Your code should make money for you. Not whoever copies it.
Lockingood protects MQL4 and MQL5 programs — control who can run your EA or indicator, and manage every licence after the file leaves your hands. Built for MQL first, and it works just as well for other compiled languages too.
Once your product leaves your hands, control usually leaves with it.
One Licence Holder becomes many
A file, key, or account can end up shared far beyond the licence you sold. Without activation limits, distribution is hard to control.
Critical logic gets exposed
Lockingood can move selected functions out of your distributed binary and into a separately protected layer — or, on Premium, keep them on the server entirely.
You lose sight of the product
The Vendor Dashboard keeps your products, issued licences, active licences, and subscription state in one place — for every product you sell.
From valuable code to controlled use.
Protect the critical points
Identify the functions that matter most and move them behind Lockingood's protection layer — with optional server-side handling on Premium.
Add your product
Set the description, trial length, and allowed activations in your Vendor Dashboard.
Create the licence
Issue licences manually, or pass payment information straight to our WEB API endpoint.
Validate every use, track every licence
Every licence you issue to a Licence Holder appears in your Vendor Dashboard, complete with its current status — and you can change that status yourself at any time. Nothing about how your products are being used is out of your control.
Choose where your critical code lives.
We offer two plans to choose from:
Core protection
Key functions live inside a separately protected layer, with additional measures designed to make unauthorised analysis materially harder.
Server-side protection
Everything in Regular, plus agreed critical functions stay on our server rather than travelling with your distributed product.
Both plans include unlimited licences, device binding, product and licence management, statistics, email support, and a ready-made storefront template you can brand as your own.
| Feature | Regular | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited number of licences | ||
| Device binding | ||
| Email support | ||
| Licence statistics | ||
| Product state management | ||
| Server-side protection | ||
| 1 month (30 days) / product | €30.00 | €100.00 |
| 3 month (91 days) / product | €85.00 | €280.00 |
| 6 month (183 days) / product | €160.00 | €530.00 |
| 1 year (365 days) / product | €300.00 | €1000.00 |
Created by people who sell software themselves.
Forex-SoftProgramming builds MQL4 and MQL5 trading software. When we started selling our own programs, we needed a dependable way to protect and license them — that's how Lockingood was born.
No protection can make software impossible to crack, and no technical measure replaces your legal copyright. What Lockingood does is practical: raise the cost and effort of unauthorised use to the point where copying or cracking your product simply isn't worth it. You can't make software impossible to crack. You can make cracking it harder, more expensive, and less profitable.
Lockingood was built specifically to protect MQL4 and MQL5 trading programs, and that's still where most of our experience lives. The same licensing and validation approach can extend to other compiled languages — .NET, Python, C++ — for vendors who need it, but MQL is where we focus.
Our own backend — the licensing, validation, and dashboard systems behind Lockingood — is built on .NET, C#, and modern database technology. The protected layer for native products draws on our commercial C++ development experience.
We keep improving Lockingood based on what real vendors run into — if your setup needs something specific, tell us.
How the system works, in practice.
- Sign up with your email address and a password, then confirm the email you used.
- Log into system.
- Choose the appropriate section to take the action you want.
- To work with your profile and account settings, use the menu at the top-right of the main window.
If you're a Vendor, you can:
- View products and revenue in the dashboard.
- Create or reset a Licence Holder's licence, or add activations to it.
- Add, pause, resume, update, or archive a product.
- Edit your company details and pay for your service subscription.
Every registered user can: view their own licence statistics, and manage their account (change password, log out, delete account).
- After completing the integration steps (see "How do I integrate my product with Lockingood?" in the FAQ below), the Vendor adds the product's information to the system.
- The Vendor is responsible for distributing their product's executable file — along with the DLL prepared for that product, for MQL and other native integrations.
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The Vendor processes payments received from Licence Holders for commercial licences, in one of two ways:
- Manually — in the Vendor Dashboard.
- Automatically — by setting up an automated transfer of payment information to the endpoint we provide in our WEB API.
- The Licence Holder should receive the files and instructions on what to do with them from the Vendor.
- After following the instructions, the Licence Holder launches the product.
- If the product includes a trial licence and the Licence Holder wishes to use it, the initial launch takes place in two steps: confirming the intent to use the trial licence, and activating it.
- If it is a commercial licence, they simply need to confirm that they want to activate it.