Five Phases. You move on when you can show the work.
Every module ends with something you produce, and each Phase opens when the previous work can be checked. Evidence decides when you move on, not the hours of video you sat through.
Each module ends with something you produce.
Refine feeds the next module's Learn step.
What each Phase asks of you.
Professional Foundations
Founding SprintSet the professional baseline: how you prepare, how you record decisions, and how your work will be assessed.
3 modules
You complete
Readiness Profile and Development Agreement
Futures Fundamentals
Founding SprintUnderstand the instruments you trade: contract mechanics, margin, sessions, and the platform controls that keep you safe.
5 modules
You complete
Instrument Passport and Platform Safety Demonstration
Auction, Analysis and Execution
ContinuationRead auction and market profile, find location, then execute one primary setup with confirmation and invalidation.
16 modules · 5 Replay Labs
You complete
Replay Portfolio and Personal Setup Specification
Risk and Operating Controls
Size positions, predefine risk, and rehearse loss scenarios until your response to a losing trade is a written rule.
4 modules · Risk Scenario Lab
You complete
Risk Calculator and Risk Operating Plan
Professional Practice
Run one market and one setup across thirty documented trades, then review the evidence with Cody.
Applied sprints · Capstone
You complete
30-trade evidence review, readiness decision and 90-day plan
The Founding Sprint covers Phases 1-2 plus your Risk Operating Plan and playbook v1. The optional Continuation starts Phase 3. Neither promises completion of all five Phases.
One market. One setup. Thirty trades.
The capstone is a single sample of thirty documented trades in one market, taken with one setup and recorded against the same checklist each time. What matters is not the result of any one trade, but whether the process held when it was tested. Cody reviews the sample with you and records a readiness decision against it.
Three levels. Graded on process, not profit.
Developing
You understand it but apply it inconsistently.
Competent
You apply it correctly in normal conditions.
Validated
You've shown it repeatedly across different conditions.
P&L doesn't set the grade. A well-executed loss can show excellent process; a profitable rule breach can't.
- MNQ / NQprimary
- ES
- GC
- CL
Education without the hype
Develop Understanding
The aim is to help traders understand why decisions are made, not simply copy someone else's trades.
Prioritise Risk
Every analytical idea must be supported by clearly defined and affordable risk.
Build Independence
Education should support the development of an individual process rather than dependence on signals or predictions.
CM Futures does not provide trade signals, managed accounts or guaranteed trading outcomes.
Process First
Futures trading from foundations to your own playbook.
The CM Futures self-paced course, built on the same five-Phase method. Founding coaching clients get it free when it launches.
Ready to start Phase 1?
Apply first and we will arrange a free discovery call to confirm the Programme suits where you are now.