About the founder

// saood.md

I’m Sa’ood Williams.

And I came to change the game.

Trading has a stigma. That it’s a scam. That the “gurus” are frauds. That regular people don’t win. Too much of that is true. I’m here to be the working proof that it isn’t the whole story: a trader who’s funded, paid, and profitable, and a room full of students becoming the same thing.

I dropped out of high school in grade 10 to chase financial freedom. At 16 I was doing whatever I could to get money into an account, teaching myself forex from scratch, and living through the first year every self-taught trader has. A hot first month that told me I’d figured it out, followed by two years of blown accounts, sleepless nights, and stretches where I sat in front of a red screen and quietly wondered if any of this actually works.

I wanted to quit more than once. What kept me at the desk was one thing: financial freedom. The real kind. Being able to buy things without looking at the price. Never having money be a concern. Giving without checking. Doing without thinking. That was the picture I held onto. So I stayed. I studied. I lost. I studied harder.

Everything I teach was earned. My strategy was built and rebuilt over years of back-testing, live-testing, and forward-testing on my own capital. No borrowed frameworks. No repackaged theory. Every rule, every level, every entry pattern survived being wrong before it became a rule.

I got profitable on my own money before I ever touched a prop firm. FTMO was the leverage play. Their capital, my edge. It took five failed challenges before the sixth passed. The strategy didn’t change. My execution did. I stopped treating someone else’s account differently than my own. Same discipline, same psychology, same rules.

Cipher30 exists so no one has to walk this road blind. You get the chef and the recipe. What I know is what you know. No hidden tier. No calls made in private. No premium unlock where the “real edge” lives. The model is on the table. A mentor who hides the good part isn’t a mentor.

Three modules. That’s the whole thing:

01 · Introduction02 · Psychology03 · Entry Strategy

Psychology sits before execution by design. Entry rules mean nothing in a mind that can’t hold them. The mind gets built first, then the trigger gets taught. No filler bolted on to look substantial. Everything you need to run the model is inside those three.

The name is from my cybersecurity background: the market is encoded, and a trader’s job is to decode it. Cipher is the hidden logic. 30 is US30, my home pair, the one I built my edge on.

// now to you

You’ve probably blown accounts. Chased signal groups. Quit. Come back. I already know you. That was me. This mentorship isn’t for people who need convincing that trading works. It’s for people who already believe and are tired of learning the hard way alone.

This is built for the ones with a hunger for a better life and the willingness to become someone new. If that’s you, you’ll walk away with a skill that can never be taken from you, and with discipline that shows up in every part of your life, not just when the charts are open. My community already has traders passing FTMO challenges, students on their first funded payouts, and long-timers running trading as a stable second income for years now. You become the proof next.

“Built from real execution,
not theory.”

Sa’ood Williams · Founder, Cipher30 · 23 · Cape Town · Trading since 2019 · Not a signals seller · Not a lambo guru

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Trading financial instruments involves significant risk and is not suitable for all investors. Leverage can work against you as well as for you. Past performance — including the student case studies shown on this site — is not indicative of future results. Capital is at risk.

Cipher30 is an educational service and does not provide financial advice, signals, or brokerage services. All content and tools are for educational purposes only. You are responsible for your own trading decisions and outcomes.

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