Tier One Trading · Trading · Online Education · United States
Forex and price action trading coach, co-founder of Tier One Trading, a subscription platform with courses, live trading rooms and indicators priced from $247 to $297 a month.
Akil Stokes is a forex trader and trading coach who co-founded Tier One Trading (TierOneTrading) with the London-based trader Jason Graystone. The Tier One Trading website lists him as co-founder and as the host of its New York session live trading room. In a 2020 episode of the How To Trade It podcast, he was introduced as having started trading in 2007 while working through college and holding three jobs, one of them as a janitor, and as a track and field coach at Millersville University. In a Trading Nut podcast interview he was described as a former stock trader who moved to forex. His date of birth and formal education are not stated in the sources reviewed.
Tier One Trading's website footer reads "Tier One Trading, Ltd", and its terms and conditions are governed by the laws of the State of Kansas. The company was not checked in the Kansas business entity registry for this profile.
He publishes mainly on YouTube, where his channel "Akil Stokes - Trading Coach" (linked to tieronetrading.com) had 59,900 subscribers and 5,406 videos on September 16, 2026. He also hosts The Trading Coach Podcast, which had episodes published in September 2026, and posts on Instagram as @akilstokesrtm (about 14,000 followers on the same date). A separate YouTube channel named "Tier One Trading" (3,370 subscribers) links to a different domain, tier1trading.com, and has not been attributed to him here.
What he sells is a Tier One Trading membership. According to the site's features page, it includes six named courses (Cornerstone, Foundation, Mastery, Mindset, Blueprint and Day Trading), London and New York live trading rooms, a weekly live Q&A session, a trade log, the proprietary Enigma pattern recognition and VS-ONE structure indicators for MetaTrader 4 and NinjaTrader, a backtesting spreadsheet and a members' social network. The live trading rooms run Tuesday to Thursday, with Stokes leading the New York session from 8 to 11 a.m. New York time. Prices on the plans page as of September 16, 2026: $297 per month billed monthly, $267 per month billed semi-annually, or $247 per month billed annually. A 14-day trial costs $1 and includes the introductory Emergence course, both live rooms and trial licenses for the indicators, with no automatic renewal. The refund policy states that no refunds are offered.
The site's terms state that neither Tier One Trading nor its people are registered investment advisers and that the company relies on the publisher's exclusion under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940. A search of FINRA BrokerCheck and the SEC's Investment Adviser Public Disclosure database on September 16, 2026 returned no individual record under the name Akil Stokes and no firm named Tier One Trading. The NFA BASIC database (CFTC registrations) was not consulted for this profile. The trial page says the platform was featured in Forbes and that Jason Graystone was interviewed by trading psychologist Brett Steenbarger; that article could not be opened to confirm what it says about the company. Student results quoted on the site are testimonials published by the company, with no independent source. No press coverage or public enforcement action concerning him was found in the sources reviewed.
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| Program | Type | Published price | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tier One Trading Monthly Membership All-inclusive membership with six courses, live London and New York trading rooms, weekly Q&A and proprietary indicators, billed monthly. | Community | $297 Checked Sep 17, 2026 | View |
| Tier One Trading Semi-Annual Membership Same membership at $267 per month, billed every six months. | Community | $267 Checked Sep 17, 2026 | View |
| Tier One Trading Annual Membership Same membership at $247 per month, billed annually. | Community | $247 Checked Sep 17, 2026 | View |
| Tier One Trading 14-Day Trial One-time trial with the Emergence introductory course, both live trading rooms and trial indicator licenses; no automatic renewal. | Course | $1 Checked Sep 17, 2026 | View |
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A forex trader and trading coach who co-founded Tier One Trading with Jason Graystone, runs its New York session live trading room and hosts The Trading Coach Podcast. A 2020 podcast profile said he began trading in 2007 while in college and later coached track and field at Millersville University.
As of September 16, 2026, the plans page lists $297 per month on the monthly plan, $267 per month billed every six months and $247 per month billed annually. There is also a 14-day trial for a one-time $1 payment. The company states that it does not offer refunds.
Six courses, including Cornerstone, Mastery and Day Trading, live trading rooms for the London and New York sessions, a weekly live Q&A, a trade log, the Enigma and VS-ONE indicators for MT4 and NinjaTrader, a backtesting spreadsheet and a members' social network, according to the company's site.
Tier One Trading's terms say it is not a registered investment adviser and relies on the publisher's exclusion. On September 16, 2026, FINRA BrokerCheck and the SEC adviser database returned no record under his name. The NFA register was not checked for this profile.
What can be checked: an active membership with published prices, a no-refund policy, a YouTube channel with 5,000+ videos since 2011 and a podcast still publishing in 2026. The student results on its site are company testimonials. No enforcement action or independent press coverage about Stokes turned up in the sources reviewed, and the Forbes mention claimed on its trial page could not be opened.
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