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The Cornerstones School

Waterfall 101 is the school overall — four steps, in the order the cashflow moves. This is its Cornerstones School: the field notes, gathered into 11 free courses and placed in the step each belongs to. 153 lessons, in order. Education only; no signals, no promises, just the reading.

Step 1

Prop Farming 101 the step →

The cashflow vehicle: funded accounts run as a system.

Course 01 · start here

Prop Farming 101

Before a farm there is a seat, so the course opens with one account read properly. Then: one funded account is an event. A farm is a loop built to be re-seeded from payouts, if and when they land — run under the firms' rules, with a ledger, a calendar and one structural rule: evaluations sync with evaluations, funded accounts with funded accounts.

52 lessons · 7 units

Step 2

DCT 101 the step →

Cashflow seasons into a personal forex account and compounds under floors and goals.

Course 02

DCT 101

Where the prop farm's cashflow goes: a personal account run as a bounded cycle — a start, a goal, a floor — under disciplines that keep the first mistake small. Principles only; the mechanics stay ours.

8 lessons · 4 units

Step 3

SafeHavenX the step →

The avenues a completed cycle feeds, run to a quarterly rhythm.

Course 03

Scaling

What scaling is, who it is for, and why the discipline matters more as size grows, not less.

6 lessons · 1 unit

Course 04

Stewardship

The reading that answers why any of this exists: capital as something you tend on behalf of a purpose larger than the account.

10 lessons · 1 unit

Step 0

Foundations the step →

The grade-by-grade discipline every avenue runs on. The reading that belongs with the grade school.

Course 05

New Trader Basics

The field notes written for someone standing at the door. No jargon assumed, no hype offered.

8 lessons · 1 unit

Course 06

Trading Concepts

The concepts that make the rest of the school legible: what an edge is, why size decides survival, what a regime is.

10 lessons · 1 unit

Course 07

Intermediate

The middle of the road, where an account that has survived learns to be boring on purpose.

10 lessons · 1 unit

Course 08

Psychology

The inner game — why discipline fails under pressure and why a written structure holds when it does not.

10 lessons · 1 unit

Course 09

SafeHaven Assets

The assets that tend to hold when risk markets fall, studied as a framework for reading the environment before deciding how to act.

8 lessons · 1 unit

Course 10

Platforms & Tools

The tooling, described as tooling. What a platform does, what a copier does, and which part of the work no tool can do for you.

12 lessons · 1 unit

Course 11

Character & Calling

The last course is about the person, not the process: what trading reveals, whose life this fits, and why we publish the road as we walk it.

19 lessons · 3 units

Why the Cornerstones are their own school

The Foundations is a curriculum we wrote as a curriculum. The Cornerstones are a curriculum we found we had already written, one field note at a time — and the honest way to read field notes is in order, in the step they belong to, with the honest ones first. Every lesson is an article; every article points back here.

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