How we operate

This page sets out what High Tide Trading is, what it isn't, and the rules we hold ourselves to. The formal detail lives in the Terms, Privacy Policy, Refund Policy and Risk Warning.

We sell software

High Tide Trading builds and sells Expert Advisors and tools for MetaTrader. That's the whole business. We don't manage accounts and we don't tell anyone what to trade.

Nothing on this website is financial advice, investment advice, a personal recommendation or an invitation to trade. We don't know your circumstances, and nothing here is tailored to them.

We are not FCA regulated

High Tide Trading is not authorised or regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority. We don't need to be, because selling software isn't a regulated activity — but it also means you don't have the protections you'd have when dealing with an authorised firm, including access to the Financial Ombudsman Service or the Financial Services Compensation Scheme in relation to anything we sell.

That's worth knowing before you buy from us or from anyone else in this market.

How we handle performance information

Any results we publish are clearly labelled. Backtest results are hypothetical, produced by the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester on historical data and are not records of live trading. Where we publish them we say so on the image itself, so the caveat travels with the chart if it's shared.

We don't publish return projections, we don't promise outcomes, and we don't present simulated results as if they were live. If we ever publish live results, they'll be labelled as live and verifiable.

Affiliate links

Some pages carry affiliate links to other developers' software and to our VPS provider. Where they do, it says so at the top of the page, not buried at the bottom.

If you buy through one we may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you, and you're always free to go directly to the provider instead. We only link to things we use on our own accounts, and where we have reservations about something we say so on its page rather than quietly leaving them out.

Licensing and why we do it the way we do

Our software isn't locked to your account number. Plenty of developers lock theirs, and we understand why, but it means asking permission every time you change broker, open a demo or move to a new VPS. We'd rather not put that on people who've just paid us.

So it runs on trust, backed by the licence terms. Please don't resell or pass on the files — if they start circulating we'll have to add locking, and everyone who bought honestly ends up with the more annoying version.

Your data

We collect your name and email so we can deliver what you bought and answer your questions. We don't sell data to anyone and we don't share it for anyone else's marketing. The detail is in the Privacy Policy.

If something's wrong

Email mark@hightidetrading.co.uk. We answer our own support. There's a 30-day money-back guarantee on everything we sell, and your statutory rights sit on top of that — details in the Refund Policy.

Risk

Automated trading carries real risk, including losing more than your deposit on leveraged products. Before you run anything on real money, please read the Risk Warning properly. It's short, and it's the page we'd most want you to read.