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Goal setting
How to set and hit goals with the staircase method, so your year has a direction from day one.
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Learn to trade properly. One year. One path.
No shortcuts.
A structured one-year trading education, led by me, Archie Spencer. Fundamentals first, technicals for timing, live calls four days a week, and a test at every stage before you move on.
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Start with where you are
When you book a call, I ask one question first. Which of these is you?
Almost everyone who comes to GRIT fits one of these six. Pick yours and I'll show you what's really going on, and how the course deals with it.
I'm starting from zero, and every video assumes I already know the basics.
What's really going on
Nothing is wrong with you. You just need the right order. Most beginners are shown advanced setups before they understand what a chart is actually telling them.
How GRIT helps
You start at module one: your goals, your platform set up properly, and how price really moves. Every stage ends in a test, so nothing gets skipped and nothing is assumed.
My chart work is decent, but the news keeps blowing straight through my levels.
What's really going on
Charts show you what price did. They can't tell you why. I traded on technicals alone for four years before that clicked for me.
How GRIT helps
The macro module teaches you how interest rates, data releases and central banks move markets. Then your technical analysis does the job it's best at: timing.
Ten tabs of YouTube, three strategies this month, and no idea which one is right.
What's really going on
You don't have an information problem. You have an order problem. More content only makes it worse.
How GRIT helps
One curriculum, taken in sequence, with a test at the end of each stage. You stop collecting strategies and start building one of your own.
I get close every time, then a drawdown rule catches me out.
What's really going on
In my experience, most challenges are lost on risk and behaviour, not on analysis.
How GRIT helps
Managing capital is a full module: position sizing, daily limits, and how to run live and funded accounts within strict risk limits. The psychology and data modules show you exactly where your rules break.
It works on demo. The moment real money is on the line, I trade like a different person.
What's really going on
Your strategy didn't change. You did. That's a psychology and process problem, and it's one you can work on.
How GRIT helps
You build a written trading plan, track your own data, and work through the psychology module, with live calls four days a week where you can ask questions and see the process explained step by step.
I've been copying someone else's trades and I still couldn't explain a single one of them.
What's really going on
A signal teaches you nothing. When it wins you learn nothing, when it loses you learn nothing. All you learn is to depend on the person sending it.
How GRIT helps
GRIT doesn't send signals and never will. The whole point is that you learn to make your own decisions, so that one day you don't need me.
The GRIT method
Fundamentals first. Technicals for timing.
Most courses teach patterns and indicators and stop there. That's half the picture.
At GRIT you learn why markets move first: interest rates, economic data, central bank policy, geopolitics, and how money rotates between risk-on and risk-off. Then technical analysis does the job it's actually good at, which is telling you when.
01 · The why
Fundamentals
What's driving the market this week, and which way the pressure is pushing.
02 · The when
Technicals
Price action, market profile and levels that tell you where and when to act.
Illustration only. Not a trade recommendation.
The curriculum
Nine modules, in order. A test at every gate.
You can't skip ahead and you can't drift. Each stage ends with a test, and the next one only opens when you pass it. That's how nothing important gets missed.
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Basic setup
Your software and trading platforms set up properly, so the tools never get in the way of learning.
Pass the test to unlock 0303
Trading basics
Price action and the primary indicators: the foundation every later module is built on.
Pass the test to unlock 0404
Macro data
How to read economic data, how timeframes fit together, and the triggers that get you into trades at the right time.
Pass the test to unlock 0505
Indicators
The secondary indicators, and how to build them into your primary analysis without cluttering it.
Pass the test to unlock 0606
Psychology
How to master the trading mind so you can scale, and how to build a trading plan that keeps you consistent.
Pass the test to unlock 0707
TPOs and market profile
Time price opportunity profiles: how to build a directional bias and the levels you trade from.
Pass the test to unlock 0808
Data
How to collect and use your own trading data, plus risk management and how to structure your week as a trader.
Pass the test to unlock 0909
Managing capital
How to manage capital on live and funded accounts, and how to scale within strict risk limits.
Final testWhat you get
Everything you need for a year of proper learning.
Not a folder of videos you'll never finish. A structured year with live teaching, real feedback and someone keeping you on track.
The full curriculum
Nine modules of video lessons and slides, from setting up your first chart to managing capital.
Live calls, Monday to Thursday
Markets broken down live, and your questions answered live, four days a week.
Breakdown videos
My own analysis, recorded, so you can follow the thinking from start to finish.
Gated tests
Pass each stage before the next one opens. No skipping, no drifting.
Feedback on your work
Practical tasks throughout the course, and I review what you hand in.
The community
A room full of people doing the same work, in one place on Skool.
