Risk Disclaimer

1. Substantial risk of loss

Trading can cause loss of a substantial portion or all of your capital. Margin and short positions can cause losses greater than deposited capital and debts to the broker. Strategies can suffer sustained losses, stop working, become crowded or behave differently from their history. A positive backtest, diversified label or historical drawdown does not limit future losses. Do not use money you cannot afford to lose.

Prices can gap, liquidity can disappear, exchanges can halt trading and spreads can widen. Orders can fill far from the quote because of slippage, partially fill, be rejected or fail. Intended entry or exit times are not guarantees. Overnight, opening, closing-auction and fast-moving markets can create particularly large differences.

2. An armed Reader can place real orders

When armed, My Algo can submit, replace, cancel, rebalance, reverse or close orders and positions automatically under saved settings. Closing the browser, signing out or closing the desktop does not stop it. Recovery, restart or reconnection can resume a preserved setup. Removing credentials does not reliably erase all strategy or risk instructions.

Before connection, reconnection or an account change, review the broker, paper/live mode, account identifier, strategies, allocation, leverage and risk action. Disarm or clear unwanted instructions before replacing an account. A paper/live mistake can submit real orders. Paper testing does not establish that live settings, quotes or permissions work identically.

3. Risk controls and liquidation are not guarantees

Controls act on information available to software. An account-percentage stop uses the stored account-value reference for that setup; do not assume it continuously follows the highest account value. Controls have different baselines, schedules, actions and reset rules. Disconnect-only does not liquidate. Disconnect-and-close requests account-wide liquidation. Neither guarantees a broker-native stop, execution price or loss limit.

Gaps, stale values, manual activity, deposits, withdrawals, delays, partial fills, invalid instruments, rate limits, outages or restrictions can defeat intended action or cause a threshold to be exceeded. A close request or success message is not a broker-confirmed flat account. Check remaining orders and positions; rejected, halted or quarantined holdings can remain after others close.

Ordinary Reader-only closing relies on recorded ownership and may leave independent trades. Account-wide Risk Management can cancel independent orders and close manual positions. Shared symbols and manual adjustments complicate ownership records. Do not rely on perfect isolation of Reader activity from other account activity.

4. Leverage, shorting, cash and retirement accounts

A user multiplier differs from native strategy exposure. A setting of 1x does not itself mean a model is unleveraged. Broker limits, account equity, orders, settled funds, short availability, native targets and other trading constrain exposure. Scaling down can leave cash and change returns; a ceiling cannot prevent market losses or margin-rule changes.

Cash accounts have settlement restrictions even when buying power is positive. IRA / 401(k) indicators show technical long-only characteristics, not tax advice, plan eligibility or broker authorization. Some strategies require shorting or borrowing unavailable to a restricted account. An account label does not authorize margin, short sales or every asset class. Obtain your own qualified advice on prohibited transactions and tax consequences.

5. Broker, instrument and multiple-system differences

Available assets, fractional and short orders, minimum sizes, trading hours, order types, quotes and APIs differ by broker and account. Rounding, rejected tickers, insufficient funds and cash substitutes can materially alter allocation and returns. Minimum deposits are estimates, not promises to reproduce performance within a tolerance.

Separate instances do not necessarily coordinate orders, ownership, buying power or risk budgets. Other Readers, manual activity, outside automation and concurrent broker logins can interfere, duplicate exposure or disconnect sessions. Monitor the entire account, not only one Reader's allocation.

6. Technology, re-authentication and emergency access

Signals, data, networks, servers, Readers, desktops, gateways and brokers can fail, lag, restart or change. Credentials can expire and brokers can demand new sign-in. Maintenance or recovery can interrupt access or trading. Deadlines, countdowns and optional reminders do not guarantee access until a displayed time or advance notice of disconnection.

Green status, a live signal, telemetry or an order receipt is not proof of intended fills or armed protection. Retained values can be stale or historical. Keep direct broker access and an intervention plan. Chat and email are not continuously monitored emergency trading controls.

License cancellation or movement, My Algo cancellation, broker disconnection and account deletion do not automatically close positions, reverse fills or cancel every order. A cancelled instance can operate until provider termination. Disarm and manage positions before surrendering access.

7. Cryptocurrency and instrument-specific risks

Cryptocurrency can trade outside securities hours and face extreme volatility, venue or custody failures, uncertain prices and different legal protections. A broker may support securities but not crypto; unsupported crypto allocations can remain cash. Access to one venue or symbol is not access to every asset.

Equity, Treasury, credit, property and commodity-related funds carry different market, issuer, concentration, rate, credit, currency and tracking risks. Mining stocks and equity ETFs are not ownership of physical metal. Labels do not guarantee diversification, current holdings, low correlation or legal treatment.

8. Backtests and simulations are not live results

Hypothetical histories, factsheets, annualized returns, rankings, Sharpe ratios, drawdowns and benchmarks are not an investor's complete live experience. They can use hindsight, selected periods, revised inputs and execution assumptions and cannot fully model fills, liquidity, costs, financing, tax, market impact, outages or continuing through losses. Compare assumptions and periods. Net results can be materially worse; comparable gains or losses are not promised.

Portfolio Studio inputs affect illustrative calculations, not live Reader settings. The daily peak-to-trough simulation completes the breach day's full return, stays cash for the rest of that month and resumes on the next month's first available daily observation. This differs from live account-value controls and cannot promise a real exit at the displayed level. IRA / 401(k) lines are labeled exposure-scaled estimates, not exact broker replays.

Modeled end-of-day protection or next-open liquidation is hypothetical accounting, not broker-confirmed execution. It cannot prove a real position closed or authorize clearing a real halt. Product Demo data illustrates the product, not an actual customer track record. Fees reduce net results unless expressly included.

9. No guaranteed outcome or personal suitability assessment

SquaredQ does not act as your investment adviser or provide individualized investment recommendations or account-management services. You select strategies and authorize standing instructions. Research, support and compatibility information do not assess your complete finances, objectives, tax circumstances or ability to lose capital. Consider independent licensed financial, legal and tax advice. These descriptions do not determine regulatory status or waive protections imposed by law.

Profit, capital preservation, tracking accuracy, uninterrupted execution and suitability are not promised. Non-waivable regulatory, securities, consumer and other rights remain available. Acknowledging risk does not excuse fraud or legally non-excludable responsibility.

10. Contact and related documents

Read the Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. Questions: [email protected]; phone +1 54 23826281. squaredQ LLC, 1007 N Orange St., 4th Floor 6166, Wilmington, DE 19801, United States. For urgent orders or positions use direct broker access.