FOR PARENTS & GRANDPARENTS OF MIDDLE SCHOOLERS:
A Former Wall Street Professional Teaches Your Kid How Investing Works in a Way They Understand (In Only 3 Hours)
A stock market course built for middle school minds, taught by a former Wall Street professional, designed for you to do together, finished in one afternoon: zero real money at risk so your child can go from "what's a stock?" to the first stock bought in under 3 hours with no prior knowledge and no risky apps.
Get the Stock Starter Kit - $47
Over 3,000 students have learned to invest with Annaline Dinkelmann, a former Morgan Stanley professional, and the Wall Street tour guide financial journalists turned to during the 2008 crisis
This is not an adult investing course shrunk down for kids…It's the first one built for them
After years at Morgan Stanley, Annaline found what most experts miss: kids can grasp the stock market, they just can't be taught like adults. So she translates Wall Street skills like finding stocks, reading charts, and judging companies into a kid's world.
Compounding becomes a growth spurt. Earnings reports become report cards. Research starts with a cereal box or the family car.
Designed to do together, with games and worksheets for parents and grandparents.
The result: a kid who can tell you exactly why they picked their first stock.
The world your child will inherit is changing fast
Careers are changing, the economy is changing - technology and AI are completely rewriting how our future will look.
The old path of Degree → Job, → Pension is disappearing.
But people who understand how to make money work for them will thrive.
Right now, your child (or grandchild) holds an advantage no adult can buy back… time.
Compounding rewards one thing above all else: starting early. Not luck, not genius picks, not timing the market. No, just TIME IN the market. In this course your child will run this exact math themselves… so they never forget it.
School won't teach this, social media teaches it wrong. Most kids never get that adult.
Yours just did.
Why most stock market education fails kids this age… and why Annaline's method doesn't
It fails one of two ways:
Either it's taught like adults, jargon and CNBC-speak until the kid decides investing is boring and checks out for good. Or it's dumbed down into piggy banks and platitudes, teaching nothing real.
Annaline doesn't dilute Wall Street for kids. She translates it into short, game-based lessons built for young attention spans.
- Spot the stock: research starts at home - the cereal box, the phone, the car - spotting public companies hiding in plain sight, then researching them like an analyst.
- Real numbers, no vibes: kids run real prices and math on the government's own investor calculator, seeing their future onscreen.
- Done together: parents and grandparents follow along, ending in a real practice trade with $100,000 in virtual cash… the moment a kid becomes an investor.
A kid fired up about their first stock at twelve changes their financial trajectory for good.
What's Inside Stock Starter?
13 step-by-step video lessons - about 3 hours total, done at your own pace on any device, built for kids and parents to do together
Taught by a real Wall Street professional - Morgan Stanley, professional trading, and the walking tours that taught Wall Street to financial journalists
- Savings vs. Investing - why parking money in a savings account isn't enough, explained through goals your kid actually has
- How Stocks Make You Money - buy low, sell high, and the growth-spurt way to think about it
- The Power of Compounding - your child runs the real numbers themselves on the government's own investor calculator and discovers why starting young is their superpower
- What and Where Is Wall Street? - featuring Annaline's actual walking-tour footage from the street itself
- How the Stock Market Started - the fascinating true story, from Dutch trading ships to the New York Stock Exchange
- Spot the Stock - the walk-around-your-house method for finding their first investment in the companies behind their cereal, their phone, and the car in the driveway
- Reading Stock Quotes & Stock Charts - hands-on with free tools, no expensive software: trends, timeframes, and what the squiggly line actually means
- The Real Numbers Rule - no guessing, no vibes: they calculate exactly what a stock would have made them over 5 years before they ever pick it
- Types of Stocks & Dividends - value vs. growth, and how some companies pay you a bonus check just for owning them
- Is the Company Profitable? - earnings reports as report cards, and how to spot a real business vs. a hype stock
- THE FINALE: Your Child's First Trade - step-by-step, they place their first trade in a professional practice account loaded with $100,000 in virtual cash - same process as a real brokerage, zero real money at risk
- Shared research spreadsheets with pre-built formulas - so your child thinks like an analyst instead of fighting a spreadsheet
- Games and brain breaks under every lesson - the same interactive activities from Annaline's live classes, built in to keep young learners engaged
- Workbook activities & family discussion questions - designed for parents and grandparents to follow along
- Watch once, replay anytime - revisit any lesson whenever your child needs a refresher
12-month access PLUS certificate of completion
Hi, I'm Annaline Dinkelmann.
I started my career on Wall Street… literally. I worked at Morgan Stanley. Became a professional day trader and had with an office across the street from the New York Stock Exchange.
For years I gave walking tours of Wall Street, explaining the markets to visitors from around the world. During the 2008 financial crisis, I was the guide financial journalists turned to when they needed Wall Street explained. Eventually, I turned all of it into Teach Me Wall Street.
Since then, more than 3,000 students have taken my programs. Families come back year after year as their kids grow. Parents tell me the same thing over and over: "This is the first time my kid actually understood how money works - and got excited about it."
Every lesson in Stock Starter comes from the way I teach my live classes - because I've seen firsthand what makes young minds light up about the market, and what makes them tune out. I genuinely love what I do, and I think students and parents can feel that.
Will This Work for My Kid?
If your child is…
⭐ A middle schooler who's starting to ask questions about money
⭐ A teen who's curious about stocks but has never invested
⭐ A kid with a custodial account they'll manage someday
⭐ A young person who's seen investing on YouTube or TikTok and you want them to learn it right
⭐ A grandchild you'd love to do this with - the course is built for grandparents too
...then Stock Starter is exactly where to begin.
No prior knowledge needed, no math genius required. Just curiosity, one afternoon, and an adult willing to do it with them.
And if you're a parent or grandparent who wants to finally understand this stuff yourself?
That's the design… families tell us the conversations it starts are half the value!
Use Stock Starter to...
Answer the money questions you've been dodging at dinner
Replace TikTok stock tips with real Wall Street fundamentals
Give a custodial account meaning - so your child understands the money before they ever control it
Start the compounding clock early - the years between 12 and 22 are worth more than any decade after
Create a real screen-time win - this isn't another thing your kid does alone on a device; it's something you do together
Give them a first-trade moment they'll never forget - and you'll have the screenshot to prove it
Instant access to all 13 lessons. Watch a short video, do the hands-on activity together, and in about one afternoon your child goes from "what's a stock?" to the first stock bought.
More Praise for Annaline’s teachings
This is NOT a trading app or stock tips… or gambling with your kid's curiosity
Teach Me Wall Street is an education company, not a trading platform or a stock-picking service.
Apps like the ones on your kid's friends' phones are built to encourage transactions. Finfluencers are built to get clicks. There are no tips, no gambling mechanics, and nothing to buy inside these lessons.
We teach your kid to think like an investor - not tap like a gambler.
No real money is ever at risk. All trading happens in a practice account with virtual cash, and everything your child learns runs on free, public tools so the skills belong to them, forever.
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Teach Me Wall Street · Financial Confidence Starts Here
Founded by Annaline Dinkelmann, former Wall Street professional. Teach Me Wall Street is an education company. Nothing in this course constitutes financial advice or a promise of financial results; investment growth examples are illustrations of compound interest math. All practice trading uses virtual currency in a free simulator account.
