Risk Disclosure for automated leveraged trading
Forex and precious-metals trading can produce substantial losses. Automated software, copy trading, monitoring, broker access, a VPS, or a minimum operating balance does not remove market, execution, technology, or human risk.
This Risk Disclosure should be read together with the Terms and Conditions, Refund and Returns Policy, Privacy Policy, Licence Guide, product page, installation guidance, broker terms, and VPS terms.
It does not describe every possible risk. Financial markets, broker systems, software environments, and legal requirements can change quickly. Clients remain responsible for their own decisions, settings, account supervision, and independent professional advice.
Purpose and Acceptance
This Disclosure explains material risks associated with using ActiveTrader automated trading products, performance references, Investor Access, copy trading links, broker guidance, VPS guidance, and technical resources.
By purchasing, activating, installing, or using a product, you confirm that you have reviewed the relevant risks and accept responsibility for deciding whether the product and trading activity are appropriate for you.
If you do not understand the risks, do not activate automated trading until you have obtained suitable independent advice.
ActiveTrader’s Role and Business Boundaries
ActiveTrader develops, licenses, documents, and supports trading software for MetaTrader 5.
ActiveTrader is not presented as a broker, bank, custodian, investment fund, exchange, payment institution, deposit taker, or manager of client trading capital.
ActiveTrader does not control your broker account, hold your deposit, process broker withdrawals, set broker leverage, guarantee execution, or decide whether you should trade.
Leveraged Trading Is High Risk
Forex and precious-metals trading can move rapidly and unpredictably. Leverage allows a relatively small amount of margin to control a larger market exposure.
A small adverse movement can therefore produce a disproportionately large loss. Positions can lose value faster than the Client can react or intervene.
No Profit, Return, or Drawdown Guarantee
ActiveTrader does not guarantee:
- profit or capital growth;
- a fixed or minimum return;
- recovery after a loss;
- a specific number or frequency of trades;
- a maximum drawdown;
- protection from margin call or stop-out;
- identical results between accounts;
- continuous operation without interruption; or
- that a product will remain suitable for every future market condition.
Words such as Pro, AI, Hunter, Global, automated, or advanced describe product positioning or analytical architecture. They do not mean that the system can predict markets with certainty.
Suitability, Experience, and Risk Capital
Automated leveraged trading may not be suitable for every person or organisation.
Before trading, consider:
- your financial position and essential obligations;
- your experience with leveraged markets and MetaTrader 5;
- your ability to understand open positions, margin, equity, and drawdown;
- your willingness and ability to tolerate substantial loss;
- the time available to supervise the account and platform;
- legal and tax consequences in your jurisdiction; and
- whether independent professional advice is needed.
Leverage, Margin, and Stop-Out Risk
Leverage magnifies market exposure. Higher leverage may reduce initial margin requirements but does not reduce the economic risk of the position.
Margin requirements can change. A broker may:
- increase margin before news, weekends, holidays, or volatile periods;
- reduce available leverage;
- change stop-out or margin-call levels;
- close positions automatically when equity falls below a threshold;
- reject new orders because of insufficient free margin; or
- apply different rules to different instruments or account types.
Automated software cannot prevent a broker from applying its margin and liquidation rules.
Loss of Capital and Exceptional Loss Events
Losses may occur gradually or suddenly. A stop, equity rule, money target, take profit, or risk setting may reduce certain exposures but cannot guarantee execution at the intended price.
In exceptional conditions, loss may be affected by:
- price gaps;
- market suspension;
- extreme volatility;
- liquidity withdrawal;
- broker server failure;
- delayed or rejected orders;
- incorrect symbol specifications;
- rapid margin changes; or
- events occurring while markets are closed.
Market Volatility, Price Gaps, and Fast Markets
Market prices may change faster than orders can be transmitted, accepted, modified, or closed.
A stop loss or equity mechanism may be executed at a price materially worse than expected, especially during:
- economic announcements;
- central-bank decisions;
- geopolitical events;
- market opening or reopening;
- weekend gaps;
- holiday liquidity;
- unexpected policy announcements; or
- disorderly market conditions.
