Market literacy, without the hype.
TRUE is free, it shows its sources, and it refuses to tell anyone what to buy. That makes it an unusually safe thing to put in front of students — which is not something you can say about most of the finance internet.
For research and education. Not financial advice.
Why this might be useful to you
Financial literacy is difficult to teach partly because most of the available material is trying to sell something. Search for almost any market topic and you will find confident predictions, promoted picks, and courses promising outcomes nobody can deliver.
TRUE is a deliberately awkward alternative: it is free, it cites its sources, it states what it doesn't know, and it will not tell a student what to buy — even if they ask. Those properties exist for compliance and conviction reasons, but they happen to make it a reasonable teaching tool.
Ways it's been useful in a classroom
Teaching source-checking
Give students a viral market claim and have them use claim check to work out which parts the data supports and which are simply asserted. It teaches a skill that transfers well beyond finance.
Teaching uncertainty
Ask it something unknowable — where a price is going. Watching a tool say "nobody can know that" is a more powerful lesson than a lecture on efficient markets.
Explaining jargon on demand
Every term explained in plain English, at the point of confusion, without anyone having to admit they didn't know it.
Teaching the bear case
Have students form a view, then make the tool argue against them. The discomfort is the lesson.
Making macro concrete
Why an inflation print moves a share price in another country — with real numbers from the actual week you're teaching.
Spotting the hype
Students already see finance content on social media. Giving them a tool that checks it is more useful than telling them not to look.
Please be clear with students: TRUE is a research and education tool, not financial advice, and nothing it produces is a recommendation. It cannot assess whether anything is suitable for anyone. Investing involves real risk, including loss of capital — and that is itself one of the more important things to teach.
Free, and it stays free.
No subscription, no fees, no picks, no predictions.
For research and education. Not financial advice.