About Finance Illustrated
Understand what you are buying, how costs work and what to ask before choosing a financial product.
Meet the team
The Finance Illustrated Editorial Team comes from the team behind Trading Game, GoForex and Bitcoin Flip.
Aksels Putnins (Axel Ore)
Trading Game co-founder and educational author. Axel explains markets and cryptocurrency, including on the Trading Game YouTube channel. He keeps lessons relaxed, direct and evidence-led.
Janis Drobisevskis
Trading Game co-founder and educational author covering investing, trading and financial assets. He studied finance and economics at BA School of Business and Finance. He explains investing with data, clear arguments and occasional humour.
Rinalds Uzkalns
Trading Game co-founder with a background in finance and software engineering. He contributes to our crypto content and learning products and enjoys unpacking crypto technical detail.
Laura Pinne
A Finance Illustrated contributor writing about cryptocurrency. Laura focuses on what readers need and leaves out clutter.
Article credits describe topic contributions. They do not assign original authorship or confirm a completed review of each article.
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The learning products we build
We own all three projects. We have spent years refining a simple learning sequence: explain one idea, invite a prediction, let you practise, then help you understand the result. Our aim is to make the first useful insight arrive quickly and give you a clear next step, even when you only have a few minutes.
Big profit claims and pressure to act can make a trading pitch compelling. We build trust through explanations you can examine, practice decisions you can revisit, and room to learn from losses. In Trading Game, Copy to Chart connects an annotated example to your own practice chart; Max provides teaching and discussion; the beta chart analyser gives you an interpretation to investigate.
Our iOS release history documents Copy to Chart in September 2024, Chart Intelligence in February 2025 and the AI coach in June 2025. These additions reflect our continuing work to make trading education easier to follow and apply. Virtual results remain practice results.
Trading Game
Turn a short lesson into a chart exercise, then review your virtual trade.
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Bitcoin Flip
Our upcoming crypto app brings together a social community, interactive games and lessons, with one-tap controls to open and close practice trades.
Visit Bitcoin FlipHow we choose recommendations
We assess suitability, features, costs, available security information and user feedback before choosing products to recommend. Only then do we consider an available affiliate programme. Commission does not determine our recommendations or rankings.
Check the country named in each guide: availability, legal protections and tax rules can differ where you live.
Ownership and commission links
Some links to other companies may earn us a commission. We identify commercial links where they appear and label our own products as made by our team. These relationships support our educational work.
Our lessons and books
Use the lessons to understand a quote, work through a cost or test an idea. Exercise numbers are hypothetical unless an example is identified as historical. Understanding the mechanics does not make a trade profitable.
Writing and editing may use AI tools. Follow the cited sources for material factual claims. Our free books keep their original illustrated editions; download pages explain their contents and provide edition-specific notes for dated facts.
If you spot a mistake, contact the team through Trading Game with the page and passage.