General
A free, browser-based curriculum that teaches options pricing the way quant desks actually learn it — by writing code. Seven lessons take you from "what is a call option?" to a working Black-Scholes engine with all five Greeks.
High schoolers (13–18) interested in quant finance, applied math, or CS. AIME/AMC-track students are the bullseye, but anyone comfortable with pre-calc + Python can follow along.
Pre-calculus is enough to start. Lessons on the Greeks lean on basic differential calculus (partial derivatives, the chain rule). No prior probability or stochastic calculus assumed — we build intuition first.
Some Python is helpful but not required. The starter code gives you scaffolding; you fill in the math. By Lesson 3 you'll be comfortable writing pricing functions from scratch.
Curriculum
Each lesson is 10–20 minutes of reading + a 5–15 minute coding exercise. Most students finish all seven in 4–6 hours total, often spread over a week.
Options are where quantitative thinking actually starts. Stock-picking is mostly narrative; options pricing forces you to engage with probability, time decay, and risk-adjusted returns. Plus, no other high-school resource teaches it.
Yes. The roadmap has Implied Volatility, Option Strategies, Binomial Trees, and eventually VaR / Monte Carlo. See the /roadmap page for shipping dates.
Yes — many students do. The Black-Scholes derivation uses derivatives (AP Calc AB territory) and log-normal distributions (AP Stats). Teachers, we're happy to help align lessons.
Technical
Entirely in your browser, via Pyodide (CPython compiled to WebAssembly). No server round-trip. No installs. Tests typically complete in under 200ms.
Yes — your progress and code edits persist via localStorage on your device. We don't store anything server-side on the free tier. Pro users get optional cloud sync.
Yes. The repo is at github.com/isaacgong0311-hash/strikelab. The curriculum is part of the platform; the pricing engine is MIT-licensed and forkable.
Pyodide works on all modern browsers (Chrome 90+, Firefox 90+, Safari 15+, Edge 90+). If you hit an issue, file a GitHub issue with your browser version and we'll investigate.
Pricing & Trust
The full curriculum + playground + Greek visualizer is free forever. The Pro tier ($9/mo) adds live market data and advanced lessons. School licenses fund the platform.
Yes. No real money is ever involved. Paper-trading (when it ships) uses simulated balances on delayed market data. No personal financial info is collected.
No. We don't run ads. We don't sell user lists. The business model is freemium subscriptions + school licenses — both depend on users trusting us, so we behave accordingly.
Isaac Gong, a high school freshman and AIME qualifier. See /about for the full story and why this project exists.