YAL Academy
Staying safe and your rights
Taught last, tagged foundation, and surfaced prominently rather than buried. Licence verification, what regulation does not cover, the standard fraud patterns, record keeping, complaints, tax, and an honest statement about what finishing a curriculum does and does not mean.
Trading involves risk. You could lose more than your deposit.
The arc
FoundationModule 10 of 10
12 lessons, about 92 min
- AssumesRisk, plan and practice
- UnlocksThe last module of the curriculum.
The lessons
What this module covers
Opens with verification, because a reader who can check a licence can protect themselves from most of what follows. Then the boundary of what a licence covers, then the fraud patterns in the order a new trader typically meets them, from cold pitch to signal seller to robot to managed account. Then the reader's own administrative position, statements, complaints and tax. Closes the whole academy on the honest statement that completing it is not readiness.
Lesson 01
How to verify a licensed firm
Checking a licence against the regulator's own register rather than against the firm's own website.
- Level
- Foundation
- Read time
- 9 min
Lesson 02
What regulation protects and what it does not
The boundary between conduct obligations and market risk, stated so a reader stops expecting the wrong thing.
- Level
- Foundation
- Read time
- 9 min
Lesson 03
How a trading scam is structured
The recurring shape of the pitch, the pressure and the withdrawal problem, independent of the story wrapped around it.
- Level
- Foundation
- Read time
- 8 min
Lesson 04
Signal sellers and third party calls
Paid trade calls, how the business model works, and why YAL neither offers nor endorses any of them.
- Level
- Foundation
- Read time
- 7 min
Lesson 05
Trading robots and automated systems
What an automated system can and cannot do, and why a sold system is a different product from a written one.
- Level
- Foundation
- Read time
- 7 min
Lesson 06
Managed accounts and third party access
What it means to let someone else trade your account, and the permissions that decision hands over.
- Level
- Foundation
- Read time
- 7 min
Lesson 07
Performance claims on social media
Screenshots, selective reporting and the arithmetic that makes an unverifiable result easy to produce.
- Level
- Foundation
- Read time
- 7 min
Lesson 08
What a proprietary trading firm arrangement is
One neutral risk lesson on challenge based funded accounts, and the questions the model raises.
- Level
- Foundation
- Read time
- 10 min
Lesson 09
Your statements and your records
What a trading statement contains, how to reconcile it, and why the habit matters more than it sounds.
- Level
- Foundation
- Read time
- 6 min
Lesson 10
How a complaint is raised
The sequence from a query to the firm to an escalation with the regulator, and what each stage requires.
- Level
- Foundation
- Read time
- 7 min
Lesson 11
Why tax is a question for your own jurisdiction
Why this page does not tell you your tax position, and what determines it.
- Level
- Foundation
- Read time
- 7 min
Lesson 12
What going live responsibly means
The closing lesson of the academy, and an honest statement that finishing it is not the same as being ready.
- Level
- Foundation
- Read time
- 8 min
Get started
Open your account in four steps.
A clear path from sign-up to your first trade, in four steps.
No depositNo documents
01/ 04step 1 of 4
Register
A few details to get started.
No deposit to open
02/ 04step 2 of 4
Verify
Confirm your identity, securely.
ID and proof of address
03/ 04step 3 of 4
Fund
Add money by bank transfer or card.
From $0
04/ 04step 4 of 4
Trade
Go live on the platform you already know.
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