1-to-1 time with me
6 hours on Premium, 14 on VIP. Private calls you book whenever you need them: your trades, your plan, or the module you're stuck on.
ABE Level 5 Diploma in Applied Financial TradingAwarded with Merit · Ofqual-regulated qualification
Who you'll learn from
I'm Archie. I learned this the hard way so you don't have to.
I didn't start on a trading floor. I started in a plumbing apprenticeship, studying charts in every spare hour.
For four years I traded on technical analysis alone. I studied, I failed, I blew accounts and I adapted. What changed everything was understanding that fundamentals drive the market and technicals give you the timing.
GRIT is the structure I wish I'd had at the start: a clear path, in the right order, with someone checking your work and telling you the truth.
7+ yearsin the markets
Level 5diploma in applied financial trading
9 moduleseach one ending in a test
What GRIT will never sell you
- Signals
- Trade alerts
- Copy trading
- Income promises
This industry is full of people selling screenshots and copy trades. That isn't education, it's dependence. GRIT is built the other way round. The aim is that by the end of your year, you don't need me.
Membership
Clear prices. No hidden extras.
Try the community free for a week, or go straight into the full academy. Premium and VIP always start with a free call, so you know exactly what you're joining before you pay anything.
Community
Join the room, learn the approach, and see how GRIT works from the inside.
$49
per month
- 1-week free trial, then $49 a month unless you cancel
- The GRIT community on Skool
- Live sessions with Archie
- Market breakdowns and the weekly macro outlook
- The opening lessons of the curriculum
- Monthly. Cancel any time
Premium
The complete year: all nine core modules, live calls four days a week, and 1-to-1 time with me.
$3,000
for one year
- Everything in Community
- The full nine-module curriculum
- Video lessons and slides
- Live calls Monday to Thursday
- Gated tests at every stage
- Feedback on your practical tasks
- 6 hours of 1-to-1 calls with Archie
- Spread over 6 months, interest-free
VIP
The full academy plus 5 extra modules and more than double the private time with me.
$5,000
for one year
- Everything in Premium
- 5 extra modules on top of the core nine
- 14 hours of 1-to-1 calls with Archie
- Book your calls whenever you need them
- Spread over 6 months, interest-free
Premium and VIP: pay in full or over 6 months, interest-free
No signals, no managed accounts
Prices in US dollars
In their own words
Hear it from the people doing the work.
No screenshots, no account balances. Just members in their own words.
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Free guides
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Plain-English guides on the problems traders bring to me most, written the way GRIT is taught.
Getting started
How to learn to trade from scratch: a step-by-step path
A realistic, step-by-step path for learning to trade as a complete beginner: what to learn first, in what order, how long it takes, and the mistakes that cost new traders most.
9 min readProp firmsWhy you keep failing prop firm challenges, and how to fix it
Most prop firm evaluations are failed on risk and behaviour, not analysis. How daily loss limits and trailing drawdowns work, why traders breach them, and the rules that fix it.
9 min readAnalysisFundamental vs technical analysis: why traders need both
What fundamental and technical analysis each tell you, where each one fails on its own, and how to combine them: fundamentals for the direction, technicals for the timing.
8 min readStraight answers
The questions people ask before they join.
If yours isn't here, ask me directly. You'll get a straight answer.
Do you give signals or trade alerts?
No, and I never will. GRIT is education. I don't tell you what to buy or sell, I don't manage money, and I don't run copy trading. The whole point is that you learn to make your own decisions.
Is GRIT for complete beginners?
Yes. The course starts at the very beginning: setting goals, getting your platforms set up, and learning how price moves. Because each stage is tested before you move on, beginners don't get left behind.
I've been trading for years. Will it be too basic?
Probably not. Experienced traders usually find their gaps are in fundamentals, risk and process rather than chart reading. On the call we'll work out where yours are, and I'll tell you honestly whether GRIT would add enough to be worth it.
Will I make money?
I can't promise that, and you should be wary of anyone who does. Trading carries a high risk of losing money, and most retail traders lose money. What I can promise is a clear structure, honest teaching, and someone checking your work for a full year.
Is GRIT regulated by the FCA?
No. GRIT Trading Academy Ltd is an education provider and is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We don't give financial advice, manage money or tell you what to trade. Everything we teach is for educational purposes.
What happens on the call?
It's 60 minutes, 1-to-1 with me on Google Meet. I'll ask where you are with your trading, what's gone wrong so far and where you want to get to. You can ask me anything. At the end I'll tell you honestly whether I think GRIT is the right fit, and if it isn't, I'll say so.
Your next step
Find out if GRIT is right for you.
Book a free 60-minute call. I'll look at where you are, where you want to get to, and tell you straight whether GRIT is the right fit.