The four months that separate qualified traders from everyone else. A structured, approved path to becoming a qualified, independent trader. No hype, no shortcuts, just a proven method and a real qualification.
Four live teaching sessions, then three months of guided mentorship. Everything you need to know before you apply, in one place.
Month one you learn the Level 3 and the method, taught live on our trading floors, in person or online. Months two to four are pure guided mentorship, applying it live with everything switched on around you. Complete all four and you qualify. Tap a month to see what happens. This is forex mentorship with a qualification at the end, not a Discord role.
Your first month builds the foundation. You work through the full curriculum, Pre-Session 1 to Session 4, learning who moves the market, our long and mid-term concepts, risk management and the intraday sniper approach, taught live on our trading floors, in person or online.
Now you trade. Every setup runs through the Stargate planner against your own rules, daily webinars keep you sharp, and your first one-to-one data review turns up to 20 days of your real trades into concrete, personal feedback.
With the basics working, month three sharpens accuracy and risk. Your second data review focuses on refining insight and managing trade risk, and eligible traders gain access to funded capital from £10,000+ to trade beyond their own account.
The final month turns everything into a plan you own. Your third data review builds a strong, personal trading plan, and on successfully completing the four months you earn your Level 3 qualification and join the CLF community, ready to trade the method independently.
Throughout all four months the full platform is included and runs alongside you: the Stargate planner, daily webinars, mentor support, the trading floor and the community. When your mentorship ends you can continue on a monthly subscription. More on that in the platform section below.
Complete the four months and you earn the Level 3 Qualification in Retail Trading, you run a proprietary, rules-based method through your own planner, and you have the community and support to keep going.
Hundreds of traders have shared their experience on Trustpilot and Google. Here is a sample of what they said.
“The most professional, attentive and friendly teachers I have met.”
“Simple yet very effective concepts. Honestly, anyone can learn it.”
“The best trading mentorship I have had, and I started as a complete beginner.”
“The concepts are on another level, yet still easy to understand.”
“Not a course where they teach you then leave you on your own.”
“More than a course. A genuine game changer for how I trade.”
Signals run out. Gurus move on. Courses end. Independence is the one thing that lasts, and it is the entire point of Level 3. You leave with a complete method that is yours, the skill to run and review it on your own, and a recognised qualification that proves it.
You have done the courses, watched the videos and chased the signals. You may have blown funded accounts more than once. That is rarely a strategy problem. It is what happens without a structure to run the strategy in, and rules that stop a bad day becoming a blown account. Level 3 hands you a complete, proprietary, accuracy-based strategy from the ground up, taught live on the floor, tested in synthetic markets and refined against your own data in one-to-one reviews.
You stop borrowing other people's ideas and start running a system you understand, trust and can repeat, in any market condition.
You already move firm or public capital, but institutional mandates often mean you cannot freely trade your own account. The Level 3 Qualification in Retail Trading and its method give you exactly what you need to trade your own personal capital with the same discipline the desks respect.
The institutional thinking you already have, now paired with a retail credential and a rules-based method that is entirely yours to run.
Independence is not a feeling, it is a set of things you can do and own by the end of the four months.
A proprietary, rules-based strategy you understand end to end, not a set of borrowed signals you cannot explain.
Trained by our data engineer to read your own trading data and correct course on your own, long after the mentorship ends.
Included for your whole mentorship, then continued on a monthly subscription so the planner keeps enforcing your rules and logging your trades as you trade on your own.
Trade beyond your own account with funded capital from £10,000+.Subject to eligibility & terms
The Level 3 Qualification in Retail Trading, awarded on successful completion, backing your capability.
Finish qualified and become part of the CLF community, growing alongside seasoned, active traders.
Four months of mentorship with Shoaib Ghauri and our senior traders, working on your trading, not a syllabus. Level 2 in Retail Trading is the shared foundation and the usual starting point. Rated 4.7 from 166 reviews on Trustpilot. If you already trade with a strong strategy, talk to us and we will advise the right entry point. Direct-entry suitability is assessed through the application process.
Next intakes: November — 21st, 22nd, 28th & 29th. December — 5th, 6th, 12th & 13th.
Secure your place with a £500 deposit and complete a short application form. The balance is only paid closer to your training date.
If your application is accepted, your place is confirmed and the £500 deposit becomes non-refundable. If your application is not accepted, it is refunded in full.
Prices shown are course fees. Finance is provided by third-party providers and is subject to status; rates and terms vary with individual circumstances. Trading involves risk; outcomes vary by individual and are never guaranteed. Funded capital is provided by a third party subject to eligibility and terms.
Most trading education answers to no one: no awarding body, no assessment, no accountability. We went the other way, becoming the first trading institution to have its own proprietary trading concepts, frameworks, strategies and learning content approved by a UK awarding body, one of the country's largest. Level 3 is delivered to a recognised standard, so the qualification you earn actually means something.
