms, the Günstigerprüfung, foreign withholding-tax reclaims, crypto and private sales, old holdings, family planning and year-end documentation.
Living Off a Portfolio: FIRE, Safe Withdrawal Rates and the Entnahmeplan
Learn how to turn a portfolio into a reliable income: the maths behind FIRE and safe withdrawal rates, sequence risk, dynamic rules and buckets, the German Entnahmeplan with its tax and health-insurance effects, and a written withdrawal plan you review every year.
Financing & Cash Management for Small Businesses
Learn how a small business in Germany calculates its capital needs, chooses between internal financing, bank loans, public funding, leasing, factoring and equity, and then manages its cash week by week so that it never runs dry.
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