Morning brief
60–90 seconds
How to build a session plan in five minutes: levels, scenarios, and the one condition that keeps you out.
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.
Most traders don’thave an edge problem.They have adiscipline problem.
If you know how to trade but keep blowing it up anyway — this is your course. The market is where discipline is tested hardest. Build it here, and it holds everywhere.
The Introduction and the whole Corporal rank, five chapters, free. No card required.
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The course, plainly
What this is not.
Not signals. Not a secret setup. Not a promise you’ll get rich — anyone selling you that is selling a lottery ticket.
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.
Eight ranks, forty chapters
You start as a Corporal — the first five chapters are free. Every rank is five chapters, read in order, each with its drill and its undertaking. A rank is earned twice: the training passed and the conduct kept.
Corporal free
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.
- Free ends here. The rest is the full course.
Sergeant
Chapters 6 to 10
The routine: reveille and the clock, the morning briefing, roll call and the mid-session check, fire and movement, and the daily confession.
Staff Sergeant
Chapters 11 to 15
Self-control under fire: 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
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
Chapters 31 to 35
Running the whole book: risk budgeting, the steady hand, the long retreat, supply lines and the citadel, and the oath that closes the sequence.
General
Chapters 36 to 40
The rank itself: the mandate, the convoy, regime awareness, capital preservation, and the character a General is held to.
Pricing
The Full Course
Open to every member while the platoon forms. Enlistment for the rest of the course opens later; the first five chapters stay free whatever happens.
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The full course opens
- Chapters 6 to 40: every rank from Sergeant to General
- The graduation sequence and the certificate
- The ranks above Corporal, earned twice: the training passed and the conduct kept
Free for everyone
- The Introduction and chapters 1 to 5: the whole Corporal rank
- 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 dollars, there is no trade.
In practice A $10,000 account risking 1% has a $100 stop: size comes from that, 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 the platform closes. No revenge trades, no "one more to get it back". The limit protects the account from the person operating it.
In practice Three losses at $100 against a $300 limit, and the platform closes at $300 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%
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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
Short-form video series. Each episode is one lesson, one drill, under three minutes. Watch the briefings on YouTube.
Risk drills
2–3 minutes
Position sizing, stop placement and daily limits worked through on real gold, silver and index charts.
After action
2–3 minutes
Real trades debriefed after the close, including the ones that went wrong and exactly which order was broken.
Tilt protocol
60–90 seconds
What to do in the first sixty seconds after a bad loss so the next trade is a decision, not a reflex.
Field manual
A one-page rules card you print and keep next to the screen, plus a weekly note with one drill and one debrief. Members also get the discipline log: a daily session plan, a trade journal with emotion tags, a loss limit that ends the day, and a debrief history. No signals, no picks, no promises about returns.
The manual exists because rules that live in your head get renegotiated under pressure. Rules that live on paper get followed.
Join the platoon
- Printable one-page standing orders
- Daily session plan, trade journal and debrief
- Member videos and field manual downloads
Sign in with Google or an emailed link. No password to remember, no card required.
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; the first drop will be announced in the weekly note.
Contact
Partnerships, press and anything else: [email protected]