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The discipline of capital,
brought home.

We develop traders. The markets reward not what the individual knows but what the individual can execute, repeatedly, under uncertainty.

Begin Your Path → Explore Programs
— BY THE NUMBERS
Curriculum Topics10
Validated Setups3
Operating Principles6
Trade Validation100
Risk Per Trade1%
Foundational Texts4
2
Functions
Education · Execution
3
Setups
ORB · Momentum · MACD
10
Topics
Fetter · Samuelson · Lee
100
Trade Sample
50 Paper · 50 Live
OUR APPROACH

Answered from the source.

A Somali-owned institute built on two functions, separated by design.

Most Somali Muslims look at the markets and suspect gambling dressed up in suits. They are not wrong to be suspicious. Fourteen hundred years of jurisprudence taught the community to recognize maysir — reliance on chance — and gharar — contractual uncertainty.

Maal Group US answers the suspicion the way it deserves to be answered. Speculation, in Frank Fetter's sense and the classical scholars' sense, is legitimate commerce — absorbing risk that already exists. The farmer locking in his harvest. The baker locking in his flour. Each needs a counterparty willing to bear the risk they need to shed.

Maal Group's curriculum begins at that line. No individual moves past it until they can draw it themselves.

What We Stand For

  • Demonstrated behavior over knowledge
  • Discipline before scale
  • Setup specification before entry
  • Cultural and linguistic access
  • One percent risk, every trade
  • The journal is the curriculum
TWO FUNCTIONS

Education and execution,
separated by design.

The Institute teaches. The Markets operate. Both required, neither optional.
DIVISION I

Maal Institute

Foundation. Economics. Theory.

Nothing in this division involves a trade. Students build the conceptual foundation before they touch a platform.

— CURRICULUM
  • How prices form & time-value
  • Speculation, arbitrage & uncertainty
  • The macro environment
  • Futures, forwards, options, swaps
  • Reading a company & measuring returns
  • Portfolio theory in full
  • Options theory & the Greeks
  • The Black–Scholes derivation
DIVISION II

Maal Markets

Execution. All action begins here.

Students open a brokerage account, document a setup, run a 100-trade sample, and compute their expectancy before they scale.

— FRAMEWORK
  • Six Operating Principles
  • Setup A — Opening Range Breakout (QQQ)
  • Setup B — Intraday Momentum (SPY)
  • Setup C — Volatility-Adjusted MACD
  • Phase 1: Controlled Practice
  • Phase 2: Measured Scale
  • Hundred-Trade Expectancy Sample
  • Daily Journaling Discipline
THE PATH

Three stages.
Strict order.

Each stage must be demonstrated before the next becomes available.
I.
CAPABILITY

Learn the foundation.

Ten topics drawn from Fetter, Samuelson & Nordhaus, and Lee, Lee & Lee. The student reads before they trade.

II.
EDGE

Prove a setup across 100 trades.

Fifty paper, fifty live with one percent risk per trade. Every trade journaled.

III.
SCALE

Deepen the math. Add setups.

Once expectancy is positive, the student earns the right to scale. Until then, size is fixed.

FROM THE READING

What we teach,
in their own words.

Gambling creates risk where none existed. Speculation absorbs risk that already exists.

FRANK A. FETTER
Principles of Economics, 1904

What the markets reward is not what the individual knows but what the individual can execute, repeatedly, under uncertainty.

MAAL GROUP US
Founding Curriculum

The journal is the curriculum. Every trade — entry reasoning, exit reasoning, what was felt at each point — is recorded.

MAAL MARKETS
Phase 1 Discipline

No individual moves past the line until they can draw it themselves.

MAAL GROUP US
First Principle
INSIGHTS & RESEARCH

What we read.
What we publish.

Each setup is sourced from peer-reviewed research and validated on US markets.
SETUP A

Opening Range Breakout

A validated day-trading strategy on the Nasdaq-100. Sourced from peer-reviewed research and adapted for our Phase 1 students.

TAUGHT IN MAAL MARKETS →
SETUP B

Intraday Momentum

A volatility-based intraday framework on the S&P 500. Sourced from peer-reviewed research, deployed in Phase 2.

TAUGHT IN MAAL MARKETS →
SETUP C

Volatility-Adjusted MACD

A repaired version of the most-taught technical indicator. Synthesis of three published methodologies and our own validation.

TAUGHT IN MAAL MARKETS →
MAAL MARKETS DESK

From the trading floor.

Live data from the instruments our students trade. Updated continuously during market hours.

LIVE UPDATING... FINNHUB · NASDAQ · NYSE
QQQ SETUP A
Invesco QQQ Trust · Nasdaq-100
--.-- --%
Opening Range Breakout instrument
SPY SETUP B
SPDR S&P 500 ETF · S&P 500
--.-- --%
Intraday Momentum instrument
NVDA REFERENCE
Nvidia · Single-name volatility
--.-- --%
Single-name reference for Setup C
— Top Gainers · 5%+ PREMARKET · INTRADAY
Tracking the most volatile US equities across pre-market
and regular hours. Names moving 5%+ appear here.
— Today's Notes From the Desk
SETUP A9:35 AM ET
Opening range breakout window closed. Students executing on confirmed signals only.
VOLATILITY10:00 AM ET
Intraday volatility within seasonal norms. Noise-area widths typical for May.
RISKDAILY
Reminder: 1% maximum risk per trade. Daily loss limit hard-coded in platform.
EDUCATIONEVERY MON
New student intake begins on the foundational reading: Fetter, Samuelson, Lee.
— Sector Heatmap S&P 500 GICS · Day Change
Tech
+1.42%
Financials
+0.61%
Cons Disc
+1.94%
Cons Stap
+0.08%
Health
+0.43%
Energy
-0.72%
Industrials
+0.55%
Utilities
-0.31%
Materials
+0.72%
Comm Svcs
+1.18%
Real Estate
-1.09%
Nasdaq-100
+0.92%

Western economics and classical Islamic jurisprudence drew the same line for the same reason. Fetter put it plainly in 1904: speculation absorbs risk that already exists. The line is real. So we must tread lightly.

— MAAL GROUP US WHITE PAPER
LEADERSHIP

The founders.

Sixteen months trading. Years of academic foundation. Two founders, one curriculum.
PRINCIPAL · 51% EQUITY
Mohamed
Co-founder & CEO

B.S. Accounting & Management Information Systems, Metropolitan State University. B.A. Economics, University of Minnesota. Co-founder of Sovereign Liberty Express, a logistics company. Sixteen months trading the markets.

PRINCIPAL · 49% EQUITY
Ahmed
Co-founder & CFO

B.S. Accounting & Management Information Systems, Metropolitan State University. B.A. Economics, University of Minnesota. Co-founder of Sovereign Liberty Express, a logistics company. Sixteen months trading the markets.

OUR CAPITAL

Built on aligned capital.

Maal Group US is backed by $25,000 in initial capital.
CAPITAL
$25,000
Initial backing
STATIONS
6
Simulator capacity
DAYS & TIMES
Mon–Fri
5:30–8:30 PM CT

— FOR INVESTOR INQUIRIES —

investors@maalgroupus.com →
ADMISSIONS

Apply for admission.

New student intake every other Monday.
— FOR STUDENTS

Admissions

In-person and online instruction.
Mon–Fri, 5:30–8:30 PM Central.
New students admitted every other Monday.

admissions@maalgroupus.com

— FOR PARTNERS & INVESTORS

Inquiries

Open to conversations.
Materials available on request.
Institutional and partnership inquiries welcome.

mohamed@maalgroupus.com
investors@maalgroupus.com