We run two systematic books of our own, so we have already built the thing you are asking for — the Pine sensors, the risk guardrails, the copier, the execution bridge, the dashboards. Now we build them for you.
Send a written specification and within 24 hours you get back a straight feasibility verdict, a fixed price, and three ways to get it done. The review is free, and when the build is delivered the source code is yours — no licence, no lock-in, and nothing stops working if you stop paying us.
Buildline is a custom software studio. They wrote a good deal of what runs our own book, so rather than send you elsewhere we put their trading work here, at their published prices. Dream it, they build it, you own it.
Buildline is a software developer — not an investment adviser, broker or fund manager. Nothing built is investment advice, no return is ever guaranteed and no profit share is taken. A backtest is hindsight with no money at risk and is not a prediction. Trading involves substantial risk of loss. Our own signal products are Apex VIP FVG and Apex VIP Quant; buying one has nothing to do with the other.
No discovery calls, no scoping retainer, no hourly rate that grows. You write down what you want, we tell you what it costs, and the price does not move unless you change the spec.
In writing, in whatever form you have it — a paragraph, a screenshot of a chart, an existing script that half works. If you are not sure what you need, say that instead.
A feasibility verdict, a fixed price, and three ways to build it — usually a cheap version, the one we recommend, and the thorough one. Free, and you owe nothing.
Against milestones tied to deliverables, never to dates. You see it working before the last payment, not after.
Source code, on delivery. No licence, no renewal, no per-account fee, and nothing stops working the day you stop paying us.
Indicators, strategies, screeners and alert plumbing. Every script is audited for repainting before it ships, and you get the source unless you would rather we publish it invite-only. We run five Pine sensors on our own book, so this is the part we do every week.
Most cheap scripts repaint — they redraw history so the backtest looks better than the live chart ever will, and the buyer finds out with money on. Every script we ship is checked for it first, and we say so in writing.
We will charge you $750 to tell you your idea does not work. That is the honest outcome of a validation and it saves you far more than it costs. We say so before you buy, not after.
MetaTrader EAs built to survive prop firm drawdown rules, exchange bots, and copy systems you own instead of rent. Every live system ships with a stop.
A risk manager sizes trades — it is a tool for a person placing orders. A risk guardian halts an account — it is a seatbelt over someone else’s EA. They get confused constantly. Are you placing the trades, or is something else?
A Pine script can only raise an alert. Something has to receive it and send the order, which is a separate execution bridge on a small server. Clients assume otherwise, so we say it before quoting rather than after.
The same engine with your branding and your settings. Custom is for when your rules do not fit the engine — and most people should start ready-made. The fee comes off a custom build if you upgrade later, so starting here costs you nothing if you outgrow it.
Most people quoting for this have never had their own money behind the code. Everything below is running right now on our own systematic book — which is why we already know where these things break.
Symbol suffix mapping, weekend gaps, broker reconnects, partial fills, a daily loss guard that has to flatten rather than merely pause — every one of these has already bitten us, and the code we write for you starts from the far side of it.
Which platform (MT4, MT5 or TradingView), which broker, and whether the account is funded or a prop challenge — the rules differ. We do not need your login and we will not ask for it. If a build needs to touch a live account, it runs on your machine with your credentials.
A prediction. We are describing infrastructure we run, not results we are promising you. Nothing on this page is a performance claim, and nothing we build comes with one.
You pay these directly, in your own accounts, and we never mark them up. They are quoted here rather than on delivery day, because that is the same information at a better time.
| What | Cost | Who pays |
|---|---|---|
| Pine indicator or strategy | $0 to run, plus a TradingView plan from ~$15/mo | You |
| Trading bot or EA | $15–$40/mo for a VPS near the broker | You |
| Ready-made dashboard or journal | $10–$25/mo small server | You |
| Trade copier | $20–$50/mo depending on account count | You |
| Pine execution bridge | $10–$25/mo small server | You |
The structure is derived from the size of the build, not negotiated. Milestones are tied to deliverables, not dates — “50% when the copier survives a broker reconnect with positions open”, never “50% on 14 March”.
| Build value | Plan | Applies to |
|---|---|---|
| Under $2,500 | 100% on order | Indicators, strategies, backtests, every ready-made system, custom risk guardian |
| $2,500 – $10,000 | 50 / 50 | Prop-firm-safe EA, custom risk manager, custom copier, exchange bot |
| Over $10,000 | 30 / 40 / 30 | A scoped build above the published floors |
Published because it costs a handful of enquiries and wins the serious ones. Everybody in this market has been burned by somebody who said yes to all of it.
Yes. On delivery the source code is yours. No licence, no renewal, no per-account fee, and nothing stops working if you stop paying us.
Send a written specification and within 24 hours you get a feasibility verdict, a fixed price and three ways to build it. If we think the idea will not work, we tell you that instead of quoting.
No. We are a software developer, not an investment adviser or fund manager. We never guarantee returns and never take a profit share. A backtest is hindsight with no money at risk and is not a prediction. Trading involves substantial risk of loss.
A repainting script redraws its own history, so the backtest looks better than the live chart ever will. Every Pine script we ship is checked for it before delivery, and the result is given to you in writing.
No. Pine can only raise an alert. Something else has to receive it and place the order, which is a separate execution bridge on a small server at $10–$25 a month.
A manager sizes trades for a person placing orders. A guardian halts an account and sits over somebody else’s EA. If you are clicking the buttons you want the manager; if a robot is, you want the guardian.
No, and deliberately so. Trade To The Top publishes trading signals. Buildline Software writes code. Buying one has nothing to do with the other.
None of it has to be formal. A paragraph and a screenshot is a specification. The more of this you cover, the more exact the price comes back — and the less likely it moves later.