Author
Who writes this site, what they claim and what they do not, and how to verify it.
Last updated: 2026-09-01
Current status: placeholder
This installation ships with a placeholder author record. Lessons are attributed to "Learn Then Trade Editorial Team", which is not a person and makes no claim to trading experience, credentials or a track record.
We could have invented a plausible biography. Deliberately, we did not — a fabricated author is the most common way an educational site launders authority it has not earned.
What a real author record will contain
Before launch, this page should carry, for each author:
- Full name
- A verifiable professional background
- Any qualifications, with the awarding body and year
- Relevant experience, described in terms that can be checked
- A link to an independent professional profile
- Any conflicts of interest, including exchange relationships
And, equally important, what they do not claim: no undisclosed track record, no implied regulatory status, no professional advisory capacity unless it genuinely exists and is licensed.
Reviewers
Lessons are marked with a reviewer and a review date. Where the reviewer field is empty, the lesson displays "editorial draft" and no review is claimed. That is the current state of every lesson in this build.
A reviewer record will name the person, their relevant expertise, and what they checked.
Why this matters more here than elsewhere
Trading education attracts fabricated credibility: invented track records, screenshots of accounts that do not exist, implied regulatory status. The cost of believing a false authority in this field is measured in money.
So the standard we hold ourselves to is not "sounds credible". It is "checkable" — and where something is not yet checkable, the page says so.
