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Risk Disclosure
Last updated: March 2025 · Read carefully before acting on any Daloop signal
Important — Read Carefully
Trading U.S. exchange-listed stocks, ETFs, and cryptocurrencies involves substantial risk and is not suitable for every investor. This Risk Disclosure explains, in plain language, the material risks of using Daloop and of trading the instruments we cover. By using the Service, you acknowledge that you understand and accept these risks.
1. Not Investment Advice
Daloop is a research and analytics tool. Nothing on the Service constitutes investment, financial, legal, or tax advice, or a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security. Daloop is not a registered investment adviser under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, a broker-dealer under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or a commodity trading advisor.
Any decision to act on a Daloop signal is yours alone. You should consult a licensed financial advisor before making any investment decision.
2. Trading Risk
Securities and cryptocurrency prices can move sharply and unpredictably. You can lose some or all of your invested capital — including more than you deposited, in the case of leveraged products (which Daloop does not recommend). Specific risks include:
- Market risk — broad market moves can produce losses even when a strategy has been historically profitable.
- Volatility risk — sharp intra-day or overnight moves can trigger stop-losses or gap beyond expected exit prices.
- Liquidity risk — some securities may be hard to buy or sell at the price Daloop's signals assume.
- Concentration risk — holding only a few of the names on your watchlist amplifies the impact of any single adverse move.
3. Limitations of Backtests
Daloop signals are produced by quantitative strategies whose parameters were optimized on historical data and then validated on a separate, out-of-sample window. Despite this anti-curve-fit protocol (OOS Profit Factor ≥ 1.5 and IS-to-OOS Win-Rate degradation ≤ 15 percentage points), backtested results have inherent limitations:
- Past performance is not indicative of future results. A strategy that survived historical validation may still fail in live markets.
- Backtests do not account for slippage, commissions, bid-ask spreads, or borrow costs that real trades incur.
- Historical market conditions may not repeat. Regime shifts (rate cycles, regulatory changes, geopolitical events) can invalidate previously stable edges.
- Survivorship and look-ahead biases, while mitigated in our engine, cannot be entirely eliminated from any historical study.
4. No Profit Guarantee
Daloop does not guarantee any specific outcome, return, or performance level. Any reference to win rate, profit factor, average return, or cumulative equity in the Service is historical and reflects the performance of the strategy on past data — not a promise of future results.
We do not offer refunds for losses you incur while trading on the basis of Daloop signals, and our liability for any claim is limited as described in our Terms of Service.
5. Consult a Licensed Professional
Daloop does not assess your individual financial situation, risk tolerance, tax position, or investment objectives. You are responsible for evaluating whether any signal or strategy is suitable for you.
Before acting on any Daloop signal, you should consult a licensed financial advisor, tax professional, or attorney who can take your full circumstances into account. The cost of professional advice is typically far smaller than the cost of a single avoidable trading mistake.
6. Technical and Operational Risks
The Service depends on internet connectivity, third-party market data providers, cloud infrastructure, and software that may contain bugs or experience outages. We do not guarantee uninterrupted access to the Service, the timely delivery of alerts, or the accuracy of any price, indicator, or signal value displayed.
Signals are generated end-of-day, after market close, and reflect swing and position trading timeframes — not intra-day trades. If you attempt to act on a signal in real-time during market hours, the price you receive may differ materially from the price implied by the signal.
7. Paper Trading vs. Live Trading
The Daloop Portfolio view is a paper-trading environment with a virtual $100,000 starting balance. Paper trades do not involve real money and do not reflect the emotional, liquidity, and execution realities of live trading.
A paper-trading track record is not evidence that you will be profitable in live markets. Use the paper-trading feature to learn the mechanics of the Service — not as a basis for sizing live positions.
8. Cryptocurrency-Specific Risks
Daloop covers 8 cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, SOL, BNB, XRP, ADA, DOGE, AVAX) alongside its stock and ETF universe. Cryptocurrency trading carries additional risks, including:
- Extreme price volatility and 24/7 markets with no daily close.
- Regulatory uncertainty in the U.S. and other jurisdictions.
- Custody, exchange, and wallet risk — digital assets can be lost or stolen.
- Thin liquidity for some assets outside the largest names.
Our signals for cryptocurrencies are generated by the same anti-curve-fit protocol as equities, but the underlying market microstructure is different and may not respond the same way to trend, momentum, or mean-reversion logic.
9. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Daloop is not liable for any losses, direct or indirect, arising from your use of the Service or your reliance on any signal, indicator, narrative, or analytics output. Our total liability is limited as described in our Terms of Service.
10. Acknowledgment
By creating an account and using the Service, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Risk Disclosure, that you understand the risks of trading securities and cryptocurrencies, and that you alone bear responsibility for any trading decision you make.
11. Contact
Questions about this Risk Disclosure can be sent to:
- By email: support@daloop.com
- Company: Daloop.com