Terms of Service

Version 5.0 · Effective 2026-06-01

Terms of Service

Effective Date: June 1, 2026

These Terms of Service (the "Terms") govern your access to and use of the TradeSport LLC platform, websites, and related services (collectively, the "Service"). The Service is operated by TradeSport LLC, a Georgia limited liability company ("TradeSport," "we," "us," or "our").

Read these Terms carefully. They are written in plain English on purpose. We want you to understand what you are agreeing to before you click "Accept."

1. Acceptance of Terms

By creating an account, accessing the Service, or entering a competition or challenge, you agree to be bound by these Terms, our Privacy Policy, the Trader Agreement, and (if applicable) the Affiliate Agreement. If you do not agree, do not use the Service.

If you are using the Service on behalf of an entity, you represent that you have the authority to bind that entity to these Terms.

2. Eligibility

To use the Service, you must:

  • Be at least 18 years old
  • Have the legal capacity to enter into a binding contract under the laws of your jurisdiction
  • Not be a resident of, or located in, a country or region subject to U.S. sanctions or any jurisdiction where use of the Service would be unlawful
  • Not be on any U.S. government list of prohibited or restricted parties

You are responsible for confirming that your use of the Service is lawful where you live. If we determine that you are ineligible, we may suspend or terminate your account.

3. Account Registration and Security

You must provide accurate, current, and complete information when you register and keep that information up to date.

You are responsible for:

  • Keeping your password and login credentials confidential
  • All activity that occurs on your account
  • Notifying us promptly at mason@trade-sport.com if you suspect unauthorized access

We are not liable for losses caused by your failure to keep your credentials secure or by your sharing of credentials with another person.

4. Service Description (Skill-Based Simulated Trading)

TradeSport operates a skill-based simulated trading competition platform. The Service allows users to enter competitions and challenges where outcomes are determined by the user's trading performance against published, objective rules.

Key facts about the Service:

  • All trading on the Service uses simulated (virtual) funds in a simulated market environment. No real capital is at risk in trades placed on the Service.
  • Outcomes are determined by skill, specifically the user's trading decisions and performance against published rules. They are not determined by chance, lottery mechanics, or wagering.
  • Entry fees grant access to a simulated trading account and the right to compete under published rules. They are not a wager on an event.
  • Payouts (where applicable) are determined by performance against published rules, not by random selection.

The Service is not a brokerage, exchange, investment adviser, or financial planner. Nothing on the Service is investment advice. Simulated trading results do not predict real-world trading outcomes, and you should not rely on them for real-world investment decisions.

4.1 Third-Party Vendors

The Service is operated and supported by third-party vendors, including (but not limited to) TradeSea (operated by Tradium Inc.), Rithmic, LLC, the CME Group, and other infrastructure, data, and service providers (collectively, the "Third-Party Vendors"). The Third-Party Vendors provide the simulated trading platform, market data, order routing, and underlying technology that the Service depends on.

You acknowledge and agree that:

  • The Third-Party Vendors are not parties to these Terms, are not your contractual counterparties, and owe you no direct duty under these Terms or otherwise.
  • Your sole recourse for any matter arising out of or relating to the Service is against TradeSport — not against any Third-Party Vendor.
  • You waive, to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, any and all claims against any Third-Party Vendor (including their respective affiliates, officers, directors, employees, and agents) arising out of or relating to the Service.
  • The Trader Agreement contains additional detail on this allocation of recourse and on TradeSport's obligations (and non-obligations) to you in the event of Third-Party Vendor outages or other issues. To the extent of any conflict between the Trader Agreement and these Terms on this subject, the Trader Agreement controls.

5. Payments, Fees, Refunds, and Chargebacks

5.1 Fees

Entry fees, reset fees, bundle fees, and any other fees disclosed at checkout are payable in advance. We use third-party payment processors to handle payment collection. By submitting payment information, you authorize us (and our processors) to charge your selected payment method.

The current fee schedule for Trade League monthly competitions (entry, reset, bundle) is set out in Section 1.2 of the Trader Agreement and is also displayed at checkout in the Service. The fee framework for Challenges (entry and reset across one-phase and two-phase formats) is set out in Sections 1.6 through 1.10 of the Trader Agreement, with per-tier specific dollar amounts published on each challenge card in the Service. Two-phase challenges have no separate activation fee — the entry fee covers the full cost of both the evaluation and (on eval pass) the funded account. The Trader Agreement controls if there is any conflict on competition or challenge fees.

