Trade like it’s a profession.

118 lessons. 594 graded questions. Seven exams you cannot skip — risk first, ending in a written, tested trading plan.

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Sources cited in the curriculum

  • Journal of Finance
  • ESMA
  • FCA
  • Econometrica
  • Financial Analysts Journal
  • CME
  • Journal of Financial Economics

317 distinct references behind 339 graded claims — each one named in the lesson that uses it. See one

74–89%

of retail CFD accounts lose money.

That number comes from regulators and brokers’ own risk disclosures — and no trading educator volunteers it. We start from it: survival before entries, risk before reward.

Read the ESMA source

One path. Seven exams.

Nothing unlocks until you can prove it — every level ends in an exam, and the last one ends in your plan.

Lessons and quiz questions per curriculum level
LevelLessonsQuiz questions
Level 0 — Absolute Beginner1155
Level 1 — Foundations of Technical Analysis1366
Level 2 — Risk, Psychology & the Business of Trading1155
Level 3 — Fundamentals & Macro840
Level 4 — Advanced Methodologies31158
Level 5 — Legends of Trading31155
Level 6 — Pro Trader Program1365
Total across 22 modules118594
118 lessons and 594 quiz questions across 22 modules — every count computed from the published curriculum, not a marketing copy deck. Levels 4 and 5 run deepest at 31 lessons each.

Your first candlestickA written, tested plan

Level 0 · 11 lessons · 55 quiz questions

Absolute Beginner

Markets, participants, costs, candlesticks, and the honest base rates — the ground floor, free for everyone.

  • Reality & the Instrument Panel11 lessons

Level 1 · 13 lessons · 66 quiz questions

Foundations of Technical Analysis

Trend and range, real support and resistance, timeframes, volatility, patterns — and an honest audit of what the evidence supports.

  • Market Structure13 lessons

Level 2 · 11 lessons · 55 quiz questions

Risk, Psychology & the Business of Trading

Expectancy, position sizing, drawdown arithmetic, stops, portfolio heat, and the journal — the spine every method hangs on.

  • Risk Arithmetic11 lessons

Level 3 · 8 lessons · 40 quiz questions

Fundamentals & Macro

What moves gold: the transmission chain from data surprises through real yields and the dollar, applied release by release — with the written discipline that keeps scheduled violence off your positions.

  • Fundamentals & Macro8 lessons

Level 4 · 31 lessons · 158 quiz questions

Advanced Methodologies

The heart of the academy, complete: the 40-trade methodology run, the 14-lesson ICT/Smart Money Concepts module in full clause-form depth, the seven-lesson Wyckoff Method module unified with the modern dialect, and the supporting topics — zones, volume profile, the Elliott/harmonics survey, and honest backtesting.

  • One Methodology to Mastery6 lessons
  • ICT / Smart Money Concepts14 lessons
  • The Wyckoff Method7 lessons
  • Supporting Topics — Zones, Profiles, Waves and Honest Tests4 lessons

Level 5 · 31 lessons · 155 quiz questions

Legends of Trading

The greatest traders in history as complete mini-courses — story, famous campaigns replayed, and rules translated into modern clauses: the pioneers (Livermore, Wyckoff, Gann), the macro masters (Soros, Jones, Druckenmiller), the system builders (Dennis & the Turtles, Seykota, Simons), the modern era (Huddleston, with the debates treated fairly), and the Shared DNA capstone matrix across all ten.

  • Legends — Jesse Livermore3 lessons
  • Legends — Richard Wyckoff3 lessons
  • Legends — W.D. Gann3 lessons
  • Legends — George Soros3 lessons
  • Legends — Paul Tudor Jones3 lessons
  • Legends — Stanley Druckenmiller3 lessons
  • Legends — Dennis & the Turtle Traders3 lessons
  • Legends — Ed Seykota3 lessons
  • Legends — Jim Simons3 lessons
  • Legends — Michael ‘ICT’ Huddleston3 lessons
  • The Legends' Shared DNA1 lesson

Level 6 · 13 lessons · 65 quiz questions

Pro Trader Program

The risk desk turned on yourself; the professional’s practice — backtesting your system, the prop challenge engineered, the trader’s day, and the money-out basics; then the graduation artifact: a complete written trading plan — or the same rigor applied to the decision not to trade. The master exam closes the academy and issues the certificate.

  • The Trader as Risk Desk4 lessons
  • The Professional’s Practice4 lessons
  • The Trading Plan5 lessons

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Practice like it counts.

A replay simulator that won’t let you peek. Plus the risk math every trade has to pass before you take it. Both included with the course.

The market replay simulator: a candlestick chart revealed bar by bar with position controls
Market replay — decide, then see what happened.
The risk toolkit: position size, compounding, and expectancy calculators
The risk toolkit — position size before opinion.

Journal every trade

Setups graded, mistakes named, an equity curve you earned.

Replay the market

Bar by bar, no hindsight — the cheapest tuition there is.

Size with math

Risk a fixed fraction, always know the worst case first.

Start free. Stay because it works.

No students yet means no testimonials — so here is what you can verify yourself before giving us anything at all.

118

lessons written

Not a video playlist. Read the opening ones without an account and judge the writing before you pay for the rest.

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7

levels, each exam-gated

You cannot skip forward. Every level ends in an exam you have to pass, and the certificate it issues is publicly verifiable by code.

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594

quiz questions, every choice explained

Right and wrong answers both carry written reasoning, so a miss teaches the thing you missed.

