Two tiers, both ship the full bot.
Basic and Pro both run the same trading engine on your machine, and both ship with the same two recommended presets — WS Terminal Standard (the equity-curve preset) and WS Terminal Max (the higher-PnL alternative). The difference is what you can do beyond loading a preset: Pro unlocks custom user presets, the in-app backtester, granular configuration editing, and Discord access.
WS Terminal trades through your own Interactive Brokers account. A few of these have lead times. Get them in motion before you subscribe so you can actually trade the day your license arrives.
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IBKR account with futures permissions enabled.
IBKR doesn't enable futures trading by default. In your live Client Portal (not paper): top-right user icon → Settings → under Trading → Trading Permissions → Futures, then follow the prompts. If the questionnaire shows no futures experience, IBKR will deny it and you'll have to retry in a few days — so don't buy until you've at least submitted the request, ideally after the approval email. Check current margins on IBKR's futures-margin page.
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IBKR real-time market data, set to Non-Professional status.
For the default contracts (/NQ, /MNQ, /ES, /MES), the CME Level 1 subscription is the cheapest path. Without real-time data, IBKR sends 15-min-delayed quotes and the bot looks broken — it's the most common silent failure.
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Enough margin in your account for the contracts you trade.
Margin requirements change with volatility. Look up the current intraday margin for your contract on IBKR's futures-margin page before sizing your account — beginners routinely under-budget here.
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Windows 10 or 11 PC (or Windows VPS for unattended).
The bot runs as a Windows desktop app. If you want it online overnight, a $20–40/mo Windows VPS works well — install IB Gateway and WS Terminal on the same VPS.
Full breakdown with screenshots and timing: read the Requirements page →
The full bot with both recommended presets. For buyers who want to run the strategy as-published without diving into parameter tuning.
- Full FVG-pyramid trading engine
- Both recommended presets — WS Terminal Standard + WS Terminal Max
- Adaptive volatility (ATR) stops
- Trailing stops
- Multi-entry pyramiding
- Position-sizing edits (initial contracts, max cap, per-add-on)
- Daily caps, end-of-day flatten
- Web dashboard with live position + trade-log views
- Optional cloud-synced trade history (off by default)
- Custom user presets (save / load / rename / delete)
- In-app backtester
- Granular configuration editing (every parameter)
- Discord community access
Everything in Basic, plus the power-user tools: tune your own strategy, validate it against history, save your work, and connect with other operators.
- Full FVG-pyramid trading engine
- Both recommended presets — WS Terminal Standard + WS Terminal Max
- Adaptive volatility (ATR) stops
- Trailing stops
- Multi-entry pyramiding
- Position-sizing edits (initial contracts, max cap, per-add-on)
- Daily caps, end-of-day flatten
- Web dashboard with live position + trade-log views
- Optional cloud-synced trade history (off by default)
- Custom user presets (save / load / rename / delete)
- In-app backtester (sweep your config against history)
- Granular configuration editing (every stop type, take-profit type, trailing mechanism, breakeven trigger, schedule field, multi-entry policy)
- Discord community access
Same engine, different toolbox
Both tiers download the same .exe. Both tiers connect to your IBKR account the same way. Both tiers trade your money on your computer using your broker — there's no difference in the underlying mechanism. Both tiers can load WS Terminal Standard (the recommended default — what the published equity curve is based on) or WS Terminal Max (the higher-PnL alternative with larger swings). Both tiers can size positions up or down within the preset.
What Pro adds is the toolset to go deeper. Tune any of the configuration knobs the presets pin (every stop type, take-profit type, trailing mechanism, breakeven trigger, schedule field, multi-entry policy), save your tuning as a custom user preset, validate any configuration against historical data with the in-app backtester, and join the Pro Discord. If you want the strategy to do what the published backtest shows it doing, Basic gets you there. If you want to understand the strategy at the parameter level — or experiment with it — Pro is the toolset.
If you're not sure which to start with: Basic is the lower-friction entry point. You can upgrade to Pro any time from your Whop account — your trade history and license carry over.
HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS HAVE MANY INHERENT LIMITATIONS, SOME OF WHICH ARE DESCRIBED BELOW. NO REPRESENTATION IS BEING MADE THAT ANY ACCOUNT WILL OR IS LIKELY TO ACHIEVE PROFITS OR LOSSES SIMILAR TO THOSE SHOWN.
IN ADDITION, HYPOTHETICAL TRADING DOES NOT INVOLVE FINANCIAL RISK, AND NO HYPOTHETICAL TRADING RECORD CAN COMPLETELY ACCOUNT FOR THE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL RISK IN ACTUAL TRADING. FOR EXAMPLE, THE ABILITY TO WITHSTAND LOSSES OR TO ADHERE TO A PARTICULAR TRADING PROGRAM IN SPITE OF TRADING LOSSES ARE MATERIAL POINTS WHICH CAN ALSO ADVERSELY AFFECT ACTUAL TRADING RESULTS. THERE ARE NUMEROUS OTHER FACTORS RELATED TO THE MARKETS IN GENERAL OR TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ANY SPECIFIC TRADING PROGRAM WHICH CANNOT BE FULLY ACCOUNTED FOR IN THE PREPARATION OF HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS AND ALL OF WHICH CAN ADVERSELY AFFECT ACTUAL TRADING RESULTS.
Refund policy summary
Subscriptions can be cancelled at any time from your Whop account. Cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing period — you keep access until that date.
Refund requests are handled through Whop. Our full refund policy is on the refund page.
We grant refunds for technical failures attributable to us (the bot literally won't run on your supported system). We do not grant refunds for losing trades — once you connect a real broker account and send live orders, you've used the product as intended. This is consistent with how IBKR, NinjaTrader, and other broker-tools handle refund requests.
Upgrading from Basic to Pro
Cancel your Basic subscription on Whop, then subscribe to Pro on
the same Whop account. Your license key, trade history, and
preferences live in %APPDATA%\WSTerminal\ — they
don't change when you switch tiers. The bot picks up the new
tier on your next launch.
Downgrading from Pro to Basic
Same path in reverse — cancel Pro, subscribe to Basic. The bot will revert to Basic's locked configuration; any custom presets you saved while on Pro are preserved on disk but become read-only.
Pick your tier and you're a few clicks from running.
Whop handles checkout. After payment, sign in with the same Whop account in the bot's first-launch wizard — no license key to copy or paste.