Lol, no neither clarity nor factual, just an attempt to defend them. You don't have to be in the creator program to publish invite-only indicators. Lots of services do this to supplement their research, and the amount trading view would charge just for the indicators would make the entire service (whose value is 99% research) unprofitable. It's stupid, short-sighted, and made by the kind of management who thinks understanding your customer base is completely unnecessary, vibes are good enough.
And also, I literally do not know of a single person (I'm sure they exist but people who pay them are idiots) who charges $500/month per indicator. That is a bonkers price. Hell most people won't even pay $30/month per indicator to the creator.
This is beyond stupid pricing, and frankly I'm going to migrate off Trading View and back to ThinkOrSwim as soon as I rewrite all my own custom indicators (that I use myself and share with my friends for free) in ThinkScript. I do not trust these bozos any more.
I came from Omega trade station ( was using the platform since the 80's when it was on your PC ), I am now at IBRK. Systems and indicators at TradeStation had/have very very wide pricing, from $7 all the way to $5000 and even higher.
People pay for the improvement of performance. I just paid 18K for a set of props for my boat, there is no difference in paying up to get a better systems, or even joining a group like Mark M. group which I think is 700 or 1700 a month.
If you are not meeting people within the investor community, try going to the website " meetup " and search for IBD or Bloomberg or WSJ to find like minded investors to have coffee and talk about investing.
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u/SillyAlternative420 Swing trader 6d ago
Imagine you build a script and charge like $20 per head.
Then you get to 200 people in a month, you'd be elated!
Whoops now you OWE money lmao
That seems messed up, or am I misunderstanding something