I'm just getting started with investing

The foundation to have in place before you put money into anything.

The lessons, in order

1. What investing actually is — Investing is putting money at risk today in exchange for more of it later. Everything else in this Academy is detail on top of that one trade. (9 min)
2. Investor versus trader — The words get used interchangeably, but they describe different time horizons, different skills, and very different odds. (10 min)
3. Active versus passive investing — Trying to beat the market versus simply owning it. One costs more and rarely wins; the other is unglamorous and usually does better after fees. (11 min)
4. Is investing right for you, right now? — Not everyone should be investing everything they have, and not everyone should be investing yet at all. This lesson is the honest gate before the rest of the Academy. (10 min)
5. What risk actually means — Risk is not 'the price went down.' It's the chance the money never comes back at all - and those are two very different things to manage. (10 min)
6. How compounding works — Compounding is earning returns on your returns, not just your original money - and time, more than the rate itself, is what makes it powerful. (12 min)

All Investor Academy subjects