Pricing
Free while we are in beta.
Reading any strategy’s record costs nothing and needs no account. What you pay after that depends on which side of the marketplace you are on.
What listing costs
For running a strategy on this platform: the public record is free, and the fee applies to subscription revenue only, never to your trading.
10% applies only once you charge for subscriptions, never to your trading.
- The record read from your broker, not typed by you
- A permanent public page nobody can edit, including us
- A verification badge for your own site, README or profile
- Anyone can recompute the whole chain themselves
- Six routes in if your broker is not supported, including the API
- Charge whenever you want to, or never
On one $29 subscription
- Subscriber pays
- $29.00
- Platform fee (10%)
- -$2.90
- Card processing (2.9% + 30c)
- -$1.14
- You receive
- $24.96
Card processing is Stripe’s, not ours, and comes out of your share. You set the price; this is the arithmetic at the default one.
Questions about listing
What does it cost to list?
Nothing to list, nothing to keep a record, and nothing at all until you charge. On subscription revenue the platform fee is 10%, and card processing comes out of your share on top of that, so a $29 subscription pays you about $24.96. Nothing is ever taken from your trading.
When can I start charging?
Once a brokerage account backs your record. A strategy nobody has checked against an account can keep a public record and build an audience, but it cannot charge for a subscription.
Can a strategy sell if it trades simulated money?
Yes, once a brokerage account backs its record, and it is labeled as simulated on every screen that asks anyone for money. The label is not something you can turn off.
How do I send orders?
One HTTP call per order is the short answer. If your software cannot send a header, a TradingView webhook, MetaTrader, NinjaTrader or a plain email all reach the same record. The route you pick is not visible to subscribers and does not change how the record is sealed.
What following costs
For following a strategy, and for letting one trade your own brokerage account inside limits you set. Your money stays at your broker in both cases.
Needs a brokerage connection that can place orders, and a signed acknowledgment.
- Printhouse trades your own account automatically, inside limits you set
- Every trade it makes, on its record and by email or push
- Simulate it first, on practice money you choose
- No performance fee, and your money never leaves your broker
- A discounted rate after the beta, for having joined during it
Printhouse's trades, without letting it trade your account.
- Every Printhouse trade, on its record and by email or push
- Read them here, or poll them from your own software with a feed key
- Cancel any time, from your account
- Connect a brokerage later if you want it to trade for you
Card payments are not switched on yet. Letting Printhouse trade your account is free during the beta, and the $29 subscription opens when billing does. Nothing on this page will cost you anything before then.
Questions about following
So is it free, or is it $29?
Reading any record is free, with no account: the daily closes, the figures, and when each trade was sealed. The trades themselves are for subscribers. Letting Printhouse trade your account is free during the beta, and you see every trade it makes; $29 a month gets you its trades without that, once card payments go live.
What do I get for $29 that I do not get free?
Printhouse's trades without letting it trade your account: each one by email or push the minute the broker reports it, on its record, and through the API with a feed key. One thing a subscription cannot replace: for a strategy to trade your account automatically it needs a connection to that account, so auto-execution means connecting a broker either way.
Do I need a brokerage account?
Not to read records, and not for the $29 subscription. Having Printhouse trade for you, free during the beta, needs a connection with trading permission, and it stays your account: the money never moves to us.
What happens when beta ends?
Letting Printhouse trade your account stops being free. Anyone who joined during the beta pays a discounted rate, and you will hear about the change before it applies rather than after. Listing a strategy stays free.
Is there a performance fee?
No, and there will not be. A fee that scales with gains gives a platform a reason to favour risky strategies, and we would rather not have that reason.
Can I cancel?
Whenever you like, from your account. Auto-execution stops immediately, and you can revoke access at your broker independently of us.
How this compares
Most platforms charge a creator to list and then take half of what they earn. That is the part worth rebuilding.
| Feature | TrueFills | Other providers |
|---|---|---|
| Managers | ||
| List a strategy | ||
| List a strategy | ●Free | ○$19 to $99 / month |
| Cut of your subscription revenue | ||
| Cut of your subscription revenue | ●10% | ○40 to 50% |
| Who can charge | ||
| Who can charge | ●Verified strategies only | ○Anyone who pays to list |
| Verified public record | ||
| Verified public record | ●Included, free, once you link the account you trade | ○Limited or paid |
| Post orders via API | ||
| Post orders via API | ●Free, unlimited | ○Restricted or dated API |
| Investors | ||
| Follow a strategy | ||
| Follow a strategy | ●Free in beta while Printhouse trades your account, else $29 / month | ●Flat monthly |
| Let it trade for you | ||
| Let it trade for you | ●Included, no extra fee, limits you set | ○Often a higher tier |
| Your funds | ||
| Your funds | ●Stay in your own broker | ●Stay in your own broker |
| Performance fees | ||
| Performance fees | ●None | ○Sometimes |
Why records are free: every verified record brings its own audience, and audiences are what strategies monetize. Charging for the record would tax the thing that grows the marketplace.
Trading involves risk of loss. Past performance, live or simulated, does not guarantee future results.