General Risk Warning
Before using Trading Bots Pro's trading automation software, you should carefully consider your investment objectives, level of experience, and risk appetite. The possibility exists that you could sustain a loss of some or all of your initial investment. Therefore, you should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose.
You should be aware of all the risks associated with trading stocks and options, and seek advice from an independent financial advisor if you have any doubts. Trading Bots Pro does not provide investment advice.
Specific Risks of Automated Trading
Automated trading systems, including those provided by Trading Bots Pro, carry unique risks that you should understand:
- Technical Failures: Software, hardware, and internet connectivity failures can prevent orders from being executed, cause orders to be executed at unintended prices, or result in duplicate or erroneous trades.
- Rule Limitations: Templates and the rules you build are based on historical patterns and mathematical models. Markets evolve constantly, and strategies that worked in the past may not work in the future.
- Execution Risk: Market conditions, liquidity, and timing can result in trades being executed at prices significantly different from expected (slippage). This is particularly pronounced in fast-moving markets.
- System Downtime: Scheduled maintenance, updates, or unexpected technical issues may temporarily disable trading functionality, potentially causing missed opportunities or inability to exit positions.
- Data Feed Issues: Delayed, incomplete, or inaccurate market data can cause your rules to act on incorrect information.
- API Connectivity: Issues with brokerage API connections can prevent trades from being executed or cause delays in order processing.
Options Trading Risks (0DTE Templates)
Options trading involves unique and significant risks that may result in the complete loss of your investment:
- Total Loss of Premium: Options can expire worthless, resulting in 100% loss of the premium paid.
- Zero-Day Expiration (0DTE) Volatility: 0DTE options are particularly volatile and carry heightened risk. Price swings can be extreme and rapid.
- Time Decay (Theta): Options lose value as they approach expiration. For 0DTE options, this decay is accelerated and works against option buyers.
- Implied Volatility Risk: Changes in implied volatility can significantly impact option values, independent of the underlying price movement.
- Liquidity Risk: Some options may have wide bid-ask spreads, making it difficult to enter or exit positions at favorable prices.
- Complexity: Options are complex financial instruments. If you don't fully understand how they work, you should not trade them.
Small Cap and Momentum Trading Risks
Small Cap Momentum templates, and any stock rules you build, involve specific risks:
- Low Liquidity: Small cap stocks typically have lower trading volume, which can result in difficulty entering or exiting positions at desired prices.
- Extreme Volatility: Small cap stocks and momentum plays can experience rapid and extreme price movements in either direction.
- Reversal Risk: Momentum strategies can suffer significant losses when trends suddenly reverse.
- Pre-Market/Extended Hours Risk: Trading during pre-market hours involves reduced liquidity, wider spreads, and potentially higher volatility.
- Gap Risk: Stocks can gap significantly up or down, potentially beyond stop-loss levels.
- Pattern Day Trading Rules: Frequent trading may classify you as a pattern day trader, requiring a minimum account balance of $25,000.
Your Configuration and Templates
Your bot does only what its rules and settings say. That puts specific risks in your hands:
- Configuration Risk: You choose every setting, including position size, risk per trade and loss limits. A mistyped or aggressive setting can cause large or rapid losses. Required fields, verification and warnings reduce some mistakes but cannot catch them all, and passing them does not mean a configuration is suitable for you.
- Templates Are Not Recommendations: Templates are general starting points offered to every subscriber on a plan. They are not tailored to your finances, goals or experience, and choosing or using one is your decision.
- Templates Are Snapshots: A template you copy does not update itself. Improvements are released as new templates, so the copy in your account may differ from the latest version and from the one shown in our published results.
- In Testing: Anything labeled In Testing is still being evaluated, may change or be withdrawn, and has a shorter or less reliable record.
- Safety Stops: The software may pause a bot or decline an order when it detects a technical fault. A pause can leave a position open or cause a missed exit, and safety stops do not prevent losses.
