Miami Trading Academy · Online

Trade With
Precision.
Learn From
Experience.

The online home of Miami Trading Academy — 17+ years of professional trading experience delivered through exclusive 1-on-1 live Zoom mentorship. No classrooms. No cohorts. Just you and your mentor.

17+
Years Experience
1-on-1
Private Mentorship
16h
Intensive Training
Professional trading environment
100%
Live · Private · 1-on-1
Our Story & Standard

Two Decades.
Two Cities.
One Standard of Excellence.

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We didn't build a trading program. We built a methodology — refined over 17 years, tested in live markets across two continents, and passed on exclusively through private, one-on-one mentorship. What you receive here is the uncompromised version of that work.

— Michael Harding, Founder
Founded Here · Est. 2008
Toronto, Canada

This is where it began. Toronto is our home city — and our highest standard. The methodology was built here, stress-tested through market cycles that humbled most traders, and refined into the approach we teach today. Our Toronto clients receive our most intimate, high-touch in-person experience — the full depth of two decades in one room.

Our Home. Our Highest Standard.
Expanded · 6 Years Strong
Miami, Florida

Six years ago we expanded to Miami, bringing the same exacting standard to one of the world's most dynamic financial cities. Miami Trading Academy carries that same methodology — the same instructor, the same curriculum, zero compromise. Miami sharpened us. It didn't change us.

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Worldwide · Live Online
FinancialMarkets
.Academy

The online expression of everything built across both cities — not a condensed version, not a lesser tier. The same curriculum, the same instructor, the same private 1-on-1 format. Available to serious traders anywhere in the world, live over Zoom, on your schedule.

You Are Here
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17 Years of Live-Market Experience

Not a course. Not theory compiled from textbooks. Your instructor has traded through every cycle — the 2008 collapse, the 2020 crash, the AI-driven bull markets — and emerged with a methodology that holds in every environment.

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Exclusively 1-on-1. Never a Classroom.

Every session is built entirely around you — your current level, your goals, your blindspots. There are no cohorts, no recordings, no group dynamics. This is private mentorship in the truest sense, the way it has always been delivered from Toronto to Miami.

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AI-Integrated, Future-Ready Curriculum

The curriculum evolves with the markets. You'll learn how to use modern AI-powered tools, screeners, and analytics that today's professional traders actually use — giving you a structural edge that courses built five years ago simply cannot offer.

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Lifetime Access. No Expiry. No Asterisk.

Once you complete the program, you are a graduate of an institution that has operated across two countries for 17 years. Graduate access, ongoing support, and direct instructor contact have no time limit. We invest in clients who are serious about longevity.

Founded Toronto, 2008
17+ Years Active Trading
In-Person: Toronto & Miami
Online: Worldwide
100% Private · 1-on-1 Only
Lifetime Graduate Support
At the Academy of Financial Markets we are dedicated to providing exceptional trading education and resources to help you achieve financial independence. Whether you are a beginner or an experienced trader, our program is designed to craft and mold you into becoming a rockstar trader! You’ll learn how to use the trading platform, navigate the markets, know where to enter and exit each trade, risk management, taxes, what to avoid, timing, what to watch out for, fundamentals, technical analysis, and lots more… We’re thrilled to have you onboard and can’t wait to help change your life.
we've been producing superstar traders since 2012

The Fastest Path To Wealth & Financial Freedom

Forex Trading Course
This curriculum is designed to teach students the fundamentals of forex trading over 8 days, covering theory, practical skills, and trading psychology. Each day includes a 1-2 hour session with a mix of lectures, discussions, and hands-on activities.

Trading Mastery For Beginners & Intermediate Traders (First Half of the Course)

Students learn how financial markets move, how price creates structure, and how to identify the difference between bullish, bearish, and ranging market conditions.

  • Understanding higher highs, higher lows, lower highs, and lower lows.
  • Identifying support, resistance, supply, and demand zones.
  • Reading candles, momentum, rejection, breakouts, and pullbacks.
  • Learning how price action helps traders make cleaner trading decisions.

Students are guided through setting up their trading platform correctly so they can analyze charts, place trades, manage positions, and use the tools needed for live market execution.

