Regulated brokers with an education arm
Firms publishing genuine educational material under a licence, where the visual language has to stay clearly on the education side of the line.
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Video content for trading and finance education
The visual layer for recorded course modules: chart language, sequencing and structure built as one system across a course, not designed episode by episode.
The problem
A presenter describing a chart is not a viewer seeing one.
Trading and finance concepts are close to impossible to follow from narration alone. Price behaviour, timeframes, position sizing, index composition, market sessions: these are ideas that live in something moving, and a competent presenter explaining them to camera still leaves the viewer assembling the picture themselves. Most course footage arrives already recorded and already correct, and what is missing is the layer that makes the explanation visible.
A course is also a system problem, not a video problem. Viewers move across modules, and if module six invents a new chart treatment the viewer has to relearn the visual grammar before they can learn the content. Designing seven modules separately produces seven defensible videos and one incoherent course, and it makes adding an eighth module later look like a different product.
Then there is the constraint that makes this category unlike any other explainer work: educational content published by a regulated firm cannot look like promotional content. Charts that only travel upward, profit figures used as decoration, or a framing that quietly turns an illustrative example into an implied outcome all push educational material toward something it is not allowed to be. We treat every visual as illustration of a concept, not evidence of a result, which in practice means giving downside the same visual weight as upside. That is a design constraint we work to on financial content generally; it is our approach, not a brief we were handed.
What you get
What we make for finance educators
The presenter footage is yours and usually already exists. What we build is everything that goes over, under and between it.
A reusable component system
A chart language, a typographic hierarchy, a colour logic for up and down, and a transition set, built once and assembled per module. A viewer who finishes module three can read module six without relearning anything, and later modules can be added in-system.
Motion graphics over recorded modules
The explanatory layer added on top of presenter footage you already have. This is the normal starting point on course work: the recording is done, the script exists, and the visual explanation does not.
Concept builds, not finished reveals
A finished chart dropped on screen shows the answer. A chart that builds (axis, then price action, then the level being discussed, then the annotation) teaches the reasoning. Sequencing the reveal to match the explanation is the difference between decoration and instruction.
Motion sequenced to the script
Each graphic arrives on the beat where the presenter introduces the idea and resolves before the next one starts. That is a timing job done against the actual audio, and on educational content it is most of the work.
Structural motion for long modules
Course modules are long and attention decays. Motion marks section changes, new concepts and summary moments so the viewer always knows where they are inside the module.
Short-form cuts from course material
Single-idea pieces pulled from the same system for social placement, where a finance audience meets the material mid-feed with the sound off and every point has to land visually.
The workflow
How a course build runs
The review loop on regulated educational content has two distinct passes that have nothing to do with taste: is it factually right, and does it stay inside what the firm is permitted to publish. The sequence below exists to keep both of those cheap.
Step 1: We read every script before designing anything
Reading all the modules first is what makes a system possible instead of a series. It shows which concepts recur and deserve a reusable component, and which appear once and can be handled as a one-off.
Step 2: The kit is approved before any module is built
Chart language, type hierarchy, colour logic and transitions get signed off once, on sample frames. After that, module review focuses on accuracy, not aesthetics, which is the only way seven modules stay affordable to review.
Step 3: Modules are checked by someone who knows the subject
The useful question on a module is whether the chart is right, the term is used correctly and the sequencing matches the explanation. That is a different review to whether someone likes it, and it needs a different person doing it.
Step 4: Compliance review sits against a system, not seven designs
If your compliance function asks for a change to how something is represented, a component change propagates across every module that uses it. The alternative, seven separately designed episodes, means the same note has to be applied seven separate times.
Step 5: The course stays extendable after delivery
The kit is handed over as a system so a module added in six months assembles from the same components and does not look foreign next to the original seven.
The fit
Who this is a fit for
Prop firms and funded-trader programmes
Businesses whose product is assessment and capital, and whose educational content has to teach method without advertising outcomes.
Fintechs and finance course businesses
Teams with recorded modules, a mechanism that needs explaining, or a business finance concept that only makes sense once it is drawn.
We are not the right fit if: you want video that makes a return look likely. Profit screenshots as decoration, equity curves that only travel upward, lifestyle framing around a trading course, or signal-service creative are all work we turn down. We are also not compliance advisers; your compliance function approves what gets published, and our job is to design so that approval is a straightforward conversation without a rebuild.
The scope
What drives scope on a course build
Course work is scoped by the size of the component system and the number of review layers, not by total runtime.
Module count and how much needs a visual layer
Some modules are near-continuous graphics; others are a presenter talking with three moments that need drawing. The split matters more than the hours of footage.
How many concepts recur
Recurring concepts become reusable components and get cheaper with every module. One-off diagrams never amortise.
Whether the kit exists already
Building a chart language from scratch is a distinct phase. Extending a system that already exists skips it entirely.
Whether scripts arrive with the footage
Scripts let us design against the explanation instead of transcribing our way toward it after the fact.
Real data or illustrative
Charts built from supplied market data carry an accuracy obligation and a data-handling step that illustrative charts do not.
Review layers and versions
Subject-matter review plus compliance review is two passes. Additional language or regional versions multiply the assembly, not the design.
The first module in a course is always the expensive one, because it is where the system gets built. What that buys is that the seventh is not.
Proof of work
The work this page is based on
Taurex is an FCA-regulated multi-asset broker; Taurex Academy is its education arm. Seven modules reached us as recorded video plus the script for each one, with no visual explanation attached. The case study covers the component system and the design constraints in full.
Financial education · motion graphics
Motion graphics for a seven-module trading course
A motion graphics system built across seven course modules for an FCA-regulated broker, designed inside financial-services compliance constraints.
Read how the Taurex Academy motion system was built across seven modulesBuyer questions
Frequently Asked Questions
We have already recorded the course. Can you add visuals to existing footage?
Yes, that is the normal starting point. The Taurex Academy modules arrived as finished presenter recordings with their scripts, and our work was the visual layer on top. Nothing needs to be re-recorded, and we prefer to design against the audio that exists instead of asking you to shoot around a design.
Do you build charts from real market data or illustrative data?
Either, and you specify which. Real data carries an accuracy obligation and a handling step; illustrative charts are faster and often clearer for teaching a mechanism. In both cases we treat the chart as illustration of a concept, not evidence of a result, which is the distinction that keeps educational content on the right side of the line.
How do you handle our compliance requirements?
We are not compliance advisers and we do not sign anything off; your compliance function does. What we can do is design so that conversation is short: giving downside the same visual weight as upside, keeping illustrative examples visibly illustrative, and keeping figures out of decorative roles. Because the course is built from shared components, a change your compliance team asks for propagates across every module that uses it instead of being re-cut seven times.
Can we add modules later without them looking different?
That is the reason for building a component system instead of a set of individually designed episodes. The chart language, type hierarchy, colour logic and transitions are handed over as a kit, so a module produced later assembles from the same parts and sits alongside the original ones.
Tell us what you have recorded and what it has to teach.
The application asks about module count, whether scripts exist and who reviews the content before it publishes. That is enough for us to describe what the component system would need to cover.