Risk Disclaimer
Last updated: June 12, 2026
1. General Risk Warning
Trading in financial markets — including cryptocurrencies, stocks, and foreign exchange — carries a high level of risk and is not suitable for everyone. Before trading, carefully consider your objectives, experience, and risk tolerance. You could sustain a loss of some or all of your capital, and you should not trade with money you cannot afford to lose entirely.
2. Automated & Unmonitored Trading
AutoApe executes automated ("bot") strategies that place real orders on your accounts without per-trade confirmation. Automated systems can place many orders in a short time, react to inaccurate or stale data, and behave unexpectedly in fast or unusual markets. A strategy left running unmonitored can accumulate substantial losses before you intervene. You are solely responsible for configuring every parameter, supervising every running strategy, and stopping it when appropriate. Technical failures — software bugs, connectivity drops, API outages, exchange downtime — can cause unintended trades, missed exits, duplicated orders, or missed opportunities.
3. No Financial Advice; No Registration
AutoApe LLC is a software company. It is not a registered broker-dealer, exchange, custodian, investment adviser, or commodity trading advisor, and it is not registered with the SEC, CFTC, FINRA, NFA, or any equivalent authority. Nothing in the Service — signals, scores, presets, AI suggestions, backtests, leaderboards, documentation — is financial, investment, tax, or legal advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Every trading decision, including the decision to let an automated strategy decide, is yours alone. Consult a qualified financial adviser before trading.
4. Hypothetical & Past Performance
Backtests, simulations, paper-trading results, and historical statistics shown anywhere in the Service are hypothetical. Hypothetical performance results have inherent limitations: they are prepared with the benefit of hindsight, do not reflect real slippage, fees, latency, liquidity, or partial fills, and do not involve financial risk. No representation is made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown. Past performance — real or simulated — does not guarantee future results.
5. Cryptocurrency & DEX Risks
Crypto markets are extremely volatile and trade 24/7. Risks include, without limitation: total loss of token value; scams and "rug pulls" — many newly launched tokens are created to defraud buyers and can go to zero in seconds; disappearing liquidity that prevents you from selling; smart-contract vulnerabilities and honeypots; irreversible transactions; network congestion and failed transactions (fees are still consumed); regulatory changes; and wallet security. Token sniping and trading newly launched tokens is among the highest-risk activities in any market — treat any funds used for it as money you have already decided you can lose. Safety scores and token analytics in the Service are heuristics that can be wrong; they are not guarantees.
6. Self-Custody
Your wallet keys are generated and stored on your device, encrypted with your master password. AutoApe LLC never has access to them and cannot recover them. If you lose your master password or seed phrase, your funds are unrecoverable. Anyone who obtains your seed phrase or your device plus master password can take everything in your wallet. Blockchain transactions cannot be reversed by anyone, including us.
7. Stock Market Risks
Stock prices are subject to market risk, including loss of principal. Prices can gap through stop levels on news, earnings, and market opens, producing losses larger than configured stops. Trading on margin amplifies gains and losses. Halts and illiquidity can prevent exits. Pattern-day-trading and other regulatory rules may restrict your account; you are responsible for knowing the rules that apply to you.
8. Forex Risks
Forex trading involves leverage: small market movements produce proportionally large gains or losses, and you may lose more than your initial deposit. Currency markets react sharply to geopolitical events, central-bank decisions, and economic data. Slippage and gaps are common in volatile or illiquid periods. Overnight financing (swap) costs accumulate on held positions. Brokers may force-liquidate leveraged positions without notice.
9. Paper Trading vs Live Trading
Paper trading does not perfectly replicate live markets: slippage, partial fills, market impact, queue position, and liquidity constraints are not fully captured. Results achieved on paper may differ significantly from live results. We strongly recommend extensive paper trading — and small position sizes — before and when transitioning to live trading.
10. Data & Third-Party Services
Market data, charts, and analytics may be delayed, incomplete, or wrong. AutoApe depends on third-party brokerages, exchanges, blockchains, and data providers whose outages, errors, execution quality, and rule changes are outside our control and can affect your results. You are responsible for the terms of every third-party service you connect.
11. Software Errors
The Service is software and may contain bugs, errors, or defects. It is provided "as is" with no warranty of any kind. You assume the entire risk of using software — including this software — to place real-money trades. See Sections 13–16 of the Terms of Service for the warranty disclaimer and limitation of liability that govern.
12. Regulatory Considerations
Financial regulation varies by jurisdiction. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of AutoApe and your trading comply with all laws applicable to you, including securities, commodities, tax, and market-integrity rules. Some features may be unavailable in some regions.
13. Limitation of Liability
AutoApe LLC and its members, managers, officers, employees, contractors, agents, and affiliates shall not be liable for any trading losses or any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, punitive, or exemplary damages arising from your use of the Service — including losses caused by software errors, inaccurate data, outages, or the behavior of automated strategies — as set out in full in the Terms of Service. All trading decisions are made at your own risk and you are solely responsible for all outcomes.
14. Acknowledgment
By using AutoApe, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to this Risk Disclaimer and the Terms of Service; that you understand automated trading can lose all of the money in your connected accounts and wallets; and that you use the Service entirely at your own risk.