Terms of Use

Candleread is an educational publisher. Nothing on this site, in our email, in our app, in our community, or in any course is financial advice. Trading is risky and most retail traders lose money. By using Candleread you agree to these Terms. If you do not agree, do not use the service.

These Terms are an agreement between you and Candleread (“Candleread,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), a Texas-based education company operating the website at candleread.com and the Candleread iOS application.

You must be at least 18 years old (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction, whichever is higher) to create a paid account or purchase a course program. You confirm that you are using Candleread in a personal capacity and that doing so does not violate the laws of your country, state, or province.

Candleread publishes general trading education: explanations of how markets work, walkthroughs of charting techniques, glossary terms, example setups, and commentary. None of this is personalized investment advice. We do not know your financial situation, your tax situation, or your risk tolerance.

The founder is an active trader, not a registered financial advisor, broker-dealer, commodity-trading advisor, or fiduciary. Nothing we publish is a recommendation to buy, sell, hold, or short any financial instrument. Example trades — including any “weekly setups,” trade-along sessions, or community discussion — are for educational purposes only and may be hypothetical, paper-traded, or executed at sizes that do not match your account.

Before trading any real money, consult a licensed advisor in your jurisdiction and read the risk disclosures published by your broker and your local regulator.

Trading forex, contracts for difference (CFDs), futures, options, equities, commodities, and crypto carries substantial risk, including total loss of capital and, for some leveraged products, losses that exceed your initial deposit. Past performance is not indicative of future results. The vast majority of retail traders lose money. Leverage magnifies both gains and losses. You should never trade money you cannot afford to lose entirely.

Hypothetical or simulated performance shown anywhere on Candleread has inherent limitations: it does not reflect actual trading, was prepared with the benefit of hindsight, and ignores factors such as slippage, broker fees, and the psychological pressure of trading real money.

Web Premium subscription

Candleread Premium on the web is billed by Stripe at $27 per month or $197 per year, in U.S. dollars, plus any applicable taxes. The subscription auto-renews on the same cycle until you cancel. You can cancel any time from your billing portal — cancellation stops the next renewal and you keep access through the end of the paid period. Your streak, XP, and lesson progress stay on your account forever, even if you cancel.

iOS app subscription

The Candleread iOS app is sold through Apple. All billing, renewals, refunds, and cancellations for the iOS app are handled by Apple under your iTunes account terms. You manage that subscription in iOS Settings. We can't refund or modify Apple subscriptions on your behalf.

Course programs

Self-Paced ($497, one-time), Cohort ($997, six-week live), and Mastermind ($1,997, small-group) programs are one-time purchases or cohort-based enrollments. Pricing, dates, and inclusions are described on the program page at the time of purchase. We may run a waiting list and contact you when the next cohort opens.

Cancel and refund policy

Same rules everywhere — no fine print tricks. The plain-English version lives at candleread.com/pricing#refund-policy. Here it is in full:

• Premium monthly ($27/mo). No automatic refund window. Pause anytime, cancel anytime — your streak, XP, and lesson progress stay forever. Once you hit Cancel, you keep access through the current billing period.
• Premium yearly ($197/yr). Full refund within 14 days of purchase, no questions asked. After day 14, we offer prorated credit toward any course tier (Self-Paced / Cohort / Mastermind) instead of a cash refund. Your money stays in the ecosystem and graduates with you.
• Self-Paced course ($497). 14-day refund window from purchase. After that, lifetime access — no refunds, but you can transfer your seat to anyone.
• Cohort program ($997). Full refund up until the morning of Week 1 Day 1. After kickoff, no cash refunds — but you can defer to the next cohort and we'll hold your seat.
• Mastermind ($1,997). No refunds after acceptance. We do a fit call before purchase to make sure you're a match — if you're not, we'll point you to a tier that fits.
• iOS app. Apple handles all iOS refunds and cancellations under your iTunes account. We can't process Apple-billed refunds.

To request a refund or talk through your situation, email team@candleread.com or support@candleread.com. Real humans, real answer, no scripts.

Price changes

We may change prices for new subscriptions and new cohorts at any time. Existing paid subscribers get an email at least 30 days before any price change to their plan, and you can cancel before the change takes effect.

You agree not to:

• Share your login or paid content with anyone outside your household.
• Resell, repackage, redistribute, or republish our content, curriculum, charts, screenshots, or course videos without written permission.
• Scrape, crawl, or otherwise extract data at scale beyond what normal browsing requires.
• Reverse-engineer, decompile, or attempt to derive our source code or proprietary methodology.
• Use Candleread to harass, defraud, or threaten others, or to promote products that violate the law.
• Post content in our community channels that is hateful, discriminatory, illegal, sexually explicit, or that solicits personalized financial advice.
• Use the service in connection with any pump-and-dump, market manipulation, signal-selling scheme, or pyramid arrangement.

We may suspend or terminate any account that violates these rules, with no refund for the unused portion if termination is for cause.

You keep ownership of anything you post — chart screenshots, questions, journal entries, Discord messages. By posting it inside the Candleread ecosystem, you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free license to display it inside the service so the community can see it and so we can quote it for educational purposes. We will not sell your content. You can ask us to delete your content by emailing support@candleread.com.

The Candleread curriculum, lesson scripts, illustrations, calculators, glossary, course videos, brand, logo, and software are owned by us or licensed to us. We grant you a personal, non-transferable license to access them while your account or program enrollment is active. Everything else — copying, reselling, publishing on YouTube, packaging into another course — is not permitted.

We link to brokers, tools, and resources we have used or reviewed. Some of these links are affiliate links, which means we may earn a commission if you sign up. We only recommend brokers and tools we would use ourselves, and the commission does not change the price you pay. We are not responsible for the practices, content, or terms of any third-party site, broker, or platform.

The service is provided “as is” and “as available.” We make no warranties, express or implied, about the service's availability, accuracy, suitability for any particular purpose, or freedom from errors. Markets move; data providers have outages; software has bugs. We will do our best, but we cannot guarantee uninterrupted access.

To the maximum extent allowed by law, Candleread and its officers, employees, contractors, and affiliates are not liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or punitive damages, or for any loss of profits, trading losses, lost opportunities, or lost data, arising out of or related to your use of the service or any decision you made based on our educational content. Our total liability for any claim is capped at the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the claim.

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Candleread from any claim, demand, loss, or expense arising from your trading decisions, your violation of these Terms, your violation of any law, or your infringement of any third party's rights.

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Texas, United States, without regard to conflict-of-laws rules. Any dispute will be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Dallas County, Texas, and you consent to personal jurisdiction there. To the extent permitted by law, you and we each waive any right to a jury trial and any right to participate in a class action.

We may update these Terms when we add features, change pricing, or when the law requires it. Material changes will be announced by email and posted at the top of this page for at least 30 days before they take effect. Continued use of the service after the effective date is your acceptance of the updated Terms.

You can cancel and delete your account at any time by emailing support@candleread.com. We can terminate or suspend access for violation of these Terms, for fraudulent payment activity, or if we are required to by law. Sections that by their nature should survive termination — intellectual property, disclaimers, limitation of liability, indemnification, governing law — survive.

For any question about these Terms, email support@candleread.com.