Terms of service

TradeSmithy is software for building MetaTrader Expert Advisors. You assemble a strategy as a node graph, and the service generates MQL4 or MQL5 source code from it. It also hosts a marketplace where users sell strategies to each other, and a wallet that settles those sales.

It is a tool, not a broker, not an investment service and not an adviser. It does not execute trades, hold client funds for trading, connect to your broker, or see your trading account. Everything it produces is source code that you compile and run yourself, on your own terminal, under your own control and at your own risk.

Nothing in this service is financial, investment, tax or trading advice. No strategy you build here, buy here or read about here is a recommendation, and no part of the service is a prediction that any strategy will be profitable.

Trading foreign exchange, CFDs and other leveraged instruments carries a high risk of loss, and losses can exceed your deposit. Generated code is produced by an automated system from a graph you assembled: it can contain mistakes, it can misread your intent, and it can behave differently in a live market than in a test. You are responsible for reading, testing and validating any Expert Advisor before it touches real money. Test on a demo account first.

You need an account to use the builder, and you must give a real email address you control. You are responsible for what happens under your account, including anything done by someone you gave access to.

One person, one account. Creating additional accounts to obtain more free-plan quota, to manipulate marketplace activity, or to evade a suspension is a breach of these terms.

You must be old enough to enter a contract where you live, and old enough to trade the instruments you intend to trade.

Paid plans are $19 (Pro) and $49 (Premium) for a 30-day period, charged from your wallet balance rather than from a card. There is no automatic card billing and no stored payment instrument.

A period renews only if auto-renew is on and the balance covers it. If it does not, the account drops to Free at the end of the period. Changing plans mid-period is prorated against the time you have not used.

Each plan includes a number of metered actions — AI assistant messages, code exports and backtest runs — with both a per-period and a per-day limit. Those limits are enforced by the server, they are published in the app, and they can be reached. Unused allowance does not carry over.

The wallet holds a balance in US dollars that you top up with cryptocurrency through our payment processor. A balance is credit for use inside this service. It is not a deposit, it is not held on trust, it earns no interest, and it is not a payment or banking service.

Cryptocurrency payments are irreversible once confirmed on their network. A top-up is credited when the processor confirms it. If a payment arrives short, late, or in the wrong currency, it is flagged for manual review rather than silently dropped — contact us and we will resolve it.

We do not offer a self-service refund on a marketplace purchase, because a strategy can be opened, read and exported within a minute of buying it, and a returnable copy is indistinguishable from a free one. Where a purchase fails, duplicates, or delivers something materially different from what the listing described, contact us: an operator can reverse a sale in full. This paragraph does not limit rights you have by law, which may be greater — see the review note below.

Publishing requires a paid plan. You set the price, up to $1,000, and you may list a strategy for free.

Buying a strategy gives you your own copy to use, edit and export for your own trading, for as long as you keep it. It does not give you the right to resell or republish it, as your own work or anyone else's.

Commission is 15% on Pro and 5% on Premium, taken at the moment of sale from the plan you are on at that moment. The rest is credited to your wallet immediately; there is nothing to claim and no payout delay.

You may only publish a strategy that is yours to publish. A strategy you bought here cannot be relisted — the service records where every purchased copy came from and refuses to publish one. If your strategy ships a compiled custom indicator file, you must confirm you have the right to distribute that file, because buyers receive a copy of it.

We may unlist a listing that is misleading, infringing, or presented as something it is not. A listing that has buyers is never deleted, because buyers restore their copies from it.

Money you earn from sales is credited to your wallet and can be spent inside this service — on your plan, and on other users' strategies. There is currently no way to withdraw it to a bank account, a card or a crypto address.

We intend to add a withdrawal path. Until it exists, treat marketplace earnings as credit for use here and price your listings on that basis. If we discontinue the marketplace, we will tell sellers before doing so and set out how outstanding balances will be handled.

The service spends real money on your behalf on every AI request and every backtest, and it hosts code that other people compile and run. The limits below exist for those two reasons.

You own the strategies you build and the code generated from them. We claim no ownership of your graphs, your generated Expert Advisors, or your uploaded indicator files.

We store and process them only to run the service for you: saving your projects, generating code, running a backtest you asked for, and delivering a copy to a buyer when you sell one. When you publish a listing, you grant us permission to store that strategy and deliver it to buyers, for as long as the listing exists and for as long as buyers can restore their copies.

The service is provided as it is. We do not promise it will be uninterrupted, that generated code will compile in every case, or that any particular feature will keep working in the form it has today.

Some capabilities are still being built and are labelled as such in the app. Where a feature is marked as in development, treat it as not yet available rather than as something you are buying.

We may change these terms. If a change materially affects what you are paying for, we will say so in the app before it takes effect for you.

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for trading losses, for lost profits, or for anything that follows from code you generated here being run on a live account. That is the nature of the tool: it writes what your graph describes, and the decision to trade it is yours.

Nothing here excludes liability that cannot lawfully be excluded, including for fraud, or for death or personal injury caused by negligence.

You may stop using the service at any time. Ask us to delete your account and we will delete your projects, listings and personal data, subject to what we must keep for accounting and fraud-prevention purposes.

We may suspend or close an account that breaches these terms. Where we do, we will say why unless telling you would compromise an investigation. Buyers keep access to strategies they already paid for.