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Rebuilt every trading night.\n As of Nov 11, 2026, ETFIQ Academy\u2019s Build a Simple Portfolio course has 6 free beginner lessons on real ETF data, about 38 minutes in all.\n Build a Simple Portfolio \u00b7 6 lessons published 1 2 3 4 5 6 \n Start the course \n Lessons\n Stocks, bonds and cash: the three building blocks Lesson 1, 6 minutes \n Diversification: why one holding is not a portfolio Lesson 2, 6 minutes \n What a benchmark is, and how to pick the right one Lesson 3, 6 minutes \n Sector and theme funds: what they really add Lesson 4, 6 minutes \n How to compare two funds on the facts Lesson 5, 7 minutes \n Rebalancing: why your mix drifts and when to reset it Lesson 6, 7 minutes \n Your progress\n Finish all 6 lessons and get 2 of 3 right on each quiz to earn the course certificate. 0 of 6 lessons passed on this device. \n What you learn\n What stocks, bonds and cash each do in a portfolio, and how the mix sets both growth and the worst fall\n What diversification protects against, why weight matters more than the number of holdings, and how to measure overlap\n What an index, an index fund and a benchmark are, and why a fund must be judged against the benchmark that holds what it holds\n What a sector or theme fund adds to a broad fund: more weight in fewer companies, shared names counted by the smaller weight, and bigger swings\n A four-step way to compare two ETFs fairly: what they hold, the same time window, risk next to return, and cost\n Why a mix drifts away from its weights, how rebalancing keeps the risk chosen, and what it costs\n Where to next\n More in this track ETFIQ Academy For teachers: answer keys ETF explainers \n Cite this page. ETFIQ, Build a Simple Portfolio: free ETF course, data as of Nov 11, 2026. https://etfiq.com/academy/build-a-simple-portfolio/ 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, Build a Simple Portfolio: free ETF course, data as of Nov 11, 2026. https://etfiq.com/academy/build-a-simple-portfolio/ APA ETFIQ. (Nov 11, 2026). Build a Simple Portfolio: free ETF course. Retrieved from https://etfiq.com/academy/build-a-simple-portfolio/ Markdown [Build a Simple Portfolio: free ETF course (ETFIQ, Nov 11, 2026)](https://etfiq.com/academy/build-a-simple-portfolio/)","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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