04 · Get it
One price. No subscription. Ever.
A strategy that doesn't change shouldn't bill monthly — at $29/month, a $10,000 account pays $348 a year — more than its full-cycle STEADY edge over simply holding the index, and roughly two-thirds of ULTRA’s. We refuse to sell that. The live record
began Aug 25, 2026, so the launch price reflects that: founding licenses are
$149 for the first 25 licences, then $199, with the server set up for you; $99, then $149, on your own computer. Buy early, pay less,
keep lifetime updates.
The engine, one price, three dials included. STEADY, SELECT and ULTRA are one rule at three appetites, so they are one licence. Expansions come with the licence. Each is another return stream, validated on its own, and arrives as a switch, off until you turn it on, the day it clears its gate on the expansions page. No add-on purchases: improvements and expansions alike reach every licence.
Same strategy. Two ways to run it. Most people should take the server: it runs while your laptop is closed, nothing is missed, and the Algo-wizard sets it up in about ten minutes. The licence alone is for people who want it on their own machine. Both start in dry-run; you deliberately arm real orders. The refund window closes when you accept the software invitation.
Both include the full licence: STEADY, SELECT and ULTRA, the TradingView companion, and lifetime software updates. Expansions come with it too, as switches, as each clears its gate.
Recommended
Headless setup (always on)
On a rented server · the licence + $100 for the server setup
−25%
$199$149one-time · licence + server setup
Founding price for the first 25 licences · then $199
- The Algo-wizard rents a DigitalOcean server, installs everything on it and puts the console on your phone, in about ten minutes from your own computer
- Your laptop can close; the server runs it
- You approve the weekly login on your phone
The wizard does the setup; email support if anything stalls before your first armed trade. Hosting is about $12/month extra, paid to DigitalOcean: approximately $293 total in year one for licence, setup and hosting.
Get it running — $149
See what the server setup involves →
Full setup and licence details
- The full licence is included — all three modes, the indicator, lifetime updates; expansions optional, included as switches as each clears its gate
- The Algo-wizard gets it working — and email support covers anything that stalls before your first armed trade. One server, one IBKR account
- Runs on an always-on server — your laptop stops being part of it
- Logs itself back in after IBKR’s weekly restart; you tap approve on your phone
- Survives reboots and crashes without you — tested by killing it outright
- The Algo-wizard (one command) rents the server, copies the software, installs the broker’s gateway and joins your phone to it; about ten minutes, and you never type on the server
- Server rental is about $12/month, paid to DigitalOcean, not to us; it shows you the exact price and asks before creating anything
- Prefer another host? The guide’s long way covers Hostinger, Lightsail and Vultr, by hand
- You keep the keys; you type the passwords — we never see them
Your laptop must be awake at 5:30 PM ET on weekdays
On your computer
The licence alone · you run it on your own machine
−34%
$149$99one-time · licence
Founding price for the first 25 licences · then $149
- The same Algo-wizard installs it on your own computer instead, checks the broker link and shows the first plan, in about fifteen minutes once IB Gateway is installed
- Keep it awake at 5:30 PM ET on weekdays
- Log back into IBKR each week yourself
Your machine handles the scheduled run. No server rental is required.
Licence only — $99
See what setup looks like, step by step →
Full licence details
- All three modes — STEADY, SELECT and ULTRA; expansions optional, included as switches as each clears its gate
- Runs on your machine, your IBKR account
- Your computer must be awake at 5:30 PM ET on weekdays — that is when it runs
- IBKR signs everyone out weekly (Sunday) — you log back in yourself
- Guided setup — it installs and verifies itself
- Dry-run by default; you arm it
- Bonus if you already use TradingView: the companion indicator, invite-only; the software never needs it (what it shows)
- Lifetime updates, locked at this price
BTC + GOLD (Au)
Coming soon · the first expansion · optional · two return streams, one file
Included with every licence
No extra cost · a switch, off until you turn it on · arrives when its gate closes, earliest November 2
A bitcoin sleeve and a gold sleeve beside the engine, each on its own monthly trend rule, cash when out. Since 2018 the pair returned 23.0%/yr at a −25% worst fall against the engine’s 21.8% at −27%, Sharpe 1.13 against 0.92. Provisional, 19 September 2026. The study behind these two numbers prices its bitcoin and gold sleeves with distributions included and its engine leg without them, so the pair and the engine are not measured the same way and the gap between them is overstated by an amount we have not yet measured. The figures stay up, labelled, until that is re-run. Switches on your console for 5, 10 or 20% bitcoin and 10, 15 or 20% gold. Buy it once; it is yours for good.
