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Rebuilt every trading night.\n As of Nov 10, 2026, ETFIQ Academy\u2019s Advanced Portfolio Design course has 5 free advanced lessons on real ETF data, about 36 minutes in all.\n Advanced Portfolio Design \u00b7 5 lessons published 1 2 3 4 5 \n Start the course \n Lessons\n Alpha, beta and R\u00b2: is the edge real? Lesson 1, 7 minutes \n Investor philosophies as rules you can test Lesson 2, 7 minutes \n Alternatives and buffers: the promise and the price Lesson 3, 7 minutes \n Back-testing honestly: windows, survivors, hindsight Lesson 4, 7 minutes \n Capstone: build, benchmark and defend a portfolio Lesson 5, 8 minutes \n Your progress\n Finish all 5 lessons and get 2 of 3 right on each quiz to earn the course certificate. 0 of 5 lessons passed on this device. \n What you learn\n Beta, alpha, R-squared and the t-stat: what a fund earned beyond its risk, and whether chance could explain it\n How an investor's belief becomes a rule with a number, a line and a band, and why seats disagree\n Judging a buffer or hedged-equity fund on its stated promise, its own window, and what the protection cost\n Why a back-test depends on its window, its survivors and when the rule was chosen\n Building a mix, matching its benchmark, finding what drove the gap and arguing against your own result\n Where to next\n More in this track ETFIQ Academy For teachers: answer keys ETF explainers \n Cite this page. ETFIQ, Advanced Portfolio Design: free ETF course, data as of Nov 10, 2026. https://etfiq.com/academy/advanced-portfolio-design/ Free to use with attribution for data ETFIQ computes; issuer data stays under its owner's terms. The underlying files are at Open data .\n Other forms Plain ETFIQ, Advanced Portfolio Design: free ETF course, data as of Nov 10, 2026. https://etfiq.com/academy/advanced-portfolio-design/ APA ETFIQ. (Nov 10, 2026). Advanced Portfolio Design: free ETF course. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/academy/advanced-portfolio-design/ Markdown [Advanced Portfolio Design: free ETF course (ETFIQ, Nov 10, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/academy/advanced-portfolio-design/)","source":"ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.","publisher":{"@id":"https://etfiq.com/#org","name":"ETFIQ","url":"https://etfiq.com"},"license":"https://etfiq.com/license/","license_text":"Data ETFIQ computes is free to use with attribution: ETFIQ (etfiq.com). 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