MAAL TRADING ACADEMY — The Academy in Minneapolis

A curriculum built to make the market understandable

MAAL TRADING ACADEMY was built around a simple belief: financial education should not be reserved for people who already understand the language. The curriculum structures the stock market from the beginning — ownership, then how the market works, then risk, then execution — so each idea is understood before anyone is asked to act on it.

It is taught in a room, in person, in Minneapolis, by Maxamed Aideed, Founder & Lead Instructor. There is no recorded course to work through alone: the person teaching is standing beside you while the decision is still on your screen, so a question gets answered in the moment it matters, not in a comment thread three days later.

Students at their stations at MAAL TRADING ACADEMY in Minneapolis, each screen on a live chart.

Hands on the market

You don't just hear about the market. You work with it. Every student takes their own station and the platform on the screen is the one the work actually happens on. You learn how to find stocks, understand what is moving them, read the setup, and decide whether a trade makes sense for you — then you practise placing that decision in live market conditions. The capital in this room is simulated, so what you risk while you are learning is never your own money.

A student at a trading station, a price chart and an order ticket on screen, notes open beside the keyboard.

A process, not predictions

Becoming a better trader does not happen overnight. It takes knowledge, practice, discipline and repetition, so the class is built as a loop rather than a lecture. You learn where you are wrong before you enter, how much you are willing to risk, and what you will do if the trade does not go to plan. Then you practise, you review, you adjust, and you do it again — so you are never left guessing whether you are actually improving.

A class working through one chart together on the projector screen.

Founder & Lead Instructor

Maxamed studied Economics at the University of Minnesota and Accounting and Management Information Systems at Metropolitan State University. He has also passed the FINRA Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) Exam.

Not a registered representative or investment adviser.

MAAL TRADING ACADEMY was co-founded by Jamarti & Maxamed Aideed. Maxamed Aideed teaches every class.