Run it as bitcoin alone, gold alone, or together. The switches are yours.
- Earning its record now — on paper, in public, and in the founder’s own account since September 4
- Sold only after its operational gate closes; the checklist is on the expansions page
- Off until you switch it on; 60/20/20 recommended, 70/10/20 for less bitcoin
- Same licence, same terms: one person, one copy, forever
- The founding list hears first, at this price
See the evidence and the gate →
Live now · included with every licence
On Robinhood (no gateway, no weekly login)
The same rule, running in your Robinhood agent account
- Robinhood now lets outside agents trade a dedicated account. The Distillate connects as one: no broker gateway and no weekly login. Setup is a double-click: you sign in to Robinhood once and it asks the rest in plain questions. It runs once a day on your computer or a small server
- $0 commissions and fractional shares: from about $250, it ran within a fraction of a percent a year of the $25,000 record over 27 years of history
- Included with every licence. Live in the founder’s Robinhood agent account since September 30
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Interactive Brokers |
Robinhood |
| Available | Now | Now · live in the founder’s account since Sept 30 |
| Setup | A rented server (about $12/month) or your own computer, plus IBKR’s gateway | Double-click setup, no gateway: a one-time sign-in. Runs on your computer or a small server |
| Logins | Approve IBKR’s weekly login on your phone | None after the first |
| Trading fees | IBKR’s per-order commission | $0 |
| Shares | Whole shares | Fractional |
| Smallest account | At least $2,000 | From about $250 (tested on 27 years of history) |
| What it runs | The engine, plus the bitcoin and gold switches | The Nasdaq engine; the switches come later |
| Your money | Your own IBKR account | A separate Robinhood agent account you fund |
“A server? I have never rented one.”
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Most people buying the server option have never had a server, so here is the
whole of it before you pay for anything. A server is a computer you rent by the month
that lives in a data centre and never sleeps. That is the entire idea — your laptop
closes, this does not. You rent it yourself and pay the host directly; we never touch it.
The Algo-wizard rents it for you. One command on your own computer makes a DigitalOcean
account’s API token into a running server: 2 GB, Ubuntu, about $12 a month,
billed by the hour until you delete it. It shows you the exact plan and
price and asks before creating anything, copies itself across, installs Interactive
Brokers’ gateway, takes your broker login once (typed hidden, never seen by us), and
puts the console on your phone. You never type on the server.
Any host works: Hostinger, Lightsail, Vultr, or anything that rents Ubuntu with 2 GB, by hand, and
the guide walks that path too. We automated
DigitalOcean first because its API is simple enough to drive from one command, its control panel is the
friendliest we have seen for a first server, and it bills by the hour, so a mistake costs cents. That is the
whole reason. We are not paid to prefer it, though we earn a commission if you sign up through our link.
After that it is roughly a minute a week — tapping approve on your phone
when Interactive Brokers signs everyone out on Sunday. If nobody taps, it waits. It does
not trade badly, it just does not trade.
If that still sounds like more than you want to do, that is
what the Algo-wizard is for: one command, and it is done.
Excess return over buy & hold at the historical rates, on a $5,000 account: roughly $436 a year on ULTRA, $309 on SELECT, $159 on STEADY — excess, not total return, against a one-time price. If your account is small enough that those months
look long, don't buy it: the live record is free to
watch forever, and watching costs nothing but patience.
