Risk Disclosure
Trading digital assets, foreign exchange, and other financial instruments carries genuine risk of loss. This page sets out, plainly and without softening, the ten risk areas every Steadfast Cargence user should understand before depositing funds. Automated tools change how much time trading takes; they do not change what markets can do to capital.
1. Introduction and the general warning
Nothing on this site is a promise of profit, and no strategy, automated or manual, removes the possibility of losing part or all of the amount you invest. Prices of digital assets in particular can move violently in minutes, in either direction, and past behaviour of any market or strategy does not tell you what it will do next. The illustrative figures shown in our calculator are examples of arithmetic, not forecasts. Before you deposit, read this page in full, read the Terms of Use, and talk to your personal manager about what a loss of the full amount would mean for you.
One more framing worth fixing early: automation changes the workload of trading, not its nature. The engine removes the screen-watching, the hesitation, and the tired 2am decisions; it cannot remove the market itself. Every risk described below applies to automated and manual trading alike, and several of them, operational risk in particular, come specifically with the automated territory. Treat this page as an operating manual for keeping losses survivable, not a box to tick before depositing.
2. Market risk and volatility
Market risk is the risk that prices move against a position. Digital assets routinely post daily swings of five to ten percent, and major political or economic news can produce larger gaps over weekends and overnight, exactly when you may be asleep. Automated strategies hold exposure through these moves unless their conditions tell them to stand aside.
Practical step: set the maximum amount at risk with your manager before the first strategy runs, and treat it as a ceiling, not a target.
3. Liquidity risk and slippage
Liquidity risk is the risk that an order cannot be filled quickly at the price you see. In thin markets or fast moves, the executed price can differ from the quoted price; that difference is slippage. Stop-loss orders do not guarantee an exit price: if the market gaps through the level, the fill lands wherever liquidity reappears. Withdrawals of large sums can also be affected by the liquidity available on the venue processing them.
Practical step: prefer strategies and assets with deep liquidity, and be sceptical of any setup whose quoted prices look too smooth.
4. API connections and integrations
The platform connects to trading venues through interfaces controlled by those third parties. Venues change rules, rate limits, and behaviour of their interfaces with little notice, which can interrupt strategy execution. Keys used for connections must be configured with the minimum permissions; a key configured with withdrawal rights is a bigger risk than one limited to reading and trading.
Practical step: never reuse a password across services, enable two-factor authentication everywhere, and review which keys are active on your account from time to time.
5. Counterparty risk and where funds sit
When money or assets are held with an exchange or another third party, you bear the risk that the third party fails, freezes withdrawals, or suffers a security incident. History has shown that even large venues can collapse. How your funds are held, and what happens if a provider fails, are fair questions to put to your manager before you deposit.
Practical step: keep only the amount you actively need for trading on the platform, and confirm the withdrawal process works while the amounts are still small.
6. Operational risks
Software has defects, hardware fails, and internet connections drop. An outage at the wrong moment can delay an order, misreport a position, or prevent access exactly when you want to act. We design for graceful failure and monitor continuously, but no operator can promise zero downtime, and strategy behaviour during recovery is driven by market conditions at that moment.
Practical step: know how to reach support urgently, and keep your own record of the positions and settings you care about.
7. Cybersecurity and phishing
Accounts are attacked by people guessing passwords, reusing leaked credentials, and tricking users into entering them on fake sites. A phishing page that copies our design can capture whatever you type into it. Our security measures only protect you on the real platform; they cannot see what happens on a lookalike domain.
Practical step: reach the site only via your own bookmark or by typing the address, treat unexpected emails asking for credentials or codes as hostile, and report lookalike sites to [email protected]. Our Fraud Warning page lists the current ones we know about.
8. Models, automation, and their limits
The AI engine finds patterns and micro-trends in historical and live data and acts within the strategy limits set for your account. Models are built on data from the past, and markets regularly do things they have not done before. Automation can be wrong quickly and at scale, protective pauses can trigger at unhelpful moments, and no configuration eliminates losses. Treat every back-test and every projection as one version of the past, not a promise about the future.
Practical step: understand, in plain terms, what each active strategy does and when it stands aside; your manager can walk you through it without jargon.
9. Service availability
The platform and this website undergo maintenance, and incidents happen despite care. During maintenance or an incident, execution may pause, prices may be stale, and pages may be unavailable. Scheduled maintenance is announced in the platform where practicable; emergency work is communicated as soon as the team can, with priority on restoring safe operation over writing polished notices.
Practical step: do not schedule time-critical financial decisions around the last minutes of announced maintenance windows.
10. Before you start
Four habits do most of the protecting. Understand the strategy you are running, in plain words, including when it exits. Decide the level of loss you can genuinely absorb and write it down before your first deposit. Protect the account itself: a unique password, two-factor authentication, and immediate reports of anything odd. Stay engaged: read the weekly summaries, ask your manager about anything unclear, and review your settings whenever your circumstances change. If a loss of the deposited amount would change how you live, the amount is too large for this activity.
Finally, keep your knowledge current. Re-read this page when your circumstances change, when you scale up, and whenever a summary shows a week you did not understand. Risk that you have stopped understanding is risk you no longer control, regardless of who or what is executing the trades. Your manager will happily spend a call walking through any section here in more depth, and that conversation costs nothing.
Summary. Trading involves risk of partial or complete loss of capital, is not suitable for everyone, and previous results do not indicate future performance. Only deposit funds whose loss you can absorb. Questions about anything on this page go to [email protected], and your manager will answer them before you deposit anything.