Neither Trade League nor Challenges are subscription products. Each Trade League monthly competition entry is a separate, one-time charge. Each challenge entry is a separate, one-time charge. Each reset is a separate, one-time charge. There is no recurring billing, no automatic renewal, and no "cancellation" mechanism on any TradeSport product. Wherever these Terms or the Trader Agreement use language about "monthly fees" or "per month" pricing, that language refers to the one-time charge for entering a specific calendar month's Trade League competition, not a recurring subscription.

5.2 Refunds

Entry fees, reset fees, and bundle fees are non-refundable once the simulated trading account associated with the purchase has been provisioned to you (for two-phase challenges, this means once the evaluation account has been provisioned at the time of purchase), except where a refund is required by applicable law. If we make an exception (for example, after a confirmed billing error on our side), the exception does not waive this rule for any other situation.

This non-refundability rule includes — but is not limited to — situations where you decide not to trade the account, the competition does not go your way, the challenge proves harder than expected, you blow the account, or you are dissatisfied with the outcome. All TradeSport fees are paid for the right to compete or attempt the challenge; they are not refundable on the basis of competition or challenge results.

5.3 Chargebacks and Payment Disputes

If you file a chargeback or payment dispute against TradeSport for a charge you authorized, we may, at our discretion:

  • Immediately suspend or permanently ban your account
  • Cancel any pending or in-progress competition or challenge participation
  • Forfeit any pending or unpaid payouts on your account
  • Pursue legal action where the dispute is part of a fraudulent scheme (for example, a multi-account scheme designed to extract payouts you were not entitled to)

If you believe a charge is incorrect, contact us first at mason@trade-sport.com. We will work in good faith to resolve legitimate billing concerns. This section is not intended to discourage good-faith disputes; it is intended to address the small number of users who attempt to keep both the product and their money.

5.4 Performance-Based Payouts

All payouts disbursed by TradeSport — including but not limited to Trade League prize-pool distributions, one-phase challenge payouts, two-phase milestone payouts, and affiliate commissions — are performance-based, earned by the recipient's documented satisfaction of the published performance criteria for the underlying product. Payouts are not salary, wages, employment compensation, an investment return, or a guaranteed disbursement.

All payouts are made at the sole discretion of TradeSport LLC. TradeSport reserves the right to deny any payout request — in whole or in part — where TradeSport determines, in its reasonable discretion, that the recipient violated any rule applicable to the account or program on which the payout was generated, including (without limitation) the published rules of the specific competition, challenge, or affiliate program in force at the time of the underlying activity.

The detailed payout-eligibility framework and the right-to-deny mechanism for competitions and challenges are set out in Section 6 of the Trader Agreement (in particular Section 6.1, Right to Deny a Payout for Rule Violations). The detailed framework for affiliate commissions is set out in the Affiliate Agreement. If there is any conflict between this Section 5.4 and the more detailed provisions in those agreements, the more detailed provisions control.

6. Modifications to These Terms

We may update these Terms over time. Our policy on modifications is different from many platforms in our industry, and we want to be very clear about it.

6.1 The Rule

Any modification that adds new user obligations, tightens existing user obligations, or otherwise reduces user benefits applies only to accounts purchased on or after the effective date of that modification.

If you have an active account when we publish a modification, that account continues to be governed by the version of the Terms that was in effect on the day you purchased it, until that account is closed, completed, or you stop participating in the related competition or challenge.

6.2 The Exception

Modifications that loosen restrictions, improve user benefits, or correct errors in your favor apply immediately to all accounts, including active ones.

6.3 Why We Do This

Some platforms in this industry have been criticized for changing their rules retroactively to deny payouts on accounts that were already in progress. We do not do that. When you buy an account on TradeSport, the rules that govern that account are locked in for the life of that account. If we change the rules, the change applies to new accounts going forward, not to ones that are already running.

We will publish the effective date of each version of these Terms and keep prior versions available on request. When you log in after a material change, we will notify you so that you know which version applies to which of your accounts.

7. Account Suspension and Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, in whole or in part, at our sole discretion, for reasons including:

  • Violation of these Terms or the Trader Agreement
  • Fraudulent activity (including identity fraud, multi-account schemes, and payment fraud)
  • Filing of a chargeback against TradeSport for an authorized charge
  • Failure to complete required identity verification (KYC) within the required timeframe
  • Abusive or threatening conduct toward TradeSport staff, contractors, or other users
  • Hate speech, threats, harassment, or aggressive language in any TradeSport-operated community space (see Section 7.1)
  • Use of the Service in a manner that exposes TradeSport to legal, regulatory, or reputational risk

Termination may include forfeiture of unpaid payouts and account balances as further described in the Trader Agreement.

