Pass your SIE or Series 7 on the first try.
The complete prep course built on FINRA's official content outline: a full textbook you can read or listen to, thousands of exam-style questions with explanations, and a readiness system that tells you exactly when you're ready to book your exam.
From $79 · One-time payment · 12 months of access · Study on any device
Most people who fail didn't study too little. They studied blind.
FINRA exams reward knowing the right material cold, and knowing that you know it. Series Ready is built around the three mistakes that sink first attempts.
Four steps from day one to exam day.
Every chapter follows the same loop, so you always know what to do next and never wonder whether you're ready.
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Learn it
Read or listen to the chapter. Plain-English lessons, worked examples, exam tips and interactive visuals for the hard math.
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Lock it in
Drill the chapter’s flashcards: every term, rule, deadline and dollar figure the exam likes to ask about.
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Prove it
Take the 30-question chapter quiz. 80% or better turns the light green; anything less shows you exactly what to fix.
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Rehearse it
Sit the timed midterm and a full-length final under real conditions, on questions you’ve never seen.
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These are real pieces of the SIE and Series 7 courses: the same lessons, questions and tools you get when you enroll. Go ahead and click around.
A textbook that actually teaches
Every chapter follows the official outline topic by topic, in plain English, with worked examples, exam tips and the traps question-writers love. Rather listen? Click any sentence and the lesson is read aloud from that spot, at anywhere from 0.5× to 2× speed.
- Natural narration of every lesson
- Click any sentence to start listening there
- Built-in checks so you never read on autopilot
5.2Price and Yield: The Inverse Relationship
Why prices move opposite to interest rates
Suppose Maria's friend Daniel buys a newly issued DEF Corp. 5% bond at par, so it pays him $50 a year. A year later, interest rates in the market rise, and new bonds of similar quality now pay 6%, or $60 a year. No buyer will pay Daniel $1,000 for $50 of annual interest when $1,000 buys $60 elsewhere. If Daniel wants to sell, he must accept a lower price, low enough that the buyer's overall return matches what new bonds offer. If market rates had instead fallen to 4%, Daniel's 5% coupon would be more attractive than anything new, and buyers would pay him more than par.
That story is the core rule of bond investing: bond prices and interest rates move in opposite directions. When market rates rise, prices of existing bonds fall. When market rates fall, prices of existing bonds rise. The coupon never changes; the price adjusts so the bond's yield keeps pace with the market. This leads to three simple relationships:
- When market rates are higher than a bond's coupon, the bond trades at a discount.
- When market rates are lower than a bond's coupon, the bond trades at a premium.
- When market rates equal the coupon, the bond trades at par.
Many questions hide the price and give you two yields instead. If yield to maturity is higher than the coupon, the bond must be trading at a discount. If yield to maturity is lower than the coupon, the bond must be trading at a premium. If a question says yields rose by 25 basis points, the bond's price fell.
When Series Ready says you're ready, you're ready.
We don't measure success by hours logged. We measure it by one result: passing on your first attempt. So the course holds you to a higher bar than the exam does.
- Every chapter green. 80% or better on a full 30-question quiz, a clear margin above the real passing score.
- A passing midterm, taken against the clock.
- 80% or better on the full-length final, twice, on questions you've never seen, timed and weighted like the real thing.
Meet that standard and you walk into the test center having already beaten the exam, more than once, under real conditions.
How soon can you be ready?
Tell us how much time you have. We'll map the course onto your calendar, from Chapter 1 to booking your exam.
Estimate per chapter: read it (and re-read the hard parts), drill the flashcards, take the 30-question quiz, review your misses. Then the midterm once and the final twice, with a review after each.
About 53 hours of focused study. Start today and you'll be exam-ready in about 8 weeks.
One course. One price. Everything included.
No subscriptions, no upsells and no premium tier with the good questions locked away. Every course comes with everything.
