Trading Risk Disclaimer

Effective 2026-05-16 · Last updated 2026-05-16

READ THIS BEFORE YOU TRADE. By using SignalIQ Pro you confirm you have read, understood, and accepted the risks described below.

1. Not personalised investment advice

Recommendations on SignalIQ Pro are systematic, quantitatively-derived signals applicable to a generic Indian retail trader profile. They are not tailored to your specific financial situation, risk appetite, investment goals, tax position, or existing portfolio. Before acting on any recommendation, consult a qualified, SEBI-registered investment adviser if you need personalised guidance.

2. Trading in equities, options and commodities carries substantial risk

Equities (Tier D): Single-stock returns are volatile. The strategy may incur losses of −12 % per stock (stop-loss) and the portfolio has experienced ~32 % maximum drawdown in historical backtest (Run #17, 2018–2026).
Weekly Options (Tier C): Tail-hedged short straddles can lose multiples of the entry credit on a gap event. We use a long out-of-the-money put as a defined-loss hedge, but drawdowns of 20–30 % on margin within a single quarter are possible and have occurred in backtest.
Gold (Tier B): MCX Gold Mini futures provide approximately 10× leverage. Trend-following on a single commodity can produce sustained drawdowns of 40 %+ on price basis during whipsaw regimes.

3. SEBI retail data point

As reported by SEBI in September 2024 and updated in early 2025: 91 % of retail Futures & Options traders in India lost money in FY24-FY25 (aggregate losses ₹1.05 trillion). SignalIQ Pro's strategies are designed to avoid the conditions that produce these losses, but no system can guarantee profitability for any individual trader.

4. Backtest limitations

Backtest returns are simulated using historical price data. Real fills will differ due to slippage, bid-ask spread, and brokerage costs that the backtest does not fully model.
Past performance is not indicative of future results. Future returns may be materially lower, or negative, for any given strategy in any given period.
The strategies' edges depend on academic anomalies (Quality + Momentum factor premia, Volatility Risk Premium, trend following) that may decay or invert under regime changes.

5. Execution responsibility

You execute every trade yourself through your own broker account. SignalIQ Pro does not place orders on your behalf. We are not responsible for execution errors, slippage, broker outages, or any decision you make to act on, defer, or ignore a recommendation.

6. Position sizing & capital adequacy

The recommended position sizes (₹1 lakh per equity pick, 1 weekly options straddle per ₹3.5 lakh, 1 MCX Gold Mini lot per ₹55 K margin) assume specific capital buckets. Subscribers with smaller or larger accounts must scale these recommendations and may bear proportionally different risk profiles than the strategy backtests.

7. SEBI Research Analyst status

SignalIQ Pro is being prepared for SEBI Research Analyst registration. Until that registration is granted and a registration number is displayed in this document and on the product pages, signals surfaced are research and educational in nature and should not be construed as investment advice within the meaning of SEBI (Investment Advisers) Regulations, 2013, or SEBI (Research Analysts) Regulations, 2014.

8. No guarantee, no warranty

THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES (EXPRESS OR IMPLIED) INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, TIMELY, SECURE, OR ERROR-FREE.