Terms of sale

DRAFT — pending legal review. Terms of sale version 3. This text takes effect on the day payments open and not before; until then nothing on this page is for sale.

The purchase

• One payment, in US dollars, shown before tax. Tax is worked out and added at checkout according to where you are.
• The price: $499.99 for the first 1,000 soldiers, the founding price, and $999.99 after that. The system counts the founding orders and moves the price itself. There is no end date, and a refund does not reopen a founding place.
• What it buys: the full course on your account — every chapter past the free ones, with its drills, assessments and journal entries, and the graduation sequence. Access does not expire for as long as TradePlatoon operates the course. If it ever closes, members receive notice and an export of their own records.
• No subscription. Nothing renews, nothing is billed again, and there is no second tier or upsell. One price, one course.
• What stays free whether you buy or not: the introduction and the first five chapters (the whole Corporal rank), your journal, your plans, the General's rule-based debrief of your day, your daily orders, your weekly inspections and your service record.

Who sells it

The course is sold by Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record. The sale is between you and Lemon Squeezy: they take the payment, collect and remit any sales tax or VAT due, issue the receipt, and handle disputes and chargebacks under their terms. TradePlatoon is not the merchant. What TradePlatoon does is open the course on your account once Lemon Squeezy tells us the payment went through. We never see or hold your card details.

Access opens when Lemon Squeezy confirms the payment to us, which is normally within seconds of the receipt. Until it does, the page you come back to says so rather than promising anything. If the course has not opened within an hour of your receipt, email [email protected] with the order number and it will be put right. Nothing is ever charged twice for one order.

All sales final

All sales final. The purchase is final. The introduction and the first five chapters are free, and they are the trial: read them, run the drills, keep the journal. If they hold you to a standard, buy the rest. If they do not, keep your money. A purchase is not refunded because you changed your mind, or because the paid chapters turned out to be what the free ones showed.

Lemon Squeezy is the seller, as merchant of record, and honours any legally required refund. Any refund the law requires of a seller — a consumer right that cannot be signed away, a payment taken twice, a charge you did not make — is Lemon Squeezy's to give under their refund policy, and TradePlatoon confirms the order to them at once when asked. That is the law's floor, not a policy of ours: there is no cooling-off period of our own and no partial refund for chapters unread. If access is ever withdrawn that way, the paid chapters close on your account and nothing you have written is deleted.

If the order itself went wrong — the course did not open, the wrong account, a double charge — email [email protected] with the order number and it will be put right. That is the order being delivered, not a refund.

If you are a consumer in the EU or the UK

You have a statutory right to withdraw from a purchase of digital content within fourteen days without giving a reason, unless you asked for the content to be supplied at once and acknowledged that you lose the right when it is. Because the course opens the moment the payment is confirmed, the third box at checkout — that you have read these terms, that the purchase is final and that access opens at once — is that request and that acknowledgment, recorded with the time. Any statutory refund that still applies is Lemon Squeezy's to give as the seller.

Not financial advice

You are buying training in discipline. You are not buying a strategy, a signal, a setup or a forecast, and you are not buying my opinion on any market. I am a retired soldier who lost money the way every civilian does, by disobeying himself, and the course teaches the orders that stopped it. It does not promise that you will make money. Nobody can, and anyone who does is selling a lottery ticket.

Trading carries a real risk of loss, up to and past what you put in with leveraged products. Every trade you place is your decision and yours alone; the course is not a recommendation to place any of them. Profit is weather. Conduct is yours.

— General Platoon

In the plain words of the terms: nothing in the app is investment, financial, legal or tax advice, a recommendation, or an offer to buy or sell anything. We are not a broker, an adviser or a fund, and neither a drill nor a rank is a qualification.

What you acknowledge before you pay

Before the buy button will work you tick three boxes. The acknowledgment is a stored record on your account, like your acceptance of the code of conduct: the three statements, the version of these terms you acknowledged, the price you were shown and the time. It is written once and never changed. If these terms change in meaning, or the price is not the one you acknowledged, you are asked again before your next purchase; a purchase already made is not affected.

1. I understand this is educational, not financial advice.
2. I understand this is one payment of $499.99. No subscription.
3. I have read the terms of sale. The purchase is final, and access opens at once.

Grants

The General may open the full course for somebody at no charge. A grant is recorded with the reason it was given, can be withdrawn the same way, and is not a purchase: nothing on this page applies to it.

Contact

[email protected]. A question about an order, or anything unclear.

Terms of sale version 3 · terms version 4 · last updated 3 November 2026. DRAFT — pending legal review.