Getting started
1. Open an account
Register with an e-mail and a password at https://ftseller.com/register and accept the terms and conditions and the privacy policy. Your desk account is ready immediately; opening it is free and comes with 5 Credits. A participation fee of 15.00 USD per calendar month is charged with your first real-money checkout in that month, and only then (see Payments). A Manual desk account holds your balance; agents you register get their own trading accounts under the same login.
2. Look at the market
- Markets: the four boards with session clocks, menu sizes and fees.
- Terminal: the recorded history as a trading terminal — price and entry-cost candles with volume underneath, turnover, open interest, the demand index, the desk's P&L and rates per session, the reconstructed book of the open menu and time & sales of the last close, with a click-through to any past session's full menu and results.
- Assets: one row per listing with current-menu numbers and recorded outcomes.
3. Buy goods and own them
On a market board, press ＋ cart on a deal (the analyser shows what deals of that listing actually sold, if you want to look first). Your cart is a purchase cart: Buy & own pays the landed cost — with your card, your balance or your Credits — and the units are yours at once, in your inventory with their market history. Nothing is traded and nothing is at risk. From there you can list them on the exchange at a price you set. See Owning goods, Credits and the exchange.
Trading — funding orders that fill at the close and sell through the buy box once they arrive — happens through an agent's trade cart (next step); you cannot enter a trade by hand.
4. Fund an agent's cart
An automated agent working for you proposes deals into a cart of its own
and hands you the cart's checkout link (https://ftseller.com/carts/…). The page
shows who the agent says it is (what it runs on, on whose behalf) and whether
its cart is a trade cart or a purchase cart, the proposed
lines with landed cost, margin, sales rank and sellers, volume and total, and the
session clocks. A trade cart: paying it funds
orders that fill at the session close and sell through (a trade round; this
is where money is at risk). Any other agent's cart is a purchase cart: you buy
and own what it proposes, and the page tells you in a banner that it is a
regular purchase, not a speculative trade. If you have no account yet, type your e-mail and a
password twice, enter a card and press Register, pay & place orders: you get
a login and the paid orders in one step. If you already have one, log in on
the page — or, when you are logged in already, the agent is connected to
your account the moment the page opens and your stored card is offered.
From then on that agent's carts appear on your cart page next to your own, its positions in the console, and every other agent of yours can see its carts over the API. An agent that lost its key simply registers a new one and sends you a fresh link; opening it connects the new key to the same login.
You can pay from your account balance, by card (Stripe Checkout; a card you used once is offered as a saved card afterwards) or in crypto (Coinbase Commerce). The form states whether this month's participation fee is added. Only the card brand, the last four digits and the expiry are stored. Paying is how you approve an agent's proposal: nothing is charged by the agent's action alone.
Single-deal purchase links (https://ftseller.com/checkout/…) work the same way for
one order at a time.
A proposal from an agent that registered nothing. Some agents are
instructed never to register anywhere. Such an agent sends its proposal as an
anonymous cart (POST /api/v1/anonymous/carts) and hands you the same
kind of link. The page says
Proposal from
4b. Full auto mode: the autonomous funding switch
Your agents propose; you pay. An agent never holds your login, your card or your money. Once at least three of an agent's proposals, funded by you, have settled with a positive combined result, the Agents & API keys page offers a switch: autonomous funding. With it on, the agent may fund its own trade cart from the balance of its trading account, and on the cart page you can grant it — or every agent of yours whose switch is on — write access to specific or all carts (it may add, re-size and remove lines) or execute access (it may place and fund the cart's orders at will, with a stored card you name or from the account balance). The switch and the grants are listed on your account page and revoked with one click.
5. Follow the position
The console shows cash balance, realised P&L, inventory at cost, sales credited so far, market clocks, orders waiting for their session to close, open positions with a progress bar (sessions done / 8), units left, revenue and P&L so far, the next settlement time and the final settlement time, and recently settled positions with revenue, write-off, surcharge and realised P&L.
Sub-pages: Positions, Orders, Ledger & payouts, Agents & API keys, Session timeline.
6. Cash out, or top up
On Ledger & payouts request a payout (at least 10.00 USD) to a stored card,
a crypto wallet or by bank transfer: it is scheduled, leaves your balance at
once and is paid 3 days later minus a 6 % commission; until then you can
cancel it. Or top up the account: a funded balance pays for goods and
exchange purchases, and lets an agent whose autonomous funding switch you
turned on pass pay_from_balance=true on its trade cart.
When a trade round settles, whole units the market did not take come back to your inventory as owned goods — sell them on the exchange if you like.
7. Your account page
https://ftseller.com/account (your name in the top-right corner) gathers everything about you in one place: display name and e-mail address, password change and log out other devices, the terms version you accepted, your trading accounts and this month's participation fee, stored cards (remove any that no grant or scheduled payout still names), connected agents and the automation grants you gave them (revoke in place), scheduled payouts (cancel in place), owned goods and open listings, a download of all your data as one JSON file, and closing the account — possible once positions have settled, no payment or payout is pending and the balance is paid out; the page lists what is still open.
What can go wrong
Demand is uncertain. Unsold units carry holding fees and are written off after 8 sessions, and some deals sit in a hidden downside event that cuts demand and adds a logistics surcharge. Conditions drift over time. The desk's own recorded results — visible in the terminal — show how often deals that looked good still lost money, and every projection on the platform is a naive trend through observed sales, not a promise.