Updated April 2026
Trading Academy Student Results
Verified. Published. Nothing hidden. We collect backtests, live market results, and real money performance every month and publish it here.
The result
Verified student outcome · Legacy program
Our average student is profitable and beating the S&P 500 within 3 months of completing a Legacy course.
Complete beginners. Beating the markets.
Based on verified trade data · Individual results vary · Trading involves risk
M1
0.04%
Real capital triggers psychology shifts: hesitation, premature exits, over-correction.
M2
1.04%
Traders regain rhythm. Execution and rule adherence returns the group to positive territory.
M3
1.20%
Experience compounds. Stronger risk control and consistent execution.
These are not seasoned traders. That's the point.
These are everyday people — teachers, tradespeople, professionals from completely unrelated fields — who had little or no trading experience when they started. Within three months of completing their Legacy course and going live with real capital, the average student is already profitable.
Three months. Still learning. Still adjusting to the psychology of real money. And already outperforming the S&P 500's historical annual average — a benchmark that the majority of professional fund managers fail to beat consistently across their entire careers.
How our Month 3 average compares — annualised
Annualised figure based on average Month 3 live return of 1.20% compounded over 12 months. Real estate figure based on REIT average annual return 1972–2023 (Nareit). Past performance is not indicative of future results. Individual results vary. Trading involves risk.
Top Live performers
This is what students look like after 3 months.
These are Legacy students who have been through the full process — validated backtest, demo target hit, live trading begun — and are consistently delivering results. The same names appearing across multiple months isn't a coincidence.
March 2026
February 2026
january 2026
How our top performers compare — annualised
Most recent month (March 2026). Yearly figures based on monthly return compounded over 12 months.
Yearly figures are projections based on monthly returns compounded over 12 months. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Individual results vary. Real estate figure based on REIT average annual return 1972–2023 (Nareit).
Trades were posted to our platform before execution and results captured with screenshots. Returns shown are for the calendar month — not annualised, not compounded. Individual results vary.
Previous months in the All Hands reports below.
Published results
Monthly results announcements
Every month we run a live All Hands session where we announce and explain the results in full — what the numbers mean, what market conditions drove them, and why the averages look the way they do. Watch before you read the data below. The context matters.
All Hands — April 2026
Results announcement
All Hands — March 2026
Results announcement
All Hands — February 2026
Results announcement
Download the full reports
April 2026 — All Hands Report
Latest
Latest
March 2026 — All Hands Report
February 2026 — All Hands Report
Backtesting
Backtesting results
Before trading live, every student validates their strategy across historical data. Each submission includes entry, exit, P&L, and a screenshot for every trade — reviewed by educators before sign-off.
Last 30 days
10,800
Backtested trades submitted by students in the last 30 days alone
Entry and exit recorded for every trade
Screenshot attached to each submission
Profit and loss calculated on every entry
Since records began
102,300
Total backtested trades submitted across our entire student history
Every submission logged to our master spreadsheet
Full dataset behind the results below
Spanning 2012 to 2026 — every market condition
Total submissions
410
Past 30 days
36
Average win rate
71.43%
Average total return
192.61%
14 years of market conditions tested — 2012 to 2026
2012 – 2015
Post-crisis recovery
QE bull run, European debt stress, low volatility
2015 – 2019
Political volatility
China flash crash, Brexit, Trump, 2018 selloff
2020 – 2021
COVID crash & rally
Fastest 30% drawdown in history, then strongest recovery
2022 – 2026
Bear market & macro
40yr high inflation, rate hikes, AI rally, geopolitical uncertainty
14 years. Every condition. Bull markets, bear markets, flash crashes, a global pandemic, the fastest rate hiking cycle in 40 years — and not a single student's backtest has shown a negative expectancy across the full dataset.
full transparency
Don't take our word for it.
Here's every single trade.
Every backtested trade submitted since 2012 is publicly available — student profiles, spreadsheets, entries, exits, screenshots, and P&L. No login required.
102,300 trades 2012–2026 Entry · Exit · P&L · Screenshot • Publicly accessible
How we collect & verify
Every live trade is posted before it's placed.
Every trade is posted to our live platform before it's executed — publicly committed to in advance, visible to the whole community. That's what separates these results from self-reported screenshots.
How we collect and verify student trades
Walkthrough — platform, spreadsheet, and verification process
Why students stay
You've probably tried a course before and quit. So why are 99.64% of our students still here?
Most trading education programs lose more than half their students every year. The industry average retention rate is around 40% annually — meaning the majority of people who sign up are gone within 12 months.
99.64%
of students choose to stay every single month
In trading education, churn tells you everything. Students quit when the strategies stop working. They quit when progress stalls and the cost stops feeling worth it. They quit when the material doesn't translate into real skill.
Ours don't leave. Not because they're locked in. Because it keeps working.
And if you've tried courses before and never stuck with them — that's not a you problem. That's what happens when a course stops delivering. When the structure keeps you moving and the results keep coming, people stay.
Students quit courses when progress stalls, motivation disappears, and the material stops feeling relevant. That's not a willpower problem — that's a design problem. Most courses aren't built to keep you moving.
Ours is. The curriculum is structured using scientifically tested education methods — built specifically to motivate, create momentum, and keep students progressing through each stage. Every element of the program — the pacing, the milestones, the feedback loops, the live sessions — is designed to stop the drift that kills progress in every other program.
The student journey
We built a free school. Here's why that matters — and why it's not enough.
The Trading Cafe is free. No catch. The Trading Academy pays for it to exist because we believe anyone serious about trading should be able to see what we teach before committing to anything.
Step 01 — Free
The Trading Cafe
Inside The Trading Cafe you'll find 5 of our 8 core strategies taught in full, live events, lessons, and real answers to real questions. It is genuinely good education — and it's there so you can see exactly what we're about before you commit to anything.
5 of our 8 core strategies taught in full
1–3 live events per week
Strategy lessons, backtesting introductions, live Q&A
Free — no credit card required
• Start here — it's free
Step 02 — The Trading Academy
Where the results on this page come from
But here's what we've learned after years of watching students try to go it alone: the strategies aren't the hard part. Execution is. Consistency is. Knowing when you're wrong and what to do about it. Having someone qualified to tell you why a trade didn't work. Being held accountable to a process when the market is moving against you.
The Trading Cafe can show you the strategies. The Trading Academy is where you learn to trade them — with structure, with support, and with an environment built specifically around the accountability that turns knowledge into consistent profit. Every student on this page went through that environment. That's not a coincidence.
All 8 strategies with full structured courses
Up to 30 live events per week
Live trading environment with educator accountability
AI trained on all our data — strategy, execution, and analysis
Legacy program for advanced live traders
All results on this page come from Academy students
Questions first? [email protected] →
Updated every month following our All Hands session.
All figures reflect data collected up to and including March 2026.
Results published as-is — unfiltered, unedited, without cherry-picking.
All figures reflect data collected up to and including March 2026. Results published as-is — unfiltered,
unedited, without cherry-picking.
• Next update: end of May 2026