Paper and Simulated Results
Results we publish come from paper (simulated) trading of our templates unless clearly labeled otherwise. Paper trading uses no real money, and its fills, slippage and execution can differ materially from a live account. Published figures state the sizing they assume (for example, 10% of the account per position). Figures scaled to example account sizes are arithmetic illustrations, not projections. Your results will differ, and could be much worse.
Hypothetical Performance Limitations
HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS HAVE MANY INHERENT LIMITATIONS, SOME OF WHICH ARE DESCRIBED BELOW.
No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown. In fact, there are frequently sharp differences between hypothetical performance results and the actual results subsequently achieved by any particular trading program.
One of the limitations of hypothetical performance results is that they are generally prepared with the benefit of hindsight. In addition, hypothetical trading does not involve financial risk, and no hypothetical trading record can completely account for the impact of financial risk of actual trading.
For example, the ability to withstand losses or to adhere to a particular trading program in spite of trading losses are material points which can also adversely affect actual trading results. There are numerous other factors related to the markets in general or to the implementation of any specific trading program which cannot be fully accounted for in the preparation of hypothetical performance results and all of which can adversely affect trading results.
Past Performance Disclaimer
Past performance is not indicative of future results. Any performance data presented on our website or marketing materials represents historical results and should not be interpreted as a guarantee or prediction of future performance.
Market conditions change constantly. Economic events, policy changes, and countless other factors can dramatically alter market behavior. Strategies that have performed well historically may underperform or generate losses in future market conditions.
Not Investment Advice
Trading Bots Pro provides trading automation software tools only. We are not a registered investment advisor, broker-dealer, or financial planner. Nothing on this website or in our services constitutes investment advice, financial advice, trading advice, or any other sort of advice.
You should not treat any of the website's content, any template, or any output from our software as investment recommendations. We do not recommend that any particular security, portfolio of securities, transaction, or investment strategy is suitable for any specific person.
You are solely responsible for determining whether any investment, security, or strategy is appropriate for you based on your personal investment objectives, financial circumstances, and risk tolerance. You should consult with a qualified financial advisor before making any investment decisions.
Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Trading Bots Pro, its officers, directors, employees, agents, and affiliates shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising from:
- Trading Losses: Any losses incurred through the use of our software or services
- Missed Opportunities: Profits that might have been realized but were not
- Technical Failures: System errors, downtime, connectivity issues, or software bugs
- Third-Party Actions: Actions or omissions of brokerages, data providers, or other third parties
- Security Breaches: Unauthorized access to your account or credentials
- Reliance on Information: Any decisions made based on content provided by our service
Your use of Trading Bots Pro is at your own risk. We make no warranties, expressed or implied, regarding the reliability, accuracy, or completeness of our software or services.
Your Responsibilities
By using Trading Bots Pro, you acknowledge and agree that:
- Sole Responsibility: You are solely responsible for all trades executed in your brokerage account, whether automated or manual
- Account Monitoring: You will monitor your account regularly and are capable of doing so
- Risk Acceptance: You understand and accept all risks associated with trading, including the potential for total loss
- Financial Capability: You have the financial ability to sustain losses and are not trading with money you cannot afford to lose
- Independent Decisions: You will seek independent financial advice if needed and make your own investment decisions
- Compliance: You will comply with all applicable laws and regulations regarding securities trading
- Accurate Information: All information you provide to us is accurate and complete
Regulatory Notice
Trading Bots Pro is not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), or any state securities regulatory authority.
Our service provides software tools that connect to your existing brokerage account. We do not hold customer funds, choose trades for you, or have access to your brokerage account credentials beyond what is necessary for API connectivity. Our software places orders in your brokerage account only according to the rules and settings you configure and activate.
You are responsible for ensuring that your trading activities comply with all applicable laws and regulations in your jurisdiction.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Risk Disclosure Statement or our services, please contact us at:
Email: support@tradingbotspro.com