Pricing
McCortex OI is a workspace, not a toll booth. This page sets out plainly what it costs to use the platform, what actually consumes your capital, and how to think about the balance you bring to the market. Read it alongside the risk notes below before you fund an account, since the two subjects are connected: the platform’s pricing and fees structure is straightforward, but trading itself is not without cost.
What the workspace costs to use
There is no licence fee to unlock McCortex OI. You do not pay to create an account, you do not pay to keep it open, and you do not pay a subscription to access the strategy library, the automated execution engine or the reporting tools. The commission structure some traders expect from other platforms simply does not apply here in the way it might elsewhere: we are not charging you a fixed monthly rate to sit inside the workspace and watch it work.
This matters because a workspace that charges for access creates pressure to trade more often than a strategy calls for, just to justify the cost of being logged in. McCortex OI removes that pressure. You can set up an account, explore the interface, configure risk limits and study how strategies are described without any fee attached to the exploration itself. The cost conversation only becomes real once you decide to put capital into a live position, and even then it is not a platform fee you are paying, it is the ordinary mechanics of a market absorbing your order.
We mention spreads deliberately here because it is one of the first questions traders ask. Spread and execution conditions are a function of the market you are trading, not a McCortex OI markup layered on top. We do not publish a fixed spread table because none exists as a separate platform charge, and inventing one would misrepresent how the workspace actually operates.
Where the real cost sits: the capital you put at risk
The honest answer to “what does this cost” is that the workspace itself is free, and the capital you allocate to a strategy is the only money genuinely at risk. When a strategy opens a position, whether long or short, on spot or on futures, that position is exposed to normal market movement, and the outcome can go against you as easily as it can go in your favour. This is not a McCortex OI fee, it is the nature of holding an open position in any market.
Trading digital assets carries substantial risk, including the total loss of capital. Any figures used elsewhere on this site to illustrate how a strategy or a risk limit behaves are for explanation only, not a forecast of what your account will do, and past performance or any illustrative figure never guarantees future results. Nothing on this website is investment advice, and the decision to fund an account and deploy a strategy is yours alone to make, sized to what you can afford to have at risk.
Because execution runs on our servers rather than on your device, a strategy keeps operating within the risk limits you set even while you are offline. That continuity is a feature of how the product works, not a reason to treat the underlying market risk as smaller than it is. Risk limits reduce how a bad move plays out, they do not remove the possibility of one.
What we never charge for
To be specific about what carries no cost: opening an account is free, holding an account open with no position running is free, browsing and comparing strategies in the library is free, setting and adjusting risk limits is free, and using the reporting and alert tools is free. There is no charge for deposits themselves, and there is no separate fee for withdrawing funds from your balance back out of the workspace.
We also do not charge for the fact that a strategy runs automatically. Continuous, server-side execution is part of the product as it is described elsewhere on this site, not an add-on tier you unlock at a higher price. If a future change to the service ever introduces a genuinely new paid feature, it would be described clearly at the point you encounter it, not folded quietly into an existing balance. Nothing about how McCortex OI is priced today depends on hidden minimums, tiered account levels or a premium version of the interface sitting behind a paywall.
How to think about a starting balance
Because there is no minimum capital requirement built into the platform’s pricing, the more useful question is not “what is the minimum” but “what is a comfortable starting point.” A working range that gives a strategy enough room to operate without every small market move forcing a decision is roughly 200 to 400 USD. Below that range, position sizing and risk limits both become harder to set meaningfully, since even a conservative limit can represent a large share of a very small balance.
If your goal is to run more than one strategy at a time, or to diversify across spot and futures rather than committing everything to a single approach, a balance of 500 USD or more gives you noticeably more flexibility. It lets you set risk limits per strategy without each one crowding out the others, and it gives you room to adjust as you learn how a given approach behaves in practice.
Whichever figure you choose, treat it as capital you are prepared to see fluctuate, not capital earmarked for near-term obligations. The workspace will not ask more of you than the starting balance you set, but the market can still move against an open position, and no starting range removes that possibility. Choosing a sensible starting balance is a risk-management decision as much as a pricing one, and it deserves the same care you would give to any allocation into a volatile market.