C9 / Advanced
Brokerage, Markets & Deal Structuring
Explore market microstructure, commodities (incl. oil) contracts, real-estate & business brokerage. Work through applied exercises and develop a project you can explain, test, and improve.
A certificate issued by this academy is a certificate of completion only. It is not accredited. It is not approved by the Ohio State Board of Career Colleges and Schools (SBCCS) or any other state agency. No income or employment outcome is promised.
10 modules≈135 learner hoursSelf-paced draft
YOUR TAKEAWAYS
What you will practice
- Explain the core theory of market microstructure.
- Apply methods from real-estate & business brokerage.
- Analyze trade-offs in escrow, lois, spas.
- Evaluate solutions involving negotiation.
- Design and build ai tools for deal flow.
- Produce the capstone: full diligence file on a sample deal, defended to a human reviewer.
THE LEARNING PLAN
Inside the course
- 01Market Microstructure
- 02Commodities (incl. Oil) Contracts
- 03Real-Estate & Business Brokerage
- 04Due Diligence & Fraud Red Flags
- 05Escrow, LOIs, SPAs
- 06Licensing — FINRA, Real Estate, Ohio Rules (When You Need One)
- 07Negotiation
- 08Commission & Fee Structures
- 09KYC/AML
- 10AI Tools for Deal Flow
TRY THE MATERIAL
A little of what is inside.
EXCERPT FROM THE STUDENT MATERIAL
A broker is paid to solve a matching problem. In any market, potential buyers and sellers are scattered, they don't know each other's prices, and each suspects the other knows something they don't. Intermediaries — brokers, dealers, exchanges, platforms — reduce search costs, information costs, and counterparty risk. Understanding how they do so in liquid markets (stocks) gives you a precise vocabulary for illiquid ones (a septic company, a strip mall, a cargo of diesel), where most of this course's deals happen.
Excerpt from C9. The full curriculum is not publicly downloadable in this preview.