  • Setting up charts, watchlists, templates, and timeframes.
  • Understanding market orders, pending orders, stop losses, and take profits.
  • Using drawing tools, indicators, alerts, and chart layouts.
  • Practicing how to execute and manage trades confidently.

This lesson teaches students how to protect their capital before focusing on profits. Students learn how to control trade risk and avoid oversized positions.

  • Understanding risk per trade and account protection.
  • Calculating proper lot size or position size.
  • Using stop losses correctly.
  • Learning risk-to-reward ratios and why they matter.

Students learn the mental side of trading and how emotions can affect decision-making. This section focuses on discipline, patience, and consistency.

  • Controlling fear, greed, hesitation, and revenge trading.
  • Building confidence through rules and repetition.
  • Understanding why discipline beats prediction.
  • Creating habits that support long-term consistency.

Students are introduced to common chart patterns used by traders to identify potential reversals, continuations, and breakout opportunities.

  • Double tops, double bottoms, triangles, flags, and wedges.
  • Understanding breakout and retest patterns.
  • Recognizing reversal signals near key levels.
  • Using patterns with confirmation instead of guessing.

This lesson shows students how indicators work and how to use them as confirmation tools instead of relying on them blindly.

  • Introduction to Moving Averages, RSI, MACD, and Bollinger Bands.
  • Understanding trend, momentum, volatility, and overbought/oversold readings.
  • Learning the strengths and weaknesses of indicators.
  • Combining indicators with price action for better decisions.

Students learn how to plan entries and exits before entering a trade. This helps reduce emotional decision-making and improves trade management.

  • Identifying clean entry zones.
  • Setting realistic profit targets.
  • Placing stop losses based on structure.
  • Understanding when to enter, hold, scale, or exit.

Students learn how economic news, interest rates, inflation, central banks, and market sentiment can impact currencies, stocks, commodities, and indexes.

  • Understanding high-impact news events.
  • Learning how central banks affect market direction.
  • Reading economic calendars.
  • Knowing when to trade and when to stay out of the market.

Students create a simple trading plan that gives them structure, rules, and a repeatable process for approaching the market.

  • Defining trading goals and risk rules.
  • Choosing preferred markets and timeframes.
  • Creating entry, exit, and trade management rules.
  • Building a routine for reviewing and improving performance.

Students learn how different timeframes affect trading decisions and how to choose a trading style that fits their personality and schedule.

  • Understanding scalping, day trading, swing trading, and long-term trading.
  • Using multiple timeframe analysis.
  • Learning how higher timeframes guide market direction.
  • Choosing a realistic trading style based on lifestyle and risk tolerance.

This lesson teaches students how to combine indicators properly to confirm trade ideas without overcrowding their charts.

  • Using trend indicators with momentum indicators.
  • Avoiding indicator overload and conflicting signals.
  • Confirming entries with price action and structure.
  • Building simple confirmation rules for trade setups.

Students learn how breakout trading works and how to avoid common traps like false breakouts and emotional chase entries.

  • Identifying consolidation and breakout zones.
  • Understanding breakout confirmation.
  • Learning retest entries after a breakout.
  • Managing risk around volatile breakout moves.

Students learn how to manage open trades instead of entering and hoping. This lesson focuses on protecting profits and making smarter exit decisions.

  • Using trailing stops to lock in profit.
  • Understanding partial profit-taking.
  • Moving stops based on structure and momentum.
  • Learning when to let winners run and when to close.

Students learn how different markets can move together or against each other, helping them avoid overexposure and build smarter trade ideas.

  • Understanding correlations between currencies, stocks, indexes, gold, and oil.
  • Avoiding multiple trades that carry the same risk.
  • Learning how diversification can reduce account pressure.
  • Using correlations as part of market analysis.

Students build a repeatable daily routine that helps them prepare, execute, and review trades with more discipline and consistency.

  • Creating a pre-market checklist.
  • Reviewing news, market structure, and key levels.
  • Planning trades before entering the market.
  • Journaling results and improving from past decisions.
On the second day, we’ll take your skills to the next level by harnessing the power of artificial intelligence. You’ll learn:

Supercharge Your Trading with AI (Second Half of the Course)

Students learn how modern AI tools can assist with chart analysis by helping identify market structure, trend direction, support and resistance zones, and possible trade setups.

