About Faith & Profit Trading Academy
A private online academy that teaches everyday people to trade the right way: step by step, demo first, with discipline, honesty and faith at the centre.
OUR MISSION
To help beginners build real trading skills on a solid foundation, protect what God has entrusted to them, and turn their profits into provision for their families and a blessing for others.
OUR VISION
A worldwide community of disciplined, God-fearing traders who are faithful stewards: skilled in the markets, humble in success, steady in losses and generous with what they earn.
What we teach
- 27 modules and 227 illustrated lessons from your first candlestick to forex, gold, stocks, options and futures.
- Risk management first: position sizing, stop losses and a written trading plan before real money.
- One step at a time: each module unlocks after you complete the one before and pass its quiz.
- A private student desk with live charts, a market brief, a trading journal, a P&L calendar, goals and direct messages with the founder.
- Certificates of completion for every module, with a record of the lessons you completed.
Our values
FaithDisciplineIntegrityPatienceGenerosity
“Commit thy works unto the LORD, and thy thoughts shall be established.”Proverbs 16:3 · KJV
Faith & Profit Trading Academy provides education only. It is not a broker, investment adviser or registered dealer, and nothing we teach is financial advice. Trading involves risk; past results never guarantee future results.

Mariz Capistrano, CFMP
Founder, Lead Educator & Trader
Mariz founded Faith & Profit Trading Academy to give beginners the guide she wished she had when she started: clear lessons, honest risk management and faith at the centre of every step.
Her story
Mariz has always had a soft spot for people who are struggling. When she meets someone going through a hard time, she does not rush to give advice. She listens first, and then she asks, “How can I help?” She tries to stand in that person’s shoes and find a real, practical way forward, using every skill and every lesson God has taught her along the way.
Her own journey started early: she began working when she was just eight years old. Over the years, God led her to many employers, industries and families in the Philippines, Singapore, Korea and Canada. Each place taught her something new about people, hard work and never giving up. She does not count these as her own achievements. To her, they were God’s way of preparing her for the work He has given her today.
She has supported herself and paid for her own education since Grade 4, all the way to her postgraduate studies in Toronto, Canada. Through every season, God has been faithful. So when problems come, she does something simple: she spends her free time watching true Christian films and testimony stories. They lift her spirit, give her fresh ideas and help her refocus her mind. Most of all, they remind her of every victory God has already brought her through. If He did it before, He can do it again, and that gives her the courage to face each new challenge and rise above it quickly.
In her first three years as a Christian and follower of Christ, she gave her work holidays and weekends to volunteer work and mission trips across the Philippines, Korea, Singapore and Canada. To this day, praise and worship, Christian music, preaching and testimonies play in the background while she works. They keep her heart close to God and remind her that every good idea and every solution is His gift, not her own.
“Here am I; send me”
“Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.”Isaiah 6:8 · KJV
The story behind the verse. In the year King Uzziah died, the prophet Isaiah saw the Lord seated on a high throne, with angels calling, “Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD of hosts.” Isaiah did not feel worthy. He cried out, “Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips.” One of the angels touched his lips with a live coal from the altar and told him that his sin was taken away. Only then did Isaiah hear the Lord ask, “Whom shall I send?” and he answered, “Here am I; send me.” (Isaiah 6:1–8)
Why it matters to Mariz. Isaiah was not chosen because he was ready. God cleansed him first, and then He sent him. Mariz holds on to that truth. Whether she is serving on a mission trip or preparing a new lesson for a learner, she knows she is not enough on her own, but God makes willing hearts ready. Her prayer is simple: “Lord, here am I; send me.”
Credentials
MAY 2016
Certified Financial Markets Professional (CFMP)
East West Educational Specialists, formal assessment at the University of Cebu Bloomberg Laboratory.
JUNE 2016
Bloomberg Practicum, Singapore
Practicum at Bloomberg covering Bloomberg navigation, equity analytics and news analytics.
What she builds
- Faith & Profit Trading Academy: this trading desk and its full curriculum.
- French TCF Learning Web App: a study app for French learners preparing for the TCF Canada exam.
- GMM (Grow Money Mindset) website: the home of Grow Money Mindset and its learning apps.
- GMM Market Watchlist: a watchlist for following the markets she studies and teaches.
- Wealth OS Personal Finance Dashboard: a personal finance dashboard for planning budgets, savings and goals.
- Spanish Learning Web App: coming in 2027.
Her teaching approach
Demo first. Protect capital. Trade with a written plan. Give back. Every study day begins with prayer, because lasting success comes from skill, patience and God’s wisdom working together.
“What God cannot do doesn’t exist. So whatever you desire in life, faith it until you make it!”
Trading Books & Bible Verses
Recommended reading for beginners: the books real traders, investors and philanthropists learned from, and the Scriptures that keep our hearts steady.
