Terms of Service

Last updated: 2026-06-14

1. What this is

TradeByBar ("we", "us", "the Service") is software that connects to your own broker accounts and submits orders generated by the strategies, rules, presets, and routing settings that you configure, select, and arm. The Service does not exercise discretion over your account, does not decide which markets or strategies are suitable for you, and does not select trades for you; all such decisions are yours. You retain full control of your account and may pause, flatten, or disable any automation at any time. We are a software vendor, not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, CTA, or NFA member. Nothing on the Service is investment advice.

2. Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old and legally permitted to use automated trading software in your jurisdiction. You are responsible for confirming your eligibility. You must not be on any sanctions list maintained by OFAC, the EU, or the UK.

3. Your account, your keys, your trades

You connect your own broker credentials. We encrypt them at rest (AES-256-GCM). We never trade on accounts that are not yours. Copy-trading is restricted to accounts you yourself own. You are solely responsible for every order placed by the Service on your behalf, including orders triggered by rules you authored, by strategies you imported, or by TradingView webhooks you configured.

Automated and adaptive features (including Intelligence Mode and the Intelligence tier) execute orders within the strategies, parameters, and risk caps you select, arm, and authorize, including orders the Service selects, routes, sizes, or manages automatically. Even when the Service routes or manages trades automatically, it acts as a tool carrying out your configured instructions, not as your investment adviser, broker, or fiduciary; every resulting order is your order, for which you are solely responsible, and "autonomous" means automated execution within your settings, not a recommendation or a guarantee of any outcome.

4. No advice, no guarantee

The Service does not recommend trades. Backtests, prop-firm verdicts, win rates, and any performance figures shown in the Service describe past or simulated behavior only and are not predictions of future results. You acknowledge that automated trading can result in rapid and substantial losses. You accept all risk of loss. The Service does not exercise trading discretion over your account; it executes only the strategies, markets, and position-size limits you select, configure, and arm. The Intelligence-tier research runs, strategy router, conviction sizing, and AI copilot are automated tools that operate on inputs and selections you provide; their outputs are signals and configurations, not personalized investment or commodity-trading advice, and you must independently evaluate them.

5. Prop-firm rules

The Service includes preset prop-firm rule profiles (Lucid Trading, Topstep, Apex, FTMO, and others). These presets are best-effort summaries of publicly available rules at the time of authorship and may be outdated, incomplete, or wrong. You are responsible for verifying the actual rules of your funded-trader contract. We are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any prop firm, broker, or third-party platform named in the Service, including Topstep, Apex, FTMO, Lucid Trading, Tradovate, TradingView, Webull, and Discord. Charts are rendered with the open-source TradingView Lightweight Charts library used under the Apache License 2.0. All such names and marks are the property of their respective owners and are used only to identify the services with which the Service interoperates.

6. Subscription, billing, cancellation, and refunds

Paid features require an active subscription billed through Stripe. Plans are offered on a monthly or annual basis and auto-renew at the then-current price at the end of each billing period until you cancel. By subscribing you authorize us, through Stripe, to charge your payment method on each renewal.

Free trials. Some paid plans begin with a free trial (currently 7 days for Pro and Elite, 3 days for Intelligence). Unless you cancel before the trial ends, your payment method will be charged the plan's then-current price (the prices shown on our pricing page at the time you subscribe, for example for monthly billing Pro $39, Elite $99, Intelligence $990, or the annual equivalent if you select annual billing) on the day the trial ends, and on the same recurring schedule each billing period thereafter until you cancel. We will email you before your trial ends. Your trial-end and next renewal date are shown under Account & Billing, and you may cancel at any time, using no more steps than signup required, from the billing portal there.

Cancellation. You can cancel at any time from the billing portal (Account & Billing) or by emailing support@tradebybar.com. Cancellation stops future renewals and takes effect at the end of the current billing period; you keep access to paid features until that period ends. We do not automatically downgrade you mid-period.

Refunds. Subscription fees are non-refundable, and we do not provide refunds or credits for partial billing periods, unused time, or periods in which you did not use the Service, except (a) where a refund is required by applicable law, including mandatory consumer-protection rights, or (b) at our sole discretion. If you believe you were charged in error, contact support@tradebybar.com within 30 days of the charge and we will review it in good faith. The EU/EEA and UK right-of-withdrawal terms below also apply.

EU/EEA and UK consumers: right of withdrawal. If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA or UK, you normally have 14 days to withdraw from a distance contract for a refund. Because the Service is supplied digitally and on demand, by subscribing and asking to start using paid features immediately you expressly request that supply begin during the withdrawal period and acknowledge that you lose the right of withdrawal once supply has begun. This does not affect your statutory rights if the Service is faulty or not as described.

EU/EEA and UK consumers: immediate supply and acknowledgement. Where you subscribe and ask us to start providing the paid Service immediately, you expressly request that supply begin during the 14-day withdrawal period and you acknowledge that you lose the right of withdrawal once supply has begun. We record this request and acknowledgement at the time you subscribe and confirm it to you by email. Your statutory rights if the Service is faulty or not as described are unaffected.

7. Acceptable use

You agree not to: reverse engineer the Service; resell access; share credentials between users; use the Service to violate any law, exchange rule, or your broker's terms; or use the Service to engage in market manipulation, spoofing, or any abusive trading practice.

8. Service availability

We do not guarantee uptime. The Service may fail to place, modify, or cancel orders due to network issues, broker outages, our infrastructure problems, or for any other reason. You should not rely on the Service as a sole means of risk management. Configure broker-side stop losses for any position you cannot afford to lose.

9. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your account at our discretion, including for violation of these Terms, suspicion of fraud, or non-payment. You may close your account at any time from the Account Settings page.

10. Disclaimer of warranties

The Service is provided "as is" and "as available" without warranties of any kind, whether express, implied, or statutory. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all implied warranties, including the implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, or error-free, or that it will place, modify, or cancel any order correctly or at all, or that any strategy, backtest, or risk gate will prevent loss. No advice or information obtained from the Service creates any warranty not expressly stated here.

If you are a consumer, you keep all mandatory statutory warranty rights of your country of residence, and the exclusions above apply only to the extent your local law permits.

11. Limitation of liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, our aggregate liability for any claim arising out of or relating to the Service is limited to the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the 12 months before the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) US$100. We are not liable for trading losses, missed trades, lost profits, loss of data, or any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages.

Nothing in these Terms excludes or limits liability that cannot be excluded or limited under applicable law, including liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation, or for gross negligence or willful misconduct. If you are a consumer, you keep all mandatory statutory rights and protections of your country of residence, and the limitations above apply only to the extent your local law permits.

12. Indemnity

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless TradeByBar and its officers, directors, employees, and agents from and against any and all claims, demands, damages, losses, liabilities, costs, and expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and defense costs) arising out of or related to: (a) your use of the Service; (b) any order placed, modified, cancelled, or not placed through your account; (c) your breach of these Terms or the Risk Disclosure; (d) your violation of any law, exchange rule, broker agreement, or prop-firm contract; or (e) the strategies, rules, signals, or webhooks you authored or configured. We may, at our option, assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter subject to indemnification, in which case you agree to cooperate; you will not settle any such matter without our prior written consent. Nothing in this Section requires a consumer to indemnify us beyond what applicable mandatory law permits. This indemnity survives termination of these Terms.

13. Changes to these Terms

We may update these Terms. Material changes will be announced via email to the address on file. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.

14. Privacy and consumer rights

Our handling of your personal data is described in our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy, which form part of these Terms. If you are a consumer in the EU/EEA, UK, or California, you have additional statutory rights described there, and nothing in these Terms limits the mandatory consumer-protection or data-protection rights granted by the law of your place of residence.

15. Dispute resolution; binding individual arbitration; class-action waiver

Please read this Section carefully. It affects your legal rights, including your right to sue in court and to have a jury trial, and requires individual arbitration of most disputes.

Agreement to arbitrate. You and TradeByBar agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Risk Disclosure, the Service, or your account (a "Dispute") will be resolved by binding individual arbitration administered by JAMS under its Consumer Arbitration Minimum Standards and applicable rules then in effect, and not in court, except as stated below. This agreement to arbitrate is governed by the Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.).

Delegation. The arbitrator has exclusive authority to resolve any question about the interpretation, scope, applicability, or enforceability of this arbitration agreement, except that a court, not an arbitrator, decides the enforceability of the class-action waiver below.

Class-action and jury waiver. You and TradeByBar agree that each may bring claims against the other only in an individual capacity, and not as a plaintiff or class member in any purported class, collective, consolidated, representative, or private-attorney-general action. The arbitrator may not consolidate more than one person's claims or preside over any form of representative or class proceeding. YOU AND TRADEBYBAR WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO A JURY TRIAL.

Small-claims carve-out. Either party may bring an individual claim in a small-claims court of competent jurisdiction instead of arbitration, so long as it remains an individual action.

Injunctive and intellectual-property carve-out. Either party may seek injunctive or equitable relief in a court of competent jurisdiction to protect its intellectual property, confidential information, or to prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of the Service, without first arbitrating.

Opt-out. You may opt out of this arbitration agreement within 30 days of first accepting these Terms by emailing support@tradebybar.com from or referencing your account email with the statement "I opt out of arbitration." Opting out does not affect any other part of these Terms.

Severability. If the class-action waiver is found unenforceable as to a particular claim or request for relief, that claim or request will be severed and may proceed in court, while all other claims will remain in arbitration; if any other part of this Section is found unenforceable, the remainder of this Section will be enforced.

Consumer savings. This Section does not apply to the extent the mandatory law of your country or state of residence makes a pre-dispute arbitration agreement or a class-action waiver unenforceable for consumers, in which case Dispute resolution for you proceeds under the Governing law and disputes Section below.

16. Governing law and disputes

These Terms are governed by the laws of the State of Florida, USA, without regard to conflict-of-laws principles. Subject to the arbitration Section above, any Dispute not resolved by arbitration (including any claim within the small-claims or injunctive-relief carve-outs, or any claim if the arbitration agreement is held not to apply) will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in Florida, to whose jurisdiction you consent, and judgment on any arbitration award may be entered in any court of competent jurisdiction. However, if you are a consumer, this choice of law and forum does not deprive you of the protection of any mandatory provisions, or of the right to bring proceedings in the courts, of the country where you live. EU consumers may also have access to alternative dispute resolution entities in their country of residence.

17. General

If any provision of these Terms is held unenforceable, the remaining provisions stay in full effect. Our failure to enforce a provision is not a waiver of it. You may not assign these Terms without our consent; we may assign them in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets. These Terms, together with the policies they incorporate, are the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service.

Survival. The following Sections survive any termination or expiration of these Terms or of your account: "No advice, no guarantee", "Disclaimer of warranties", "Limitation of liability", "Indemnity", "Privacy and consumer rights", "Dispute resolution; binding individual arbitration; class-action waiver", "Governing law and disputes", and this "General" Section, along with any other provision that by its nature should survive.

18. Contact

Questions: support@tradebybar.com.