# Money Basics: Free Beginner ETF Course

> Money Basics: Budgets, what an ETF is, fees, taxes and starting small. 7 free lessons on real ETF data, with quizzes and a certificate.

Data as of Nov 10, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.

## Money Basics

Data as of Nov 10, 2026. Rebuilt every trading night.

As of Nov 10, 2026, ETFIQ Academy’s Money Basics course has 7 free beginner lessons on real ETF data, about 44 minutes in all.

Money Basics · 7 lessons published 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

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### Lessons

- Where your money goes: needs, wants and saving Lesson 1, 6 minutes

- What you own when you own an ETF Lesson 2, 6 minutes

- Cash or invested: what each paid this year Lesson 3, 6 minutes

- What a fee really costs you over 30 years Lesson 4, 6 minutes

- Taxes in plain words: dividends, interest and gains Lesson 5, 7 minutes

- Starting small: how $100 a month grows Lesson 6, 6 minutes

- Your first fund check: read a fund page in 5 minutes Lesson 7, 7 minutes

### Your progress

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.

### What you learn

- How to split pay into needs, wants and saving, and what a year of saving earned in a cash ETF

- What an ETF is: a basket in one share, and how a holding's weight becomes dollars

- 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

- How a small yearly fee compounds into a large gap in what you end up with

- How a fund's payouts split into dividends, interest, capital gains and return of capital, and how each is taxed

- How a small monthly amount compounds over decades, and why time matters more than the size of the deposit

- Five questions to ask of any ETF: holdings, cost, return against its benchmark, deepest drop and promise kept

### Where to next

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Source: ETFIQ, independent ETF data. Recomputed nightly from public filings and prices.
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