What happens after you pay.
- Within minutes — an email from list@algomistlabs.io with your private download
link and your licence id. The copy is stamped with that id and nothing else. Check spam
the first time; it is a new address. That email is the delivery, at any hour.
- Within a day — an invitation to your private software repository, done by
hand, so improvements reach you by pulling them (that needs the free GitHub account the
checkout asked about; if you gave no username, the email asks for one). If a day passes and
it has not arrived, email us; it means we missed it, not that you are not entitled to it.
- Already on TradingView? A bonus — your licence includes a companion indicator,
the same engine drawn on any chart, granted by hand to the username you give us. If you
do not use TradingView, nothing is missing; the software never needs it. What it shows and how to read it.
- Then it is yours to start — Start Here walks through the setup and checks
its own work. It runs in dry-run, reporting what it would have done and placing no orders,
until you arm it deliberately. Nothing trades because you bought it.
Refundable until you download it or accept the invite. The
download link and the repository invitation both sit unused until you act on them. Up to
that point one email to support@10ktrials.com gets you your money back, no questions and no
argument. The first download, or accepting the invitation, is the moment you have the
software, and software cannot be un-sent — so that is where the window closes, and we would
rather say so plainly than promise a refund we cannot actually take back.
Support is one person, and it answers. Anything at all, before or after buying:
support@10ktrials.com, answered within one business day. Setup trouble is the most common
mail and the fastest fixed: send what the screen said.
Dry-run is how it starts, not a trial. It ships unarmed and stays that way until
you arm it; the refund window closes when you download it or accept the invite, before that. Point it at your own account, leave it unarmed, and it reports what it would have
done for as long as you like without placing a single order. That is a longer and more
honest look than fourteen days of buyer's remorse, and it costs you nothing to run.
Trading losses are never grounds for a refund. The drawdowns on this page are real
and they are the deal.
The questions people actually ask.
Can you see or touch my money?
No. It runs on your computer against your own Interactive Brokers account, using
credentials you type and we never see. We have no access to your account, cannot place a
trade in it, and cannot withdraw from it. There is nothing to trust us with.
What if I want to stop?
Disarm it. That takes one click or one command and it goes back to reporting without
trading. Your positions stay exactly as they are — stopping the software does not
liquidate anything. You decide what to do with what you hold.
What does setup actually involve?
About fifteen minutes once on your own computer (twenty if IB Gateway still has to be installed), or about ten minutes once for a rented server (one command rents it and sets it up), then a minute a week. Both are written out step by step, with the screens as they appear: on your own computer and on a small rented server.
What is the TradingView companion?
A bonus for licence holders who already use TradingView: the Distillate's rules written again as an invite-only indicator, so you can watch the engine's line, its rebalances and its scoreboard against buy-and-hold on any chart. It places no orders and the software never needs it. How to get it and read it.
What if I miss the weekly login?
It does not trade until you log back in. Interactive Brokers signs everyone out around
Sunday; until the session is back, the strategy reports that it cannot reach the broker
and refuses to size an order it cannot verify. A missed run leaves the account exactly where it
was, which on a bad day is the wrong place; it does not add risk, and it does not remove any.
What is SELECT?
The NASDAQ sleeve on its own — one index, not a stock pick — with STEADY’s
monthly trend exit on top. Over the full cycle it earns more than the same NASDAQ sleeve run with no exit at all
(14.7% against 12.6% for the same sleeve with no exit) at well under half the worst drawdown
(−21% against −50%). The no-exit version keeps the lead only in a long bull
— since 2009 it is 19.4% to SELECT’s 18.5% —
because an exit that steps out and back in during a grind is a cost, not a rescue.
What is ULTRA?
SELECT’s rule run at a hotter calibration: more exposure to the same NASDAQ sleeve, the
same trend exit with the same 5% band and two-close patience. Full cycle 17.3%/yr with a
worst drawdown of −27%; since 2009, 22.2%/yr. It earns its place because of the
exit: the same dial without one carries a −58% worst case and a Sharpe below the base rule.
