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From first concepts to your own stock analysis. One coherent path you walk at your own pace - with a certification at the end that gives your knowledge weight.
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Bulios Certification
Four levels from Stock Analyst to Master Analyst. An exam that carries weight - the certificate belongs on your profile and on LinkedIn.
- I Stock Analyst Level 1
- II Senior Analyst Level 2
- III Expert Analyst Level 3
- IV Master Analyst Level 4
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The whole path in one text
Guides are the academy's big chapters: one topic from start to finish, with examples, tables and links to the lessons that go deeper.
Guide · Intermediate · 12 min read
How to analyze a stock before you buy: the thirty-minute checklist
Eight questions, in order, that turn a stock you like into a decision you can defend: what the company does, whether it earns and grows, what it owes, what the price already assumes, what could break the thesis, what the market knows, and how much to buy. One worked example, one page to keep.
Milan Charvat · Reviewed October 2026
Read the guideWhat you will take away
- If you cannot say in three sentences what the company sells, to whom and why they pay for it, stop there - no ratio replaces that
- Growth is only worth something with margins that hold and cash that follows the profit; a rising revenue line alone proves nothing
- A multiple means nothing on its own: compare it with the company's own history and its closest peers, and treat Fair Price as a reference point
- Write down the three things that would prove you wrong before you buy, so the next earnings report has something to be checked against
- The decision is not only yes or no: a good company at a full price belongs on the watchlist, and even a yes comes with a position size
For beginners · 14 min read How to start investing: a step-by-step guide to your first year From the first safety reserve to a portfolio that runs on its own. What to settle before you buy anything, which account to open, what to buy first and how to stay the course - six steps and the mistakes that cost beginners the most.
Milan Charvat · Reviewed October 2026
Intermediate · 14 min read How to read financial statements: the income statement, the balance sheet and the cash flow in one sitting Three statements answer three questions: does the company earn money, what does it own and owe, and where does the cash actually go. What each line means, how the three connect, the seven ratios to compute first and the red flags that show up before the price does.Milan Charvat · Reviewed October 2026
Intermediate · 14 min read How to value a stock: multiples and discounted cash flow in practice Two ways to answer what a share is worth: compare it with similar companies and its own past, or discount the cash it will produce. Both on one worked example, with the three assumptions that decide the result, a sensitivity table that shows how much they matter, and the margin of safety that makes the answer usable.Milan Charvat · Reviewed October 2026
Learning paths
Pick the goal, get the path to it
Ordered steps across the guides, the lessons and the analysis track. Every path ends in something you can do - and one of them in the certification.
For beginners · 9 steps · 67 min read Beginner investor From zero to the first purchase. For complete beginners. When you finish You have a broker account, your first ETF and a monthly purchase set up. Intermediate · 9 steps · 66 min read Stock analyst From the statements to your own judgement of a company. Preparation for Level I. When you finish You can read an annual report and you are ready for the Stock Analyst exam. The path ends in the Level I certification Mixed · 6 steps · 34 min read Passive investor A portfolio that runs on its own. No single-stock picking. When you finish You have a diversified ETF portfolio, a regular purchase and a process against your own mistakes. Mixed · 5 steps · 23 min read Dividend investor From the first dividend to payout sustainability and buybacks. When you finish You can tell a sustainable dividend from a risky one and find it with the screener. For beginners · 6 steps · 26 min read Bulios user What Fair Price, Scoring, the screener and StockBot say and how to fold them into a decision. When you finish You use the Bulios tools as part of your own analysis, not instead of it.
Track 1 · 12 lessons · for beginners
66 min of readingInvesting Basics
For complete beginners: why invest, how stocks and funds work, and how to avoid the most common mistakes.
- 01 Why invest at all: what inflation does to money that just sits there Money in a current account quietly loses purchasing power every year. How exactly inflation works, what separates saving from investing, and why time matters more than the amount. 5 min read
- 02 Compound interest: how returns start earning returns of their own Compound interest is the mechanism that lets time in the market beat the size of the deposit. How exactly it works, what the Rule of 72 says, and why the first years look so boring. 5 min read
- 03 What a stock is and how the stock exchange works A stock is a stake in a real company. What exactly you get with it, why its price keeps fluctuating, and what really happens when you place a buy order. 6 min read
- 04 ETFs, funds, and bonds: the three instruments a portfolio is built from Stocks are not the only path. An overview of asset classes for beginners: what an ETF is, how an active fund differs from an index fund, what bonds are for, and the role cash plays. 5 min read
- 05 Broker and your first purchase: how a decision becomes an investment A broker is the intermediary between you and the exchange. How to choose an account, what separates a market order from a limit order, and how your very first purchase unfolds step by step. 5 min read
- 06 Risk and the investment horizon: the two concepts that decide everything A fluctuating price is not the same as losing money. Why return and risk always go hand in hand, and why what decides the shape of your portfolio is above all when you will need the money. 6 min read
- 07 Diversification: why you should never build a whole portfolio on one stock One stock means one story - and stories sometimes end badly. Diversification is the simplest way to reduce portfolio risk without giving up returns. 5 min read
- 08 Regular investing vs. timing the market Buy low and sell high is easy to say and hard to time. Investing the same amount regularly wins exactly where market timing fails: inside the investor's head. 6 min read
- 09 Investor psychology: the biggest risk is in the mirror A retail investor's results are decided more by emotions than by stock picking. FOMO, panic, anchoring, herding and confirmation bias - and the process that protects you from them. 7 min read
- 10 Fees and taxes: what bites into your return Fees are the one item in investing fully under your control. The difference between 0.2% and 2% in annual costs comes to hundreds of thousands after a few decades. 5 min read
- 11 Dividends for beginners A dividend is a share of profit the company sends you in cash. How the payout works, what the ex-dividend date means, and why the highest yield is rarely the best choice. 5 min read
- 12 The most common beginner mistakes Most beginners do not lose money on bad stocks, but on their own decisions. The six most common mistakes, why they happen and how to prevent them with process. 6 min read
Track 2 · 18 lessons · certification prep
100 min of readingStock Analysis
The certification track: from reading an income statement to advanced valuation. Prepares you for the Bulios Certification.