You may close your account at any time by contacting mason@trade-sport.com. Closure does not refund non-refundable fees and does not waive any obligations that, by their nature, survive termination (such as confidentiality, indemnification, and dispute resolution).

7.1 Community Conduct

TradeSport operates official community spaces (including a Discord server, social channels, and any forums or comment systems we host or moderate) for traders to share market commentary, discuss strategy, and engage with our team.

Hate speech, threats, harassment, or aggressive language directed at other users or TradeSport staff will not be tolerated under any circumstances. Conduct of this kind includes — but is not limited to — slurs based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or national origin; threats or intimidation; sustained harassment; and aggressive language clearly intended to attack rather than engage.

Reported violations of this Section 7.1 are investigated before any consequence is imposed. Possible consequences include permanent removal from all TradeSport community spaces and, in severe or repeated cases, suspension or termination of your TradeSport account.

Carve-out specific to this Section 7.1 (community conduct only). Because community-conduct violations are not direct trading violations, the consequences here are narrower than those that apply to other categories of violation:

  • Pending payouts on accounts associated with the violating user will still be issued. No payout forfeiture applies under this Section 7.1.
  • If your TradeSport account is terminated as a result of a Section 7.1 violation, any active simulated trading accounts at the time of termination will be refunded in full (entry, reset, and bundle fees attributable to those active accounts). Section 5.2 (Refunds) does not control in this scenario.

This carve-out applies only to violations of this Section 7.1. It does not apply to suspension or termination for any other reason set out in Section 7 — including failure to complete KYC, abusive conduct outside community spaces, or use of the Service in ways that expose TradeSport to legal, regulatory, or reputational risk — nor to any disqualification or enforcement action under the Trader Agreement. The standard pending-payout forfeiture rules and the non-refund rules continue to apply in full to all violations outside this Section 7.1.

We may, but are not required to, issue a warning before acting on a Section 7.1 violation. Severe or repeated violations may result in immediate termination without prior warning.

This rule applies in any TradeSport-operated community space and to conduct directed at TradeSport staff or other users.

8. Platform-Wide Resets and Data-Provider Issues

We rely on third-party market data providers to power the Service. Those providers occasionally experience outages, bad ticks, or pricing errors. Our trading platform is also software, which means it can have bugs.

We reserve the right to perform platform-wide or per-account resets in response to:

  • Data-provider outages, bad ticks, or pricing errors
  • System-level errors that affect account balances, trade execution, or risk metrics
  • Detected abuse or rule violations

When a reset happens because of a data-provider or system issue, we restore balances to the last known good state (typically the beginning-of-day balance or the balance immediately before the issue began). We will not be liable for losses arising from a reset performed in good faith to remedy an external technical issue.

9. Intellectual Property

All content on the Service, including the TradeSport name, logo, software, code, designs, text, graphics, and audiovisual material, is owned by or licensed to TradeSport and is protected by intellectual property laws. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable license to access and use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial competition participation. You may not:

  • Copy, modify, distribute, sell, or lease any part of the Service
  • Reverse engineer or attempt to extract source code from the Service
  • Use TradeSport's name, logo, or trademarks without our prior written consent (separate rules apply to authorized affiliates, see the Affiliate Agreement)

10. Limitation of Liability

To the fullest extent permitted by law:

  • TradeSport will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, loss of data, loss of goodwill, or business interruption, even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages.
  • TradeSport's total liability for any and all claims arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service shall not exceed six hundred U.S. dollars ($600).

This cap is a flat dollar amount, set at the price of TradeSport's largest single-account product at full undiscounted retail. It does not scale with the number of accounts you have purchased, the total fees you have paid across multiple accounts, or the duration of your relationship with TradeSport. Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain damages, so portions of this section may not apply to you.

10.1 Cap on Third-Party Vendor Claims

Notwithstanding the general cap in Section 10, TradeSport's aggregate liability to you for any claim arising out of or relating to a failure, outage, error, delay, inaccuracy, maintenance event, or other issue caused or contributed to by a Third-Party Vendor (as defined in Section 4.1) shall not exceed one hundred U.S. dollars ($100) per claim.

This cap reflects the structural reality that TradeSport's own recourse against its Third-Party Vendors is itself capped by the contracts that govern those relationships. The protection we receive from our vendors is, in turn, the protection we are able to extend to you for vendor-originated claims. This Section 10.1 limits TradeSport's exposure for claims that originate at the Third-Party Vendor layer (data feed errors, platform outages, order routing failures, etc.); it does not limit TradeSport's liability for claims originating from TradeSport's own conduct, which remains subject to the general cap in Section 10.

