What TICPOZ is not

Most companies write a marketing page describing what they are. We are going to write one describing what we are not. The audience for this post is anyone considering whether to connect a brokerage account to TICPOZ. We want you to walk in with a correct mental model of where we sit. We have drawn the lines clearly, on purpose, and we think readers respect lines that are visible.

Not a broker

We do not hold client money. We do not have a custody account. We do not have a market-making desk. We do not have an execution licence in any jurisdiction. When you place a trade through a TICPOZ strategy, the trade is routed to the broker you connected — cTrader, MT5, or a prop firm broker — and that broker is the party executing the trade against its own liquidity providers.

Operationally this means we cannot accept deposits, we cannot process withdrawals, and we do not benefit from your trading volume. We do not have a payment-for-order-flow arrangement with any broker. Our revenue is the subscription you pay for the software.

Not an asset manager

An asset manager makes discretionary investment decisions on a client's behalf. They decide what to buy, when, in what size, under what constraints. TICPOZ makes none of those decisions. The strategy that runs on your account was either written by you, or compiled by Quant-AI from a description you wrote, or purchased by you from our marketplace after you read its rules.

We do not have the legal status of an asset manager. We do not hold the qualifications that would entitle us to operate as one. We do not promise the duty of care that asset managers owe their clients. The discretion is yours.

Not a financial adviser

A financial adviser provides personal recommendations tailored to a client's individual circumstances — income, dependents, tax bracket, risk tolerance, goals. We do not know any of those things about you, and we make no recommendations on the basis of them. Nothing on the TICPOZ site, this blog, our documentation, or our customer-support channels constitutes financial advice.

If you need financial advice for your specific situation, please consult a licensed adviser in your jurisdiction. We can show you what a strategy did historically. We cannot tell you whether running that strategy is appropriate for your circumstances.

Not a signal service

A signal service publishes trade calls — "buy EURUSD now at 1.0850, stop 1.0820, target 1.0900" — and the subscriber executes them manually or with a copier. The signal seller is implicitly claiming a view on markets and is implicitly being paid for that view.

TICPOZ does not publish signals. We do not have a view on markets we are willing to sell you. The strategies in our marketplace are rule sets, not calls. A rule set runs deterministically against live data; it is not a human's prediction.

Not a copy-trading platform

Copy-trading platforms let one user's trades be mirrored automatically to many other users' accounts. The mirrored users are taking on the leader's decisions in real time. TICPOZ does not do this. Every user's strategies are theirs alone. Strategies in our marketplace are licensable rule sets — when you buy one, you get a deterministic spec that runs on your account, with parameters you can override, not a live feed of another trader's clicks.

This distinction matters because copy-trading platforms operate under specific regulatory frameworks in most jurisdictions. Software that runs a deterministic strategy on the user's own account does not.

Not regulated by FCA, SEC, FINRA, ASIC, or CySEC

We are not regulated by any financial regulator. We do not need to be. Software that executes user-defined rules against a user-controlled brokerage account is not regulated as a financial service in any major jurisdiction. The regulated entities in this picture are the brokers and prop firms our users connect to. Those entities hold the licences, carry the capital requirements, and have the reporting obligations.

Under EU MiFID II, "investment advice" requires personalised recommendations to an identified client. We give none. "Reception and transmission of orders" requires that we act as an intermediary routing orders to a venue. We do not — the user's broker is the venue, and TICPOZ is software running on the user's behalf that connects to that venue using the user's own credentials.

Under UK FCA rules, "managing investments" requires discretion over client assets. We have no discretion. Under US SEC rules, "investment adviser" requires advice for compensation about securities. We compile rule sets, not advice, and the instruments most of our users trade — FX and CFDs — are not securities under US law in any case.

Not guaranteed-profit

Nothing on TICPOZ is guaranteed to make money. No strategy on our marketplace, no AI generation from Quant-AI, no backtest result, no live track record is a promise of future performance. Every metric we display is hypothetical or illustrative until the moment a real trade fires on a real account, and even then the next trade can lose.

Anyone selling trading-related software that promises returns is either lying or about to be sued or both. The honest answer is that strategies have edges that are small, time-varying, and competed away. A well-built strategy increases your odds of long-term positive expectancy; it does not guarantee any specific path.

Not your fiduciary

A fiduciary is legally obligated to act in your interest above their own. TICPOZ is not your fiduciary. We have a contractual relationship with you, defined in our terms of service, and we honour that contract. We treat user data carefully, we encrypt broker tokens, we run the platform reliably to the best of our ability. But we are not legally obligated to subordinate our interests to yours, and you should not assume we are.

Specifically: if a strategy on our marketplace is performing poorly, we do not have an obligation to alert you and recommend you switch. If our subscription pricing would be suboptimal for a user with your usage pattern, we do not have an obligation to recommend you downgrade. We will not actively mislead you, but we are a vendor, not a fiduciary.

Why we are writing this

Three reasons.

First, clarity is a feature. Users who connect their brokerage account to a platform should know exactly what relationship they are entering. We would rather lose a signup from someone who wanted a fiduciary than have them sign up under a misimpression.

Second, the trading-tools industry has a long history of obscuring the line between software and service. There are companies that sell "AI trading bots" while also taking custody of user funds, or that publish "signal services" while also running a market-making desk. The conflicts of interest in those structures are real. We want it to be obvious that none of those conflicts exist at TICPOZ, because the structures that create them do not exist at TICPOZ.

Third, drawing the lines clearly forces us to stay within them. Once a company has published a list of things it is not, it becomes harder for the company to drift into those things later without being noticed. The post is a commitment, not just a disclosure.

The closing thought

If you read this list and any of it surprised you, please pause before connecting an account. Re-read our terms of service. Email us with questions. We would rather answer twenty emails before signup than handle one complaint after a misunderstanding.

Your strategy. Your account. Your risk. Our software.