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121

terms defined

Every term the course uses, in plain language and cross-linked to the lesson that introduces it. Included with the course.

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339 claims, each graded

Established research, checkable trading knowledge and untested folklore are labelled apart — including 19 we mark contested, where the evidence genuinely cuts both ways. You always know which one you are reading.

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Certificates anyone can check

Progress is exam-gated and the graduation certificate carries a public verification code — accomplishment you can prove, not a badge image.

How the exams gate progress

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$199 is the easy part.

The academy costs one payment and seven exams. Only the first can be bought — the certificate is earned at the exam, not issued with the receipt.

Lifetime access

$199

one payment · lifetime access · every future lesson included

  • All 118 lessons across seven exam-gated levels
  • Graded exams, a certificate, and public verification
  • The glossary, replay simulator, risk tools and journal — plus every lesson added later
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One price · the arithmetic

Divided by what it contains.

There is no monthly plan and nothing to upgrade to. One number, divided by what it buys.

$1.69

per lesson

$199 ÷ 118 written lessons. The lessons are listed on the curriculum page; the division is yours to check.

≈$8

per hour

1,493 minutes of estimated reading and work — about 25 hours at the desk.

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per month, forever

One payment, lifetime access. Every lesson added later is included, and there is no subscription to lapse.

Inside that one price: 118 lessons across 22 modules, 594 graded quiz questions with every choice explained, 239 flashcards, and 7 levels that each end in an exam.

The price is not the gate — the exams are. Levels open one at a time, and no payment unlocks the next until its exam is passed. What the money buys is admission to the work; the standard does the rest.

Everything the course includes, line by line.

Reading the first 3 lessons is free and needs no card. Everything below is what a purchase adds.

Everything included in the Core Course

Curriculum

  • IncludedFirst 3 lessons
  • IncludedAll seven levels
  • IncludedLevel exams & certificates
  • IncludedGlossary

Practice

  • IncludedQuizzes with written explanations
  • IncludedSpaced repetition review
  • IncludedChart replay
  • IncludedTrade journal & risk calculators

Community

  • IncludedDiscussion forum

Choose on the pricing page

The markets you’ll learn to read.

Real prices, refreshed through the session, on the instruments this course teaches. Watch them the way a desk does.

Study the ones who left a record.

Level 5 dissects ten legendary traders — method, risk, and downfall included. History, not endorsement.

  • Jesse Livermore
  • Richard Wyckoff
  • W.D. Gann
  • George Soros
  • Paul Tudor Jones
  • Stanley Druckenmiller
  • Dennis & the Turtle Traders
  • Ed Seykota
  • Jim Simons
  • Michael ‘ICT’ Huddleston

Meet all ten in Level 5

First candle to tested plan.

Forty-four seconds, first candle to finished plan. There is no sound; the captions carry it.

The journey · 44 seconds · plays muted, in view

The questions worth asking.

Including the two most trading courses avoid. Short answers, and where the honest answer is no, it says no.

Will this course make me money?

No, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something. This is an education product. It teaches you how markets work, how to read structure, how to size a position, and how to run trading as a process rather than a series of hunches.

What happens after that depends on your execution, your capital, your discipline and conditions nobody controls. Most people who attempt trading lose money. We would rather you know that before you pay than after.

Do you give trading signals or tell me what to buy?

Never. Not in the lessons, and not in the community. The moment a course starts issuing buy and sell calls it stops being education and becomes regulated investment advice — and it also stops teaching, because a signal you follow builds no skill you keep.

The alerts we do offer are ones you configure yourself: a level you marked was touched, a session you study is opening, a rule in your own trading plan was breached.

I know nothing about trading. Is this too advanced?

Level 0 assumes zero knowledge — it starts at what a market is and what it means to buy something you do not intend to keep. Nothing later in the course is reachable until the prerequisites before it are complete, so you cannot accidentally skip into material you are not ready for.

The lessons are gated by prerequisite, and each level is sealed by an exam you must pass to continue.

How much time does it take?

There is no clock and no cohort to keep up with. Lessons average fifteen to twenty-five minutes of reading plus a quiz, and your progress is saved per lesson so you can stop mid-level and resume months later.

Working steadily at a lesson a day, the full curriculum is a few months. Working through a single level to actually retain it is a few weeks.

You teach ICT, Wyckoff and Gann. Aren’t those unproven?

They vary, and we say which is which. Every substantive claim in the course carries an evidence label: Documented (it holds up in published research or exchange data), Practitioner (it is widely used and internally coherent but not independently verified), or Contested (serious people disagree, and here is why).

We teach these methodologies at full depth because you will meet them, and a trader who has only heard them dismissed cannot evaluate them. What we do not do is present a practitioner framework as settled science.

Is the Core Course really one payment?

Yes. One purchase, permanent access, including every lesson we add to the curriculum afterwards. There is no renewal and no expiry on it.

There is no subscription attached to the course — one payment is the whole price.

Does the platform show live prices?

Not yet. The charts in the lessons are hand-built teaching figures, and the replay tool steps through historical data. Live market data requires a licensed feed, and we would rather show you nothing than show you numbers we cannot stand behind.

When a feed is connected, the tools that depend on it will follow. Until then they are listed as in build, not as included.

What do you do with my data?

Your trade journal, your progress and your quiz history are yours. They are stored under row-level security, meaning the database itself refuses to return one learner’s rows to another, and you can export or delete them.

Card details never reach our servers — payment is handled by Paddle, our merchant of record. We do not sell data to anyone.

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