Risk Disclosure

Read this before trading.

Cryptocurrency trading carries substantial risk of loss. Past performance does not predict future results. Only trade with money you can afford to lose entirely.

1. Not Financial Advice

Quantinger is a research and analysis tool, not a financial advisor, broker, dealer, custodian, or fiduciary. No person at Quantinger is a licensed financial advisor or registered investment adviser. All content on the Service — including charts, indicators, backtest results, screener outputs, news summaries, AI responses, and articles — is provided for educational and informational purposes only.

Nothing on Quantinger constitutes a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any cryptocurrency or financial instrument. You alone are responsible for your trading decisions and their consequences.

2. Cryptocurrency Risks

  • Volatility: Cryptocurrency prices can move 10% or more in a single day and 50% or more in a week. Losses can be rapid and severe.
  • Total loss: Cryptocurrencies can and have gone to zero. Entire projects have failed, developers have abandoned networks, and tokens have become permanently worthless.
  • Liquidity risk: Some assets cannot be sold at quoted prices in stressed markets. Bid-ask spreads can widen dramatically during periods of volatility.
  • Regulatory risk: Laws governing cryptocurrency change frequently. What is legal today may not be tomorrow. Assets listed on exchanges today may be delisted or restricted.
  • Counterparty risk: Cryptocurrency exchanges can fail (as FTX demonstrated in 2022), be hacked, or freeze withdrawals. If you hold assets on an exchange, you bear this risk; we do not.
  • Technology risk: Smart contract bugs, blockchain forks, lost private keys, wallet vulnerabilities, and protocol failures can result in irrecoverable loss of funds.
  • Market manipulation: Cryptocurrency markets, particularly for smaller-cap assets, can be subject to manipulation including wash trading, pump-and-dump schemes, and coordinated activity. Screener signals and news can be affected by such activity.

3. Backtest Limitations

Backtest results shown on Quantinger are hypothetical and simulated. They are computed from historical data and do not represent actual trading outcomes. Hypothetical performance has significant inherent limitations:

  • Look-ahead bias: Even with our safeguards, subtle forms of look-ahead bias can exist in complex strategies.
  • Survivorship bias: Historical data may not include assets that were delisted or ceased trading.
  • No slippage or realistic fills: Even with our slippage model, live execution will differ from simulation.
  • Selection bias: You only deploy strategies that backtested well. This creates a selection bias that overstates expected performance.
  • Overfitting: Strategies optimised on historical data often fail on new data due to overfitting to past market regimes.

A backtest showing 200% annual return with 10% drawdown does NOT mean live trading will produce similar results. The opposite is more common — strategies that backtested well frequently fail in live markets due to overfitting, market regime changes, slippage, and execution friction. Walk-forward analysis and Monte Carlo simulation, while better than simple backtests, do not eliminate these risks.

4. AI-Generated Content

The AI assistant on Quantinger runs on API keys you provide from third-party providers. AI outputs may contain: inaccurate information, outdated information, hallucinated facts, confident-sounding but incorrect analysis, or content that misinterprets your intent.

NEVER trade based on AI output without independent verification from multiple authoritative sources.

5. Strategy Marketplace

Strategies shared by other users in the marketplace are not vetted, reviewed, endorsed, or guaranteed by Quantinger. They may contain errors, may not work as described, may have undisclosed risks, or may have been backtested in ways that overstate performance. Use shared strategies entirely at your own risk.

6. News and Sentiment

News headlines and sentiment analysis are sourced from third-party providers and processed automatically. Headlines can be misleading or incomplete. Sentiment classification is automated and imperfect. Market reactions to news are inherently unpredictable. Do not trade based solely on news or sentiment signals from this platform.

7. No Recommendation to Trade

Quantinger's existence on your screen, the indicators it displays, the screener results it surfaces, the alerts it sends, and the articles it publishes — none of these constitute a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any asset. You alone decide whether to trade, what to trade, and how much to risk.

8. Consult Professionals

Before trading cryptocurrency with meaningful sums, consider consulting:

  • A licensed financial advisor in your jurisdiction;
  • A tax professional (cryptocurrency has complex tax implications in most jurisdictions);
  • A lawyer if substantial sums or entity structures are involved.

9. Acknowledgment

By using Quantinger, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and accept this Risk Disclosure. You acknowledge that trading cryptocurrency is speculative, that you may lose all funds you commit to trading, and that no representation has been made to you that you will profit. You assume full responsibility for your trading decisions and their consequences.