Trading psychology
Trading in the Zone
Mark Douglas
How to think in probabilities and trade without fear or greed.
The Disciplined Trader
Mark Douglas
Why discipline, not prediction, separates winners from losers.
Real traders and investors in their own words
Market Wizards
Jack D. Schwager
Interviews with top traders on how they think, manage risk and recover from losses.
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
Edwin Lefèvre
The classic story of a speculator’s lessons, mistakes and discipline.
Way of the Turtle
Curtis Faith
How a group of beginners was trained to follow written trading rules.
Trade Like a Stock Market Wizard
Mark Minervini
A champion stock trader on entries, exits and keeping losses small.
Charts and technical analysis
Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets
John J. Murphy
The standard reference on trends, support and resistance, and indicators.
Japanese Candlestick Charting Techniques
Steve Nison
The book that introduced candlestick patterns to Western traders.
Day Trading and Swing Trading the Currency Market
Kathy Lien
Practical forex strategies and how fundamentals move currencies.
Investing, money and stewardship
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
Value investing and the margin of safety.
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
How behaviour, patience and humility shape wealth.
The Templeton Plan
John Marks Templeton
Life and success principles from the faith-led investor Sir John Templeton.
God in the Pits
Mark Ritchie
A Christian commodities trader on faith, risk and money.
The Treasure Principle
Randy Alcorn
A short book on generous, joyful giving.
Bible verses for traders
“The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.”
Proverbs 21:5 · KJVPlan before you trade; haste loses money.“Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished: but he that gathereth by labour shall increase.”
Proverbs 13:11 · KJVSlow, steady growth beats get-rich-quick.“For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first, and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it?”
Luke 14:28 · KJVKnow your risk before every trade.“Give a portion to seven, and also to eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.”
Ecclesiastes 11:2 · KJVDiversify and never risk everything at once.“Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.”
Proverbs 27:23 · KJVReview your journal and accounts regularly.“Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase.”
Proverbs 3:9 · KJVPut God first with every profit.“Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things.”
Matthew 25:21 · KJVBe faithful with small accounts first.Verses for every learner: skills, humility and stewardship
God gives every person the same 24 hours and the same invitation to learn. What we do with them is our stewardship.
“The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.”
Proverbs 18:15 · KJVStay eager to learn; skills are acquired, not inherited.“Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; he shall not stand before mean men.”
Proverbs 22:29 · KJVDiligent practice turns a beginner into a skilled professional.“Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.”
James 4:10 · KJVStay humble in profit and in loss; the market rewards the teachable.“Redeeming the time, because the days are evil.”
Ephesians 5:16 · KJVUse the hours God gives you wisely; study a little every day.“There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.”
Galatians 3:28 · KJVNo race, status or gender limits what you can learn. Discipline is open to everyone.Book titles are listed for education only; we are not paid to recommend them. Check your local library before you buy.
Testimonials & Reviews
Read what our learners say, and share your own experience. Every review is checked and approved by the founder before it is published.
Stories of victory from real traders (verified)
True stories from public sources: hope for beginners, lessons in discipline, and one warning we must never forget. These people are not connected to this academy.
HOPE · A NEW START
Jerry ParkerAn unfulfilled accountant who was turned down for several Wall Street jobs, he answered an advertisement to learn trading and joined the 1983 “Turtle” class: two weeks of training, then real trading. He went on to build his own firm and has followed the same rules for more than 30 years.
Lesson: it is never too late to start; simple rules, followed patiently, build a career.Sources: Nasdaq (2010) · The Felder Report (2018)DISCIPLINE · FAITH
Mark RitchieA former night-shift prison guard who became a Chicago commodities trader and co-founded what the Wall Street Journal called the world’s largest options-trading firm. A Christian who lived modestly and funded work for the poor, he still refused to claim that faith gives a trading edge: “God’s children are no luckier than anyone else’s children.”
Lesson: faith shapes your character; discipline and risk control protect your account.Sources: Christianity Today (1990) · Kirkus Reviews: God in the PitsPATIENCE · ORDINARY PEOPLE
Ronald ReadA gas station attendant and janitor in Vermont who lived simply and invested his savings in well-known companies for decades. He left an estate of about $8 million and gave $6 million to his town’s hospital and library.
Lesson: a modest income, patience and time can build real wealth, and wealth is for blessing others.Sources: CNBC (2016) · NBC News (2015)WARNING · HONESTY AND RISK
Bill Hwang (Archegos)A professing Christian and generous donor whose firm built hidden, highly leveraged positions. When they fell in March 2021, banks lost more than $10 billion. In 2024 he was convicted of fraud and market manipulation and sentenced to 18 years in prison; as of January 2026 he was appealing.
Lesson: no amount of giving replaces honesty and risk control. Never use leverage you cannot survive.Sources: U.S. Department of Justice · Al Jazeera · Bloomberg LawWhat our learners say
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