  • Using AI-assisted chart recognition tools.
  • Understanding AI-generated market insights.
  • Combining AI analysis with manual trading decisions.
  • Learning how to filter noise and focus on higher-quality setups.

This lesson introduces students to AI-powered risk management tools designed to improve position sizing, stop-loss placement, and overall account protection.

  • Using calculators for proper lot sizing and position sizing.
  • Understanding AI-generated risk-to-reward analysis.
  • Reducing emotional overtrading through structured risk rules.
  • Building consistency with disciplined account management.

Students learn how AI tools can analyze news, financial headlines, and social sentiment to better understand overall market psychology and possible market direction.

  • Understanding bullish and bearish sentiment.
  • Using AI to summarize financial news quickly.
  • Recognizing fear, greed, and market momentum shifts.
  • Combining sentiment analysis with technical analysis.

Students are introduced to AI-enhanced backtesting platforms that help evaluate trading strategies using historical market data.

  • Testing strategies against past market conditions.
  • Understanding win rate, drawdown, and expectancy.
  • Identifying strengths and weaknesses in a strategy.
  • Improving trading systems through data-driven analysis.

Students learn how AI-powered journaling tools can track performance, identify recurring mistakes, and improve consistency over time.

  • Recording entries, exits, profits, and losses.
  • Using AI analytics to detect emotional trading habits.
  • Reviewing statistics and performance metrics.
  • Building accountability through detailed trade reviews.

Students learn how AI tools can help confirm trend direction and strengthen trend-following trade setups.

  • Understanding trend continuation strategies.
  • Using AI to confirm market momentum.
  • Identifying stronger pullback entries within trends.
  • Learning how to avoid low-probability countertrend trades.

Students learn how AI-assisted tools can improve stop-loss placement using volatility, market structure, and risk-based analysis.

  • Using volatility-based stop placement.
  • Understanding ATR and market movement analysis.
  • Reducing premature stop-outs.
  • Balancing tighter stops with realistic market movement.

This lesson teaches students how AI can help filter lower-quality trades and focus on higher-probability opportunities.

  • Identifying confluence between indicators and structure.
  • Using AI confirmation for cleaner setups.
  • Reducing emotional impulse trades.
  • Building a more disciplined setup selection process.

Students learn how candlestick patterns can be combined with AI sentiment analysis to improve trade confirmation.

  • Recognizing bullish and bearish candle formations.
  • Combining candles with market sentiment data.
  • Improving trade timing and confirmation.
  • Understanding momentum shifts around key levels.

Students build a structured review process that uses AI-generated analytics to identify areas for improvement.

  • Reviewing winning and losing trades objectively.
  • Tracking patterns in behavior and execution.
  • Using AI-generated reports and insights.
  • Creating continuous improvement through data analysis.

Students are introduced to the basics of automation and how AI can help revise, optimize, and improve trading systems over time.

  • Understanding how automated trading systems work.
  • Learning the basics of strategy optimization.
  • Using AI feedback to improve trading rules.
  • Identifying weaknesses and refining execution logic.
Verified Student Achievements

Real Traders.
Real Results.

These are not projections or case studies. These are verified certifications earned by a real student — trained privately, 1-on-1, through FinancialMarkets.Academy.

3
Topstep Certifications
Earned
<5
Months to Achieve
All Three
1
Student. Trained
Exclusively 1-on-1.
100%
Private Mentorship.
No Group. No Course.
1
First Certification
September 4, 2025
Pass #1 — Topstep Trading Combine™ completed. Certified Funded Trader status achieved.
2
Second Certification
December 30, 2025
Pass #2 — A second full evaluation passed. Consistency confirmed across multiple accounts.
3
Third Certification
January 13, 2026
Pass #3 — Just 14 days after the second. Three funded accounts. One methodology.
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Obakeng Thebe
FinancialMarkets.Academy Graduate
Funded
139
Days
1:1
Training
Trained privately through the complete 16-hour 1-on-1 programme. Applied the risk management framework, the trade planning system, and the daily improvement habits — and became a Topstep Certified Funded Trader three separate times in under five months.
Topstep Certified Funded Trader × 3
Obakeng Thebe — Topstep Certified Funded Trader, September 4, 2025
September 4, 2025
Pass #1
Obakeng Thebe — Topstep Certified Funded Trader, December 30, 2025
December 30, 2025
Pass #2

What Three Certifications in 139 Days Actually Means

Passing a Topstep evaluation once is an achievement. Passing three, across different accounts, in under five months — that is the mark of a trader who has truly internalised a structured, repeatable methodology.

