Risk Disclosure

Trading and Backtest Risk Disclosure

No advice and no recommendation

The Portal is an information-hosting and technical-analysis service. Neither the Operator nor the Portal provides investment advice, personal recommendations, portfolio management, trading signals, brokerage, order transmission, tax advice, or legal advice. No set, score, filter, sort option, metric, label, profile, download count, notification, broker record, or portfolio display should be understood as a recommendation to trade or as an assessment that a product is suitable for you.

Backtest and optimisation limitations

Backtests and optimisations are hypothetical simulations. They do not represent an actual account unless clearly and independently established, which the Portal does not do. Results may be materially distorted by, among other things:

• overfitting and selection of favourable parameters;
• repeated optimisation against the same data;
• look-ahead bias, survivorship bias, data leakage, and insufficient out-of-sample testing;
• inaccurate, incomplete, interpolated, or broker-specific historical data;
• modelling assumptions for ticks, spread, slippage, latency, commissions, swaps, liquidity, stop execution, margin, and rejected orders;
• changes in symbol specification, contract size, leverage, trading hours, rollover, broker infrastructure, regulation, or the Expert Advisor;
• a small number of trades or concentration of profit in a few trades;
• open positions crossing a reported in-sample, out-of-sample, OHLC, or real-tick comparison boundary;
• manual edits to an exported report.

A high profit factor, recovery/return-to-drawdown ratio, total gain, or Historical Test Score can result from a short or favourable period, a few large trades, high leverage, grid exposure, martingale sizing, hidden tail risk, or data-mining bias.

OHLC and real-tick fidelity

An OHLC/real-tick Fidelity score measures similarity only within the Portal’s defined valid overlap and only for the compared reports. It does not prove that either report is authentic, that real-tick history is complete, that the broker will execute similarly, or that future results will match. A high fidelity score can describe two similarly flawed simulations. A low score can arise from different modelling assumptions, incomplete coverage, or strategy sensitivity.

Structural risk flags

Grid, martingale, lot escalation, no stop loss, high simultaneous exposure, and similar flags identify parameter characteristics that may materially increase drawdown or tail-loss risk. A flag is not exhaustive. Absence of a flag does not mean absence of the behaviour or that the set is safe.

Live trading risk

Foreign exchange, contracts for difference, derivatives, and other leveraged instruments are high-risk. Price gaps, liquidity shortages, slippage, technical failures, internet or VPS outages, incorrect symbol mapping, broker intervention, margin changes, and correlated positions can produce losses that materially exceed backtest drawdown. Depending on the instrument, account, and jurisdiction, losses may equal or exceed the amount deposited.

Never trade money you cannot afford to lose. Independent professional advice may be appropriate. Check the broker’s legal status and product disclosures in your jurisdiction. The Portal does not monitor your account and cannot stop a strategy that is losing money.

No warranty

The Operator does not warrant profitability, capital preservation, compatibility, file safety, report accuracy, score accuracy, uninterrupted operation, or future availability. Use is at your own risk, subject to the mandatory liability rules in the Terms.