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Rebuilt every trading night.\n As of Nov 10, 2026, ETFIQ Academy\u2019s Money Basics course has 7 free beginner lessons on real ETF data, about 44 minutes in all.\n Money Basics \u00b7 7 lessons published 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 \n Start the course \n Lessons\n Where your money goes: needs, wants and saving Lesson 1, 6 minutes \n What you own when you own an ETF Lesson 2, 6 minutes \n Cash or invested: what each paid this year Lesson 3, 6 minutes \n What a fee really costs you over 30 years Lesson 4, 6 minutes \n Taxes in plain words: dividends, interest and gains Lesson 5, 7 minutes \n Starting small: how $100 a month grows Lesson 6, 6 minutes \n Your first fund check: read a fund page in 5 minutes Lesson 7, 7 minutes \n Your progress\n Finish all 7 lessons and get 2 of 3 right on each quiz to earn the course certificate. 0 of 7 lessons passed on this device. \n What you learn\n How to split pay into needs, wants and saving, and what a year of saving earned in a cash ETF\n What an ETF is: a basket in one share, and how a holding's weight becomes dollars\n How a cash ETF and a stock ETF differ over a year and over a month, and why the date you need the money matters\n How a small yearly fee compounds into a large gap in what you end up with\n How a fund's payouts split into dividends, interest, capital gains and return of capital, and how each is taxed\n How a small monthly amount compounds over decades, and why time matters more than the size of the deposit\n Five questions to ask of any ETF: holdings, cost, return against its benchmark, deepest drop and promise kept\n Where to next\n More in this track ETFIQ Academy For teachers: answer keys ETF explainers \n Cite this page. 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