Script authors on TradingView will be able to sell access to invite-only indicators and strategies only through its Marketplace from Sunday, November 1. Paid access to those scripts will have to be bought through TradingView, which collects the payment and pays the author
Since March 2020, vendors had been able to charge for invite-only scripts on their own terms.
TradingView has more than 100 million users, as FinanceMagnates.com reported when Darwinex connected its investor marketplace to the platform in July. Its Marketplace listed 52 paid spaces today, priced from $4.99 to $199 a month, by FinanceMagnates.com's count.
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TradingView said in August that 39 creators had a paid space and more than 1,000 had applied.
Existing Buyers Keep Access, Renewals Move
TradingView, run by former chief financial officer Oleg Mukhanov since January 2024, announced the change on September 30. It said the Marketplace gives buyers clear payment and refund terms, lets it review every paid indicator and helps it act faster on breaches of its House Rules.
Traders who paid for access before November 1 keep it for the period they bought. That includes lifetime access. After that date, vendors may not take payments outside the Marketplace to renew or extend access.
Vendors who do so without contacting TradingView about joining will have their invite-only scripts blocked. Those who want to keep selling were asked to write in before the deadline to agree a transition period and the handling of existing customers.
The ban also covers script access bundled into another paid product or service. Invite-only scripts shared without payment are not affected, according to the announcement.
On TradingView, a script is a custom indicator or trading strategy written in Pine Script, the platform’s own programming language, and run directly on its charts. An invite-only script can be used only by people its creator grants access to, which is how paid scripts have been sold.
TradingView’s Creator Program terms define an author as “a TradingView user approved to participate in the Creator Program and publish paid content,” and a paid space as a collection of invite-only indicators and strategies offered for a monthly fee.
How Marketplace Payments Work
Money is handled under TradingView's Creator Program terms. They put the platform fee at 0% per transaction.
An earlier version of the terms said the rate would apply at least until October 1, 2026, as FinanceMagnates.com reported in August, when cTrader added subscriptions to its own store. The current version names no end date and says:
"TradingView may change the platform fee, but only with advance notice to Authors."
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Authors whose paid space was approved before April 1, 2026 keep the 0% rate for as long as the space stays active, the terms say. Payouts go out once a month through PayPal, with a minimum withdrawal of $100.
Will It Stay Free?
Not everyone expects the 0% rate to last. After the announcement, script sellers on X questioned how long selling through TradingView would stay free, and some pointed to a per-user “Technology Fee” for popular invite-only scripts that they said had appeared in TradingView’s terms.
🚨 TradingView killed the $29.95/user fee drama - but replaced it with something MUCH bigger. From Nov 1: • Commercial Invite-Only scripts/indicators move to Marketplace • Whop → TradingView paid access effectively ends • 7-day refund window • No grandfathered pricing • Payout settlement can take up to 30 days • 0% platform fee today - but not guaranteed forever TradingView is now taking much more control over the paid Pine Script ecosystem. Better deal - or just a different kind of platform risk? Stay with @tradingview , move to @NinjaTrader / cTrader / MetaTrader / Sierra Chart, or build your own? #TradingView
— Herman Trading (@RHerman) September 30, 2026
TradingView has not confirmed such a fee, and the Creator Program terms still put the platform fee at 0%.
TradingView will now charge the creator of an invite-only script $30 per month per user accessing that script. I have 1100 users of the QE Pro script to whom I've given FREE access, but free or paid subscribers don't change anything. TradingView wants its $30/user/month, which in my case equates to $33000 = ₹31,64,789 Per month. 🙈 I have no choice but to revoke access for those 1100 subscribers. The same will be the fate of the paid QE Ultra. Apologies to all.
— Nitin R (@finallynitin) September 29, 2026
Kathy Lien, managing director at BK Asset Management, noted that the terms allow the platform to change the fee, and said some vendors could move their indicators to MetaTrader 5 or NinjaTrader instead.
TradingView says the aim is control over quality and buyer protection: “We’re moving sales of access to scripts to our Marketplace, where we can manage the entire process end to end,” it wrote on September 30.
The change also puts every paid script sale through TradingView’s own checkout. Once that is in place, the platform can start taking a cut of each sale by changing one line in its terms, giving only advance notice.
What Rival Stores Charge
MetaQuotes and Spotware, which run their own stores for paid trading tools, both take a share of every sale. Their MetaTrader and cTrader are among the platforms whose web traffic FM Intelligence's platform comparison tool tracks by country.
MetaQuotes charges a 20% commission on products sold in its MQL5 Market, according to the store's rules. Spotware takes 30% on paid products in cTrader Store, which it opened to algo developers in December 2024.
TradingView did not respond to a request for comment.
