CALLERLAB Program: Plus
Teaching Resource for Triple Trade
Updated: August 2026
Links: Standard – Analyze – Module – Teach – Other – Extend
Teaching Order: After Slip the Clutch
Recently taught calls: Cut the Diamond, Thar Family
Background: Triple Trade was defined by Roger Chapman from Winter Haven, Florida in 1970. The original definition was “From a Tidal Wave or Line of eight with couples alternately facing: Ends stand pat as the three couples in the center swing half.”
Triple Trade was in the Mainstream Plus One list in 1978. It was moved to Advanced in 1995 and listed in A-1. Moved to Plus in 2026.
Definition:
Starting formations: Tidal Wave, Tidal Two-Faced Line, Point-to-Point Diamonds, Six-Dancer Ocean Wave, or any 3 Pairs of Adjacent Dancers
Dance action: The two end dancers remain in place as the three adjacent Pairs of dancers (the six in the center) Trade with each other.
Ending formations: Tidal Waves and Tidal Two-Faced Lines end in the same formation as they started and with the same handedness.
Timing: 4
Link to Taminations: Taminations Triple Trade