Pricing
One plan, one price
$997 a year for everything PTQ does. There are no tiers, nothing to decode, and nothing held back for a higher plan.
Part-Time Quant
Everything, one planEverything. The website, the app on your own computer, and live trading behind a switch you press.
- Hosted platform in the browser
- Strategy builder, no code
- Backtesting on real historical bars
- The full validation gate on every run
- Paper trading, with fills labelled simulated
- The PTQ OS installed on your own machine
- Live trading behind a switch you press, using your own keys
- Device seats for the machines you actually use
- Claude MCP connector
- Candlestick charts with your entries, exits and stops drawn on real bars
- Routines: scheduled updates from your real trading state, each one only after you say yes
- TradingView Pine v6 study export
- Credit allowance for compute and support chat
$997 per year
Payment comes first. Sign-up creates the account. The payment issues the key.
UK consumers have 14 days to cancel: inside that window the hosted service is refunded for the days you have not used, and the right to cancel the downloadable software ends once you download it — you confirm both separately at checkout. Read the refund policy before you buy.
What is included
Everything the product enforces
What the product does, not a marketing grid. The gate runs on every backtest. There is no version that skips it.
Research
- Hosted platform in the browser
- Strategy builder, no code
- Backtesting on real historical bars
- Candlestick charts with the strategy's entries, exits, stops and targets drawn on real bars
- Run provenance stamped on every backtest
Validation
- Probability of backtest overfitting
- Deflated Sharpe ratio
- Out-of-sample holdout
- Walk-forward optimisation: the strategy is tuned on each in-sample window and scored on the out-of-sample window that follows it
- Gate verdict with reasons on every run
- Quant mechanics library: optional, literature-based modules that test and size YOUR strategy — purged cross-validation, walk-forward degradation gate, a cost budget in Sharpe units, Sharpe-ratio error bars, mean-reversion half-life, a stationarity check, and a Monte Carlo drawdown distribution with a ruin bound
- Every mechanic cites the public research it implements and explains what it costs you as well as what it gives you — none of them is a pre-built system or a promise about returns
- Sizing and regime mechanics: volatility-targeted position sizing, Kelly sizing as an advisory that refuses to recommend when your own data can't rule out no edge, market-regime classification measured from your instrument's real bars, stop-loss coherence for mean-reversion, position buffering, and rebalance-timing-luck measurement
- Simulation Mode: run the SAME strategy under different rule settings on the same past data and see the honest diff — every change traced to a journalled firing record, nothing sorted by return, and clearly badged as historical simulation, not prediction
Research
- Performance analytics: equity over time, drawdowns with their recovery, monthly and yearly returns, exposure and rolling Sharpe — all from a real backtest, none of it projected
- Drawdown is measured mark-to-market — open positions are valued at each bar's close, so the number reflects the deepest point held, not only closed trades
- Quant composer: build entry and exit rules from indicators and comparisons; a rule the engine can't evaluate is refused with the reason, never approximated
Trading
- Paper trading, with fills labelled simulated
- The PTQ OS on your own machine
- Live trading behind the explicit arm step, your machine, your keys
- Sleeves: a per-strategy budget that can only tighten your account risk limits — whichever cap is tighter wins
- Device seats for the machines you actually use
Connectors
- Claude MCP connector
- TradingView Pine v6 study export
Routines
- Scheduled updates from your real portfolio, journal and validation runs
- Created only after your explicit yes — nothing is on by default
- Composed with the Claude CLI on your machine, on your own Claude usage; works as a plain notification without it
- Every routine is listed, editable and deletable — switching one off removes its scheduled job completely
Allowance
- Credits for compute and support chat, included in the subscription
- Support chat that answers from the same documentation you can read
Prices in USD, billed annually through Stripe. Availability is confirmed at checkout by jurisdiction. The refund policy has the current cancellation terms, and the terms govern the rest.
Pricing questions
The honest answers
How does billing work?
One payment of $997, in USD, through Stripe, covering a year. There are no seats to count, no usage tiers to decode, and no surprise line items.
Can I try it before I pay?
No. There is one plan and nothing is issued before payment — no licence key, no credits, no product access. What we do instead is tell you exactly what the software does and does not do, on this site, before you spend anything, and publish the refund terms next to the price.
Why annual only?
Because the workflow is slow on purpose. Build, validate, then paper trade for weeks before anything is live. Monthly billing sells impatience; a year matches how the product is meant to be used.
What happens if I cancel?
You keep access until the end of the period you paid for, then the account stops opening the product. Your data stays yours; export and deletion are built in and are never behind the paywall.
Can I get a refund?
UK consumers get the statutory 14 days, and nothing beyond it: cancel inside that window and the hosted service is refunded for the days you have not used, while the right to cancel the downloadable software ends once you download or activate it — you confirm that separately at checkout. There is no goodwill refund scheme on top. The refund policy sets it out in full; read it before you buy.
Is PTQ available where I live?
Availability is confirmed at checkout based on your jurisdiction. If we cannot serve your region, checkout says so before any money moves.
Policies referenced above: refunds · terms · privacy. Each legal page states its own status and effective date at the top — read it there rather than taking an FAQ's word for it.
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