For the avoidance of doubt, neither this Section 10.1 nor any other provision of these Terms creates an obligation for TradeSport to provide refunds, account resets, P&L adjustments, or other remedies in the event of a Third-Party Vendor issue. Such remedies, where offered, are voluntary on TradeSport's part. See Section 8 of the Trader Agreement for additional detail.

11. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless TradeSport, its members, officers, employees, and contractors from and against any claim, demand, loss, liability, damage, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of:

  • Your violation of these Terms or any other agreement with TradeSport
  • Your violation of any law or the rights of a third party (including intellectual property rights)
  • Your fraudulent or willful misconduct in connection with the Service

12. Dispute Resolution and Arbitration

Read this section carefully. It affects your legal rights.

12.1 Mandatory Binding Arbitration

Except as set out below, you and TradeSport agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms or the Service will be resolved by binding arbitration rather than in court. The arbitration will be:

  • Administered by JAMS under its applicable rules
  • Held in Atlanta, Georgia, or by remote/video proceeding at the arbitrator's discretion
  • Decided by a single arbitrator, whose decision is final and binding

12.2 Class Action Waiver

You and TradeSport agree to bring claims only on an individual basis. You waive any right to participate in a class action, collective action, or representative action against TradeSport.

12.3 Carve-Outs

Notwithstanding the above:

  • TradeSport may bring an action in court (rather than arbitration) to seek injunctive or equitable relief, to protect its intellectual property, or to recover money owed.
  • Either party may bring a claim in small claims court if it qualifies.

12.4 Opt-Out

This arbitration agreement is a condition of your use of the Service.

13. Governing Law

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles. Subject to Section 12, any action that is not arbitrable shall be brought exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Atlanta, Georgia, and you consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts.

14. Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and share information about you. The Privacy Policy is incorporated into these Terms by reference. By using the Service, you consent to the data practices described in the Privacy Policy.

15. Contact and General Provisions

15.1 Contact

Questions about these Terms can be sent to:

TradeSport LLC Email: mason@trade-sport.com Website: www.trade-sport.com

15.2 Entire Agreement

These Terms, together with the Privacy Policy, the Trader Agreement, and (if applicable) the Affiliate Agreement, are the entire agreement between you and TradeSport regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreement.

15.3 Severability

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect, and the unenforceable provision will be modified to the minimum extent necessary to make it enforceable.

15.4 No Waiver

A failure by TradeSport to enforce a provision of these Terms is not a waiver of that provision or any other.

15.5 Assignment

You may not assign these Terms. TradeSport may assign these Terms in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of substantially all of its assets.

15.6 Force Majeure

TradeSport is not liable for delays or failures in performance caused by events beyond its reasonable control, including natural disasters, network or data-provider outages, government actions, and strikes.

Last Updated: May 17, 2026

Version 5.0 changes (2026-05-17): Updated Section 5.1 (Fees) and Section 5.2 (Refunds) to reflect the elimination of the two-phase activation fee. The pass-through activation fee on two-phase challenges has been removed across all three tiers; the prior fee was absorbed into the entry price and entry prices repriced to $165 / $265 / $400 for Beginner / Intermediate / Advanced (per the Trader Agreement v5.0 release). Section 5.1 enumerated fee list updated to drop "activation fees"; the two-phase activation step is now framed in Section 5.1 as covered by the entry fee. Section 5.1 no-subscription paragraph updated to drop the per-activation transaction reference (activation is no longer a billable event). Section 5.2 non-refundability rule updated to drop "activation fees" and to clarify that for two-phase challenges the trigger for non-refundability is provisioning of the evaluation account at the time of purchase. Section 5.1 payment-processor reference generalized — the prior named-processor reference has been removed in favor of generic "third-party payment processors" language while TradeSport finalizes its production processor stack. Added a new Section 5.4 (Performance-Based Payouts) establishing that all payouts disbursed by TradeSport — Trade League distributions, one-phase challenge payouts, two-phase milestone payouts, and affiliate commissions — are performance-based, made at TradeSport's sole discretion, and subject to denial where TradeSport identifies a rule violation on the underlying account or program; the detailed denial framework is cross-referenced to Trader Agreement Section 6.1 (competitions and challenges) and the Affiliate Agreement (commissions). The substantive product mechanics changes (activation flow, free Activate button, deferred-activation rationale) are described in the companion Trader Agreement v5.0 release. No changes to Section 1 (Acceptance), Section 2 (Eligibility), Section 3 (Account Registration), Section 4 (Service Description and Third-Party Vendors), Section 5.3 (Chargebacks), Section 6 (Modifications — prospective-only rule), Section 7 (Suspension and Community Conduct), Section 8 (Platform-Wide Resets), Section 9 (Intellectual Property), Section 10 / 10.1 (Limitation of Liability and Third-Party Vendor cap), Section 11 (Indemnification), Section 12 (Dispute Resolution and Arbitration), Section 13 (Governing Law), Section 14 (Privacy Policy), or Section 15 (General Provisions). Version 4.0 is preserved by Section 6 for any account purchased before the effective date of this version.