The absence of an available quote can prevent an EA from opening, modifying, or closing a position at the intended time.
Foreign-Exchange Risk
Forex instruments are affected by interest rates, central-bank policy, inflation, employment, economic growth, political developments, capital flows, market sentiment, and relative currency strength.
Cross-currency pairs may behave differently from major pairs and may have wider spreads, lower liquidity, stronger gaps, or more complex correlations.
If the account currency differs from the traded instrument or profit currency, currency conversion can affect margin, profit, loss, commission, swap, and account equity.
Gold and Precious-Metals Risk
Gold and other precious-metals pairs can experience sharp intraday movement, spread expansion, gaps, and rapid reactions to:
- interest-rate expectations;
- United States dollar movement;
- inflation data;
- central-bank activity;
- geopolitical stress;
- risk-on and risk-off flows;
- liquidity changes; and
- regional market opening and closing times.
Symbols such as XAUUSD, XAUAUD, XAUEUR, XAUGBP, or XAUJPY can have different contract sizes, tick values, trading hours, margin requirements, and conversion effects across brokers.
Spread, Commission, Swap, and Carry Costs
Gross trading results do not necessarily equal net account results.
Costs may include:
- bid-ask spread;
- commission;
- swap or financing charge;
- triple-swap or holiday adjustments;
- currency conversion;
- broker mark-up;
- copy trading fee;
- VPS fee; and
- deposit, withdrawal, or payment-provider charges.
Spread and swap may change without notice. A strategy that is viable under one broker’s costs may perform differently under another broker.
Liquidity, Slippage, and Order-Execution Risk
Orders are subject to available liquidity and broker execution. The requested price is not guaranteed.
Potential execution outcomes include:
- positive or negative slippage;
- partial fill;
- order rejection;
- off quotes;
- requote;
- delayed execution;
- different fill prices across accounts;
- failed modification or cancellation; and
- execution after the market has moved materially.
An EA cannot force a broker or liquidity provider to fill an order at a price that is no longer available.
Broker, Counterparty, and Account Risk
The broker holds the trading account and controls deposits, withdrawals, account approval, server access, execution, pricing, leverage, margin, account classification, and trading conditions.
Risks may include:
- broker insolvency or financial distress;
- withdrawal delay or dispute;
- account restriction or closure;
- regulatory or jurisdictional change;
- server outage or price-feed problem;
- unfavourable execution policy;
- changes to symbols, leverage, or contract specifications; and
- differences between demo and real accounts.
A broker recommendation or affiliate relationship does not guarantee the broker’s solvency, conduct, execution, availability, or continued suitability.
MetaTrader 5 Platform Risk
ActiveTrader products require a functioning and compatible MetaTrader 5 environment.
Platform risks may include:
- terminal crash or freeze;
- corrupted files or settings;
- automatic platform update;
- broker-specific MT5 modification;
- incorrect account login or server;
- disabled Algo Trading;
- missing permissions;
- chart or symbol errors;
- incorrect system time; and
- Experts or Journal errors.
Platform updates may require product updates, reinstallation, new permissions, or temporary manual supervision.
Expert Advisor and Algorithmic-Trading Risk
An Expert Advisor follows programmed rules and available inputs. It does not possess perfect knowledge of future market conditions.
Algorithmic risks include:
- logic behaving differently in an unusual market regime;
- a filter failing to prevent every undesirable trade;
- conflicting signals or delayed data;
- unintended interaction with another EA, script, or manual trade;
- duplicate installation or multiple charts creating unintended exposure;
- incorrect product version or preset;
- software bug or edge case;
- resource overload;
- incorrect magic number or symbol mapping; and
- the strategy becoming less effective over time.
Settings, Configuration, and Human-Intervention Risk
Results can be materially affected by lot size, risk settings, equity limits, spread filters, trading hours, news settings, account balance, leverage, and instrument selection.