This one passed the same audit as the rest — a de-risked
control at equal drawdown, random-exit placebos, band and window perturbation — and
still spends more of its life under water than SELECT does. More return, slightly less
return per unit of risk. If that trade does not appeal, SELECT is the same engine at the
standard dial. One more number, because it is the one that will hurt: a 4% overnight gap costs about 8% at this dial and cannot be seen coming — roughly 2% of the account more than SELECT would lose on the same night.
Can it see a crash coming?
No, and we have tried harder than most. Nine forecasting signals were tested against the
engine’s own history — VIX, VVIX, dealer gamma, implied-volatility skew, quoted
spreads, option volume, breadth, dispersion, and the shape of the curve. The best of them
(option volume) flagged real shock days about a quarter of the time, and for every real one it
flagged fifteen that never came; de-risking on all sixteen costs more than the one. VIX as a
governor on the ULTRA cap was the last try: it left the worst day exactly where it was, because
the engine’s worst days came from calm and from stress alike — five of the eight
worst had VIX under 20 the night before, three had it over 27. What the engine does do
is size for the volatility it can measure and step aside in confirmed downtrends. The gap
inside a single night is the risk you keep, and the engine table prices it: hotter dial, bigger
night.
Does it work in an IRA?
Yes, and there is a real argument for it: the strategy rebalances roughly a dozen to twenty times
a year, and in a taxable account those are taxable events. A tax-sheltered account removes
that drag entirely — and the drag is not small. Measured on the backtest
with lot-level accounting, and with the bill paid annually so it compounds out of
the account, a taxable account costs roughly 2.6 to 4.5 percentage points a
year depending on your bracket, and that model leaves out two things that make the bill larger: the wash-sale rule, about a third of a point a year (a twin-fund workaround was tested and recovers almost none of it; grave 120), and tax on the interest the cash earns, about a fifth of a point (a fund that defers that interest into capital gains recovers most of the fifth; it is in the setup guide). That is larger than every other cost and
every design choice in the strategy combined, and nothing inside the rule recovers
it: lot-selection methods only defer the bill, and we tested making the rebalance
rule dodge holding periods — it does nothing. The account you run it in matters
more than any setting in it. That is a measurement of what a trading schedule costs,
not tax advice. Setup asks whether the account is cash or margin. On a cash account it waits for settled cash rather than risking a violation; on a margin account, including an IRA with IRA margin, sale proceeds spend at once, so a buy that needs the parked cash sells the T-bill fund and buys in the same session. It never borrows on either.
What if it breaks while I am not watching?
Every check that fails stands the strategy down rather than forcing a trade: no
account value, no order; a price that fails sanity, no order; the exchange closed, no
order. The failure mode is that it does nothing and tells you, which is the direction you
want a machine to fail in.
Do I need to pay for market data?
No, and this surprises people who have used broker APIs before. The strategy never
asks Interactive Brokers for a price — it asks only for your account value and your
positions, and gets prices from a public source instead. The market data fees that
normally come with API trading do not apply. Your account does need to be IBKR
Pro, not Lite: Lite is not supported on the API.
Why no subscription?
Because the core rules are frozen — testing continues, the rules do not move — and billing you monthly for a rule that does not
change would give us a reason to keep tinkering with something that works. A subscription
also puts us on the wrong side of the table: it pays us to hold your access hostage
rather than to be right. One payment, updates included, and it keeps running whether or
not you ever hear from us again.
Who is behind this.
One person, one small account, in public. I carried these strategy ideas around for years without the ability to build and test them properly; when the tools changed, nearly everything I could think but never execute finally got its trial, and the graveyard is what came through. This is the one that lived, and it runs with a few thousand dollars of my own money, published nightly whether it is up or down. If the account size makes you trust it less, that is the correct reaction. The longer version → · questions go to support@10ktrials.com and reach a human · the graveyard, one stone a day, on X and Instagram.
