Series 30 study plan

Map every branch-office supervisory duty (account approval, correspondence review, complaint handling, trade review, associated-person oversight) into a single table with the monitoring action that proves the duty was performed

Summarize in your own words the CFTC and NFA registration categories and define 'associated person' without looking at notes

Write a 12-item escalation checklist a branch manager would use to spot unauthorized trading, excessive trading, guaranteed-return claims, and unapproved outside accounts

Build 30 flashcards for week 1 terminology and quiz yourself until you clear 25 of 30 from memory

Convert the general supervision standard into a 10-step branch audit script you could actually run in a branch

Explain in writing how customer complaints are logged, escalated, and answered, and what makes a complaint file deficient

Describe the arbitration and mediation path a retail customer follows, including how a claim is initiated and what the forum decides

Solve 30 fact-pattern scenarios you write yourself on supervisory liability and record why each answer is right

Draft a pre-approval checklist for sales literature, websites, social posts, and hypothetical performance presentations

Write the risk-disclosure talking points you would require before a customer's first futures or options trade

Categorize at least 15 prohibited or abusive practices (fraud, wash trades, accommodation trading, prearranged trading, money passes, unauthorized trading) with a one-line fact pattern for each

Re-drill the week 1 and 2 flashcards and re-teach any rule you missed twice

Compute minimum net capital and adjusted net capital for a sample introducing broker and a sample futures commission merchant, showing every adjustment

Reconcile a sample customer segregation computation: compute the required amount, the amount on deposit, and the excess or deficiency

Explain in writing the difference between customer segregated funds and secured funds, and who holds title in each case

Build a formula sheet covering net capital, segregation, and the daily and monthly computation cycle

Map each required record type to its retention period and the storage-format standards that apply

Build a twelve-month filing calendar showing financial reports, annual reports, and notification deadlines

Re-solve the two segregation problems you got wrong in week 4 without notes

Draft a short procedure for responding to a regulator's request for records within the required time

Build an anti-money-laundering escalation flowchart covering customer identification, sanctions screening, red flags, and suspicious-activity reporting

List 15 money-laundering and fraud red flags specific to futures accounts and state the required branch response to each

Write and answer five short ethics scenarios involving conflicts of interest, outside business activities, gifts, and confidential customer information

Draft the elements of a branch ethics and business-conduct training session, including how attendance is documented

Build a registration lifecycle checklist covering application, fingerprinting, sponsorship, termination, and branch office notice requirements

Draft a new-hire training plan that maps each domain to a specific onboarding task and a completion date

Link each of the seven exam domains to one real branch activity, so you can recall the domain from the task rather than the other way around

Complete a 40-question cumulative self-test across all seven domains

Assemble and complete two timed 60-question cumulative sets under exam conditions, with no notes

Rewrite every missed item from weeks 1 through 7 as a single corrected rule sentence in one error log

Re-teach your three weakest domains using only your own matrices, checklists, and formula sheet

Recite the duty matrix, the segregation formula, and the AML escalation steps from memory in a five-minute verbal run-through