Trading Risk Disclosure

In short

Trading carries a substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone. You can lose some or all of the money you commit to trading, and with leverage you can lose more than you deposit. Nothing in the Academy is a promise that you will make money.

1. You can lose money

Trading financial instruments involves substantial risk. Losses can happen quickly, they can exceed what you expected, and they can continue over long periods even when your process is sound.

Only trade capital you can afford to lose entirely without affecting your living costs, your obligations or your financial security. Do not trade with borrowed money, and do not trade money you need for something else.

2. Leverage and margin

Leverage increases the size of a position relative to the money behind it. It magnifies gains and losses in exactly the same proportion.

A small adverse move against a leveraged position can produce a loss far larger than it appears, can trigger a margin call, and can cause your broker to close your positions at a time and price not of your choosing. Depending on the instrument and the jurisdiction, you may end up owing more than you deposited.

3. Market conditions

• Volatility: prices can move sharply and without warning, particularly around news, economic releases and market opens.
• Liquidity: in thin markets you may not be able to enter or exit at the size or the price you want.
• Gaps: prices can jump from one level to another with no trading in between, including over weekends and holidays, skipping the level you intended to act at.
• Slippage: the price you receive can differ from the price you asked for, and the difference is usually worse in fast markets.

4. Costs

Spreads, commissions, financing and swap charges, currency conversion and withdrawal fees all reduce your results. A method that looks profitable before costs may not be profitable after them, and frequent trading increases their effect.

5. Orders and execution

Order types, guaranteed-stop availability, execution quality and market hours differ between brokers and instruments. Understand how your own broker handles orders before you rely on them.

A stop-loss order does not guarantee that your position will close at the price you set. In a gap or a fast market it may execute materially worse, or not at the level you intended at all.

6. Technology

Trading depends on systems that can fail. Internet connections drop, devices fail, charting platforms lag, data feeds report incorrect prices, and broker platforms suffer outages, including at exactly the moments markets move fastest. Have a plan for what you will do when you cannot reach your positions.

The Academy itself is a website and may also be unavailable at times. It is a place to learn, not a place to manage a live position from.

7. Examples, hypothetical and simulated results

The Academy uses worked examples, historical charts, illustrative setups, scores and simulated scenarios to teach a way of reading a market. They are teaching material.

Past performance is not indicative of future results. This applies to every example, every historical chart, every backtest and every account shown anywhere in the Academy.

• Hypothetical and simulated results are prepared with the benefit of hindsight and do not represent real trading.
• They generally do not reflect real costs, real slippage, real liquidity, or the effect of an actual order on the market.
• They cannot reproduce the pressure of holding a real position with real money, which is one of the largest differences between studying a method and trading one.
• Results shown by an instructor, in a demonstration, or by any other student are theirs and are not a projection of yours.

8. What the Academy does not promise

Certificates issued by the Academy record completion of educational work. They are not a professional licence, an accreditation, a regulatory authorisation, or evidence of trading skill or profitability.

• It does not promise that you will be profitable, in any period or at all.
• It does not promise an income, a return, or a replacement for employment.
• It does not promise that completing the curriculum, passing assessments or earning a certificate will make you a competent or profitable trader.
• It does not tell you what to buy or sell. The methodology taught is about reading context, seeking confirmation, managing risk and executing a plan — not about predicting what a market will do.

9. Educational tools

The Risk Calculator, the Setup Builder, setup scores and any similar feature are aids to practising a process. They use the numbers you give them, they do not know your broker, your account, your tax position or your circumstances, and they can be wrong if the inputs are wrong.

No output from any Academy tool is a recommendation to buy or sell. Check every figure against your own broker before acting on it.

10. Suitability and independent advice

Equilibre LLC is not a broker, an exchange, an investment adviser, a financial adviser or a portfolio manager, and does not provide personalised financial, investment, tax, accounting or legal advice.

Whether trading is appropriate for you depends on your objectives, your experience, your financial position and your tolerance for loss. Only you can assess that. If you are unsure, seek advice from a qualified professional who is authorised to give it in your jurisdiction, and make sure you understand the rules that apply where you live.

Every trading and investment decision you make is yours, and so is the outcome.

11. Contact

Questions about this disclosure: contact@equilibrellc.com.