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Beginner to funded, in one structured path.
The markets, real strategies, and the psychology that decides who lasts.
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What Is CTI Academy?

CTI Academy is the education arm of City Traders Imperium. Free courses that teach you to trade, with one destination in mind. Getting you funded. Markets, strategy, psychology, all at your own pace.

And because we are a prop firm, the funded account is here too. Pass a CTI challenge and you trade our capital, scaling to $4M. Led by Daniel Martin, our Head Coach and Senior Trader, with 24 years in the markets.

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Four Steps To Funded

1

Learn the fundamentals

How the market moves, what drives price, and how prop trading actually works. Evaluations, drawdown, risk limits, and what a firm expects before it hands you capital. That is From Zero to Trader, 39 lessons, and it assumes you know nothing yet.
2

Learn a real strategy

Day and swing strategies funded traders actually use, including Bank Level Trading and the STT. 198 lessons across the two of them.
3

Master the psychology

Discipline, risk and habit. This is where most traders fail, so it gets a course of its own: 44 lessons in the Psychology Blueprint.
4

Get funded

Take what you have learned into a CTI funding challenge. Pass it and you trade a funded account with a profit share, scaling up to $4M. See the funding programs
Beyond the courses

Trader Accelerator Program

The free courses take you from beginner to funded.
Funded to professional is a different climb, and that one is done one to one.

One to One Coaching Your charts, your journal, your habits, worked through one to one until the leaks close. Group Sessions Learn beside traders on the same climb. You watch their reviews, they watch yours, everyone gets sharper.
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Why Traders Start
With CTI Academy

All four courses are free in full. There is no paywall halfway through a module and no card required to begin. CTI funds the education because better traders make better funded traders.
Nothing is drip-fed and nothing expires. Watch a lesson three times or skip a module you already know. The curriculum works around your job, your timezone and your pace.
The curriculum is led by Daniel Martin, Co-Founder and Head Coach, a senior multi-asset trader with over 24 years across forex, stocks and crypto, and founder of the Golden Trader Program.
Most trading education stops at entries and exits. A full 44 lesson course here is dedicated to discipline, risk and habit, because that is where most traders actually lose the account.
The courses are built by a prop firm that has funded traders since 2018, so the material is framed around what an evaluation actually asks of you: drawdown, consistency and risk.
When the courses have taken you as far as they can, performance coaching picks up. One to one with Daniel Martin on your trades, your strategy, your review. Or group sessions, where you learn beside traders on the same climb and get sharper watching each other work.
281 free lessons
4 full courses
Self-paced video
1-on-1 coaching
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Performance Coaching
1-on-1
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Psychology Blueprint
44 lessons
Course
The STT Strategy
81 lessons
Course
BLT | Bank Level Trading
117 lessons
Course
From Zero To Trader
39 lessons

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Nobody gets funded on their own. Live trade talk, straight answers from traders who have been through it, and a room that never goes quiet.
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Yes. All of CTI Academy’s core courses are free and need no card to start. They cover market fundamentals, trading strategies and trading psychology, delivered as self-paced reading and video.
Start with the fundamentals, how the markets work and the core mechanics, then move to strategy, then psychology. CTI Academy’s free courses follow exactly this path, beginning with From Zero to Trader for complete beginners.
It varies by the individual, but because the courses are self-paced you can move as fast or as slowly as you need. Most traders spend longer on psychology and consistency than on strategy, which is why CTI Academy dedicates a full course to it.
No. The courses are built for all levels, starting from complete beginner. From Zero to Trader assumes no prior knowledge.
The curriculum is led by Daniel Martin, CTI’s Head Coach and Senior Trader, with over 24 years across forex, stocks and crypto, and founder of the Golden Trader Program.
The courses are designed to build the skills, strategy and discipline traders need to pass prop firm evaluations and stay funded. They are educational; funding depends on your own application of what you learn.
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