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 community
Inside The Trading Academy: April 2026
The Trading Academy houses our most advanced education and paying students. They are actively working through structured courses, projects, posting live trades, and have access to world class support. The results you will see on this page are from these students.
2,515
Active enrolled students
Across all programs
466
New students (last 30 days)
Newly enrolled
2,376
Live trades posted
All pre-execution
25
Countries represented
Global markets
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
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. The statistical odds that the strategies are "luck" is zero.
ACCESS THE DATA
Don't take our word for it.
Here's every single backtested trade.
Every backtested trade submitted ranging from 2012 to 2026 is publicly available — profiles, spreadsheets, entries, exits, screenshots, and P&L. No login required.
102,300 trades 2012–2026 Entry · Exit · P&L · Screenshot • Publicly accessible
102,300 trades 2012–2026
Entry · Exit · P&L · Screenshot • Publicly accessible
How we collect & verify
Every live trade is published in our Trading Academy Live platform
Once our students have finished backtesting they start trading the live markets. They post trades inside of The Trading Academy Live platform. Trades or analysis are posted to our live platform before they are executed, visible to the whole community. Watch the video below to see this platform and how we use it to verify trades.
How we collect and verify student trades
Walkthrough — platform, spreadsheet, and verification process
Demo stage
Demo stage average returns
After a validated backtest, students trade in live market conditions with simulated capital. The target is 3% return with controlled drawdown. These are average monthly returns across the cohort — broken down by month of demo trading.
M1
1.12%
Early excitement and fresh setups lead to solid numbers. Discipline holds up in a low-pressure environment.
M2
0.88%
Slight dip as traders experiment and stretch risk once comfortable.
M3
1.29%
Traders settle into consistent routines and improve position sizing.
Our average student is profitable within 3 months of completing a Legacy course. That average is more significant than it looks.
An average being positive means the majority of students — more than 50% — are at minimum not losing money within 3 months of going live. In trading education, where most programs produce consistent losses, a positive average across a cohort is an extraordinary result. Most professional fund managers return 8-12% per year. Our average demo student does that in under 3 months.
What happens after 3 months?
The first three months are where the foundations are built — strategy validation, pattern recognition, risk discipline. After that, something shifts. Students who complete the demo stage and cross into live trading stop being beginners. They start becoming consistent. The results below — the traders hitting their targets month after month, the names appearing on the leaderboard — these are what students look like once the process has had time to work.
Recognition · March 2026
Top demo traders — reached 3% target
These are students who have completed the demo stage and hit the 3% monthly target this month. Each one represents a trader who has validated their strategy, built discipline under simulated conditions, and is now ready to trade with real capital. All results tracked inside our platform with pre-execution trade posting.
Live stage
Live stage average returns
Once students hit their demo target, they move to real capital. The transition is the hardest part — psychology shifts when money is real. These are average returns across all live traders by month of live trading.
Our average student is profitable within 3 months of completing a Legacy course. That average tells a bigger story.
Month 1 live trading is genuinely hard — real capital changes psychology in ways demo can't replicate. The average being positive at 0.04% in month one means the majority of students are either flat or positive on their very first month with real money. By month 3, the average is 1.20% — equivalent to roughly 14% annualised. The S&P 500 averages around 10% per year. Our average live student, three months in, is already tracking above that.
M1
0.04%
Real capital triggers psychology shifts: hesitation, premature exits, over-correction.
M2
1.04%
Traders regain rhythm. Better execution and rule adherence returns the group to positive territory.
M3
1.20%
Strongest growth as experience compounds. Survivors show better risk control.
What happens to students after 3 months?
The first three months are the adjustment period — real capital, real psychology, real discipline being tested for the first time. After that, the students who commit to the process start to find consistency. They stop reacting and start executing. The monthly leaderboard below shows what this looks like in practice — traders who have been through that curve and come out the other side making consistent, profitable returns month after month.
Top performers · March 2026
Top live trading performers
These are students who have been through the full process — validated backtest, demo target hit, live trading begun — and are now consistently profitable. Featured in our monthly All Hands report. Real accounts, real capital.
Showing results from March 2026
Kiggundu M.
+6.86%
live return
1
Manet K.
+5.43%
live return
2
David W.
+2.97%
live return
3
Jin J.
+2.54%
live return
4
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' top performers in the All Hands reports above.
Why students stay
Our churn rate beats most universities.
Churn is where every trading education program eventually tells the truth. Students quit when the material doesn't work. Our numbers tell a different story.
97.2%
of students remain active month to month
The 2.8% who pause are almost entirely taking a temporary break — the vast majority return. Students who quit entirely represent just 0.36% per month.
2.8%
Pause their studies temporarily
Life happens. Most come back. Not a quit — a pause.
0.36%
Request to quit entirely, per month
Fewer than 1 in 278 students leave for good in any given month.
University figure based on NCES first-year retention data. Trading program and online course figures are industry estimates.
Built on peer-reviewed research
Structure, pacing, assessment, and feedback loops grounded in published research on skill transfer.
Designed for skill transfer
Most courses teach information. This curriculum transfers a skill — like flight simulators train pilots, not just give them a manual.
Visible progress at every stage
Backtest → demo → live. Concrete milestones. Students always know exactly where they are.
Students stay because it works
When backtests hold up in live conditions and demo results translate to real money, students don't leave.
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.
• Next update: end of May 2026