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Vestora Academy: free investing courses
15 courses and 91 lessons, from your first share to option Greeks, swaps and quant strategies. Each lesson has key takeaways, worked formulas, a short quiz and links to go deeper.
Beginner
Investing foundations
How markets work, what you can buy, and the few ideas that matter most: compounding, risk and diversification.
Investor psychology
The mental traps that cost investors the most money, and practical habits to beat them.
Australian tax and super for investors
Capital gains tax and the 50% discount, franking credits, record keeping, superannuation basics, and international shares. General information only.
Intermediate
Fundamental analysis
Read financial statements, master the key ratios, and value a business the way professional analysts do.
Technical analysis
Trends, support and resistance, moving averages, RSI, MACD, Bollinger Bands, volume, candlesticks and chart patterns, with honest notes on what the evidence says.
Options from zero to confident
Calls, puts, premiums, moneyness, expiry, exercise and assignment, with the Vestora safety rule: never take on losses bigger than what you put in.
Crypto: technology, trading and risk
Blockchains, Bitcoin and Ethereum, wallets and custody, stablecoins and DeFi, crypto trading and derivatives, scams, and Australian tax rules.
Bonds and fixed income
How bonds work, yields, duration and convexity, credit ratings, the yield curve, inflation-linked bonds and term deposits.
Markets, economy and the big picture
Interest rates and central banks, inflation, economic cycles, sector rotation, currencies, gold and market valuation gauges such as the Buffett indicator and CAPE.
Advanced
Option strategies and covered calls
Covered calls, protective puts, collars, spreads, straddles, strangles, iron condors and butterflies: what each is for, the payoff, and the risk.
Futures and forwards
Contract specs, margin and mark-to-market, cost of carry, basis, contango and backwardation, hedging and rolling. Taught only: Vestora never suggests futures positions.
Portfolio construction and risk
Asset allocation, modern portfolio theory, CAPM and beta, Sharpe and Sortino ratios, drawdowns, Value at Risk, rebalancing and sequence risk.
Professional
Option pricing and the Greeks
Black-Scholes-Merton, binomial trees, put-call parity, delta, gamma, theta, vega and rho, and delta hedging. Use the Black-Scholes calculator in Vestora alongside this course.
The complete derivatives map
Every major derivative family: swaps (interest rate, currency, credit default, total return, variance), warrants, CFDs, structured products, convertibles, and exotic options.
Factor and quantitative investing
Factor premiums (value, size, momentum, quality, low volatility), the efficient market debate, backtesting pitfalls and systematic strategies.