Training programme

1. What you get

An educational programme: general information about how financial markets, financial instruments and trading platforms work, delivered as free one-on-one trading lessons in Telegram, a community chat and this page. Practice during the lessons takes place on a demo account with virtual money. The programme teaches a skill; it does not sell an investment, a trading service or a way to make money.

2. How it works

• The training is free of charge. No payment is requested at any stage, and none is accepted.
• Places for one-on-one training are limited and offered at our discretion. We are not obliged to accept any request.
• We do not ask for access to any live account, and you must not give us any account credentials.
• Either side may end the arrangement at any time, for any reason, without notice or cost.

Joining the training, places, scheduling and questions about the programme go through the Telegram bot behind the button on this page. The bot passes questions to Mark Barsky; you do not have to join anything to ask one.

3. The $50,000 demo account

The $50,000 mentioned on the page is the balance of a demo account: virtual money supplied by a trading platform for practice. It is not real money, it cannot be withdrawn or converted, it is not income and it is not a gift from us. Results on a demo account are simulated and are not an indication of what would happen with real money.

4. The bonus up to $1,000 on a real account

The bonus of up to $1,000 mentioned on the page is offered, credited and administered by a third-party partner broker, not by us, and only on a real account opened with that broker after the training. The amount, the eligibility and any conditions for using or withdrawing the bonus are set by the broker in its own bonus terms, which can change. Read those terms on the broker's own website before you deposit anything.

A bonus is not free money and does not remove or reduce risk: you can lose your deposit and the bonus. Opening a real account is optional; the training is the same whether or not you ever open one.

5. Who can join

You may use the page and take part in the training only if you are 18 or over and legally able to enter into a binding agreement. The page is not directed at, and the training is not offered to, residents of any jurisdiction where doing so would breach local law or regulation, including the United States, Canada, Japan, Belgium, and any territory subject to applicable sanctions.

6. Why it is free

Mark Barsky takes part in referral and affiliate programmes operated by third-party brokerage firms. If you decide to open an account with one of those firms and you do so through a referral link he gives you, the firm may pay him a one-off or ongoing fee. It is described in full on How it is funded.