Risk Disclosure
Read this carefully before enabling live trading. Last updated 2026-05-19.
High-risk activity
Trading crypto-assets — including with automated strategies — can result in the total loss of your capital. Past performance, simulations, walk-forward results, and backtests are not reliable indicators of future results. You trade with your own keys at your own risk.
1. Capital loss risk
Crypto markets are volatile, illiquid, and operate 24/7. Adverse moves, exchange outages, funding spikes, oracle errors, slippage, and forced liquidations can cause partial or complete loss of your funds within minutes. Only allocate capital you can fully afford to lose. Smartbull does not custody your funds and cannot reverse trades.
2. Backtests and simulations are not guarantees
All performance figures in the Lab, Engine, or marketing pages are historical simulations subject to survivorship bias, look-ahead bias, transaction-cost assumptions, and regime change. Walk-forward out-of-sample numbers reduce — but do not eliminate — these biases. Live results will differ, often materially.
3. Execution & operational risk
Strategies run against third-party exchange APIs that may rate-limit, return stale data, reject orders, or fail. Smartbull provides reliability layers (circuit breakers, reconciliation, TWAP, kill-switch) but cannot guarantee uptime, fill quality, or that all orders will be executed at intended prices.
4. Jurisdictional & regulatory risk
Crypto regulation varies by jurisdiction and changes frequently. You are solely responsible for confirming that your use of Smartbull, the exchanges you connect, and the strategies you run are lawful where you reside and where you trade. Smartbull is not registered as an investment adviser, broker, or asset manager in any jurisdiction.