The Wick Academy

Part I

Grow your IB

An IB earns from the volume their clients trade. Every chapter in this part works on one of three levers: the deal, the network or the clients.

Chapter 01

Recognise a good deal

An IB deal is a contract about money, risk and time. Judge all three before the headline rate.

The five deal types

Model	You are paid	Suits	Check first
Rebate per lot	A fixed amount for every lot your clients trade, win or lose.	Active, high-volume traders.	Which instruments count, and whether rates differ by product.
Spread share	A share of the markup the broker adds to spreads.	Clients on standard accounts.	Your income moves when spreads widen or tighten.
CPA	One payment per client who deposits and meets a condition.	Fast growth from a large audience.	The qualifying condition and any clawback period.
Revenue share	A percentage of the broker's net revenue from your clients.	A stable book built over years.	How negative months are treated and whether they carry forward.
Hybrid	A smaller CPA plus a lower rebate or revenue share.	IBs who want early cash and long-term income.	Total value over twelve months against the pure models.

The ten-point scorecard

Tick each statement you can prove from the contract or a live test. The score is a rule of thumb for deciding where to negotiate.

0 / 10

Tick what you can prove to see where the deal stands.

Red flags

The broker or its marketing promises clients a profit or a return.
A rate far above every other offer, with no explanation of how it is funded.
No regulator name or licence number you can look up.
Payouts that arrive late, change in size or need chasing.
Pressure on you or your clients to deposit more to keep a rate or a bonus.
Changes to the terms without written notice.

Chapter 02

Expand your network

A sub-IB multiplies your reach and your workload at the same time. Build the process before the team.

Four stages

Your own clientsProve the onboarding and teaching process on people you work with directly.
One sub-IBBring in someone you can train, with their own deal terms and your override written in.
A partner teamHold a weekly call, share one onboarding pack and show each partner their own numbers.
Several brokers and regionsAdd a second broker for clients the first cannot serve, and partners in new markets.

Where partners come from

Educators and creators with an audience that asks about trading.
Traders who already mentor friends.
Admins of Telegram, Discord and WhatsApp communities.
Clients who teach others what you taught them.

What a sub-IB needs from you

The split in writing, before they bring a single client.
An onboarding pack they can use on day one.
Access to their own reports.
A named person to call when a payout or a client needs attention.

Pay on the date you promised and never promise a partner an income. Recruit people you would be willing to train for a year.

Chapter 03

Run your IB like a business

A master IB works from a calendar and five ratios, and fixes the weakest ratio first.

A weekly rhythm

Monday. Review last week's sign-ups, funded accounts and lots.
Tuesday. Hold the partner call and answer open questions.
Wednesday. Batch the week's content in one sitting.
Thursday. Message dormant and drawing-down clients.
Friday. Reconcile payouts against reports and write the weekly numbers.

The five ratios

Ratio	Formula	It tells you
Funding rate	funded accounts ÷ sign-ups	Whether your onboarding converts interest into money.
Active rate	clients trading in 30 days ÷ funded accounts	How many funded clients actually trade.
Lots per active client	lots in the month ÷ active clients	How much volume each active client produces.
Rebate per active client	rebate earned ÷ active clients	What one active client is worth to you each month.
90-day retention	still trading at 90 days ÷ funded	Whether your teaching keeps clients solvent and active.

The ratios multiply, so a gain in the first one lifts every number after it. Review them monthly.

Chapter 04

Grow and manage your clients

Your income rises when clients stay solvent and keep trading. Risk education is part of the business.

Five segments

Segment	Who	What to do
New	First 14 days after funding.	Hold an onboarding call, agree written risk rules and start with one pair on one timeframe.
Active	Traded in the last 30 days.	Offer a weekly review, answer questions within a day and share the journal template.
Dormant	No trades for 30 days.	Send one personal message asking what changed, then invite them to the next session.
Large volume	Your top clients by lots.	Give a direct line and review their risk per trade with them.
Drawing down	Account down sharply.	Suggest a smaller size and a pause. Never encourage a deposit to recover losses.

