Education

Education Highlights:  Through our clearing firm, Place Trade offers many different educational tools to help investors at all levels.  Place Trade offers self paced tutorialslive webinars, Paper Trading and Traders' University as well as Market Briefs, Quick Start Guides and Interactive Tours.  Everything you need at the click of a button!

Market Briefs - Get the latest on today's markets -  including noteworthy activity in the  U.S. equity options market, stocks, ETFs, High Dividend Yield, corporate Bonds, currencies and interest rate markets available on our website and on iTWS and Blackberry devices:

Stock, ETFs and Options Briefs

Bond Brief   (US & World Markets)

 ETFs Brief

Corporate Bond Brief*

Highest Dividend Yields Brief

Interest Rate Brief

Options Brief

* Investment grade & high yield info via Moody's investment overview 

Paper Trading

Traders' University - Improve your basic product trading knowledge with interactive flash based trading courses.  Whether you are a novice or an experienced investor you can download download our free desktop applications and use them to help evaluate your everyday trading decisions.  Download widget and gadget trading tools to your desk top, learn

Live Webinars - and Previously Recorded Webinars Our clearing firm offers an extensive program of trader webinars. You can watch, listen, and ask questions from your home or office computer as our webinar instructors clearly describe our technology, trading, and markets around the world.

 

Path to Investing

Your destination for objective investor education, essential resources, and expert insights.

FINRA Smart Investing
Provided by the FINRA, this section offers comprehensive information plainly, simply, and without bias to help investors reach their goals.

Mutual Fund Expense Analyzer
Because fees and expenses can vary widely from fund to fund, Place Trade Financial offers a Mutual Fund Expense Analyzer to help investors compare sales, loads, fees, commissions, and other fund expenses. These expenses can impact returns depending on the investment amount, holding period, and characteristics of specific funds that share classes.

SaveAndInvest.org
A No-Nonsense Financial Education Program for Military Personnel and Their Families.

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Options Glossary

OIC offers a glossary to help investors better understand options related terminology. The glossary is available in three formats.

Interactive Flash Glossary

Online Option Classes

Content Provided by The Options Industry Council

Take online classes, learn the terminology, and find out how different variables affect the price of an option.