Risk disclosures

Draft — not yet reviewed by counsel. The risks described here are real and stated plainly, but this page has not been through legal review and must be replaced with a reviewed version before launch.

We are not your adviser

ezpztrader doesn't offer investment advice, recommendations, signals, or research, and we're not a broker-dealer or a registered investment adviser. Every trading decision made through the Service is yours alone — consider getting independent professional advice before you trade.

Trading carries substantial risk

Stocks, options, futures, and cryptocurrency all carry a real risk of loss, and none of it is suitable for everyone. Trading on margin or in leveraged products like futures means you can lose more than you put in. Nothing about past performance — yours, ours, or anyone else's — says anything about what happens next.

What automation adds to that risk

Running a strategy unattended introduces failure modes manual trading doesn't have:

• Your own logic can be wrong. A strategy that looked good in a backtest can behave very differently live, and mistakes execute at full speed, without hesitation.
• Signals can fail to arrive. Alerts from third-party platforms can be delayed or never show up at all — an entry might fill while its intended exit doesn't.
• Brokers and connections fail too. Outages, rate limits, expired authorisations, and API changes can all keep an order from reaching the market.
• Signals can collide. Two arriving close together aren't guaranteed to execute in the order you intended.
• Losses can compound faster than you can react. An automated system can rack up losing positions faster than a person watching a screen, and faster than you may be able to step in.
• A rejection stays rejected. Once a broker turns down a submitted order, it isn't resubmitted automatically.

Paper results are simulated, not predictive

Paper trading fills are modelled, not real, and simulated performance routinely looks better than the same strategy would do live — it can't fully capture slippage, liquidity, or what it actually feels like to risk real capital.

Prop firm accounts have their own rules

A lot of proprietary trading firms restrict or ban automated execution and copy trading outright. We don't monitor or enforce firm-side rules like drawdown limits, daily loss caps, or consistency requirements — confirming automation is even allowed, and staying inside whatever limits your firm sets, is entirely on you.

Monitoring your positions is still your job

Automation cuts down on manual work; it doesn't remove your responsibility for the outcome. You're expected to keep an eye on your accounts and be ready to step in by hand — including closing a position directly with your broker if the platform itself is unavailable.