Teach position sizing before entries

A client who risks 1% per trade can be wrong many times and still be trading next month. A client who risks a third of the account cannot. Start every new client on the sizing rule in Chapter 09.

Managing client money, or selling trade signals for a fee, can be a regulated activity in your country. Teach and refer, and check the rules before you do more.

Chapter 05

Five and six figures a day

Five figures is $10,000 a day and six figures is $100,000. The calculator shows the volume behind each.

Daily target

Rebate per lot ($)

Lots per active client per day

Lots every trading day: 1,667
Active clients needed: 834
Per month (21 trading days): $210,000
Per year (252 trading days): $2,520,000

Illustrative arithmetic, not a forecast. Rebates, volumes and client behaviour differ by broker and market, and income cannot be guaranteed.

The levers

Rate. A better deal raises income per lot without any extra client.
Active clients. Funding rate and active rate decide how many sign-ups become volume.
Retention. Clients who stay solvent keep producing lots month after month.
Sub-IBs. An override on partner volume adds income without adding your own client calls.

Part II

Personal brand and marketing

People join an IB they trust, and trust comes from being useful in public. This part covers what to say, how to come across and how attention becomes a funded account.

Chapter 06

What to teach

Teach the same five subjects to clients and to sub-IBs, at different depths.

Five content pillars

Trading basicsPips, lots, sessions and order types, taught as a short path with one idea per post.
Risk and psychologyPosition sizing, daily loss limits and how to behave after a losing streak.
How brokers and rebates workExplain the IB model openly, including how you are paid.
Platform walkthroughsOpening an account, placing an order, reading a statement.
Your processYour weekly review, your journal and your mistakes, shown as they happen.

Teach your sub-IBs

How to read the broker's partner reports.
How to run a first conversation with a prospect.
What they can and cannot say about returns.
How to track a link per channel.

Leave out

Profit promises or screenshots of one winning day.
Pressure to deposit before a deadline.
Anything you would not say with the broker's compliance team listening.

Chapter 07

Look approachable

A stranger decides in seconds whether you are someone they could message. Make that decision easy.

Profile

A clear photo of your face, in daylight, looking at the camera.
A bio that says what you teach and who it is for.
One link, to your guide or your community.
A pinned post that introduces you and your process.

Content and tone

Talk to the camera and explain jargon the first time you use it.
Show the process and the losses, not just the wins.
Reply to every comment and message within a day.
Write the way you would explain it to a friend over coffee.

Avoid

Cars, watches and holidays offered as proof that your method works.
Urgency timers and limited-place countdowns that reset.
Income screenshots without the full account history beside them.

Posts about leveraged products are financial promotions in many countries, and the rules cover what you publish yourself. Check your local regulator's guidance before you post.

Chapter 08

Funnel traffic

A funnel is five steps. Measure each one so you know which step is losing people.

Attract
Short videos and posts that answer one question each.
Measure views to profile visits
Capture
A link in your bio to a free guide or a community.
Measure visits to joins
Converse
A message or short call to learn their goal and experience.
Measure joins to conversations
Onboard
Account opening through your link and a written first-trade plan.
Measure conversations to funded
Retain
A weekly room or review that keeps clients trading with rules.
Measure 90-day retention

Track every channel

Give each channel its own link so the report shows which one produces funded accounts. The pattern below is a tracking tag your broker or link tool adds to the end of a URL.

yourlink.com/join?src=instagram-bio
yourlink.com/join?src=youtube-desc
yourlink.com/join?src=telegram-pin

Part III

Trading in three tiers

An IB who trades teaches better and keeps clients longer. Pick the tier that matches where you are today.

Risk warning. Forex and CFDs are leveraged products and you can lose money quickly. This is education, not advice. Practise on a demo account first.

Chapter 09

Beginner trading

Learn seven terms with real arithmetic, then follow six rules for your first week.