SIE
- 19-chapter textbook mapped to the official outline
- Voice mode: about 12 hours of lessons, read aloud at 0.5×–2×
- 1,938 practice and exam questions with explanations
- 853 flashcards
- 17 interactive visuals and 314 built-in checks
- Green, yellow and red readiness lights for every chapter
- 45-question midterm and 75-question timed final
- 12 months of access on any device
Series 7
- 24-chapter textbook mapped to the official outline
- Voice mode: about 18 hours of lessons, read aloud at 0.5×–2×
- 2,448 practice and exam questions with explanations
- 1,077 flashcards
- 17 interactive visuals and 416 built-in checks
- Green, yellow and red readiness lights for every chapter
- 60-question midterm and 125-question timed final
- 12 months of access on any device
Every exam, explained.
Format, fee, passing score, prerequisites and exactly what each exam covers, straight from the official outline.
Series 57: Securities Trader
The license for equity traders who execute trades for a broker-dealer or its customers.
Focuses on the rules that govern trading: market structure and Reg NMS, order types and handling, short sales under Reg SHO, volatility safeguards and anti-manipulation rules, plus trade reporting and clearance and settlement. Passing it together with the SIE qualifies you to register as a Securities Trader, which covers Nasdaq and OTC equity trading and proprietary trading.
Who takes it: Equity traders, proprietary traders and other trading-desk staff at broker-dealers.
Prerequisites: Sponsorship by a FINRA member firm
Co-requisite: SIE
What the exam covers
The Series 57 course is in the works
Planned price: $129. Leave your email and we'll tell you the day it opens.
Where a securities career starts.
Most new representatives follow the same route. Series Ready covers the first two steps today, with the state exams next.
1. SIE
Open to anyone 18 or older, with no firm sponsorship needed. A pass stays valid for four years, so you can take it before you're hired and show up to interviews one exam closer to registration.
Start the SIE course →2. Series 7
Taken with a member firm's sponsorship. Pass it along with the SIE and you can register as a General Securities Representative and recommend nearly every kind of security.
Start the Series 7 course →3. Series 63 or 66
Most states also require a state-law exam: the Series 63 for agents, or the Series 66 if you'll also act as an investment adviser representative.
Get notified →Most prep makes you choose. We don't.
A textbook alone can't tell you if you're ready. A question bank alone can't teach you why. Series Ready puts both in one place, plus the tools that tie them together.
| What you get | Textbook only | Question bank only | Series Ready |
|---|---|---|---|
| Full textbook mapped to the official outline | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Thousands of exam-style practice questions | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| An explanation for every answer | — | Varies | ✓ |
| Every lesson narrated, at your speed | — | — | ✓ |
| Interactive visuals for the hard math | — | — | ✓ |
| Flashcards for every chapter | Varies | Varies | ✓ |
| Chapter-by-chapter readiness lights | — | — | ✓ |
| Timed midterm and full-length final | — | Varies | ✓ |
Accurate. Current. Built from the source.
Mapped to the official outline
Every chapter is tied to specific items on FINRA’s published content outline, so nothing tested gets skipped and nothing untested wastes your time.
Current to 2026
Updated for recent rule and exam changes, including T+1 settlement, FINRA’s new $300 gift limit and the move to 5 unscored pretest questions.
Fact-checked before release
Every chapter goes through a separate accuracy audit against the rule text before it’s published, and we revise the course when rules change.
Written from scratch
Original lessons, questions and visuals written for today’s exams, not recycled from an old book with a new cover.
Questions, answered.
Everything you need to know before you start.
Is this enough to pass on its own?
How long does it take?
Do I need a sponsor to take the SIE?
Can I listen instead of reading?
What score do I need to pass the real exam?
Are the practice questions like the real exam?
How long do I have access, and is it a subscription?
Does it work on my phone?
What if the exam or the rules change?
Is Series Ready affiliated with FINRA?
Your license starts with one exam. Pass it the first time.
Everything you need is in one course: the textbook, the narration, the questions, the visuals, and a clear signal when you're ready.
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