From Traditional Finance to Cryptocurrency: A Beginner's Guide
Starting with traditional finance, this course helps beginners understand major assets, market mechanisms, and financial instruments, as well as the links between macroeconomic factors and cryptocurrency markets. It has 4 chapters and 6 modules, takes about 25 minutes, and requires no financial or trading experience.
Understand the Traditional Financial System
The opening chapter begins with the basic structure of traditional finance, introducing the main asset classes, how markets operate, and the roles played by institutions and settlement mechanisms. Focus on the relationships among assets, trading venues, participating institutions, and settlement processes to establish a common frame of reference for later comparisons with cryptocurrency markets.
Learn Transferable Financial Tools
The next chapter focuses on concepts such as money, bonds, yields, and derivatives, explaining how they can help make sense of cryptocurrency markets. The course also compares the trading-day schedules of traditional and cryptocurrency markets. Beginners should first understand what problem each concept solves, then observe how it behaves across different markets.
Connect the Macroeconomy and Crypto Markets
The third chapter examines where traditional finance and cryptocurrency intersect, including tokenized forms of traditional assets and how interest rates, the US dollar, bond yields, and central bank decisions may affect cryptocurrency prices. The key is to build a chain of influence instead of treating a single indicator as a guaranteed signal of a rise or fall.
Build a Framework for Interpreting Market Information
The final chapter organizes the preceding knowledge into a reusable framework for reading market news and understanding price movements. When evaluating information, identify the source of the event, the affected funds and assets, possible transmission paths, and the market response in sequence. Remember that the course is for education only and does not constitute professional advice.
Official Video Course
https://www.binance.com/zh-CN/academy/track/from-tradfi-to-crypto
Original Tutorial
https://www.binance.com/zh-CN/academy/track/from-tradfi-to-crypto