Why build our own? Because every qualification already on the market taught generic, dated content: indicator-led strategies written years ago for markets that no longer exist, by authors a generation removed from the technology that now runs trading. Markets change constantly; the tools change faster; and learning content that never caught up is not just old-fashioned, it is becoming irrelevant to the game as it is played today. We are the ones changing that.
Come Learn Forex against a typical online trading course or mentorship.
Why fight fast, opaque algorithms when the smarter move is to trade like the desks that move the market? Our method is rules-based, human-run, and engineered around one idea: accuracy beats frequency.
We target high-quality setups at a favourable risk-to-reward, so you are not forced to be right all the time. The method is built so that accuracy, not constant activity, carries the result.
Illustrative of how the method is designed, not a prediction or promise of returns. Trading involves risk.
Enter and exit within the same day to capture fresh opportunities, in around two focused hours across the London session, then step away. No overnight exposure, no round-the-clock screen time.
~2 hrs a day · London sessionControlled simulations are used to study how liquidity, size and execution may affect price behaviour, across high volatility and rare events. Observations from these environments inform the frameworks taught within the CLF methodology.
Stress-tested before livePrecise entries and exits, supported by dual-layered, long-term confirmations tied to institutional order flow, so trades are taken with conviction rather than hope.
1 : 5 target · dual confirmationDecisions are executed strictly, with no room for deviation or subjective interpretation. Discipline is built into the method and enforced by the Stargate planner, not left to willpower.
Enforced by StargateMost traders trade concepts they can never prove, without the capital to see how institutions really operate. So we built the conditions to find out. Our founder Shoaib Ghauri, a renewable energy engineer and Brunel University graduate, approached the market the way an engineer approaches a system: reverse-engineer it, understand it, then rebuild it properly from the ground up for how markets behave now, with hundreds of thousands invested since to keep it current.
In the crypto space we created controlled markets we fully own and can observe end to end, something no retail trader normally gets to do.
In controlled simulations we study how injected size interacts with available liquidity, observing first-hand how size can move price, and why.
From that research we developed the concepts and frameworks taught within the CLF methodology, then turned them into a method our traders can run.
A journal only tells you what went wrong after a trade is already done. It is a diary of mistakes you have already made. Stargate works the other way round: it screens each setup against your own rules and flags the trades that break them before you place them, so you take fewer avoidable mistakes. No tool can remove risk or promise a winner, but planning beats reviewing your losses after the fact.
Everything below is one connected platform. It carries you from your very first question to trading on your own, moving you forward at every stage of the four months, and it does not stop working when the mentorship does.
Get instant answers from Pip and learn where the market is moving from senior traders in daily webinars.
Plan every trade in Stargate so it follows the concepts before you take it, which keeps your data clean.
Trade CLF concepts on the Trading Terminal, currently in beta as we test and refine it, with live oversight that keeps your discipline intact.
See where your edge concentrates in the Trade Analyser, then review it with your data engineer.
Pip is your always-on AI mentor, trained on the CLF strategy and frameworks. Ask it anything, concept questions, framework checks or general trading help, and get a clear answer instantly, at any hour, so you are never stuck waiting for a reply.
As you refine, the Trade Analyser breaks your trading down by market condition, day of the week and trend alignment, so you can see where your edge concentrates and adjust on your own, the same read your data engineer brings to your reviews.
Trade CLF concepts on our own terminal. If you overtrade, enter late, or trade against the framework, it warns you, logs a violation, or stops the trade. You always have oversight, and your discipline holds even when emotion does not.
Your balance curve, win rate, average risk-to-reward, net result and pips, the progression record your reviews are built on.
Months of progression and correction data from your one-to-one reviews, so month four is backed by real proof.
The Level 3 is where our members cross that line. Taught live on real trading floors, on the same method our research desk trades, and finished with an endorsed qualification. This is the professional route, engineered end to end.
Wider CLF community achievements · not Level 3-specific outcomes
Figures self-reported by a sample of members. Past results are not a prediction. Trading involves risk.
Level 3 makes you an independent retail trader. For those who want to go further, it is the first step on the pathway to Level 5 and a career trading at institutional level.
You can progress directly onto Level 5.
Take your Level 3 in Retail Trading first to build a proven method, then progress from there.
An advanced qualification for trading at a professional, institutional level.
A pathway toward institutional trading and CISI Associate membership (ACSI).
Level 5 opens for enrolment in January 2027. You can register your interest during your Level 3. Details are subject to confirmation.
Employers of individual students. No affiliation or endorsement implied.
Earn your Level 3, then trade it live with everything switched on around you. This is the mentorship that actually gets you there.