TradePlatoon

TradePlatoon · the course

Discipline, earned rank by rank.

From rookie to soldier. Trading is where discipline is tested hardest; build it here and it holds everywhere.

Nobody blows an account because he read a chart wrong. He blows it because nobody ever taught him to obey himself, and the market pays a bounty for that.

This is not tips and it is not signals. It is a General who gives you orders, a clock set to your own market, and a record of whether you kept them.

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Play the anthem

Sound on, if you would rather be told than read.

The anthem is public and it stays public. The rest of the music is for soldiers. Enlist and hear the rest

What this is

The course

A General, not a guru

Forty chapters in the General’s own voice. Each one is orders, doctrine, a story he tells badly on purpose, a drill you have to pass, and an assessment you must answer in full before you sign your name to what you will do differently.

The daily clock

Your market. Your reveille.

You declare the market you fight on. Everything else — reveille, the morning briefing, roll call, the mid-session check, the stand-down, the debrief — is worked out from its open and its close, and your punctuality is scored against that clock and no other.

The record

Every session signed

Plans, trades, debriefs and journal entries go on your service record with the rank you held at the time. Every Sunday the week is written up and put in front of you to sign or dispute. Rank is earned in the market: your training and your record.

Seven ranks. Forty chapters. One discipline.

Most traders aim for Captain. The committed go further.

Rank is command. It is how many soldiers you may put in the field at once and how much of the account may be at risk across all of them. You start at Corporal with one and one percent, and you will not talk the General out of either.

  1. CPL Corporal Every member is enlisted here 1 soldier · 1% total open risk
  2. SGT Sergeant Every member 2 soldiers · 2% total open risk
  3. LT Lieutenant Most retail traders 4 soldiers · 3% total open risk
  4. CPT Captain The retail goal 6 soldiers · 4% total open risk
  5. MAJ Major Highly involved traders a risk budget · 5% total open risk
  6. COL Colonel The highest member rank a risk budget · 5% total open risk
  7. GEN General General Platoon alone a risk budget · 5% total open risk

Rank is earned in the market: your training and your record. Conduct recorded against you takes a stripe back. Colonel is the highest rank a member holds, and the General is General Platoon alone.

The forty chapters

Grouped by the rank whose doctrine they are. The course is open: the chapters come in order, whatever rank you hold, and the last five are the General’s own doctrine.

40 chapters · 200 sections

CPL Corporal

  1. 1 The Battlefield in the Mirror
  2. 2 Respect Your Ammunition
  3. 3 The Hard Perimeter
  4. 4 The Single Weapon
  5. 5 One Soldier in the Field

SGT Sergeant

  1. 6 Reveille and the Clock
  2. 7 The Morning Briefing
  3. 8 Roll Call and the Mid-Session Check
  4. 9 Fire and Movement
  5. 10 The Daily Confession
  6. 11 The Two-Strike Rule
  7. 12 Battle Fatigue and the Cool-Down Tent
  8. 13 Radio Silence
  9. 14 The Patience of the Tiger
  10. 15 The Weather Report

LT Lieutenant

  1. 16 The Fire Team
  2. 17 Sectors of the Perimeter
  3. 18 The Total Risk Cap
  4. 19 One In, One Out
  5. 20 Costs and Execution

CPT Captain

  1. 21 The Contingency Plan
  2. 22 Platform Failure and the Fallback Line
  3. 23 The Hedge and the Short
  4. 24 Options as Armour
  5. 25 Gap Risk and the Overnight Watch

MAJ Major

  1. 26 Beyond the Rifle
  2. 27 The Futures Line
  3. 28 The Currency Front
  4. 29 Commodities and the Harvest
  5. 30 Standing Watch Across Time Zones

COL Colonel

  1. 31 The Book
  2. 32 Risk Budgeting
  3. 33 The Steady Hand
  4. 34 The Long Retreat
  5. 35 Supply Lines and the Citadel

GEN The General’s doctrine

  1. 36 The Mandate
  2. 37 The Convoy
  3. 38 Regime Awareness
  4. 39 Capital Preservation
  5. 40 The General's Character

Chapters open in order. The next one opens when the one before it is finished, five sections out of five.

What you will be asked to say

The Soldier’s Oath

I am an operator of the TradePlatoon.

I am not here to gamble, to show off, or to prove that I am clever.

I am here to execute my plan with absolute honor and discipline.

My capital is my ammunition, and I will defend it with my life.

My stop loss is my shield; when my perimeter is touched, I will retreat without shame.

I will master my single weapon and wait patiently for my moment.

I will not let greed make me reckless, nor fear make me hesitate.

Win or lose, I will hold my head high if I have obeyed my code.

I will use my gains to protect my family, serve my neighbors, and live in truth.

The market will not break me, because I have conquered myself.

Forward. With discipline. Dismissed.

Read aloud every morning, before you sit at your screen. It is the last order of the course.

The anthem

Every platoon has one. Ours is public: play it without enlisting, and play it to anybody who asks what this is.

Trade Platoon Anthem

Read the handbook

Beyond the course

The games

Drills you can lose at

The drills are scored the way a game is scored: pass, or go again with the reason read out to you. Nothing here is played for money and nothing here pays out.

The gear

Things that sit on a desk

A field manual, a stencil, a card with your own standing orders on it. Objects you can put where you will see them at the moment you are about to break one.

Report for duty

Enlist, read the briefing, and set your clock to your own market. The first chapter takes about ten minutes.

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