A free, 200-lesson curriculum for high-school students, covering markets, accounting, valuation, statistics, options, portfolio theory, and algorithmic trading, with quizzes, real data, hands-on tools, and competitions.
Try your first lesson
Here is a real piece of Lesson 1. Read it, answer the question, and see how the lessons actually work.
A price is not handed down from above. It is not a measured fact like the temperature outside. It is the point where the opinions of many buyers and sellers happen to balance right now. If enough people change their minds, the price moves. That is really all a price move is.
A company reports much higher profits than investors expected. Within minutes, more people want to buy the stock than sell it, so the agreed price jumps. Nothing physical changed. The crowd's opinion of the company's value did.
Inside a lesson
Every lesson mixes a few things so the idea actually sticks, then checks that it did.
Plain language, no jargon dumped on you. Each term is defined the first time it shows up.
A real number run all the way through, like a compound-interest calculation or a simple order book.
A matching task, a scenario, or a calculation you actually do, not just watch someone else do.
Score 80% to pass and move the lesson into your completed track. You get feedback on every answer.
More than a curriculum
The lessons are the core. Around them is everything you need to actually use what you learn.
Write a trading strategy in Python and backtest it on real price history, right in your browser. Submit your best runs to a leaderboard that re-checks every number, so nobody can fake a score.
Live charts, real quotes, company financials, a two-stock compare, and economic data from the Fed. Look up any company and dig into it.
Before the open each trading day, call whether the market closes higher or lower. Get it right and earn points.
Hackathons, strategy tournaments, and stock-pitch challenges through the year. Enter on your own or with a team.
What you do adds up as you go, and the weekly and all-time leaderboards show where you stand against everyone else.
Stuck on something? Ask a certified tutor for help, or sign up to tutor others once you have a topic down.
Learn it, then use it
You do not just read about a concept. You take it straight to real data and try it yourself.
Pick them up in the technical-analysis unit, with a worked example.
Pull up a real ticker on the research desk and see the average plotted on it.
Turn it into a Python strategy and backtest it in the strategy tester.
Competitions
The lessons give you the tools. Competitions are where you put them up against other students. We run them through the year, and more are on the way as FQS grows.
Common questions
None. Unit 1 starts with what a market is and how an exchange works. If you can read and do basic algebra, you're ready. The later units get genuinely quantitative, but you build up to them.
Yes. Creating an account, the full 200-lesson curriculum, the research desk, the strategy tester, the daily call, and competition entry are all free.
About 10 to 20 minutes. Each one is a short explanation, an example or activity, and a five-question quiz. Your progress saves as you go, so you can stop and pick up later.
Live quotes and fundamentals come from public market data providers, macro series come from the Federal Reserve's FRED database, and charts are powered by TradingView. It's for learning, not for live trading decisions.
Free to join. No finance background needed.