Please read this Risk Disclaimer carefully before using AlsaTrade. Trading financial instruments involves significant risk of loss. You should not trade with money you cannot afford to lose.
1. General Trading Risks
Trading in financial markets, including cryptocurrencies, stocks, and options, involves substantial risk. The value of your investments can go down as well as up, and you may lose all of your invested capital.
- Markets are volatile and prices can change rapidly without warning
- Liquidity conditions can deteriorate, making it difficult to exit positions at desired prices
- Slippage between expected and actual execution prices is a normal part of trading
- Technical issues including exchange outages, API failures, and network delays can affect trade execution
- Regulatory changes may affect your ability to trade certain instruments or in certain jurisdictions
2. Cryptocurrency Risks
Cryptocurrency markets carry unique risks beyond those of traditional financial markets:
- Extreme volatility: Cryptocurrency prices can fluctuate 10-50% or more within a single day
- 24/7 markets: Unlike traditional markets, crypto markets never close — prices can move significantly while you are unavailable
- Exchange risk: Cryptocurrency exchanges are not regulated like traditional securities exchanges. Exchange insolvency, hacks, or operational failures can result in total loss of funds
- Regulatory uncertainty: The regulatory landscape for cryptocurrencies is evolving and varies by jurisdiction
- Technology risk: Smart contract bugs, blockchain forks, and protocol upgrades can affect asset values
- Counterparty risk: Stablecoin de-pegging events and DeFi protocol failures can cause cascading losses
3. Leverage & Futures Risks
Leveraged trading amplifies both gains and losses. AlsaTrade supports leveraged futures trading on Binance (up to 125x) and Bybit (up to 100x).
- Amplified losses: A 1% adverse move with 100x leverage results in a 100% loss of your position margin
- Liquidation: If your margin falls below the maintenance requirement, your position will be forcefully liquidated by the exchange, often at a worse price than expected
- Funding rates: Perpetual futures contracts charge funding rates that can significantly erode profits on long-held positions
- Gap risk: In extreme market conditions, prices can "gap" past your stop-loss level, resulting in larger losses than expected
- Margin calls: You may need to deposit additional funds to maintain open positions
The Platform includes RiskGuard features (daily loss limits, maximum leverage, position size caps) to help manage risk, but these are tools — not guarantees against losses.
4. Automated Trading Risks
AlsaTrade offers several forms of automated trading: TradingView webhooks, Pine Script strategy execution, and DCA/Grid trading bots. Automated trading carries additional risks:
- Strategy failure: A strategy that performed well in backtesting may perform poorly in live markets due to changing conditions, overfitting, or curve-fitting
- Execution delays: Webhook delivery, API rate limits, and network latency can cause trades to execute at different prices than expected
- System errors: Software bugs, server outages, or configuration errors may cause unintended trades or failure to execute intended trades
- Bot malfunction: DCA and Grid bots operate continuously and may place orders during extreme market events where manual intervention would be prudent
- Backtesting limitations: Historical performance does not predict future results. Backtests use historical data and cannot account for slippage, liquidity, or changing market microstructure
- Pine Script accuracy: Transpiled strategies may behave differently than native TradingView execution due to implementation differences
You should always monitor automated strategies and have the ability to stop them quickly. Never allocate more capital to automated trading than you can afford to lose entirely.
5. US Stocks & Options Risks
AlsaTrade supports US stock and options trading through Alpaca. These instruments carry specific risks:
- Pattern Day Trader (PDT) rule: Accounts under $25,000 are limited to 3 day trades per 5 rolling business days. Violating this rule may result in account restrictions
- Market hours: US stock trading is limited to market hours (9:30 AM – 4:00 PM ET). Orders placed outside these hours are queued and may execute at different prices when the market opens
- Options expiry: Options contracts have expiration dates. Failure to close or exercise options before expiry can result in total loss of the premium paid
- Options complexity: Options pricing involves multiple factors (delta, gamma, theta, vega) and can result in rapid, non-linear losses
- Short selling: Short selling involves theoretically unlimited loss potential if the stock price rises
6. No Guarantee of Profits
AlsaTrade does not guarantee any specific trading results, profits, or returns.
- Performance data shown on the Platform reflects historical or real-time data and is not indicative of future results
- Backtest results are hypothetical and subject to the limitations described above
- Strategy performance metrics, win rates, and P&L figures shown on the landing page represent actual Platform data but do not guarantee similar results for new users
- No trading system, risk management tool, or automation feature can eliminate the risk of financial loss
You are solely responsible for your trading decisions and the financial outcomes of using the Platform. We strongly encourage you to:
- Only trade with funds you can afford to lose entirely
- Start with paper trading or small positions to understand the Platform
- Use the risk management tools provided (RiskGuard, daily loss limits, position caps)
- Seek independent financial advice before making trading decisions
- Educate yourself about the instruments and markets you trade
For questions about this Risk Disclaimer, please contact us through our Contact page.