Last updated: 2026-05-03

SochQuant Live Trading Risk Disclosure

Effective date: 2026-05-03 Last updated: 2026-05-03 Version: 2026-05-03

This Live Trading Risk Disclosure applies when you connect an exchange account, add API credentials, enable paper trading, enable live trading, start a bot, run automation, or use any feature that may create, cancel, or modify orders.

By enabling live trading or connecting exchange credentials, you acknowledge and accept the risks below.

1. Crypto trading is high risk

Crypto assets are volatile and speculative. Prices can move sharply within seconds. You can lose some or all of your funds. Do not trade funds you cannot afford to lose.

2. SochQuant is not a financial adviser

SochQuant does not provide investment advice, financial advice, trading advice, tax advice, legal advice, or portfolio management. Strategies, indicators, signals, reports, backtests, automation results, and examples are tools for your own analysis only.

You are solely responsible for every trading decision and every order placed through your exchange account.

3. Backtests are not guarantees

Backtests and simulated results are hypothetical. They may not include realistic slippage, spread, liquidity, exchange outages, order book depth, market impact, execution latency, funding costs, taxes, or all fees.

A strategy that performed well historically may perform poorly in live markets.

4. Automation can create losses quickly

Automated trading may place orders faster than manual trading. Losses may occur because of:

• strategy bugs;
• wrong settings;
• incorrect symbol or timeframe selection;
• exchange API failures;
• stale or missing market data;
• delayed order execution;
• unexpected volatility;
• poor liquidity;
• duplicate bots or conflicting sessions;
• network or server outages;
• software defects;
• incorrect fee or balance assumptions;
• stop loss or take profit behavior not matching expectations; or
• user error.

You must test, monitor, and control your own strategies.

5. API key safety

When connecting an exchange, use the safest permissions available.

Recommended API key practices:

• enable trading permission only if required;
• disable withdrawal permission;
• use IP restrictions where supported;
• use separate keys for each app or environment;
• rotate keys periodically;
• delete unused keys;
• start with small balances; and
• monitor exchange activity directly.

SochQuant is not responsible for losses caused by API key misuse, compromised credentials, exchange account compromise, or unsafe exchange permissions.

6. User confirmation

Before enabling live trading, you confirm that:

1. you understand live trading can cause real financial loss;
2. you are not relying on SochQuant as financial advice;
3. you are responsible for all trading activity;
4. you have reviewed the strategy configuration;
5. you understand backtests do not guarantee future performance;
6. you have configured exchange API permissions carefully;
7. you will monitor live trading activity; and
8. you accept that SochQuant is provided “as is” without profit guarantees.

7. Live trading acknowledgment

Before live trading can be enabled, SochQuant may require you to confirm an acknowledgment substantially similar to the following:

I understand that live crypto trading is high risk and can result in loss of funds. SochQuant is a software research and automation tool, not a financial adviser. I am solely responsible for my strategies, exchange API keys, trading settings, and all orders placed through my account. I understand that backtests do not guarantee future results.