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Sahmino Academy

A step-by-step path through Iran’s financial markets, from the basics to advanced. Educational and neutral.

Level 1

Basic

Core concepts to start from zero, with no prerequisites.

  1. Money, Inflation, and Purchasing Power

    8 min readWith video
  2. What Is an Asset? A Map of an Iranian Household's Assets

    8 min readWith video
  3. What Is Bank Deposit Interest? Nominal, Effective, and Real Returns Explained

    7 min readWith video
  4. How Markets Discover Prices

    8 min readWith video
  5. Tehran Stock Exchange 101: What Are Shares, Tickers, and the Overall Index?

    7 min readWith video
  6. Sejam and the Trading Code: A Step by Step Guide to Opening a Brokerage Account in Iran

    8 min readWith video
  7. Gold in Iran: 18 Karat, Melted Gold, and Coin Types

    7 min readWith video
  8. What Is the Coin Premium (Hobab) and How Is It Calculated?

    8 min readWith video
  9. Iran's Multiple Exchange Rates: Why Is There More Than One Dollar Price?

    10 min readWith video
  10. Crypto from Scratch: What Bitcoin Is, What Tether Is, and Why Tether Became Iran's Digital Dollar

    10 min readWith video
  11. What Is an Investment Fund? Fixed-Income, Equity, Balanced, Gold Funds and ETFs Explained

    9 min readWith video
  12. Risk and Return: How Are They Related, and Which Risks Threaten a Household's Savings?

    9 min readWith video
  13. What Is Diversification? Why You Should Not Put All Your Eggs in One Basket

    8 min readWith video
  14. What Is Liquidity, and Why Selling a House Differs From Selling Gold

    8 min readWith video
  15. Housing as an Asset: How Price per Square Meter, Deposit and Rent, and Transaction Costs Work

    8 min readWith video
  16. A Map of Global Markets: What Is an Index, and Why Does Its News Reach Iran's Market?

    10 min readWith video
  17. One Ounce of Gold in the World; Two Numbers That Set Its Price in Iran

    8 min readWith video
  18. Brent, WTI, and the OPEC Basket: What They Are and Why Their Prices Differ

    7 min readWith video