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Finance Courses

Traders’ Academy offers several courses about, or related to, corporate stocks and equity-related funds to help traders and investors make more informed financial trading and investment decisions. Many practical introductory courses help beginner stock traders learn about company shares, the broader stock market, as well as U.S. equity market structure, and stock market indexes. Traders’ Academy also offers a host of trading strategies, such as short-selling stock, margin trading, and securities lending and borrowing, along with details about IBKR’s Stock Yield Enhancement Program (SYEP). A broad variety of equity-related exchange-traded products (ETPs) and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are also on tap for those traders and investors interested in alternative financial products outside of single corporate stocks.

Securities Lending and Borrowing
Level Advanced

Securities Lending and Borrowing

This course is aimed at helping investors wanting to take a short position in stocks understand what to do and where to find key information in Trader Workstation. We explain the short selling cycle and how investors can easily find out stock loan availability in the platform.

Sector Investing
Level Beginner

Sector Investing

The market is broken down by 11 sectors: Communications, Consumer Discretionary, Consumer Staples, Energy, Financial Services, Healthcare, Industrial, IT, Materials, Real Estate, and Utilities. In this lesson, we will review the broader markets, industries, advantages and disadvantages of investing, and more of the 11 market sectors.

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