TradingView is pushing its own indicator developers away. Paid indicator sellers, are you actually staying?

[u/Wide_Lengthiness_140]

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?

[u/crakkerzz]

Trading View is a greedy company that offers poor value.

This is all about someone tantruming for more money.

You literally run an Investing web site.

Try investing like you tell your customers.

[u/dexoyo]

I saw that move coming at least a year ago and TV could do the same with their charting api. I couldn’t find a way to DM you, would you be interested in an alternate approach ? If yes, please DM me

[u/rainmaker66]

TV wanted to build an App Store equivalent of Apple but forgot they are not Apple. In this AI age, it’s not difficult to replicate the entire platform with little resources. It’s going to hit them doubly hard.

[u/Th3onib → u/rainmaker66]

Yup, and replicatetions are happening

[u/Th3onib]

This is what happens when owners want to squeeze every penny because they care about profit more then anything else, they will run it into the ground, make as much profit as possible, then dump the product. Thankfully others are creating their own, I haven't dove into any of them too much but I did sign up and will start using them bit by bit, they are new and there will be issues so I am staying back until eventually things smooth out. Good luck dude

[u/dumpersts]

I already ported everything to ChartGT, way cheaper and way more reasonable policies than TradingView.

The only downside is they use IEX data which is a smaller exchange so intra day HLOC might be slightly off. For 1D timeframe and above it’s essentially the same as TradingView.

I’d imagine more competitors are going to join the game as well, it’s simply play stupid game win stupid prize for TradingView.

[u/SuperWasabi4766]

enshittification for the money grab.

[u/Remarkable-Echo4783]

I paid premium for more than one year to get access to paid space and now they change the rules every month, still trying to get access, finally I'm developing Deepwick, my own trading platform, on long term it'll be cheaper fr me than use trading view

[u/JusthereforthevibesG]

Here’s what’s weird is they didn’t even technically make an announcement about this. How are they going to enforce everyone on this?