Important risk warning
You can lose some or all of the money committed to trading, and in certain circumstances losses may exceed the amount initially deposited. Trading is not suitable for every person. Use only risk capital whose loss would not impair your financial security or lifestyle.
1. Education—not financial advice
FundedMachine provides general education, mentorship, technical instruction, and implementation support. Nothing provided through the website, program, community, code, calls, or other materials is personalized financial, investment, legal, or tax advice or a recommendation to buy, sell, hold, or trade any instrument.
FundedMachine does not provide signals, copy trading, brokerage, custody, managed accounts, discretionary trading, or guaranteed outcomes. You are responsible for determining whether any concept, strategy, instrument, broker, platform, or risk level is appropriate for you.
2. Futures and leverage
Futures, options, foreign exchange, and other leveraged products can move rapidly and amplify both gains and losses. Margin requirements, volatility, gaps, illiquidity, price limits, slippage, fees, and forced liquidation can materially affect results. Stop orders may execute at prices different from their trigger price or may not execute in abnormal market conditions.
3. Hypothetical and backtested results
Hypothetical, simulated, optimized, and backtested results have inherent limitations. They do not represent actual trading and are generally prepared with the benefit of hindsight. They may not fully account for liquidity, spreads, commissions, data quality, market impact, latency, slippage, changing market regimes, the ability to withstand losses, or the difficulty of following a strategy during adverse conditions.
There are frequently significant differences between hypothetical results and results subsequently achieved in live trading. No representation is made that any account will achieve results similar to any example, simulation, or backtest.
4. Optimization and overfitting
Optimization can identify parameters that fit historical noise rather than persistent market behavior. More testing does not eliminate model risk. Out-of-sample testing, stress testing, and forward observation may reduce certain weaknesses but cannot prove that a strategy will remain profitable.
5. Automation and technology risk
Automated trading introduces risks including coding errors, incorrect assumptions, duplicate or rejected orders, platform defects, data-feed failures, connectivity loss, latency, configuration errors, hardware failure, cybersecurity incidents, broker outages, and unintended behavior during unusual market conditions. Automation can execute an error consistently and rapidly.
Strategies require independent review, controlled testing, monitoring, safeguards, and an ability to intervene. FundedMachine does not warrant that code, examples, or implementation support will be error-free or suitable for live deployment.
6. Prop-firm and evaluation risk
Proprietary-trading evaluations and funded-account programs are third-party commercial arrangements. Their rules, fees, drawdown calculations, payout conditions, data practices, platform access, and continued availability may change. Passing an evaluation does not guarantee account funding or payouts. FundedMachine is not affiliated with or endorsed by any prop firm and cannot control its decisions.
7. No guarantee of results
No education, strategy, mentor, system, software, or automation can guarantee profits, prevent losses, pass an evaluation, preserve an account, or produce a payout. Individual outcomes vary based on skill, effort, decisions, capitalization, discipline, market conditions, costs, and factors outside FundedMachine’s control.
8. Third-party platforms
NinjaTrader and all other referenced platforms, brokers, data providers, and prop firms are controlled by their respective owners. FundedMachine is not affiliated with or endorsed by NinjaTrader. Their availability, functionality, terms, and suitability are not guaranteed.
9. Your responsibility
Before trading, assess your financial condition, objectives, experience, and tolerance for loss, and consult appropriately licensed financial, legal, and tax professionals. You are solely responsible for your accounts, credentials, code, configuration, orders, position sizes, risk controls, and decisions to trade or deploy automation.