Quantitative Trading Academy
18 ACTIVE MODULESSelect any module to inspect the concept, a worked breakdown, and the free tools to run it on live market data.
How the stock market actually works
What a share really is, why companies issue them, and the forces that move a price every day.
Stocks, bonds and ETFs compared
The three building blocks of most portfolios, what each one promises you, and how they behave differently.
Orders, spreads and liquidity
Market orders, limit orders, the bid-ask spread, and what volume is actually telling you.
The income statement, line by line
From revenue to net income: the ladder of deductions that decides what a company actually earned.
The balance sheet: what a company owns and owes
Assets, liabilities and equity, and how to tell a fortress balance sheet from a fragile one.
The cash flow statement: where the money went
Operating, investing and financing cash, and the one check that catches creative accounting.
The five numbers to check first
A short, repeatable ratio shortlist that takes two minutes and rules most companies in or out.
P/E and PEG: what you pay for a dollar of profit
How the most-quoted valuation ratio is built, when it misleads, and how growth adjusts it.
Dividends: yield, payout and sustainability
What a yield really promises, why the highest yields fail, and what dividend growth signals.
Margin of safety: price is part of the thesis
The oldest idea in investing: buy at a discount to a rough value so mistakes still cost little.
Diversification and asset allocation
Why owning ten tickers can still be one bet, and how to set a mix you can hold through a drawdown.
Volatility, beta and drawdowns
Volatility is not the same as risk, but it decides whether you can hold a plan long enough for it to work.
Position sizing and risk rules
How large a position should be, where a thesis is invalidated, and why correlated bets stack up.
Compounding and time in the market
Why time beat timing in almost every historical dataset, and how to make consistency automatic.
Reading a price chart
Trend, timeframe, support and resistance: what the shape of a chart can and cannot tell you.
Moving averages and trend
What a moving average smooths away, and how the 50/200-day pair is used as a regime filter.
Momentum with RSI
What the 0–100 oscillator actually measures, and why overbought does not mean sell.
Your first research checklist
The whole curriculum in eight steps, a repeatable process from idea to journal entry.
How the stock market actually works
A share is a small piece of a company you actually own. The price moves all day because buyers and sellers keep disagreeing about what that piece is worth.
- Companies issue shares to raise money they never have to pay back.
- After the IPO, shares trade between investors — the company sees none of that money.
- Headlines move prices daily; earnings and interest rates move them over years.
- A share is ownership of future earnings rather than a ticker symbol that moves.
- Most trading happens between investors; the company only raises money on the initial sale.
- Short-term prices are mood, long-term prices are fundamentals. Know which one you are looking at.
SEC FilingsPremium
Read what a company actually filed, not what someone said about it
US public company latest 10-K, a 10-Q and an 8-K report.