Where students learn to think like investors
IBKR School is a structured investing curriculum taught in beats, locked in with quizzes, and proven in a live trading simulator on Interactive Brokers’ infrastructure.
Start on your own, or through your school.
Money as Capital
Beat 5 / 7
Saved money becomes capital when it…
Start from zero. Finish knowing how money actually works.
No finance background needed. Every lesson assumes you know nothing and builds from there — in plain language, with real examples from companies you already know.
Each lesson ends with a live task in the simulator, so you practise with real market data — not just theory.
4 chapters · 39 lessons · more modules to follow
- 1
Capital
6 lessonsWhat money actually is and what you can do with it. How savings grow over time, why inflation quietly shrinks your cash, and why starting early matters more than earning more.
- 2
How Markets Work
8 lessonsWhat a stock is, why prices move up and down, how buyers and sellers set the price of everything, and what really happens when you place a trade.
- 3
Analysis
12 lessonsHow to tell if something is actually worth buying. Reading a company's numbers, spotting warning signs before they become disasters, and understanding what a fair price looks like.
- 4
Investing
13 lessonsStocks, bonds, property, crypto — what each one is, how each one makes money, and how to think about risk before putting any money in.
- 5
Trading
Coming soonHow to read order books, execute trades with discipline, and understand the mechanics behind the orders you place in the simulator.
- 6
Portfolio Management
Coming soonBuilding a diversified portfolio, managing risk over time, and understanding what long-term strategy actually looks like in practice.
Start with School.
Go wherever it takes you.
Three products from Interactive Brokers. School builds the foundation the other two depend on.
IBKR School
For students 13+ · Structured curriculum
A curriculum-mapped course taught in interactive beats. Every concept is checked by a quiz and proven in a live trading simulator. Start alone or deploy across a whole school.
- Interactive lesson beats
- Built-in quizzes per concept
- Live simulator on real market data
- Teacher dashboard and class tracking
Start here
IBKR InvestMentor
Mobile app · Free
Bite-sized lessons and quizzes to keep the investing habit alive with five minutes a day. The ideal companion once School has built your baseline.
- Micro-lessons, five minutes a day
- Progress quizzes to stay sharp
- Works anywhere, on any schedule
Daily practice, built on School
IBKR Campus
Content hub · Free
Courses, webinars, podcasts, and market commentary from Interactive Brokers. The natural next step once School has given you the foundation to understand what you’re reading.
- Expert-led courses and webinars
- Live market commentary
- Podcasts for any experience level
Advanced content after School
The Beats Method:
learn it, prove it, trade it.
Most financial education is watching. Ours is doing. Every lesson runs as a rhythm of three beats, and nobody moves forward by nodding along.
Learn
Each lesson is a sequence of short beats: one concept at a time, told in plain language with real market examples. No 40-minute videos. No skimming.
Prove
A beat doesn’t end until the student answers. Quizzes are built into the flow, so misunderstanding is caught in the moment, not on exam day.
Trade
Then the concept gets real: students apply it in the simulator with live market data and simulated cash. Compounding isn’t a formula anymore. It’s their portfolio.
Campus has the library. InvestMentor has the quizzes. Only School closes the loop with a live simulator: beat, quiz, trade, repeat, until the skill sticks.
A real simulator. Not a spreadsheet with a story.
Students place simulated trades against live market data on Interactive Brokers’ infrastructure: the same data professionals trade on. Prices move. Decisions have consequences. Nobody risks a cent.
- Live market data
- Real tickers, real prices, real volatility, streamed into the classroom.
- Simulated cash
- Every student manages a portfolio with virtual funds. Mistakes are free; lessons aren’t lost.
- Class leaderboard
- Returns are tracked and ranked, so strategy debates happen at lunch, not just in class.
NVDA · NVIDIA Corp
+2.07%
Practice order
BUY 5 × NVDA
Market · Simulated
Two ways in. One program.
Whether a school is rolling it out to a class or a student is signing up on their own, the curriculum, the beats, and the simulator are identical.
Through your school
Full institutional program with teacher oversight
Curriculum-mapped
Chapters follow a teaching sequence that slots into economics, maths, or enrichment programs without rewriting your term plan.
Teacher visibility
Every beat answered and every trade placed shows up in the teacher view. See who is ahead, who is stuck, and on exactly which concept.
Safe by design
Simulated accounts only. No real money, no card details, no app-store purchases. School-managed access on a regulated broker’s infrastructure.
On your own
Sign up directly, no school required
Same curriculum as schools
All four chapters, all 39 lessons, the same teaching sequence used in classrooms — available to any student who signs up.
Same live trading simulator
Place simulated trades against real market data on Interactive Brokers’ infrastructure. Prices move; decisions have consequences.
Self-paced, start today
No waiting for a teacher to assign work. Create an account and start the first beat in under a minute.
In development
Next up:
the junior layer, for ages 6–12.
Younger students don’t need a simulator; they need a world. We’re building a game layer where money concepts arrive as missions, daily streaks keep the habit alive, and progress looks like an adventure map instead of a syllabus. Same method underneath. Different gravity.
Start learning to invest today.
Whether you are a student learning on your own or a school rolling out the program, the curriculum is the same: beats, quizzes, and a live trading simulator, all in the browser.
Free for students. Simulated accounts only; no real money.