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Risk disclosure

TICPOZ is a SaaS automation tool — not a broker, dealer, exchange, or financial-advice service. This page explains the risks of the trading activity the user performs on their own broker account, using their own funds, under their own jurisdiction's rules.

Last updated · May 2026
The short version
Trading forex, contracts for difference, futures, indices and crypto carries a high level of risk. The majority of retail traders lose money. Leverage amplifies both gains and losses. Past performance — yours, ours, anyone's — does not predict future results. TICPOZ is software. We do not give advice, we do not manage your money, we do not guarantee any outcome. Every trade placed through the platform is the result of rules you (or a strategy you chose to deploy) configured.

1. Trading-risk warning

The financial instruments traded through TICPOZ — including foreign exchange (FX), contracts for difference (CFDs), futures, equity indices, commodities, and cryptocurrencies — are leveraged or margin products. They are not suitable for every investor. Before deciding to trade, you should carefully consider:

  • Your investment objectives and your time horizon.
  • Your level of experience with financial markets.
  • Your appetite for risk and your ability to absorb losses.
  • Whether you can afford to lose all of the capital you intend to invest, and possibly more (some products can produce losses larger than your initial deposit if your broker does not offer negative-balance protection).

If you do not understand the risks involved, seek advice from an independent, suitably qualified financial adviser before opening a broker account or running an automated strategy.

2. Leverage

Most products supported by TICPOZ are leveraged. A leverage of 1:30 means that a 1% adverse price move can wipe out 30% of your position margin; 1:500 (offered by some brokers in some jurisdictions) means 1% wipes you out entirely. Leverage is a useful tool for capital-efficient exposure, but it can produce catastrophic losses very quickly.

TICPOZ's engine can enforce per-trade and per-day drawdown caps that you configure — these are strong safety nets, not guarantees. Market gaps, broker freezes, and extreme volatility can produce slippage that breaches a cap before an order is filled.

3. Automation-specific risks

Strategy logic risk

A strategy that performed well in backtests may underperform or lose money in live trading. Backtests are illustrative — they model historical conditions, not future ones. Market regime shifts (volatility, correlations, liquidity) routinely break strategies that looked robust in-sample.

Execution risk

Even a profitable strategy can lose money to execution friction: spread, slippage, broker rejections, partial fills, requotes, latency. TICPOZ executes against your broker's actual order book; results will differ from any synthetic backtest.

Platform risk

TICPOZ relies on cloud infrastructure and your broker's API. If our platform is unavailable, no new orders are placed and no stops are managed by us; positions already placed at the broker remain. We publish uptime at /status and aim for high availability, but cannot guarantee 100% uptime.

Connectivity risk

Broker APIs occasionally degrade, reject orders, or return delayed data. The engine retries where safe, but a delayed fill or a missed signal during such a window is possible.

News + black-swan risk

Scheduled high-impact news events (CPI, NFP, central-bank announcements) can produce dislocations of tens to hundreds of pips in seconds. Unscheduled events (geopolitical shocks, exchange halts, crypto exchange insolvencies) can be even worse. The news kill-switch is designed to step aside before scheduled releases; black swans, by definition, are not scheduled.

4. Prop-firm-specific risks

If you connect a prop-firm broker account, your trading is constrained by the firm's rules: daily-drawdown limit, max-drawdown limit, minimum trading days, consistency, news restrictions, lot caps. Violating any of these typically loses you the account — and the evaluation fee you paid.

TICPOZ's per-firm rule plugin is designed to help you stay inside those rules, but it cannot guarantee compliance. Spreads can spike. Spread widens at news. The kill-switch can check, but if a price moves 50 pips between the check and the fill, the breach happens regardless. You remain responsible for compliance with your firm's rules.

5. What we are not doing

To make this unambiguous:

  • TICPOZ is not a broker. We do not hold your money, accept deposits, or process withdrawals. Your funds stay at your broker.
  • TICPOZ is not an asset manager. We do not make any discretionary trading decisions on your behalf. Every strategy you run is one you (or a marketplace author you selected) authored.
  • TICPOZ is not a financial adviser. Nothing on this site, in our docs, in our blog, in our AI chat, or in any communication from us constitutes personal investment advice or a recommendation. Our content is general information about software.
  • TICPOZ is not a signal service. We do not sell “buy now” or “sell now” calls.
  • TICPOZ is not a copy-trading platform. Your strategies are private to you by default.
  • TICPOZ does not guarantee profit. Any claim suggesting it does is not authorised by us.

6. Past performance

Any rendered metric on this site — equity curves, returns, Sharpe ratios, win rates, drawdowns shown on the homepage, backtester results, dashboard mockups — that is presented as a number is illustrative and badged accordingly. Real trading results vary widely between users running the same strategy because of differences in broker spread, slippage, account size, leverage settings, market regime at the time of deployment, and chance.

What “Illustrative” means
Stylised example values used for demonstration. Not a real account result, not a forecast, not a promise. Backtests run against historical broker tick data are also illustrative — historical performance, even when computed honestly, does not predict future results.

7. Suitability

You should not use TICPOZ to trade with money that:

  • You cannot afford to lose entirely.
  • Is earmarked for essential living costs, rent, mortgage, or debt servicing.
  • Is borrowed from credit cards, payday loans, or other expensive credit.
  • Is part of a retirement portfolio you cannot replace.

If you are unsure whether trading is suitable for you, please seek independent financial advice. Useful resources: FCA (UK), SEC investor.gov (US), ESMA (EU).

8. Age and capacity

You must be at least 18 years old (or the legal age of majority in your jurisdiction, whichever is higher) and legally capable of entering into a binding contract to use TICPOZ.

9. Jurisdictional restrictions

Some products that brokers offer through TICPOZ may not be legal in your jurisdiction. For example, leveraged retail FX / CFD trading is restricted or banned in some countries. You are responsible for ensuring that your trading activity is lawful where you reside. Our broker partners enforce their own jurisdictional restrictions at the account-opening level — please check before you open an account.

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