Education Sites

The reference site for financial terms and concepts, with a free stock-market simulator and a separate paid Academy. Use it to look up what a term means; the articles are accurate but generic.

Home of the free School of Pipsology, the structured forex course most retail forex traders start with, plus forums, tools and a calendar. Cheerful, thorough and free; the best on-ramp to currencies.

Free video lessons on stocks, bonds, options, futures, money and banking and valuation from Khan Academy. Foundational rather than trading-specific; ideal if terms like 'put option' or 'yield curve' are still fuzzy.

Free courses, articles and videos from the world's largest futures exchange covering contract mechanics, margin, options on futures, technical analysis and each asset class. The authoritative source on how futures actually work.

The options education arm of the exchange that invented listed options, with free short courses, a learning portal and webinars. Neutral, exchange-run and free; a good complement to broker education.

Industry-funded, non-commercial options education from the OCC: basics, Greeks, a full strategy library, webinars and a help desk. No products to sell, so the content is unusually straight.

Large free library of crypto and blockchain explainers with structured beginner and intermediate learning tracks and quizzes. Run by an exchange, so expect a pro-crypto lens, but the technical explanations are solid.

Free structured courses on options, implied volatility and futures from the tastylive network, alongside its daily research segments. Strong on mechanics and probability; carries the network's bias toward selling premium.

Free encyclopaedia of technical analysis: every indicator, chart pattern and overlay with formulas and examples. The place to look up how an indicator is calculated before you trust it.

Interactive Brokers' free education hub with structured Traders' Academy courses on options, futures, margin, crypto and platform use, plus quant and API content. Open to non-clients.

Adam Grimes' site hosting his free 'Art and Science of Technical Analysis' course and blog, based on his book of the same name. Evidence-minded technical analysis with an emphasis on statistics and discipline; paid mentorship exists but the course is free.