Read this
before you trade.

What you are actually doing

You are instructing our software to place, modify, and close leveraged derivative contracts on third-party exchanges using API keys you supplied. The counterparty is the exchange and its insurance fund — not TradeFloor. We do not take the other side of any trade.

Principal risks

1. Leverage amplifies both directions. A 10× leveraged position is fully liquidated by a roughly 10% adverse move in the underlying. Slippage, funding, and fees make the real liquidation margin narrower than the nominal figure.
2. Liquidation is final. Our four-layer protection (L1 warning → L2 partial close → L3 hedge → L4 emergency close) reduces the probability of full liquidation but cannot eliminate it. Flash crashes, exchange outages, and stale oracle prices can close positions before any protection action completes.
3. Funding payments compound. Perpetual contracts charge funding every eight hours (or more frequently). Holding a losing side through multiple funding windows can consume a material fraction of your margin even before price moves.
4. Exchanges can fail. APIs go down, withdrawals pause, accounts get locked. We cannot reach positions on an exchange that is offline. Do not treat any single exchange as a vault.
5. Signals are not predictions. RSI, OBI, whale flow, and news signals surface historical regularities. They do not predict the future. Backtests are not guarantees. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling something.
6. Automation does not equal safety. Automation removes emotion at entry but does not remove risk. A misconfigured trigger can size too large, fire too often, or chase a losing position.
7. Operational risk. Network latency, API rate limits, clock drift, software bugs, and your own misconfigurations can cause orders to execute late, partially, or not at all.
8. Tax and legal risk. Perpetual futures have country-specific tax treatment and are prohibited for certain residents (notably the United States). It is your responsibility to verify you are legally permitted to trade and to report accordingly.
9. Custody risk. Your funds remain with your exchange. If the exchange is insolvent or compromised, we cannot recover your funds. Using trade-only API keys without withdrawal permission is mandatory.
10. Total loss is plausible. Never trade with capital you cannot afford to lose. A bad week can erase years of gains.

What we do not promise

• Profit. Not on any signal, strategy, config, or time horizon.
• Uninterrupted service. Our status page exists precisely because systems fail.
• Execution at a specific price. Slippage happens; partial fills happen.
• Protection against every liquidation. L1–L4 reduces probability, not certainty.

Our obligations to you

• Non-custodial operation. We never hold or transfer your funds.
• Trade-only permissions. We never request withdrawal scope from any exchange.
• Transparent execution. An append-only audit log records every open, close, and modification.
• Reasonable uptime and security. See the security page for specifics.
• Plain-English incident communication. If we break something, we say so.

Suitability

Trading on margin is suitable only for persons who understand and can afford the risks. You must be of legal age in your jurisdiction, legally permitted to trade derivatives, and acting on your own behalf. Do not trade with borrowed funds, rent money, or retirement savings.

Jurisdictional note

TradeFloor does not provide services to residents of jurisdictions where such services are prohibited, including but not limited to the United States, Canada (Ontario, Québec, British Columbia, Saskatchewan), the United Kingdom (retail), Mainland China, the Russian Federation, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and sanctioned regions of Ukraine. By using the platform you represent that you are not a resident of any restricted jurisdiction.

Not investment advice

Nothing on this site, in the app, in our documentation, in our blog, or in communications with our team constitutes investment, tax, legal, or financial advice. We are not a registered broker, dealer, investment adviser, or futures commission merchant. Every decision you make is your own.

Acknowledgement

By creating an account, connecting an exchange, or placing a trade through TradeFloor, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and accepted this disclosure, together with the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.

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