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Investing & Personal Finance Beginner

Stock Market, ETF & Index Fund Investing

Understand share prices, P/E, total return, compounding, index funds vs active funds, diversification, dollar-cost averaging, rebalancing and trading costs, with every formula checked on a live spreadsheet. Educational only, not investment advice.

8 lessons 8 labs 1.7 h Certificate

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What you'll build

What you will be able to do

Each lab ends with a concrete result that you build yourself and the checker confirms, cell by cell.

  • Turn five share prices into market caps, earnings per share and P/E ratios, and see how earnings growth moves a price.
  • Split four years of Brightwater Foods returns into price and dividends, and grow $10,000 with the dividends reinvested.
  • Compare the same $250 monthly plan started at 25, 30, 35 and 40, and put a dollar figure on waiting ten years.
  • Grow $50,000 for 30 years in a low-cost index ETF and in an active fund with a higher expense ratio, and measure what the fee costs.
  • Measure how Lena's eight-holding portfolio is spread across sectors, and how much technology she really owns once you look inside her ETF.
  • Invest $300 a month in the Atlas ETF for six months and see why your average cost ends up below the average price.
  • After a strong year for stocks, you bring Lena's four funds back to her 50/20/25/5 target and work out every trade.
  • Compare a buy-and-hold investor with an active trader who earns the same gross return, and see what costs and taxes do over 20 years.

About this course

New investors hear a lot of jargon; this course replaces it with calculations you can check. You begin with share price, market capitalisation, earnings per share and the P/E ratio, then measure total return from price changes and dividends. Compounding shows what a delay in starting really costs, and a fee comparison reveals how expense ratios separate index funds from active funds over time. You measure diversification through portfolio weights and sector exposure, compare average cost with average price in regular investing and rebalance a portfolio back to its targets. A final lab quantifies how commissions, spreads and taxes reduce the returns of frequent trading. For beginners; educational material, not personal investment advice.

Curriculum

Course content

8 lessons · 8 labs · 1.7 h · final exam

  1. Share price, market cap, EPS & P/ELab12 min4 checked tasks
    Unlocked when you buy the course
  2. Returns from price and dividends (total return)Lab12 min4 checked tasks
    Unlocked when you buy the course
  3. Compounding & the cost of waitingLab13 min4 checked tasks
    Unlocked when you buy the course
  4. ETF & index fund vs active fund: the fee dragLab13 min5 checked tasks
    Unlocked when you buy the course
  5. Diversification: weights & sector exposure (SUMIFS)Lab14 min4 checked tasks
    Unlocked when you buy the course
  6. Dollar-cost averaging: average cost vs average priceLab12 min5 checked tasks
    Unlocked when you buy the course
  7. Rebalancing back to target weightsLab14 min4 checked tasks
    Unlocked when you buy the course
  8. Buy & hold vs trading: commissions, spreads & tax dragLab14 min4 checked tasks
    Unlocked when you buy the course
  9. Final exam12 questions, 75% to pass, unlimited retries.

Certificate

Finish with a certificate you can verify

Complete every lesson and pass the final exam to receive a certificate of completion for this course, with a unique credential ID and a public verification page.

  • Names the course, your score and the date of issue
  • A verification link for your CV or LinkedIn profile
  • 12 questions, 75% to pass, unlimited retries.

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Questions about this course

Is this a subscription?

No. You pay $9.99 once for this course. There is no subscription and nothing renews automatically. Prices are in US dollars; taxes may be added where required.

What exactly do I get?

All lessons and labs of this course, the final exam and the certificate, including later updates to the course, for as long as Tutorvo offers it. Access is personal and tied to your account.

Can I get a refund?

Yes. If you are not satisfied, email hello@tutorvo.com within 14 days of buying and we refund the course in full via Stripe. The guarantee does not apply once a certificate for the course has been issued to you, or where there are signs of abuse.

When can I start?

Right after payment. Access starts immediately at your request; for consumers in the EU/EEA the statutory right of withdrawal therefore ends once access has begun, while our 14-day money-back guarantee applies regardless.

Do I need Excel or other software?

No. The labs run in a spreadsheet inside your browser on a laptop, tablet or phone. Function names and syntax follow Excel.

Is the certificate an official qualification?

No. It confirms that you completed all lessons of the course and passed its final exam. It is not an official, state-recognised or professional qualification. The name is taken from your profile when the certificate is issued.

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