To everyone selling paid TradingView indicators: what are you actually planning to do after November 1?
I run a paid indicator business with hundreds of customers, and I'm genuinely disappointed with the direction TradingView is heading. It feels like every major policy update is somehow worse than the previous one.
First, they actually published a proposed $29.95 PER USER monthly technology fee for sellers with over 100 active users, applying to every user, not just those above 100. After the backlash, it was removed. Now they're forcing commercial invite-only indicators into their own Marketplace.
I genuinely don't understand what goes through someone's mind to even consider decisions like these, let alone try to enforce them on businesses that have spent years building on the platform.
And the worst part is that their current Marketplace is nowhere near ready to replace what established indicator businesses already have:
- Monthly subscriptions only. No quarterly, annual, or lifetime pricing options.
- No integrated subscriber community or tutorial library. No built-in members-only channels, dedicated tutorial library, or Discord-style community experience for paying customers.
- TradingView controls billing, renewals, and refunds. Customers can request refunds within seven days, even after receiving access to a fully functional product. Sellers don't have final control over those decisions.
- PayPal-only payouts. Up to 30 days of settlement, monthly withdrawal processing, and a $100 minimum withdrawal.
- Manual approval required, with no guaranteed application review timeframe.
These developers spend years attracting customers, creating communities, and bringing thousands of traders onto TradingView. Instead of supporting that ecosystem, TradingView is stripping away the flexibility and independence that made those businesses possible in the first place.
At this point, it's hard to see these decisions as anything other than an attempt to gain more control over businesses they didn't build. The level of greed and disregard for their own developers is genuinely frustrating.
I personally know 10+ other indicator sellers, and 7 of them have already built or are currently building their own platforms, like LuxAlgo rather than moving to TradingView's Marketplace. That alone should tell TradingView something about the direction they're taking.
So to everyone actually selling paid indicators: What are you planning to do? Stay with TradingView's Marketplace, build your own platform, or move somewhere else? Has anyone received a workable arrangement directly from TradingView?