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Risk Disclaimer & Affiliate Disclosure
Read this before you use anything on this site. It sets out the risks of leveraged trading, the limits of what is published here, and exactly how the commercial relationships behind this site work.
Leveraged trading loses money for most people who try it. I am not a financial adviser and nothing here is advice. Some links on this site pay me a commission. No result shown anywhere on this site predicts what will happen to your account.
1. Risk warning
Trading forex, gold, cryptocurrency and contracts for difference on leverage carries a high risk of losing money rapidly. These are complex, leveraged products and they are not suitable for everyone.
Specifically:
- Leverage magnifies losses as much as gains. A position that is 100 or 500 times your margin moves against you 100 or 500 times as fast. A small adverse move can remove a large part of your account.
- You can lose more than you deposit. Depending on your broker, your jurisdiction, and whether negative balance protection applies to your account, a gap through your stop can leave you owing money.
- Stops are not guaranteed. A stop-loss order is an instruction to exit at the next available price, not a promise of that price. In fast markets — a data release, a weekend gap, a central bank surprise — the fill can be far worse than the level you set.
- Gold is volatile. XAUUSD routinely moves more in a day than many currency pairs move in a week. Position sizing that is survivable on EURUSD can be ruinous on gold.
- Automated strategies fail too. An expert advisor can lose money faster than a human, without pausing to reconsider, and can accumulate open drawdown that is invisible in a closed-trade report until it is not.
- Costs compound. Spread, commission and overnight swap are charged whether you win or lose, and for an active strategy they are a material drag on returns.
- Published loss rates are high. Retail CFD brokers that are required to publish the figure typically disclose that a substantial majority of their retail client accounts lose money. Assume you are more likely than not to be in that group.
Only ever trade money you can afford to lose entirely. If losing your trading capital would affect your rent, your household expenses, your debts or your family, you should not be trading it. Test on a demo account first, for long enough to see a losing stretch, not just a good week.
2. Not financial advice
I am not a licensed or registered financial adviser, investment adviser, research analyst or portfolio manager in any jurisdiction, and I am not registered with SEBI or any equivalent regulator.
Everything published on this site — articles, videos, indicators, expert advisors, signals, market commentary and the output of any tool here — is general educational information published to the public at large. It is not tailored to you, cannot be tailored to you, and is not a personal recommendation. It does not consider your financial situation, your objectives, your existing positions, your tax position or your risk tolerance.
Any decision you make after reading this site is yours alone, and the outcome of it — profit or loss — is yours alone.
3. Performance, backtests and examples
Past performance is not indicative of future results. This applies without exception to every number, chart, screenshot, statement, trade example and backtest that appears anywhere on this site.
You should treat published results with particular scepticism for these reasons:
- A backtest is a simulation. It knows the outcome of the period it is testing, and it can be tuned, deliberately or accidentally, until it looks good on exactly that period.
- Backtests routinely understate spread, ignore slippage, assume fills that would not have happened, and model conditions that no longer exist.
- Screenshots show one trade or one stretch. Nobody screenshots the drawdown.
- A strategy that worked in one volatility regime can stop working entirely when the regime changes, without any warning that this has happened.
Hypothetical or simulated results have inherent limitations, including the benefit of hindsight and the absence of real financial risk. No representation is made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to anything shown here.
4. Affiliate disclosure
This site earns money in two ways, and you are entitled to know both.
Broker affiliate commissions. Some links on this site are affiliate links to brokers. If you open an account through one of them and trade, the broker may pay me a commission — typically a share of the spread or a rebate per lot traded. This costs you nothing extra, but it does mean I have a financial interest in you opening an account and trading.
What you should take from that:
- An affiliate link is a commercial arrangement, not an endorsement of that broker's financial soundness, execution quality, or suitability for you.
- I am paid more when more volume is traded. Be aware of that incentive whenever you read anything on this site that could be read as encouragement to trade more, trade bigger, or trade more often.
- Do your own checks: the regulator the entity is licensed by, where your money is held, the withdrawal process, and the actual terms of any bonus. Bonus conditions in particular are often restrictive and can lock funds.
- You are never required to use my links. Every article on this site is readable and useful without opening an account anywhere.
Advertising. This site displays advertising served by Google. Ads are selected by Google, not by me. Their presence is not an endorsement of the advertiser, and I have no relationship with the companies whose ads appear. How advertising cookies work, and how to opt out of personalised ads, is explained in the privacy policy.
Neither of these arrangements changes what is written in the educational articles. Articles on this site do not carry broker links, precisely so that the writing and the commercial side stay separate.
5. Tools and software on this site
The indicators, panels and expert advisors distributed here are supplied as is, with no warranty and no guarantee of profit. They are tools, not decisions.
You are solely responsible for every order placed on your trading account, whether you placed it manually or a program placed it for you. Test on a demo account first. Understand what a strategy does in a losing market before you run it in a live one, and never leave an automated strategy running unmonitored on money you cannot lose.
The Gold News Impact Analyzer applies a textbook reading of a data surprise. Real markets frequently ignore that reading — expectations get priced in before the release, revisions to prior months can matter more than the headline number, and simultaneous releases can pull in opposite directions. Its output is an educational illustration, never a trade signal.
6. Signals and alerts
Where trade ideas or alerts are shared through Telegram or any other channel, they are personal opinions about what I am looking at, published for education and discussion. They are not instructions, not advice, and not managed trading. You are free to ignore them, and if you act on one, the position and its outcome are entirely yours. No accuracy rate is claimed or guaranteed.
7. Accuracy and currency of information
Content here is written carefully but may contain errors, and will in places become out of date. Contract specifications, session times, broker terms, leverage limits, tax treatment and regulation all change. Verify anything that affects a real decision against a primary source — your broker's contract specification, the regulator's register, or your own accountant. Corrections are welcome through the contact page.
8. Jurisdiction
This site is published from India and is not directed at any person in any jurisdiction where such publication or use would be contrary to local law. The legal position of offshore leveraged forex and CFD trading differs from country to country, including within India, where trading currency derivatives through entities not permitted under the Foreign Exchange Management Act carries its own risks. It is your responsibility to know and comply with the rules that apply where you live.
9. Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, no liability is accepted for any loss or damage — including trading losses — arising from use of this site, its content, its tools, or any third party reached through it. Full terms are on the terms of use page.
10. If trading is hurting you
Leveraged trading can become compulsive, and the line between trading and gambling is thinner than most people admit while they are crossing it. If you find yourself chasing losses, hiding trades or their size from people close to you, borrowing to fund a trading account, or trading money you had set aside for something else, stop and step away from the screen. Talking to someone you trust, and if needed a professional, is a better next trade than any setup on this site.
11. Contact
Questions about anything on this page go to the contact page.