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Our Resources to Help You Live Off Your Trading Income

April 08, 20255 min read

This is a summary of the resources at your disposal that can help you live off your trading income.

A Realistic Path to Trading Full-Time

This isn’t going to be a quick and easy journey, by the way. It’ll require work, but it’s possible.

We’ll go over the free resources inside of The Trading Cafe and dive into some premium programs available to accelerate that journey.

The idea behind The Trading Cafe and Trading Academy is to marry two worlds. 

The worlds of education and trading.

We’re a bunch of education experts who looked at this industry and realized it was lacking a structured approach to living off your trading income.

Why Most Trading Education Fails

The incentives in the industry were skewed.

Even great traders may not know how to teach and educate properly.

Even fantastic strategies can slip through the cracks if they are not taught correctly.

Think about when you were in school. What if your maths teacher was terrible? Does that mean that maths doesn’t work?

It’s the same in trading. You have most probably been exposed to bad teachers in this industry.

The Power of Structure in Trading Education 

So, what makes a teacher good?

STRUCTURE.

A well-structured curriculum can turn a mediocre teacher into a fantastic one.

For example, Alex Morris is a 6-figure trader who nobody has ever heard of. He was simply sitting at home and making money from the markets. No YouTube channel in sight.

He’s never taught anyone how to be a trader. He’s an accountant by trade, not a teacher.

So, how do we place structure around his knowledge?

Zack, the co-founder of The Trading Cafe and Academy, is our education expert. He sat down with Alex for hours and hours and hours. They came out with the following curriculum:

Alex Morris videos as a tree diagram

The way that it’s organized is simple.

You start on the left with the easiest and most practical elements. As you move through the skill, the components become more advanced and nuanced.

Each box contains a lesson, a practice project, and a mechanism for feedback.

You can see how this is organized in practice below:

Example of the stucture provided in the Trading Academy

The idea is this: Go through each lesson, do each practice project, and ask questions.

Then, move on to the next lesson.

By simply going from one lesson to the next, you end up in a place where you are living off your trading income.

All you have to do is follow the process. As long as you stick to it, the outcome becomes inevitable. 

This is why The Trading Academy is so valuable. It’s not because of the content but the structure.

Example of the calender in the trading academy skool

Free Resources Inside The Trading Cafe

Now, at this moment, you may not be part of The Trading Academy. And that’s fine. You can use the free resources inside of The Trading Cafe too.

To do that, you can create your own structure.

It requires you to lay the groundwork first.

Step #1: Understand structured education.

We have a free 50-minute video inside of The Trading Cafe called “Shifting To Long Term Freedom”.

Link to free video

It’s basically a tutorial on how education and learning works. Take notes and use this as your guiding compass when it comes to learning.

Step #2: Take the strategies inside of The Trading Cafe and break them up.

Inside of the Cafe, our 6-figure traders freely share their strategies, trades, and more during live events. You can view them all by using the filter feature.

Example of where you can find the live sessions in skool

This will show you all the recordings.

Or you could simply head to The Vault. We placed all the recordings in a neatly organized Classroom.

Now, remember you have learned how structured education works in the previous step. Apply those principles to the strategies and lessons shared in the live events.

Break each lesson down into its component parts. Then, learn each component separately using the methods from step #1.

You can also find some of their strategies in our book: Six Figures From Scratch.

Step #3: Learn how to use TradingView

To practice properly, you will need TradingView. We have a free course on how to use it. Check it out here.

Step #4: Learn from each 6-figure instructor.

You have the advantage of learning from multiple 6-figure educators. There’s no need to pick one just yet. Learn all of their techniques. It’s going to give you a holistic view of trading.

You will have multiple tools, techniques, and methods at your disposal. This allows you to build something unique to you.

As well as the recordings, you can register for their upcoming events too. 

Go into The Calendar to see who’s next - you can register from there as well.

So there you have it. A summary and actionable list of things you can do right now to move towards your goal of living off your trading income.

Action Plan to Start Living Off Your Trading Income

#1. Go to the Calendar inside the community and register for live trading events (free). The next 6-figure trader going live is Simon Pullen.

#2. Go into the Classroom to get trading strategies, mindset education, and free guides on how to learn trading properly (free).

#3. Join The Quick Win Program: Learn 5 trading strategies in 28 days using structured education. Get 11 live sessions per week, practice projects, video lessons, and a thriving premium school.

#4. Get our book Six Figures From Scratch: It’s about the astonishing science behind everyday men and how they got to 6-figure accounts from nothing. It includes their strategies, 65 chart patterns you can trade, 47 indicators you can use to confirm your trading decisions, and a bunch more.

Six Figures By Scratch Book Cover

Get it here for $10.

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Who are we?

The Trading Cafe Limited is a company registered in both Hong Kong and the U.S. We run a free online school for people who would like to learn trading properly. This is an education focused platform and we do not offer any trading signals, financial advice, or trade recommendations.

In fact, we actively recommend newcomers stop trading altogether until they have gone through the necessary education in order to do it safely. We do sell products and services under a brand called The Trading Academy.

Where are we?

Our team works remotely from all over the world and we have flexible working hours, however we do have two permanent addresses:

U.S. Address:

The Trading Cafe LLC

1007 N Orange St. 4th Floor Suite #3131, Wilmington, Delaware 19801, United States

Hong Kong Address:

The Trading Cafe Limited

2301 Bayfield Building, 99 Hennessy Road, Wan Chai, Hong Kong


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