Foundations of Investment Series · Money Mind Monkey Mind
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12Lessons
1Written output you keep
£97Expected price
2Parallel tracks
First Principles is not a course for investors who are starting out. It is a course for investors who want to think more rigorously about what they are already doing.
Most investment education teaches you what to buy and when. This course teaches something prior to that — and more valuable: how money works, how markets behave, and how you behave within them. These are the foundations that determine whether everything else you know about investing actually works in practice. Understanding them clearly is not a beginner's exercise. It is, for most active investors, long overdue.
What you will have
A written output. A changed practice. A direct path to what comes next.
The course deliverable
Your Personal Investment Principles Document
Built across the course, one element per lesson, completed and reviewed in the final session. A one-page written document — specific to you, in your own words — that you will return to before any significant investment decision.
How you define the difference between investment and speculation — and which you are doing at any given moment
Your working model of how money, credit and market cycles interact
An honest inventory of your own decision-making patterns — where they hold under pressure and where they don't
The principles you've committed to, in writing, before the next decision is made
Understanding
A clear, first-principles model of how money functions, how credit drives cycles, and why markets behave the way they do — built from causes, not patterns
Self-knowledge
A specific, honest picture of your own investment behaviour — your error tendencies, your emotional signature in a market cycle, and what to do about both
Practice
A set of working disciplines — applied to your actual portfolio, not a hypothetical one — that change how you prepare for, make and review investment decisions
Written output
A Personal Investment Principles document that is yours to keep, revise and return to — the most useful single document in your investment process
How it works
Two parallel tracks. One discipline. Every lesson produces something concrete.
The course develops two things simultaneously — your understanding of how markets work, and your understanding of how you work within them. These are not separable in practice, so they are not treated as separate in the course.
The two tracks
Market Mind and Money Mind run in parallel throughout every lesson. Neither is complete without the other.
Track 1 · Market Mind
How markets actually work
What money is and how it functions as a measuring tool
How credit drives cycles — the Minsky mechanism
The structure of markets and who is in them
Reading cycles, conditions and patterns
Evaluating evidence from fundamental and technical traditions
Track 2 · Money Mind
How you work within them
Why intelligent investors make the same costly errors under pressure
The cognitive patterns that override analysis at decision moments
Your personal error signature and where it appears
Building a decision process that holds under pressure
Keeping the record that makes improvement possible
Every lesson ends with a specific question addressed to your current portfolio
Not a hypothetical. Your actual practice.
Comprehension is not the goal. Application is. Each lesson produces a concrete output — a behaviour examined, a principle tested, a fragment of the Investment Principles document built from your own investing experience.
Every lesson produces a concrete output — a behaviour examined, a principle tested, a fragment of the Investment Principles document. Comprehension is not the goal. Application is. Each lesson ends with a specific question addressed to your current portfolio or investment practice, not to a hypothetical scenario.
Text-led with embedded videoFull course available at purchaseApplied to your portfolio throughoutWritten output you keep
Where this fits
The First Principles series — three levels, one progression.
Free · No gate
First Principles — Foundations
Five short pieces on the thinking disciplines behind intelligent investing
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Free · Email gate
First Principles — Framework
A working model of money, credit and market cycles — in four sections
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This course · £97–127
Developing Your Money Mind
The full course — with tools, case studies and your written Investment Principles
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Advanced · £395
Decision Intelligence for Investors
Seven modules on decision-making, error interception and portfolio discipline under pressure
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