It’s easy to be drawn to the hustle and bustle of the stock market. And it’s no wonder. Forbes ranks a career as a financial analyst as “one of the top-paying entry-level jobs on the market.” These days, you don’t need a degree in business or a ton of experience to start building effective strategies for investing.

If you’ve always been intrigued by a career in finance, but don’t know where to start, make the smart move and take some time to educate yourself on how to make informed investing decisions. These five courses offered by Udemy.com are a great place to build a solid foundation.

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1. The Complete Financial Analyst Course

Hands-on learning is hands down the most effective way to retain knowledge. When you take this project-based course, you’ll uncover Excel at an in-depth level, learn accounting and bookkeeping principles, and learn to analyze a company’s business performance. This course reinforces teaching with case studies and projects, complete with instructor feedback. And feedback from these mentors is quite an added bonus: Instructors for this course come from 365 Careers, a firm that builds MS Excel experts, one student at a time.

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2. Forex Trading A-Z™ - With LIVE Examples of Forex Trading

Ready to make your money work for you? Almost 8,000 students have already taken this course to learn the top strategies for getting into Forex Trading. Learn technical and fundamental analysis, how financial markets work, and how to read the calendar of economic events. Instructor Kirill Eremenko is a Data Science management consultant who has been a trader in the Forex market since 2007.

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3. Options Trading Basics (3-Course Bundle)

Learn how to safely and wisely manage Options with expert instructor Hari Swaminathan. Swaminathan is the founder of OptionTiger, a D.C.-based trading and Options education company. This 3-in-1 course bundle walks you through the ins and outs of Call Options, Put Options, and Stock and Options combo strategies.

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4. Accounting Crash Course

This course teaches the essential investment banking skill set that’s vital for would-be finance professionals. Learn the ABC’s of accounting with topics like income statement, the balance sheet, and the cash flow statement. Instructors herald from Wall Street Prep, a group that is known for training prestigious Oxford, MIT, and Cornell students.

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5. Stock Trading Bootcamp: The Complete Stock Traders' Program

Finish up by learning the nuts and bolts of how to trade stocks. Throughout this course, you’ll build up to more advanced topics such as chart patterns, technical analysis, risk management, and more. This highly rated course gives aspiring investors and traders strategies for being consistently profitable in the stock market. Instructors are all professional traders from Smarter Trades Group, a team that has trained hundreds of students on how to trade stocks.

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