Chart Academy is a free trading-education platform, not a prop firm. It took part in Prop Firm Expo London 2026, held on June 27 at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre in Westminster, as a Silver Sponsor. Ahead of the event it described itself as pre-launch, with a waitlist open to traders. Its premise is unusual among expo exhibitors. Most of the companies on the floor sell funding, platforms or payment infrastructure. Chart Academy plans to give its masterclasses away and earn its revenue from brands: prop firms, brokers and trading tools that pay to be featured in front of its audience.
That model places Chart Academy earlier in a trader’s path than the firms around it: in the education layer, where traders build the skills they later try to prove in an evaluation.
Key details at a glance
- What it is: a trading-education platform offering masterclasses taught by professional traders
- Status at the expo: pre-launch, with a waitlist
- Price to traders: free, no credit card required, with a stated commitment to no subscriptions and no premium tier
- Who pays: brands (prop firms, brokers, trading tools) that pay to be featured
- Expo role: Silver Sponsor at Prop Firm Expo London 2026, June 27, Queen Elizabeth II Centre, Westminster
- Primary source for details: the company’s own site, chartacademy.com, for the instructor roster, topics and launch timeline
What Chart Academy is
Chart Academy calls itself the world’s first all-in-one platform for free trading education. That is the company’s own description, not an independent ranking. The concept is a single library of masterclasses covering:
- stocks
- options
- futures
- forex
- crypto
- trading psychology
The content is meant to run from beginner to advanced. Around the core lessons, the platform describes several supporting features:
- Personalized learning paths: the platform is designed to generate a tailored path and content recommendations for each user.
- Downloadable resources: cheat sheets, templates and similar reference material.
- Community features: a global community with a leaderboard and milestones.
- Points and rewards: points earned through platform activity that can be redeemed for perks.
The platform also names a roster of well-known trader-educators across asset classes, presented with their stated track records and specialties. Those track records are the instructors’ own claims as presented by the platform, so treat them as claims to look into rather than verified performance.
How the brand-funded model works
The traditional trading-education business charges students. A provider sells a course, upsells coaching, and often keeps the most valuable material behind a higher-priced tier. Chart Academy describes the reverse. Education is free to the trader, and revenue comes from brands that pay to reach an audience of engaged, educated traders.
This has two consequences for anyone deciding whether to use it.
The upside is cost. Structured education from experienced traders, with no subscription, no paywall and no card on file, is a very different offer from a paid course that can cost a substantial sum. If the content turns out to be weak, the trader has lost time, not money.
The open question is independence. A platform funded by prop firms, brokers and tools has commercial relationships with the companies it features. That does not make its lessons biased, but it is the obvious thing to probe. Chart Academy addresses the point in its own promises, saying it leads with education rather than disguised affiliate placements. A stated commitment is not the same as a visible mechanism. The useful question at the booth is how the separation works in practice: who decides what goes into a masterclass, how sponsored placements are labeled, and whether instructors can discuss a featured firm’s weaknesses.
The same model is also why Chart Academy belongs at a prop expo at all. Many of the firms and brokers exhibiting nearby are exactly the type of brand its revenue depends on.
Where the rewards system meets prop trading
The points-and-rewards system is the most concrete link between Chart Academy and the prop industry. Its rewards roadmap includes prop-related perks unlocked with points, such as evaluation or challenge accounts, along with items like a month of a third-party trading journal.
That is an early illustration of the model. Brands fund the platform, and some of what they supply can come back to traders as rewards. It is still a roadmap, though. Which firms provide challenge accounts, at what account sizes, how many points each one costs and how points are earned were not settled terms in the material available before the event.
If a reward is a prop evaluation account, the firm issuing it sets the rules. Profit targets, drawdown limits, time limits and payout conditions belong to that firm’s program, not to Chart Academy. A free challenge still has to be passed under those conditions, so it is worth reading the general prop firm rules and requirements before treating a reward as a path to funding.
What to understand before relying on it
Chart Academy is an education platform, so it has no profit targets, drawdown rules or payout splits to compare. The things to weigh are different.
Maturity. This is the main caveat. Until the masterclasses are live, the depth and quality of the content can only be described, not assessed. A strong instructor list and a broad topic map are promising, but neither tells you how good a lesson on futures order flow or options Greeks will actually be.
Fit for experience level. Coverage from beginner to advanced is claimed. Whether advanced material is as developed as the fundamentals is something to ask about, especially if you already trade.
Which attendees get the most from the booth
Because the product is free and was pre-launch, the question is not whether to buy it but whether it will be worth your time once it launches.
Traders building or refining skills. Focus on the curriculum and where it is deepest. If you are preparing for an evaluation, ask whether any material deals with risk management under prop-style constraints such as daily loss limits. Those limits are covered in our overview of a funded trading account.
Prop firms, brokers and tool providers. Focus on the other side of the model: what being featured involves, what audience the platform reaches and how placements are separated from editorial content.
Everyone else. Chart Academy is useful to understand as part of the wider ecosystem. It is an education layer funded, by design, by the same kinds of companies exhibiting around it. If you are new to how that ecosystem fits together, start with how proprietary trading works.
Questions to ask Chart Academy at Prop Firm Expo
- When does the platform launch, and what will be available at launch versus added later?
- How many instructors are confirmed, and which asset classes and topics are deepest?
- Since brands pay to be featured, how is educational content kept independent of them, and how are sponsored placements labeled?
- How are points earned, how many does each reward cost, and which prop-related rewards are actually available?
- If a reward is a challenge account, which firm provides it, at what size, and under whose rules?
- What does a “personalized learning path” mean in practice, and what inputs shape it?
- For an experienced trader, is there genuinely advanced material, or is the focus on fundamentals?
- How are instructors’ stated track records presented, and can users see how they were established?
- For a prop firm or tool, what does being featured involve?
Getting the most from booth and stage time
The free-education pitch is easy to collect. What tells you more is whether the team can speak concretely about the curriculum, the launch timeline and how the brand-funded model protects the lessons from sponsor influence. With a pre-launch product, this conversation is one of the few ways to gauge substance before there is anything to try.
Bring your own situation. Know the markets you trade or want to learn, be honest about your experience level, and come with a clear idea of what you have found missing in other trading education. A specific gap, for example “I understand setups but not position sizing for a challenge,” gets a more revealing answer than a general request for an overview. If you are attending for a prop firm or tool, bring the questions a potential brand partner would need answered: audience, placement format and reporting.
Take notes on what the team commits to and when. Those notes become your checklist when the platform goes live and you can compare the promises with the product.
Where Chart Academy fits in a prop trading path
Education and funding are separate decisions. Chart Academy aims to cover the first one for free. The second still means choosing a firm, paying for or earning an evaluation, and trading within that firm’s rules, which vary enough between firms that comparing them directly is worth the effort. Our list of the best prop trading firms compared is one place to start.
A sensible approach is to join the waitlist, since it costs nothing, use the expo conversation to set expectations, and judge the masterclasses on their quality once they are available. If a firm you are considering shows up as a featured brand or a reward provider, evaluate it on its own terms and against independent sources, exactly as you would if you had found it anywhere else.
