Level 1: Protect the account
20 closed demo trades; every trade had a stop at entry; risk per trade <= 1% of balance on >= 95% of trades; no day lost more than 3%.
Evidence-based
Certificates
Each path stage passed is a skill level on your record: the trades, replays and tested plan behind it are kept. The Certificate of Completion needs all 48 lessons and a 70% score on each of the 12 module assessments; the MAT Masterclass Certificate adds the six stage gates.
Level 2: Plan and journal every trade
A written trading plan saved; 30 journaled demo trades with setup, plan-followed and emotion fields; plan followed on >= 90%.
Level 3: Read the market as it is
50 scored replays of real past events and sessions with a rule score >= 80%.
Level 4: Test an edge before trusting it
A backtest of your written rules with >= 100 trades, costs included, split in-sample / out-of-sample, submitted with the rules.
Level 5: Execute consistently on demo
>= 60 closed demo trades over >= 8 weeks; plan followed >= 90%; max drawdown <= 10%; expectancy after costs above zero, shown with its 95% range.
Level 6: Decide what comes next with numbers
Readiness review: the stage-5 record, your written scaling criteria and a variance check of your own numbers.