Slots
What a slot is, how tiers, quarters and commitment work, and what a cancellation does.
A slot is a GMJD strategy at one prop firm. With a slot you trade that strategy on as many of your own accounts at that firm as you like. No other customer gets the same pair of strategy and firm while your slot runs. Free slots and current prices are on the plans page.
Slots are a subscription of their own. For QuantDesk, the Portfolio Builder and the Journal there is the software subscription next to it, see Plans and billing. You can book both together or each on its own.
Firms
On the plans page you first choose the firm you trade at, then a strategy for that firm. The search finds every firm we have checked, even if there is no slot there yet.
Every firm carries a stage. It tells you how the firm's rules relate to our trading.
| Stage | Meaning |
|---|---|
| official | The rules allow the trading, or the firm has confirmed it in writing. |
| unclear | The rules say nothing clear about it. You can still get a slot, but the risk is yours. |
| not allowed | The rules prohibit the trading. There is no slot for this firm. |
If a firm shows “full”, all strategies there are taken. If it shows “no slot yet”, we have not released a strategy for that firm yet.
Some firms belong together and therefore count as one. Topstep and The Futures Desk are such a case: a slot at one of them takes the same strategy at the other as well. You still choose the firm you actually trade at.
Price and tiers
Each additional slot costs less than the one before. The tiers count across all slots in your account, whatever strategy and firm they cover. The plans page shows the price for the first, second and third slot and the price from the fourth on.
Prices include VAT.
Term and commitment
You pay the first quarter in advance. A slot is committed for at least one full quarter.
How the subscription continues after the first quarter is shown on the checkout page before you order. There are two options:
- Quarterly: the subscription renews for another quarter each time.
- Monthly: after the first quarter the subscription continues month by month and is billed monthly.
What you see when you buy applies to your subscription, even if the offer changes later.
Adding a slot
A slot you add to a running subscription is charged pro rata until the end of the current period. It is charged right away to the payment method on file.
An added slot is committed as well:
- If your subscription runs quarterly, the commitment lasts until the end of the next full quarter.
- If your subscription runs monthly, the slot is committed for at least three months.
Buying
- On the plans page, choose firm and strategy and click Book slot.
- On the checkout page, enter your billing address and your TradingView name.
- Click Zahlungspflichtig bestellen (order with obligation to pay; the checkout page is in German). For your first slot you then continue to Stripe; when adding a slot, Stripe charges directly.
While you pay, the slot is reserved for you and nobody else can book it. If you cancel the checkout, it becomes free again. With a SEPA direct debit the reservation holds until the bank confirms the payment. Only then is the slot active.
After buying
The strategies run as invite-only scripts on TradingView. Our team grants your TradingView name access to the strategy by hand. This does not happen automatically, so it takes a little while.
If you have connected your Discord account, you get the strategy's role there.
If you change your TradingView name under Settings → Profil while slots are running, we remove access for the old name and grant it to the new one.
Cancelling
Under Settings → Plan you cancel single slots or all of them at once. The cancellation takes effect at the end of the commitment. Until then you can keep using the slot, and it stays taken for you. If you change your mind before that, you withdraw the cancellation in the same place.
You can always cancel, even while a payment is open or an added slot is still waiting for the bank.
On the day the slot ends, we remove your access on TradingView. The strategy's Discord role goes away then as well. After that the pair of strategy and firm is free again.
When a payment fails
Stripe retries the payment. Until then your slot keeps running. If the invoice stays open for 30 days, the slot ends and becomes free for others.
Withdrawal and refunds are governed by the terms and the law. You manage invoices, payment method and address as for the software subscription, see Billing.