1. Editorial mission
The platform exists to strengthen preparation, disciplined decision-making, capital preservation, risk awareness, and self-reliance. It does not provide trading signals, guarantee outcomes, or promise wealth.
Governing Standard
Editorial Standards
Selection is editorial. It is never purchased, commissioned, sponsored, or influenced by compensation.
SunTzuTrading.com is an independent educational, editorial, media, and resource platform. It does not use affiliate links, referral codes, paid placements, sponsored rankings, or commission-based recommendations.
2. Selection and inclusion
A company, educator, tool, platform, or authoritative resource may be included when it satisfies neutral editorial criteria. Inclusion cannot be purchased and does not imply sponsorship, compensation, endorsement, suitability, or performance certification.
3. Verification requirements
Published profiles require a verified official identity and destination, source ledger, last-reviewed date, geographic context, material limitations, category-specific risk notices, and disclosure of any relevant ownership, founder, employment, or organizational connection. Candidate records remain visibly labeled while verification is incomplete.
4. Search, sorting, and ranking
Search relevance and default directory ordering may use only:
- editorial relevance
- educational usefulness
- factual completeness
- verification recency
- geographic relevance
- risk clarity
Search relevance, ordering, comparison position, and conclusions may never use:
- compensation
- affiliate status
- sponsorship
- commission rate
- conversion potential
- revenue per click
- merchandise relationship
- partner preference
- sales performance
5. Institutional covenant
Sun Tzu Trading does not use affiliate links, referral codes, paid placements, sponsored rankings, commission-based recommendations, or compensation tied to a reader’s selection of a third-party resource. This is a permanent editorial covenant, not a temporary launch restriction.
Sun Tzu Trader merchandise is first-party commerce for people who wish to connect with and support the philosophy. Merchandise is structurally separated from directories, search, reviews, comparisons, and educational conclusions.
6. Supporter Independence Covenant
Voluntary reader support may help sustain platform operations, research, security, accessibility, educational production, standards maintenance, and responsible outreach. Support never purchases access, influence, endorsement, inclusion, favorable coverage, placement, ranking, search priority, or editorial consideration.
Contributors receive no control over directory inclusion, War Council selection, reviews, comparisons, factual corrections, search relevance, risk disclosures, or editorial conclusions. The same standards apply whether or not a person or organization has provided support.
Sun Tzu Trading is not presently represented as a tax-exempt charitable organization and does not represent voluntary support as a tax-deductible charitable contribution. Payment capability remains inactive until the legal recipient, accounting treatment, payment-processor configuration, privacy disclosures, and transaction procedures are verified. Review the complete support framework.
7. Link treatment
Independent editorial links may direct readers to official websites, regulators, exchanges, educational institutions, and other authoritative sources. These direct links do not imply sponsorship, compensation, partnership, endorsement, or approval.
Sun Tzu Trading receives no referral compensation when a reader follows or selects an external resource. External links use appropriate browser-protection attributes, and all resource destinations remain subject to the third party’s own terms, privacy practices, eligibility rules, pricing, and risk disclosures.
8. Reviews and comparisons
Comparisons distinguish verified facts, editorial interpretation, potential use cases, limitations, geographic restrictions, risks, verification status, and relevant material connections. Numerical ratings are not published without a documented and reproducible methodology.
9. Corrections and factual-error reports
Sun Tzu Trading welcomes documented corrections that improve the accuracy, clarity, or completeness of its educational and editorial content.
To report a possible factual error, use the email action below and include the affected page URL, the statement or data point in question, a brief explanation of the proposed correction, and supporting official or authoritative sources when available.
Material-correction commitment: when a confirmed error could materially affect a reader’s understanding of eligibility, costs, rules, risk, organizational connections, or editorial conclusions, Sun Tzu Trading will correct the record visibly and update the review date.
10. Candidate and published status
A candidate record identifies a relevant resource for research; it is not a recommendation. A published editorial profile has passed its required verification gates. The directory states both statuses plainly and never disguises an incomplete record as a commercial call to action.
11. Human prosperity mandate
Education before leverage. Capital preservation before profit. Process before prediction. Discipline over emotion. The platform must never exploit financial vulnerability or encourage reckless action.