Risk disclosure

1. You can lose everything you deposit

Trading foreign exchange and metals on margin carries a high level of risk. Leverage magnifies losses just as it magnifies gains. It is possible to lose the entire balance of your trading account, and with some brokers and account types it is possible to lose more than your deposit. Never trade with money you cannot afford to lose entirely, and never trade with borrowed money.

2. Past performance tells you very little about the future

Every performance figure we publish describes what happened on a specific account, at a specific broker, over a specific period. It is evidence that a strategy has worked, not a forecast that it will continue to. Market regimes change, edges decay, and a strategy can stop working permanently without any visible warning in its statistics.

3. Your results will differ from ours

• Your broker’s spread, commission and swap rates differ from the audited account’s.
• Execution latency and slippage vary by broker, server location and time of day.
• Account size changes position rounding, which changes returns.
• Your start date matters enormously — beginning immediately before a drawdown gives a very different first year than beginning after one.

4. Drawdown is the number that matters

The published maximum drawdown is the deepest peak-to-trough decline observed so far. It is not a limit. Future drawdowns can and eventually will exceed it. Before allocating, calculate the cash value of a drawdown twice as deep as the published figure and ask yourself honestly whether you would stay invested through it. Most losses in this industry are realised by clients abandoning a strategy at its lowest point.

5. Automation introduces its own risks

• Server, VPS or internet failure can prevent a robot from managing an open position.
• Broker platform outages, requotes or rejected orders can cause a stop-loss to fill worse than intended, or not at all.
• Extreme volatility, gaps and low-liquidity periods can produce fills far from expected prices.
• Software contains defects. Ours is tested but not perfect.

6. We are not your financial adviser

Aurum EA Lab provides trading software and monitoring tools. Nothing on this website, in your dashboard, or in correspondence with our team constitutes investment advice, a personal recommendation, or a solicitation to trade. We do not know your full financial circumstances and cannot assess suitability for you. If you need advice, consult a licensed professional in your jurisdiction.

7. Regulatory status

We are a technology provider. We do not accept client deposits, do not pool client funds, do not have discretionary authority over your capital, and do not hold withdrawal rights over any connected trading account. Depending on your country of residence, the products your broker offers may be restricted or unavailable to you. It is your responsibility to ensure your use of this service is lawful where you live.

8. Start on a demo account

We provide free, unlimited paper trading precisely so you can observe a strategy’s behaviour — including a losing streak — before any capital is at risk. We strongly recommend a minimum of three months on a demo account before funding.