Upgrading Your Plan

Upgrading your Arconomy plan unlocks additional capabilities such as unlimited backtesting credits, demo broker connections for paper trading, and live broker connections for real-money execution. This guide walks you through the upgrade process and describes what happens to your existing strategies and data.

How to Upgrade

You can upgrade your plan at any time from within your Arconomy account. The process takes less than a minute and your new features are available immediately.

1. Log in to your Arconomy account at trade.arconomy.app.
2. Click your profile icon to open the profile menu.
3. If you are on the Free plan, you will see a prompt to upgrade with an Upgrade Now button. Click it to proceed.
4. Enter or confirm your payment details.
5. Review the summary and confirm to complete the upgrade.

Available Upgrade Paths

Arconomy supports the following upgrade paths:

Free to Paper Trading

This is the most common upgrade path. Moving from Free to Paper Trading unlocks:

• Unlimited backtesting credits (up from 1,000 on the Free plan)
• Demo broker connections via the cTrader FIX API for paper trading
• Strategy deployment to demo accounts for real-time forward testing

Free to Pro Trader

If you are ready to skip paper trading and go straight to live execution, you can upgrade directly from Free to Pro Trader. This gives you everything in the Paper Trading plan plus the ability to connect live broker accounts and deploy strategies with real capital.

Paper Trading to Pro Trader

Once you have validated your strategies through paper trading, upgrading to Pro Trader adds:

• Live broker account connections for real-money execution via the cTrader FIX API
• Strategy deployment across both demo and live accounts

What Happens to Your Strategies

When you upgrade, all of your existing strategies, backtest results, and account data are preserved. Nothing is lost or reset during an upgrade.

Strategies Are Preserved

Every strategy you have created on your current plan carries over to your new plan. Your canvas layouts, rule configurations, and saved parameters remain exactly as they were.

Backtest History

All of your previous backtest results are retained when you upgrade. You can continue to view and analyse past results as usual.

Deployed Strategies

If you are upgrading from Paper Trading to Pro Trader, any strategies currently deployed on demo accounts will continue running without interruption. You do not need to stop and redeploy them.

Managing Your Subscription

Once subscribed, you can manage your subscription from the profile menu. Click your profile icon and you will see the Manage your Subscription section showing your current plan, status, next payment date, and an option to unsubscribe.

Your payment methods and paid invoices are also available from this area. Each invoice shows the date, amount, and payment status, and can be viewed or downloaded directly.

Downgrading Your Plan

You can also downgrade your plan or unsubscribe at any time. When you unsubscribe, your subscription remains active until the end of your current billing cycle — you continue to have access to your plan's features until the period ends.

When downgrading, keep the following in mind:

• Active deployments — any strategies deployed to broker accounts will be stopped when the downgrade takes effect.
• Broker connections — if the lower plan does not support broker connections, your connected accounts will be disconnected. Your FIX API credentials are removed from Arconomy's systems for security.
• Strategies and data — all of your strategies, backtest results, and account data are preserved regardless of which plan you are on.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does my upgrade take effect immediately?

Yes. As soon as you confirm the upgrade and payment is processed, all features of your new plan are available. There is no waiting period.

Will I lose any data when upgrading?

No. All strategies, backtest results, and account settings are fully preserved during an upgrade. Upgrading only adds features — it never removes or resets anything.

Can I skip Paper Trading and go straight to Pro Trader?

Yes. You can upgrade directly from Free to Pro Trader. However, we recommend spending some time paper trading your strategies first to validate their performance in real-time market conditions before committing real capital.

What payment methods are accepted?

Arconomy accepts major credit and debit cards (Visa, Mastercard, American Express). For details on payment methods and managing your billing information, see Billing & Invoices.