Morning briefing
Daily orders · before the open
Write the order of the day at your market’s hour: instruments, levels, scenarios, the conditions for standing aside and the loss limit. No plan, no trade.
Background chart: a simulated price path drawn in real time across the hero against two rules, a stop and a daily loss limit. When the path crosses the limit the chart stops for the day.
Discipline,earnedrank by rank.
From rookie to soldier. Trading is where discipline is tested hardest; build it here and it holds everywhere.
Every chapter is open to members while the platoon forms, in order, each opening when the drill and assessment before it are passed. A paid tier comes later. No card required.
Run 01 · in progress
The course, plainly
What this is not.
Not signals. Not trade picks. Not a promised outcome — this is a course in discipline, and anyone who promises more is selling a story.
What this is.
Discipline training, tested against the hardest opponent there is: your own money on the line. Sizing from your stop. Counting your risk before every trade. Walking away when you’ve hit your limit. The market doesn’t reward the smartest trader. It rewards the most disciplined one — and that discipline is yours to keep, at the desk and away from it.
Profit is weather. Conduct is yours.
Seven ranks. Forty chapters. One discipline.
You start as a Corporal. Most traders aim for Captain. The committed go further. Rank is earned in the market: your training and your record. Every chapter is open to members while the platoon forms. The chapters open in order: each one when the drill and assessment before it are passed.
Corporal
Chapters 1 to 5
Command yourself first: the enemy in the mirror, respect for your ammunition, a hard perimeter, one weapon, and one soldier in the field at a time.
Sergeant
Chapters 6 to 15
The routine and self-control under fire: reveille and the clock, the morning briefing, roll call and the mid-session check, fire and movement, the daily confession, the two-strike rule, the cool-down tent, radio silence, the patience of the tiger, and reading the weather.
Lieutenant
Chapters 16 to 20
Commanding more than one soldier: the fire team, sectors of the perimeter, the total risk cap, one in and one out, costs and execution.
Captain the retail goal
Chapters 21 to 25
Planning for what goes wrong: the contingency plan, the fallback line, the hedge and the short, options as armor, and the overnight watch.
Major
Chapters 26 to 30
Commanding capital instead of men: beyond the rifle to the futures line, the currency front, commodities, and standing watch across time zones.
Colonel highest member rank
Chapters 31 to 35
Leading teams and capital with institutional discipline: risk budgeting, the steady hand, the long retreat, supply lines and the citadel, and the oath that closes the sequence.
The General’s doctrine
Chapters 36 to 40
General Platoon alone; every member studies it. The mandate, the convoy, regime awareness, capital preservation, and the character a General is held to. No member holds the rank.
Pricing
The Full Course
Every chapter is open to members while the platoon forms, in order, each opening when the drill and assessment before it are passed. A paid tier will come later.
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Open now, to every member, in order
- All forty chapters: every rank from Corporal to Colonel, and the General’s doctrine, each chapter opening when the drill and assessment before it are passed
- The journal, the session plans and the debriefs
- The daily clock, the weekly inspection and your service record
A course in discipline and risk management. Not financial advice, not signals, not a promise of returns.
Standing orders
Five rules that apply to every trade, every day, regardless of market. They are numbered because they are read in this order before the session opens.
Know the risk before the entry
Position size, stop and maximum loss are fixed before the order ticket is touched. If you cannot state the loss in R, there is no trade.
In practice Risk 1R, one percent of the account; size comes from the stop, not from conviction.
One plan per session, written down
Levels, scenarios and the conditions for standing aside are on paper before the open. Trading what appears on the screen is reacting, not planning.
In practice Before the open, write two levels, what you do at each, and the one condition that keeps you flat.
Daily loss limit ends the day
Hit the limit and your trading day is over: you stand down until tomorrow. No revenge trades, no "one more to get it back". The limit protects the account from the person operating it.
In practice Three losses of 1R against a 3R daily limit, and the day ends at 3R down, whether the next setup looks perfect or not.
No trade is a valid outcome
Sitting flat when the plan does not trigger is a correct decision, logged and scored like any other. Overtrading is the most common way a good week becomes a bad month.
In practice A session with zero triggers and zero trades is logged as a win for the plan, not as a missed day.
Debrief every session
Every trade is journaled with the setup, the execution and the emotion at the time. Patterns in the journal decide what changes next week, not the P&L.
In practice Ten journaled trades tagged "anxious" and eight of them early exits: that is next week's drill, whatever the P&L said.
Risk is arithmetic
With a 45% win rate and 1.5R reward, every trade is worth +0.125R on average, so order 1 is a calculation you can finish before the entry. The risk slider does not change that edge; it changes how many losing streaks the account can survive, and risk enough per trade and a positive expectancy still ends at zero.
Strategy presets, typical ranges from the practitioner literature — not a forecast. Each applies the midpoint of its range at 1% risk over 200 trades.
- Expectancy per trade
- +0.125R
- Max drawdown
- —
- Probability of hitting −50%
- —
Probability from 1,000 simulated 200-trade sequences. The curve reuses one drawn sequence of random numbers, so moving a slider changes the arithmetic, not the luck. Reset draws a new sequence.
Equity curve for 200 trades at the selected risk per trade.
Operations
What a member works through in the app, set to the hours of the market they trade: the order of the day before the open, the drills, the debrief after the close, and the drill for stepping away.
Firing Range
Training · practice
Chart, math, decision and rule drills on your own rules: pick a category, give the order, and every answer is marked. Practice only; nothing there touches your record.
Post-market
Daily orders · after the close
The debrief, four inquiries: what went well, what went wrong, where you left the code, and what changes tomorrow. It goes on your service record.
Cool-down
Chapter 12 drill · stand-down
Name the signs of battle fatigue and set the minutes you step away for. Hit the daily loss limit and the stand-down shuts the gate until tomorrow.
Field manual
Members get the discipline log: the Market Plan for each session, a trade log that records your state of mind at entry, a daily loss limit that ends the day, and a history of every debrief. No signals, no picks, no promises about returns.
The log exists because rules that live in your head get renegotiated under pressure. Rules that are written down get followed.
Join the platoon
- Firing Range drills, every answer marked
- The Market Plan, the trade log and the debrief
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Ecosystem
TradePlatoon is also the studio behind a set of apps and community gear that share the same idea: practise decision-making under rules.
Games
Board and strategy games published under TradePlatoon, built around the same discipline of playing the position you have, not the one you want. play.tradeplatoon.com
Gear
Themed merchandise for the community. In preparation.
Contact
Partnerships, press and anything else: [email protected]