1. Types of securities and market microstructure
   1. Types of securities review
   2. Types of financial markets and market microstructure
   3. Types of market orders
   4. The market quotes and the stock simulator
   5. Margin trading and short sales
2. The investment process
   1. Asset allocation among the investment process
   2. Determining the expected return
   3. Statistics review
   4. Passive v.s. Active investing
      1. Benchmark calculation and portfolio determination
      2. The Sharpe ratio as performance metric
   5. Growth v.s. value investing
3. Technical analysis and market trading
   1. moving averages
   2. Bollinger bands
   3. MACD
   4. Stochastic oscilators
   5. Trading signals
4. Portfolio management
   1. Two fund separation theorem (investor's microeconomic selection)
   2. Markowitz's Standard portfolio model
   3. CAPM and the index model
   4. Portfolio heuristics
   5. Portfolio performance measures