Market basics Stock Analyst: How the stock market really works 6 min readIncome statement Stock Analyst: Read an income statement like an analyst 4 min readBalance sheet and cash flow Stock Analyst: The balance sheet and cash flow - where financial health shows 4 min readValuation Stock Analyst: Valuation - how to tell what a stock is really worth 4 min readDividends and shareholder returns Stock Analyst: Dividends and buybacks - how companies return money to shareholders 4 min readPortfolio and risk Stock Analyst: Portfolio and risk - the discipline that makes returns 4 min read
Market basics Senior Analyst: Earnings season and the power of expectations 7 min readIncome statement Senior Analyst: Margins, operating leverage and earnings quality 7 min readBalance sheet and cash flow Senior Analyst: Cash flow and capital efficiency 7 min readValuation Senior Analyst: Valuation multiples in practice - from EV to return decomposition 10 min readDividends and shareholder returns Senior Analyst: Sustainable dividends and buyback math 5 min readPortfolio and risk Senior Analyst: Sectors, quality and position size 5 min read
Market basics Expert Analyst: Rates, inflation and cycles - how macro moves valuations 6 min readIncome statement Expert Analyst: Earnings quality and accounting red flags 5 min readBalance sheet and cash flow Expert Analyst: Shareholder dilution and hidden balance sheet risks 5 min readValuation Expert Analyst: DCF from WACC to reverse valuation 7 min readDividends and shareholder returns Expert Analyst: Capital allocation - the most important job of management 5 min readPortfolio and risk Expert Analyst: Cyclical traps and the mathematics of losses 5 min read
Track 3 · 6 lessons · Bulios tools
26 min of readingHow to Read Bulios
What Fair Price, Scoring and the screener actually say - and how to fold them into your own decisions.
How to read Bulios Fair Price: what the fair value says and what it does not Bulios Fair Price estimates what a stock is actually worth based on the company's fundamentals. How this estimate is built, when to trust it less, and how to put the undervalued or overvalued verdict to work in your own analysis. 5 min read The Bulios Fair Price methodology: how we calculate the fair value of stocks Bulios Fair Price estimates the fair value of more than 37,000 stocks using five established valuation methods. This article opens up the entire methodology: what each method measures, when it makes sense and why the result is an estimate, not a price target. 4 min read What Bulios Scoring tells you: six grades for every stock Bulios Scoring grades every stock across six areas from valuation to stability, each with a score out of 100 points. What the individual areas measure, how to read the Piotroski F-Score and why a high score is not a buy signal. 5 min read From idea to analysis: how the screener and watchlist work together Between a vague idea and a well-thought-out investment lies a workflow: you turn a question into a screen, the results into a shortlist, and the shortlist into your own analysis backed by a watchlist. Step by step, how to do it on Bulios. 4 min read How to ask StockBot to get useful answers StockBot answers questions about companies, metrics and context within seconds - but only as well as you ask. Which questions work, which make no sense, and how to verify the answers in the data. 4 min read How to read market indicators The seven indicators in the Indicators section say how expensive, frightened or tired the market as a whole is. What the bands mean, why none of them times the market, and how to combine them with the Fair Price Index. 4 min read
The culmination
Bulios Certification
Prove your Stock analysis knowledge with an exam that carries weight. The certificate belongs on your profile and on LinkedIn.
- I Level 1
Stock Analyst
Fundamentals: reading an income statement and balance sheet, P/E, dividends, diversification.
- II Level 2
Senior Analyst
Valuation: EV/EBITDA, FCF, PEG, margins, ROIC vs ROE, earnings season.
- III Level 3
Expert Analyst
Depth: DCF logic, WACC, buybacks vs dividends, dilution, accounting red flags.
- IV Level 4
Master Analyst
Mastery: capital allocation, moats, reverse DCF, portfolio construction, case studies.
Where next
Investor Glossary A quick reference: over 50 terms from P/E to intrinsic value, explained in plain language.