Obakeng did not get lucky. He applied exactly what is taught in the programme: a disciplined risk management framework, a rules-based entry and exit system, and the daily improvement habits that compound your edge over time. The certificates are the proof.

This is what 16 hours of private, expert-led mentorship produces in the hands of a committed student. One instructor. One student. One methodology. Three funded accounts.

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Rules-Based Consistency
Three separate evaluations. Three separate passes. The same methodology applied every time — not luck, not instinct. Structure.
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Risk Management in Practice
Topstep evaluations require strict drawdown discipline. Passing three means protecting capital consistently — the most underrated trading skill.
Speed of Progress
Pass #2 to Pass #3 took just 14 days. That kind of acceleration comes from internalising a complete system — not guessing at it.
♾️
The 1-on-1 Difference
Obakeng was trained privately, entirely 1-on-1. No group. No cohort. The programme was built around him — and the results reflect that.

Results Disclosure: The certifications shown are verified documents issued by Topstep LLC to Obakeng Thebe. Individual results vary based on dedication, market conditions, prior experience, and application of the curriculum. These results are not a guarantee of future performance. FinancialMarkets.Academy does not promise specific financial outcomes. Trading involves risk. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Your Results Are
Waiting to Be Written.

Obakeng's story started with a decision to train properly — with a proven methodology, delivered privately, by someone who has spent 17 years in live markets. Yours can start the same way.

What's included

Each course includes top-tier trading tools for finding the best trades with precision.

BONUS + LifeTime Support

Students also receive a lifetime license of our proprietary Bitcoin Scalper AI Expert Advisor for MT5
Tools & AI for Success

We provide all of our students with state-of-the-art technology to help make wise trading decisions

Our courses are designed for aspiring traders and investors, from beginners to experienced individuals, who are eager to master the financial markets and achieve financial independence. Whether you’re looking to understand trading platforms, navigate market dynamics, or develop advanced strategies in risk management, technical analysis, and trading psychology, our comprehensive 8-day curriculum equips you with practical skills and real-world insights to become a confident, successful trader.

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Meet Your Instructor Michael Harding

LinkedIN Resume: https://www.linkedin.com/in/forexdaytrader/

Short Bio:

Passionate and disciplined Forex Day Trader with over a decade of experience navigating the dynamic world of currency markets. Specializing in short-term trading strategies, I leverage technical analysis, risk management, and market insights to drive consistent results. Committed to continuous learning and adapting to evolving market conditions, I thrive on the fast-paced nature of day trading. Connect with me to share insights, discuss trading strategies, or explore opportunities in the financial markets.

Your journey to success

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Frequently Asked Questions

Sessions begin based on your availability. Once you register, our team will contact you to schedule your first training session.
The complete mentorship program includes 16 hours of private 1-on-1 training which can be completed as 8 two-hour sessions or 16 one-hour sessions.
Yes. We offer flexible payment options including split payments and pay-as-you-go training depending on the selected program.
Pricing depends on the selected mentorship format and training structure. Contact us directly for the latest pricing and available options.
Yes. We do allow shared sessions for select training packages. Contact us for additional details and pricing adjustments.
Yes. Certain training packages may include a satisfaction guarantee. Please contact us directly for current terms and eligibility.
Success depends heavily on the student’s discipline, consistency, and ability to apply what they learn. Many students continue into funded trading, live trading, or advanced strategy development after completing the program.
Additional one-on-one training sessions can be arranged after completing the core mentorship program.
The amount depends on your goals, broker requirements, and risk tolerance. Many beginners start with smaller accounts while learning proper risk management.
The program includes private Zoom mentorship, trading education, risk management training, AI-powered trading concepts, strategy development, and ongoing support.
No prior trading experience is required. Students simply need a computer, internet connection, and willingness to learn.
We work with a variety of regulated brokers depending on the student’s location, goals, and preferred trading markets.
Yes. We offer affiliate and referral opportunities for select partners and students. Contact us for more information.
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