Trading & investing options explained (10 markets, honest risks): free course
Ten ways people trade and invest from Kenya, each explained the same way: what it is, how it works with an example, costs, risk level, regulation, who it suits, how to start safely and red flags. Forex, binary options, Deriv synthetic indices, CFDs on gold, oil and indices, NSE shares, global stocks and ETFs, crypto, options and futures, copy trading and bots, and T-bills, bonds and money market funds. Education only, not financial advice.
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Lessons
- 1 Start here: trading vs investing vs gambling, and the 10 options at a glance
- 2 Option 1: Forex trading, explained in one lesson
- 3 Option 2: Binary options: how they work, the maths, regulation and why most people lose
- 4 Option 3: Synthetic indices (Deriv and similar): Volatility, Boom/Crash, multipliers and accumulators
- 5 Option 4: CFDs on gold, oil and stock indices (US30, NAS100 and more)
- 6 Option 5: Shares on the Nairobi Securities Exchange (NSE): CDS accounts, brokers, dividends and trading
- 7 Option 6: Global stocks and ETFs: US shares, fractional investing and index funds from Kenya
- 8 Option 7: Crypto: Bitcoin, stablecoins, exchanges, P2P with M-Pesa, wallets and the big risks
- 9 Option 8: Options and futures (exchange-traded derivatives), including the NSE derivatives market
- 10 Option 9: Copy trading, signal services, robots (EAs) and AI trading bots
- 11 Option 10: T-bills, Treasury bonds, money market funds and other lower-risk options in Kenya
- 12 Comparing all 10 options and a safety checklist before you put money anywhere