Human actions can also create risk, including:
- changing settings without understanding the effect;
- closing or modifying positions manually;
- removing the EA while positions remain open;
- using the same account with another strategy;
- installing the EA on duplicate charts;
- changing broker, server, account type, or symbol;
- ignoring error messages or low margin; and
- allowing an unauthorised person to access the platform.
Support guidance cannot eliminate risks caused by later Client changes or intervention.
Economic News, Holidays, Weekends, and Market Closure
News and time filters are risk controls, not guarantees. News calendars may be delayed, incomplete, revised, unavailable, or interpreted differently from actual market impact.
Markets may close, reopen, or operate with reduced liquidity. Positions held near weekends, holidays, market breaks, or unscheduled closures can reopen at a materially different price.
A scheduled filter cannot protect against every unscheduled political, economic, military, natural, regulatory, or institutional event.
VPS, Internet, Power, and Hardware Risk
Continuous automated operation depends on stable infrastructure.
Risks include:
- VPS outage, reboot, suspension, resource limit, or billing failure;
- internet interruption or high latency;
- power failure;
- Windows update or forced restart;
- insufficient RAM, CPU, storage, or network quality;
- Remote Desktop disconnection or misconfiguration;
- antivirus or firewall blocking MetaTrader or the EA;
- data loss or corrupted files; and
- unauthorised VPS access.
Closing the Remote Desktop window normally does not stop the VPS, but logging off, shutting down, restarting, or ending the MT5 process can stop EA operation.
Licence Server, Activation, and Update Risk
Product use may depend on correct activation data, licence checks, supported account information, website access, or technical infrastructure.
Temporary interruption may occur because of maintenance, hosting outage, security work, network problems, legal requirements, or third-party failure.
Incorrect account number, broker, server, system date, permissions, or blocked network access may prevent licence verification.
Updates can correct issues or maintain compatibility, but may also require testing, reinstallation, new settings, or temporary suspension of automated trading.
Symbol Names, Suffixes, and Contract Specifications
Brokers may use different names or suffixes for the same economic instrument. Examples may include XAUUSD, XAUUSD.a, XAUUSDm, or another broker-specific format.
Contract size, tick size, tick value, digits, minimum lot, lot step, maximum lot, trading session, stop level, freeze level, margin, and swap can vary.
A symbol that appears similar by name may not be economically or technically identical. Incorrect symbol mapping can prevent trading or create unexpected position size and risk.
Concentration, Correlation, and Multiple-Position Risk
Different positions may be exposed to the same underlying factor even when the symbols are different.
Examples include:
- multiple gold pairs exposed to the same gold move;
- several GBP pairs exposed to sterling risk;
- positions affected by the United States dollar;
- multiple EAs trading the same account;
- copy trading and direct EA positions overlapping; and
- separate charts opening correlated positions.
Apparent diversification does not guarantee independent risk. Correlation can increase sharply during market stress.
Copy Trading Risk
Copy trading adds risks beyond the underlying strategy, including:
- copy delay;
- missed or duplicated trades;
- different opening and closing prices;
- balance and allocation mismatch;
- lot-scaling differences;
- platform disconnection;
- master-account change;
- copy-provider or broker restriction;
- subscription or fee changes; and
- the master and follower accounts using different instruments or specifications.
A follower can perform better or worse than the referenced master account. Copying does not transfer responsibility for the follower’s account to ActiveTrader.
Performance, Statements, and Historical Results
Performance pages, Myfxbook links, statements, screenshots, charts, account histories, and summaries are provided for transparency and information.
They may be affected by:
- deposit and withdrawal activity;
- account age and start date;
- open positions not visible in a closed-trade summary;
- broker and account conditions;
- verification method;
- data delay or service outage;
- calculation methodology;
- currency conversion; and
- selection of the displayed period.
Historical MT4 records are historical references and are not the same as current ActiveTrader MT5 products unless expressly stated.
