Market Data, Tools, And Broker Mechanics

Every new trader sits down at a screen and assumes the prices they see are the prices. They aren't. What you see is a specific slice of the market, delivered through a specific pipe, at a specific tier of freshness — and every layer between the exchange and your screen was chosen by someone, usually not you. This course teaches how market data, broker routing, costs, latency, entitlements, platform reliability, and research data actually work — futures and equities kept strictly separate, because the plumbing differs — so your tools become a deliberate consequence of your strategy instead of a stack of assumptions you never checked.