FOR PROGRAMS & INSTITUTIONS
A workbook for schools, youth programs, nonprofits and community organizations teaching young people about money — built on the one lesson most financial education skips.
Most financial education teaches what a stock is, what compound interest does, how a budget works. All necessary. None of it is what actually costs people money.
People lose money because they break their own rules and justify it afterward. A young person who can define a mutual fund and still panic-sells their first loss has learned the vocabulary and none of the behavior. That gap is what this workbook is built for.
Before anything else, the student writes their own rules — what they'll risk, when they stop, what they won't do — and signs the page.
One page per decision: what the plan was, what they actually did, and a check against eight named laws.
Every session gets a verdict based on rule-following, not on the outcome.
Money made while breaking a rule is flagged and doesn't count until it's earned back through disciplined sessions.
That last mechanic is the one students argue about, which is the point. It separates "I was right" from "I was lucky" — and it does it on their own page, in their own handwriting, before an instructor says a word.
It's built like a game they already understand. There are ranks. There's a score. There's status you can only earn and cannot buy. A student who has never sat through a personal-finance class will recognize the structure immediately — and the thing they're leveling up is patience, position sizing and consequence.
Michigan now requires a half-credit personal finance course to graduate, beginning with the Class of 2028. This works as the behavioral component alongside a standards curriculum.
A structured artifact students keep, work in daily, and leave with.
The eight laws run as a single session or across a multi-week program.
Adult financial-capability programming, re-entry and workforce development.
Program-appropriate editions. The retail edition is designed for adult traders and its cover reflects that. For anything placed in a young person's hands we produce a redesigned cover suited to the program. We raise this before you have to ask.
Co-branding. Sponsor or organization branding can be carried on the cover and interior for program runs.
Volume pricing is available for orders by the case and quoted per run, since interior format and finish drive the cost. Tell us the quantity and the audience and you'll get a straight number.
We have no efficacy study, no outcome data, and no peer-reviewed results — and we won't imply otherwise to win a purchase order. What exists is a published workbook, a defined method, and an author who built it out of his own trading. If measured outcomes matter to your program, we would rather help you design a pilot that produces real data than hand you a claim neither of us can stand behind.
District Row Media LLC, operating as GTA Financial District — a Michigan company founded by Terrance Cunningham, born and raised in Detroit. The workbook, Greatest Trader Alive Vol. 1, is published and available on Amazon.
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