Unicorn Academy: Learn Finance

Learn how financial markets work with Unicorn Academy: seven structured courses on the stock market, pre-IPO investing, forex, futures, options, Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies. Every course starts from the basics and builds step by step, in short lessons with a quiz, so you can learn investing and trading at your own pace. What you will learn • Private markets and pre-IPO investing: unicorn companies, venture capital, secondary transactions, SPVs, valuation, dilution, the IPO and the lock-up. • US stock markets: NYSE and Nasdaq, the S&P 500, ETFs and index funds, dividends, 10-K filings, the P/E ratio, order types, margin and short selling. • Forex, the currency markets: currency pairs, bid, ask and spread, pips and lots, central banks and interest rates, leverage and margin, the carry trade. • Futures: initial and maintenance margin, daily valuation, expiries and rollover, contango and backwardation, index, commodity and interest rate futures. • Options: calls and puts, strike and premium, implied volatility, the Greeks (delta, gamma, theta, vega), covered calls, protective puts and vertical spreads. • Bitcoin: blockchain, mining, halving, keys and wallets, the Lightning Network, Bitcoin ETFs, volatility and the most common scams. • Cryptocurrencies: Ethereum and smart contracts, proof of stake, stablecoins, DeFi, NFTs, tokenomics and how to assess a crypto project. How the courses work • 7 courses, each with 20 short lessons in 4 modules • Clear explanations: figures always come with a date and a source • Three quiz questions at the end of every lesson: answer them all correctly to move on • Reminders help you finish the lesson you started Certificate and skills • Complete a course and get the Unicorn Academy certificate, to save and share • Publish a page with your skills and add each completed course to your LinkedIn profile Getting started • The first lessons of every course can be started right away, without an account • The final lessons and the certificate are unlocked with an in-app purchase, for one course or for all courses together • A Google account is optional and only used to restore your progress on another device Who it is for Students, beginners who want to learn investing, people who want to understand financial news, and anyone curious about the stock market, trading and crypto. Available in 16 languages: English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Hindi, Korean, Turkish, Indonesian, Arabic, Vietnamese and Polish. Unicorn Academy is education: it does not provide financial advice or invite you to buy financial instruments. Investing involves the risk of losing your capital.

- Change the language from the home screen - Choose the name shown on your certificates in Profile - Download or share your certificate as a PDF - Listen to lessons with your device's voice - Invite friends: share your link and earn a course - Fixes and accessibility improvements