About / TradeWize

Learn investing
by doing.

TradeWize is a gamified learning platform that helps beginners build practical investing skills through lessons, simulations, and progress tracking.

01  Mission

A financial revolution, built one lesson at a time.

For too long, investing has been gated behind jargon, paywalls, and intimidation. We think that's broken.

TradeWize exists to put the tools of modern investing back into the hands of the people who use them. Our goal is simple: give everyone the knowledge, practice, and confidence to take their finances and their future into their own hands.

We're not here to give advice. We're here to give you the power to make your own.
02  Method

Backed by science, not vibes.

Every lesson on TradeWize is built on scientifically proven learning methods; the same techniques used by top language and medical-education apps. Because if it doesn't stick, it doesn't count.

  1. 01

    Active recall

    You learn by answering, not by passively reading. Retrieval practice is one of the most studied learning techniques in cognitive science.

  2. 02

    Spaced repetition

    Lessons resurface at the right intervals so concepts move from short-term to long-term memory.

  3. 03

    Learning by doing

    Simulated trades let you practice real decisions in a safe environment; the fastest way to build intuition.

Evidence: Dunlosky et al., 2013 · Roediger & Karpicke, 2006 · Cepeda et al., 2006

03  Product

Four ways to build confidence.

01

Lessons and mini games

Bite-sized lessons on core market concepts, paired with mini games that let you apply what you just learned.

02

Trading platform

Place simulated trades on real market prices; no real money on the line.

03

Watch your portfolio grow

Follow your simulated investments over time and see the results of every decision you make.

04

Real-world ready

Build confidence before making real-world decisions.

04  Note

From the founder.

I built TradeWize because the version of investing education I needed in my twenties didn't exist. Course-sellers wanted a fee for things you can read for free; YouTube was full of confident wrong answers; brokerages assume you already know what you don't.

TradeWize is what I'd have wanted at the start: a place to practice the decisions, not just hear about them. If that's what you're looking for, you're in the right place.

Pavel Penev, MSc · Founder, TradeWize

MSc Investment & Finance, Queen Mary University of London · 10+ years trading the markets.

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