Seven terms

Term	Meaning	Worked example
Pip	The standard step of price movement. On most pairs it is the fourth decimal place.	EUR/USD from 1.0850 to 1.0851 is 1 pip.
Lot	Trade size. One standard lot is 100,000 units of the base currency.	1 lot of EUR/USD moves about $10 per pip. 0.10 lot moves about $1.
Spread	The gap between the buy and sell price. It is the cost of entering.	1.2 pips on 1 lot costs about $12.
Leverage	Lets you control a position larger than your deposit.	At 30:1, $1,000 controls $30,000. A 1% move against you is $300, or 30% of the deposit.
Margin	The part of your balance held back to keep a leveraged position open.	At 30:1, a $30,000 position needs $1,000 of margin.
Stop loss	An order that closes the trade at a price you set in advance.	25 pips on 0.2 lot of EUR/USD loses about $50.
Take profit	An order that closes the trade when it reaches your target.	50 pips on 0.2 lot of EUR/USD makes about $100.

In the UK and EU, retail leverage on major currency pairs is capped at 30:1. Other countries set their own limits.

A candle records the open, high, low and close for one period. The body spans open to close and the wicks reach the extremes.

Sessions

Four sessions pass the market around the clock: Sydney, Tokyo, London and New York. Most volume arrives when London and New York overlap, and spreads on major pairs are usually tightest then.

Six rules for week one

Risk no more than 1% of the account on any trade.
Trade one pair on one timeframe.
Stay on demo until 50 trades follow your written rules.
Write the stop loss before you enter.
Skip central bank decisions and jobs data.
Journal every trade: pair, entry, stop, target, result, reason.

Chapter 10

Intermediate trading

Set up your tools, mark the chart the same way every time, then place the stop and target by rule.

Tools

Tool	Use it for	Note
TradingView	Charting, drawing zones and lines, alerts.	The free plan covers the markup in this chapter.
MetaTrader 5 or your broker's platform	Placing and managing orders.	Practise on the platform you will trade live.
Economic calendar	Seeing high-impact news before it arrives.	Forex Factory and most broker platforms publish one.
Position size calculator	Turning money at risk and stop distance into lots.	Most brokers and TradingView offer one.
Journal	Recording each trade with a screenshot.	A spreadsheet is enough.

How to mark up a chart

Weekly and daily: draw the levelsPlace horizontal lines at the swing highs and lows where price has reacted more than once.
Turn the strongest levels into zonesDraw a rectangle from the candle body to the end of the wick where price reversed.
4-hour: label the structureHigher highs with higher lows is an uptrend. Lower highs with lower lows is a downtrend.
Mark where stops restEqual highs, equal lows, and the previous day's high and low.
15-minute: wait for a marked zoneDraw nothing new while price is already moving.
Keep the colours fixedOne for supply, one for demand and one for liquidity, on every chart.

Where the stop loss and take profit go

A long from a demand zone. The stop sits below the zone and the target sits just under the previous high. Illustrative price, not a real trade.

The same rule mirrored for a short from a supply zone. Illustrative price, not a real trade.

EntryStop lossTake profit

Order	Rule
Stop loss	Beyond the level that proves the idea wrong, plus a buffer for spread and noise. For a long from a demand zone, below the zone low.
Take profit	Slightly before the next opposing zone or liquidity level, because price often turns at a level without touching it.
Reward to risk	Take the trade only if the target is at least twice the stop distance, written 2R.
Moving the stop	Move to break even after structure supports it, such as a new higher low on the entry timeframe. Not at the first small profit.

Position size, worked through

lots = money at risk ÷ (stop in pips × pip value per lot)

Account $5,000, risk 1%, so $50 at risk. The stop is 25 pips and one lot of EUR/USD is worth $10 a pip, so the stop costs $250 per lot. $50 ÷ $250 gives 0.2 lot.

Chapter 11

Advanced trading

The whole process, from the night before to the weekly review, and how to grow a network from it.

