
Explore the forces, concepts, and basic financials behind investing, and learn price analysis and trend identification to navigate dynamic financial markets confidently.
Explore the difference between savings and investing, and how liquidity, risk, and returns shape choices across stock market, real estate, mutual funds, and insurance for short- and long-term goals.
Identify macroeconomic, systemic, and political risks and how liquidity, specific, and portfolio concentration risks affect investments. Learn hedging, diversification, and emotion management to control risk.
Explore types of investment returns and how to calculate them, including absolute, compounded, and real (inflation-adjusted) returns, and compare investments using risk and IRR.
Explore financial markets and investor terminology, distinguishing equity from debt, and understanding primary and secondary markets, IPOs, and cash versus margin segments.
Explore how market indices track groups of stocks, explain market capitalization, and distinguish large-cap, mid-cap, and small-cap stocks, stock splits, face value, and price-to-earnings multiples.
The course is an introduction to the world of financial markets and its terminologies. It introduces you to important terms and concepts in a simple and easy to understand manner. It can prepare you for a deeper study of the financial markets and my advanced level courses. The format is through a video series so that the concepts are clearer .