Investor Access and Read-Only Monitoring
Investor Access may allow read-only monitoring where available. It does not create ownership of the account, a right to funds, control over trades, or a guarantee that the account will remain accessible.
Access can be changed, withdrawn, disabled, delayed, or affected by broker maintenance, password changes, account migration, or security requirements.
A read-only view may not show every operational detail, external fee, pending instruction, or future risk.
Demo, Backtest, Optimisation, and Simulation Limits
Demo and backtest results can differ materially from real-money trading.
Limitations may include:
- simulated rather than actual liquidity;
- idealised or incomplete tick data;
- different spread, commission, swap, and slippage;
- no psychological or operational intervention;
- optimisation bias or overfitting;
- historical data errors or missing periods;
- different broker specifications;
- survivorship or selection bias; and
- the inability to reproduce future market conditions.
A profitable backtest or demo account does not prove that a real account will be profitable.
Minimum Operating Balance Is Not Capital Protection
Product pages may state a minimum operating balance. This is a deployment requirement intended to support the product’s designed operating structure.
It does not mean:
- the balance is protected;
- the account cannot be stopped out;
- drawdown will stay below a particular level;
- the account will generate profit;
- every broker will produce the same margin or exposure; or
- depositing more money automatically makes the strategy safe.
The effect of balance depends on settings, lot size, leverage, symbol specifications, broker conditions, open exposure, and market movement.
Cybersecurity, Credentials, and Data Risk
Trading and support involve computers, accounts, email, VPS access, files, websites, and third-party services that can be targeted by fraud or cyberattack.
Risks include:
- phishing or impersonation;
- malware or unauthorised EA files;
- stolen email, Client Portal, broker, or VPS credentials;
- remote-access misuse;
- data loss or corrupted backup;
- fake support accounts;
- tampered downloads; and
- unauthorised changes to account or platform settings.
Independent Third-Party and Affiliate-Service Risk
Brokers, VPS providers, payment processors, MetaTrader, Myfxbook, ZuluTrade, SignalStart, WeCopyTrade, Telegram, and other external services operate independently.
ActiveTrader cannot guarantee their:
- availability or uptime;
- security or data handling;
- pricing or fees;
- account approval;
- execution or performance;
- withdrawal processing;
- regulatory status in every jurisdiction;
- continued service; or
- refund or dispute decision.
ActiveTrader may receive an affiliate or referral benefit from disclosed partner links. This does not eliminate the Client’s responsibility to evaluate the provider independently.
Legal, Regulatory, Jurisdictional, and Tax Risk
Laws and regulations affecting software, leveraged trading, foreign brokers, copy trading, payments, taxation, marketing, and data processing differ by jurisdiction and may change.
A product or provider available in one country may be restricted or unavailable in another.
The Client is responsible for determining:
- whether the intended trading activity is lawful;
- whether the broker and account are permitted;
- whether reporting, tax, licensing, or registration obligations apply;
- whether Corporate licence use for client accounts requires additional authority; and
- whether independent legal, tax, accounting, or regulatory advice is needed.
ActiveTrader does not guarantee the legal or tax treatment of a Client’s activity.
Client Responsibilities and Practical Risk Controls
The Client remains responsible for the account and should take reasonable precautions.
Risk controls can reduce or organise exposure but cannot guarantee that loss will not occur.
Acknowledgement and Official Contact
By purchasing, activating, installing, or using an ActiveTrader product, you acknowledge that:
- leveraged trading can result in substantial or total loss;
- past or monitored results do not guarantee future results;
- software, broker, market, platform, and infrastructure risks remain;
- ActiveTrader does not hold or manage your trading funds;
- you are responsible for suitability, settings, supervision, and legal compliance; and
- you should seek independent advice where the risks are not fully understood.
Support hours: Monday–Friday, 09:00–17:00 WIB. Saturday–Sunday support is available as needed.
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Review the product and risk information before activation.
Compare the products, inspect available performance references, understand the licence, confirm the broker and VPS environment, and contact official support when a requirement is unclear.