Eight steps, start to finish

Prepare the night beforeCheck the calendar for high-impact news, mark daily and weekly levels, note the previous day's high and low and choose one or two pairs.
Set the biasRead the daily and 4-hour structure. When they disagree there is no bias, and no trade.
Find the liquidityLocate equal highs, equal lows and session highs and lows. Price is often drawn to these before it reverses.
Choose the point of interestPick the zone, fair value gap or order block where you would trade if price arrives.
Wait for confirmation on the 15-minute chartPrice sweeps the liquidity, then breaks structure the other way.
Enter, size and place the ordersEnter on the retracement, put the stop beyond the sweep, put the target at the next liquidity and size from the 1% rule.
Manage the tradeTake partial profit at 1R, move the stop to break even once structure confirms, trail behind new swing points and close before news.
ReviewSave a screenshot, fill in the journal and check expectancy every week.

Five terms, defined

Term	Meaning
Liquidity	Clusters of resting stop orders, usually above equal highs and below equal lows.
Sweep	Price trades through a liquidity level, then closes back on the other side.
Market structure shift	After a sweep, price breaks the latest opposing swing point, showing control has changed.
Fair value gap	A three-candle pattern where the first candle's high and the third candle's low do not overlap, leaving a gap.
Order block	The last opposing candle before a strong move, used as a zone to re-enter.

A full long: equal lows are swept, structure shifts, price retraces into the fair value gap and the stop sits beyond the sweep. Illustrative price, not a real trade.

Pre-trade checklist

Daily and 4-hour bias agree.
Price is at a zone I marked.
Liquidity was swept.
Structure shifted on the entry timeframe.
The stop is beyond the sweep.
The target is 2R or more.
Risk is 1% or less.
No high-impact news before the target is likely to be reached.

Expectancy

expectancy = (win rate × average win) − (loss rate × average loss)

A 40% win rate with a 2R average win and a 1R average loss gives 0.4 × 2 − 0.6 × 1 = +0.2R per trade.

Keep risk fixed until the journal covers at least 100 trades, then decide whether to raise it.

These concepts are a framework for reading price, not a promise of results. Test them on demo and in your own journal before risking money.

Growing your network as a trader

Run a small weekly review room where students bring their journals.
Ask your most consistent student to teach one beginner. That is how a sub-IB team starts.
Partner with one educator whose audience wants your tier, and trade referrals both ways.
Record each review call and clip the best two minutes into posts that point to the room.
Introduce the IB side only once a student is following risk rules.

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IB Masterclass

A live walk through Part I, using your own numbers where you want to.

Reading a deal against the ten-point scorecard
Building a network and a sub-IB pack
The five ratios and a weekly rhythm
Client segments and what each one needs
The arithmetic of five and six figures a day

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The Wick Academy

Grow your IB

Recognise a good deal

The five deal types

The ten-point scorecard

Red flags

Expand your network

Four stages

Where partners come from

What a sub-IB needs from you

Run your IB like a business

A weekly rhythm

The five ratios

Grow and manage your clients

Five segments

Teach position sizing before entries

Five and six figures a day

The levers

Personal brand and marketing

What to teach

Five content pillars

Teach your sub-IBs

Leave out

Look approachable

Profile

Content and tone

Avoid

Funnel traffic

Attract

Capture

Converse

Onboard

Retain

Track every channel

Trading in three tiers

Beginner trading

Seven terms

Sessions

Six rules for week one

Intermediate trading

Tools

How to mark up a chart

Where the stop loss and take profit go

Position size, worked through

Advanced trading

Eight steps, start to finish

Five terms, defined

Pre-trade checklist

Expectancy

Growing your network as a trader

Courses and programmes

Elite Trading & IB Mentorship

What is included

Trading Foundations

Advanced Trading Masterclass

The IB Blueprint

Client Acquisition & Marketing

IB Growth Accelerator

Complete Trading & IB Academy

Join the network

Events

IB Masterclass

Trader Intensive

Network Dinner