Risk disclosure

Trading cryptoassets and other financial instruments involves real risk, including the partial or total loss of the money you invest. This page sets out the specific risks relevant to an AI-assisted trading platform, in plain English, with a practical step for each. Please read it before you deposit, and re-read the "Before you start" section afterwards.

The eight risks that matter most

Market risk

Prices move suddenly and can move against you.

Liquidity risk

Orders cannot always be filled at the price you saw.

Connection risk

Integrations can misconfigure, fail or be exploited.

Counterparty risk

Third parties hold custody and can fail.

Operational risk

Software and infrastructure fail sometimes.

Cyber risk

Phishing and account theft are constant threats.

Model risk

Automated strategies have limits and no guarantees.

Availability risk

Maintenance and outages can pause the service.

1. Introduction and general warning

Everything on this page applies to every client, regardless of plan, strategy or experience. Automated analysis changes how much time markets demand of you; it does not change what markets can do to your money. No feature of this platform, including the AI engine, the volatility guard rails or the personal manager service, should be understood as a promise of profit or as protection from loss. Only commit money whose loss would not change your life.

2. Market risk: volatility and sharp moves

The instruments this platform covers, currencies, gold, shares and digital assets, can change price quickly and by large amounts, and moves frequently have no "reason" you could have acted on in advance. A position that looks comfortable at breakfast can be materially down by lunch. Digital assets also trade around the clock, including weekends and UK public holidays when traditional markets are shut, so prices can gap a long way between the moment you last checked and the moment you act. Practical step: decide in advance the maximum share of your savings you are willing to expose to markets at all, and write it down before your first deposit.

3. Liquidity risk: execution and slippage

Liquidity is how easily a position can be bought or sold near the price you last saw. In thin or panicked markets, orders may fill at worse prices (slippage), partially, or in extreme cases not at all for a period. Withdrawals are also affected: a market exit that looks instantaneous on a chart is never guaranteed to be, because bank transfers and card schemes process in working days, not seconds. Practical step: treat any projected return as approximate, and never plan around the assumption that you can exit at exactly the displayed price.

4. API and integration risk

The platform's monitoring and execution run through connections to external services. Those connections can be misconfigured, delayed or interrupted, and API credentials, if mishandled anywhere in the chain, are a target for attackers. A broken connection can mean a strategy that cannot act, or acts on stale information. Practical step: review the active connections on your account periodically, and ask support to confirm each one's permissions; revoke anything you no longer use.

5. Counterparty risk and custody of funds

Trading balances and digital assets sit with the exchanges and providers that actually execute and custody them, not with Tradevisor AI directly. Those third parties can suffer insolvency, freezes or security failures, and in such events recovery depends on their rules and jurisdictions, not ours. Practical step: keep only the funds you are actively using on trading venues, and hold the remainder, your safety cushion, in your own UK bank account.

6. Operational risk: software and infrastructure

Like all software, the platform can contain defects, and its infrastructure can suffer outages, from a failed update to a data-centre problem. Errors of this kind can delay logins, reporting, or the execution of strategy actions while they are fixed. Practical step: keep your own simple record of deposits and withdrawals, so that any reconciliation after an incident is a conversation with evidence rather than a memory test.

7. Cybersecurity and phishing

The most common way clients lose money is not a market crash; it is account compromise through phishing, reused passwords or a hijacked email account. Once an attacker controls the email behind your account, every other protection weakens. Practical step: use a unique password here, secure the email account it rests on with 2FA, and enable 2FA on this platform, as described on the Security page. Treat any message asking you to "confirm" credentials as hostile.

8. Model and automation risk

The AI engine identifies patterns and repeats of past behaviour; it cannot know the future, and its output is probability-flavoured, not prophetic. Automated strategies therefore carry their own failure modes: they can be wrong for long stretches, they can behave unexpectedly in conditions unlike their training data, and their historical behaviour says nothing guaranteed about tomorrow. The volatility guard rails can pause trading in extreme conditions, which reduces some damage but cannot prevent losses and sometimes pauses at an inconvenient moment. Practical step: watch a new strategy in simulation or with a small amount before scaling it, and treat any tool that claims certainty as disqualified by that claim alone.

9. Service availability

Maintenance windows, upgrades and unplanned incidents occasionally make the platform, or parts of it such as dashboards or withdrawal submission, temporarily unavailable. The exchanges and data providers the platform connects to run their own maintenance too, and their downtime can affect what our tools see even when our own systems are healthy. We schedule maintenance for quiet UK hours and communicate it in advance whenever it is foreseeable. Practical step: do not structure your finances so that a few hours of unavailability would cause harm; markets are patient, and your arrangements should be too.

10. Before you start: four commitments to yourself

  • Understand the strategy you are running. If you cannot explain in two sentences what it buys, when and why, ask your manager until you can.
  • Fix your maximum acceptable loss in advance. A number, written down, decided while calm.
  • Protect the account itself. Unique password, 2FA on, login alerts left switched on.
  • Keep reviewing. Read the weekly reports, check active sessions occasionally, and change what is not working rather than hoping.

If any risk on this page is unclear, that is a question for your personal manager or for [email protected] before you deposit, not after.