Version 4.0 changes (2026-05-03): Updated Section 5.1 (Fees) to add activation fees (charged on two-phase challenges after eval pass) to the enumerated list of fee types and to point readers to Sections 1.6–1.10 of the Trader Agreement for the full Challenge fee framework. Updated Section 5.2 (Refunds) to add activation fees to the non-refundability rule. Clarified the no-subscription framing applies to both Trade League and Challenges, with each one-time charge (entry, reset, activation) treated as a separate transaction. Effective date moved from July 1, 2026 to June 1, 2026 to ensure the legal docs govern any payment accepted on or after that date even if product launch slips. The substantive new product mechanics (milestone payouts, eval / funded phases, lock-at-base drawdown) are described in the companion Trader Agreement v4.0 release. No changes to Section 1 (Acceptance), Section 2 (Eligibility), Section 3 (Account Registration), Section 4 (Service Description and Third-Party Vendors), Section 5.3 (Chargebacks), Section 6 (Modifications — prospective-only rule), Section 7 (Suspension and Community Conduct), Section 8 (Platform-Wide Resets), Section 9 (Intellectual Property), Section 10 / 10.1 (Limitation of Liability and Third-Party Vendor cap), Section 11 (Indemnification), Section 12 (Dispute Resolution and Arbitration), Section 13 (Governing Law), Section 14 (Privacy Policy), or Section 15 (General Provisions). Version 3.1 is preserved by Section 6 for any account purchased before June 1, 2026.

Version 3.1 changes (2026-05-01): Added a carve-out paragraph in Section 7.1 (Community Conduct) clarifying that community-conduct violations under that Section do not result in pending-payout forfeiture, and that any active simulated trading accounts at the time of termination for a Section 7.1 violation will be refunded in full. The carve-out is explicitly scoped to Section 7.1 only — Section 5.2 (Refunds), the suspension and termination rules in the rest of Section 7 (e.g., KYC failure, abusive conduct outside community spaces, use of the Service in ways that expose TradeSport to legal/regulatory/reputational risk), and any disqualification or enforcement action under the Trader Agreement continue to apply unchanged to every other category of violation. No changes to fees, refund policy for trading violations, dispute resolution, or any other section.

Version 3.0 changes (2026-05-01): Updated Section 5.1 (Fees) to clarify that Trade League is not a subscription product — each monthly competition is a separate one-time entry, with no recurring billing and no cancellation mechanism — and to point readers to the Trade League fee schedule now set out in Section 1.2 of the Trader Agreement (entry $75, reset $50, bundle $195). Updated Section 5.2 (Refunds) to clarify that entry / reset / bundle fees are non-refundable once the simulated trading account has been provisioned. Effective date moved to July 1, 2026 to align with the first Trade League monthly competition. No changes to Section 1 (Acceptance), Section 2 (Eligibility), Section 3 (Account Registration), Section 4 (Service Description and Third-Party Vendors), Section 5.3 (Chargebacks), Section 6 (Modifications — prospective-only rule), Section 7 (Suspension and Community Conduct), Section 8 (Platform-Wide Resets), Section 9 (Intellectual Property), Section 10 / 10.1 (Limitation of Liability and Third-Party Vendor cap), Section 11 (Indemnification), Section 12 (Dispute Resolution and Arbitration), Section 13 (Governing Law), Section 14 (Privacy Policy), or Section 15 (General Provisions). Version 2.1 is preserved by Section 6 for any account purchased before the effective date of this version.

Version 2.1 changes (2026-04-30): Added Section 4.1 (Third-Party Vendors) and Section 10.1 (Cap on Third-Party Vendor Claims). Both reflect the technology vendor relationships that power the Service. No changes to existing user obligations, fees, refund policies, dispute resolution, or any other rules.