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Buying Your First Fund
This module is free to read — it just needs an account. Creating one takes an email address and nothing else, it opens every lesson in the academy in full, and it remembers where you got to. When you’re done, we’ll bring you straight back here.
By the end of this module, you’ll be able to:
- Open your chosen account type at a brokerage.
- Explain why transferred money remains cash until you place a buy order.
- Tell a market order from a limit order.
- Place a fund order after checking its ticker and exact name.
- Recognise leftover cash, whole-share rounding and settlement as normal order mechanics.
4 lessons · about 40 minutes
- 1Opening the account
- 2Order mechanics
- 3The first purchase, walked through
- 4The habits that follow, then Buying Your First Fund in one page + a quick check
We will email you a link to confirm the address before your account is ready — and that link lands you right back on this page, signed in.