Software licence terms
Note
This is a summary. The binding documents are the terms and conditions and the privacy statement for the software as PDFs, both in version 2.0, October 2026.
Subject matter
The Winkler Trading Station is an analysis and operating tool for order flow. It displays market data, manages drawings, alerts and strategy signals, and forwards orders triggered by the user to a trading connection of the user's choosing (NinjaTrader 8, MetaTrader 5 or ATAS) or to the built-in paper trading book.
With the Strategie Builder the user puts together strategies of their own from indicators, market data, rules and AI evaluations. They produce alerts only: a message and a sound in the station, on request on the paired phone while the page is open there, and as a marker in chart and heatmap — there, since 1.9.108, also with the lines of their paper position and of their "Chart level" blocks, which the station shows only on the user's machine, never on the phone and never in a picture to an AI. Whatever the user takes from them into an alert stays an alert. The Strategie Builder never places, changes or cancels an order. The "Paper trade" block, too, only follows a virtual position: it places no order, and its results are not trading results actually achieved. The bundled templates ("WTS strategies") are teaching material; the user sets the rules of a strategy — also when taking over a template — and only the user switches it on. On request the station syncs the strategies through the hub between the account's machines on which the user switches sync on (strategy sync, off by default); whether a strategy's alerts are switched on is decided by the user on each machine — sync never switches alerts on. It is a convenience and not a backup: the strategies on the user's machines remain what counts.
It is not investment advice, not a recommendation and not a promise about trading results. The provider is neither a broker nor an asset manager, investment adviser or financial services institution; no accounts are held, no funds are accepted and no orders are executed in the provider's own name.
The station includes phone access, switched off out of the box. Once the user switches it on, a paired phone on the local network shows prices, account and position and can place orders, flatten, set protective orders, choose account and route, arm or disarm and trigger the panic button — through the same checks as at the PC. With the "phone tunnel" right unlocked for the account this also works from outside; the phone access data then passes through the provider's hub. A paired phone is not an additional seat.
Right of use
The user receives a simple, non-exclusive, non-transferable right to use the software as intended for the term of the contract. One account entitles the holder to use it on one machine; to enforce that, a machine identifier is formed at sign-in and counted. If the user changes machines, the provider releases the seat on request.
Not permitted: passing on access credentials, sharing an account beyond the agreed seats, sublicensing, renting out and reselling. Reverse engineering is permitted only within the limits of section 69e UrhG; copyright notices may not be removed.
Access and activation
How the contract comes about depends on the route taken: through this website with the free account and, for a plan, with the order at CopeCart (terms, clause 2); otherwise when the provider activates an account and the user signs in for the first time. At the first sign-in of an account on a machine the user confirms the terms and acknowledges the privacy statement; without that confirmation the sign-in is not carried out. The station records the confirmation on that machine only; it is not transmitted to the provider.
The feature set is unlocked per account. The right to real-money trading, the "AI Analytics" unlock for the "Analytics" window and for the AI and Analytics blocks and the "AI Creator" of the Strategie Builder, the phone tunnel, strategy sync and the signal mode are unlocked separately per account by the provider; a new account does not have them at first, not even after buying a plan on this site (terms, clause 2), and without an unlock the feature stays inaccessible in the station. There is an entitlement to unlocking where it has been expressly agreed or is part of the plan purchased. The provider owes such an unlock for the term of the contract and may restrict it only under the conditions on which it may change the software (terms, clause 5; binding version, clause 7) or on reasonable suspicion of misuse. An unlock granted free of charge may be withdrawn for the future. The "Analytics" window and the Strategie Builder blocks that use its data take their candles from TradingView's public market data feed, which the station fetches only after the user has consented; the "GEX", "Option trades" and "News" overlays of the "Analytics" window fetch data from Cboe, Wikipedia and the White House, each service likewise only after consent. If the provider withdraws the unlock, the station ends the "Analytics" window within a minute, fetches nothing more for it from any of these sources and cancels a running "AI analysis".
The former add-on AI Analytics — the station's day and scalp analyses — was removed with 1.9.108; the unlock keeps its name. Since 1.9.108 the station asks each account again for its consents to TradingView and to the automatic AI runs of the Strategie Builder, because AI Analytics is dropped from their texts; until then it fetches nothing from TradingView and starts no AI run by itself. With version 2.0 both consents stay as they are.
An account may be run as a trial account; real-money trading, account switching, the strategies (the Strategie Builder for viewing only) and parts of the market selection are then unavailable, and the station says so. This does NOT mean the fourteen-day trial offered on this site: that one leads to an account without these restrictions, but also without the unlocks above (terms, clause 2).
If the provider changes the terms, the station presents the new version at the next sign-in — on a machine where the user confirmed an earlier version, with the version last confirmed and the main changes — and it applies only once confirmed. Anyone not wishing to confirm may object and terminate the contract without notice; fees already paid for the period after that are refunded — for a running plan to the day, for the permanent plan one thirty-sixth of the price for every full month up to 36 months after the purchase (binding version, clause 12).
Term
For contracts concluded through this website, term and cancellation follow clause 3b of this website's terms: the recurring plans can be cancelled at any time with effect from the end of the paid term, and the one-off plan has no term. Otherwise the contract runs for an indefinite period. The user may terminate it at any time, with a paid period to its end; the provider with 14 days' notice to the end of a month, and for a paid period no earlier than its end. The provider cannot terminate paid lifetime access by ordinary notice. Both sides keep the right to terminate for good cause. When the contract ends the right of use lapses; installed copies are to be deleted. With the account the provider also deletes the copy of the strategies on the hub.
Binding versions
- Terms and conditions:
/docs/wts-agb.pdf - Privacy statement for the software:
/docs/wts-datenschutz.pdf
Where this summary and the PDF versions conflict, the PDF versions apply.
One exception, and it matters. For contracts concluded through this website the terms prevail as far as they govern prices, VAT, payment, the trial, the term, cancellation and withdrawal (terms, clause 1). This concerns the purchase above all: the seller and contract partner is CopeCart GmbH, which also issues the invoice and shows the VAT; the prices stated are final prices. If the binding version says otherwise, the sentence from the terms applies to your purchase on this site. The binding version itself draws the same line (its clause 1).
Version
This summary: 23 October 2026. The binding PDF versions: 2.0, October 2026.