By the FinLingo Team | Capital markets practitioner, front office experience at a major European investment bank. FinLingo covers 342 lessons from bonds to exotic derivatives. About · Last updated:
FinLingo is a complete capital markets education in 342 structured lessons. Six levels, from what a bond is to pricing a Himalaya note. Each lesson takes 3–5 minutes. The entire curriculum is designed for mobile — learn on the metro, in the library, between classes.
Level 1 — Financial Markets Foundations (50 units): equities, fixed income, FX, rates, commodities, credit, market infrastructure. The vocabulary that everything else depends on. Completely free.
Level 2 — Derivatives Foundations (39 units): forwards, futures, swaps, options mechanics, hedging. What a derivative is and how it is priced.
Level 3 — Options & Volatility (38 units): Black-Scholes, all five Greeks, volatility as an asset class, vol trading strategies. Where interview readiness begins.
Level 4 — Exotic Options (63 units): barriers, Asians, lookbacks, cliquets, compound options, multi-asset, variance products. The building blocks of structured products.
Level 5 — Structured Products (98 units): CPN, BRC, Autocalls, Phoenix, TARN, CLN, Himalaya. 11 modules. 10 product builders in The Lab.
Level 6 — Advanced Topics (54 units): beyond Black-Scholes, credit derivatives, XVA, risk management, regulation, quantitative finance essentials.
Hull's textbook: €80, 800 pages, no interactivity. CFA Level 1 prep: €1,500+, broad curriculum not focused on trading. Bloomberg terminal training: €2,000+, assumes existing knowledge. FinLingo Pro: €19.99/month, 342 interactive lessons, The Lab, 66 formula sheets, and every future update. Level 1 is free with no credit card required.
Yes. FinLingo covers equities, fixed income, FX, rates, commodities, credit (Level 1), all vanilla derivatives (Level 2), options pricing and Greeks (Level 3), exotic options (Level 4), structured products (Level 5), and XVA, regulation, and advanced models (Level 6). 342 units total, equivalent to a full semester of graduate-level capital markets education.
At 3 units per day (about 15 minutes), the full 342-unit curriculum takes roughly 16 weeks. Most users focus on Levels 1 through 3 first (127 units, about 6 weeks), which covers everything needed for interview readiness. Levels 4 through 6 add depth for specialised roles.
FinLingo does not currently offer formal certification. The value is in the knowledge and the ability to demonstrate it: walk into an interview and decompose a structured product, compute Greeks P&L mentally, or explain what implied volatility actually means. That demonstration matters more than a certificate.
342 lessons from bonds to XVA. Level 1 is free — no credit card. Pro unlocks everything for €19.99/month.
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