Risk disclosure

1. In short

• Zonelytix is a software and analysis tool. It is not an investment adviser or broker and does not give personal advice.
• Signals are based on fixed rules and past price behaviour. Many lose. A zone score is a probability estimate, not a prediction.
• Automated execution follows your settings exactly, including through losing streaks and through events the rules did not anticipate.
• Simulator results, backtests and pass probabilities are hypothetical. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
• You alone are responsible for your trading, your broker, your settings and your taxes.

2. Not advice, not a recommendation

Nothing produced by the Service is personalised to you. Zones, scores, AI explanations, signals, outlooks, playbook articles, challenge plans and simulator results are generated from market data and fixed rules, without knowledge of your financial situation, experience, objectives or risk tolerance. They are educational analysis and general information, published to every member on the same plan at the same time. Whether to trade, what to trade, how much to risk and through which broker are decisions you make. If you are unsure whether trading is suitable for you, seek advice from a professional who is licensed to advise you in your country.

3. Regulatory status

Zonelytix is a software publisher. It is not authorised or regulated by any financial regulator, including the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the US Securities and Exchange Commission, the UK Financial Conduct Authority, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission or any EU national competent authority, and is not a member of any self-regulatory organisation. It does not hold client money, does not execute orders, does not act as an introducing broker and receives no commission from any broker or prop firm.

The rules on publishing trading analysis differ by country. We may restrict features, including automated execution, in countries where offering them would require a licence we do not hold. If you are unsure whether you may use the Service where you live, do not use it until you have checked.

4. Market risk and leverage

Prices of currencies, metals, indices and crypto assets move quickly and unpredictably in response to economic data, central bank decisions, political events, liquidity conditions and sentiment. Gaps over weekends, at session opens and around news can jump through a stop loss, so the loss on a trade can exceed the planned 1R by a wide margin. Stop losses are not guaranteed by most brokers.

Leverage magnifies both gains and losses. A small adverse move can wipe out the margin on a position. Your broker may close positions without notice when margin is insufficient and may charge you for a negative balance unless it offers negative balance protection. Zonelytix sizes positions from your risk percentage, but it cannot control slippage, gaps, requotes, spread widening or your broker’s margin rules.

Contracts for difference and spot forex are complex, over-the-counter instruments. Your counterparty is your broker. If your broker fails, you may lose the money held with it regardless of your trading results.

5. Signal risk

• Signals follow published rules. The rules will produce losing trades, losing days and losing streaks. The track record shows them, and a longer losing streak than any shown so far is always possible.
• A zone strength of 80 means the model estimates an 80% chance of a reaction at that level under similar past conditions. It does not mean the trade will win, and one in five such zones is expected not to react at all.
• Signals carry a spread filter and a news filter but cannot anticipate unscheduled events, thin liquidity or broker-specific behaviour.
• Published entries, stops and targets are a band; your broker’s prices differ. Your fills, and therefore your results, will differ from the public record.
• Delivery can be delayed by Telegram, push providers, email or our own systems. A signal acted on late may no longer be valid.
• Strategy performance changes over time. Market conditions that produced past results may not recur, and a strategy that worked can stop working without warning.
• Many members may receive the same signal at the same time. In thin markets that can itself move price and worsen fills.

6. Automated execution risk

Tap to execute and full auto place real orders with your money through software on your own terminal. Before enabling either mode, understand that:

• The EA follows your settings exactly: risk per trade, maximum trades, daily loss stop, sessions and filters. A mistake in a setting is executed as written.
• Full auto will take every signal that passes your filters, including during a losing streak, while you sleep, and when you would have chosen differently.
• A disconnected terminal, a crashed VPS, an expired licence, a broker outage or an internet failure can leave positions unmanaged. The platform never closes positions on your behalf, and the master execution switch only stops new trades.
• Bugs in the EA, in our systems, in MetaTrader or at your broker can cause missed, duplicated, delayed or incorrectly sized orders.
• Approvals in tap to execute expire; an approval given after market conditions changed is still executed if the EA receives it before expiry.
• Risk per trade is capped at 5%, but 5% per trade can still lose a large share of an account in a short losing streak. Several open trades on correlated symbols multiply exposure.
• If you run the EA on more than one account, the same signal is executed on all of them.

Start on a demo account. Use a small risk percentage. Check your terminal daily. Keep the master switch within reach.

7. Hypothetical and past results

Simulator runs, backtests, strength-band tables, equity curves and challenge plan estimates are hypothetical in this sense. Past performance does not guarantee future results.

The public track record is real in the sense that every signal was published before its outcome was known, but it is still not the result of any actual account: it assumes a fixed outcome model, includes spread at signal time, and excludes commission, slippage, swap and the practical limits of execution. Results shown in R assume you risked the same fraction on every trade, which real accounts rarely do.

8. Prop firm challenges

Challenge fees are usually non-refundable and most challenges are failed. Prop firm mode and the AI challenge plan reduce the chance of breaching a rule by stopping early with a buffer; they do not remove it, and they cannot prevent a gap through a stop that breaches a daily loss limit in one move. A pass probability is an estimate from simulation, never a promise. Firms change rules, may restrict Expert Advisors, copy trading or identical trades across accounts, may treat signal services as prohibited group trading, and may refuse payouts under their own terms. Zonelytix is not responsible for a failed challenge, a lost funded account, a breached rule or a refused payout.

9. Crypto-specific risks

Crypto assets trade 24/7, are highly volatile, can move sharply on exchange outages, regulatory news, hacks or large holders, and are priced differently across exchanges and CFD brokers. Weekend crypto signals can be delivered while you are away. Crypto CFDs are banned or restricted for retail clients in some countries, including the United Kingdom.

Reward payouts in stablecoins carry risks of their own: an incorrect wallet address or network cannot be reversed, stablecoins can lose their peg or be frozen by their issuer, networks can be congested or halted, and a wallet you control can be lost or stolen. Zonelytix does not custody crypto for you and cannot recover a payout once sent.

10. Behavioural risk

Losses provoke decisions that rules would not make: increasing risk to recover, overriding a stop, switching strategies after a losing week, or turning full auto on and off at the wrong moments. Automation removes some of these temptations and creates others, such as leaving a mis-set risk percentage running for days. Signals arriving by phone at any hour can encourage over-trading. Decide your rules while calm, write them in the dashboard, and change them only on a schedule.

11. Technology and third-party risk

The Service depends on market data providers, exchange APIs, AI model providers, Telegram, email and push providers, payment processors, cloud hosting and MetaTrader. Any of them can fail, change or be delayed. Market data can contain errors, gaps or bad ticks that produce wrong zones or signals. AI-generated explanations can be wrong. We work to detect and correct such errors but cannot guarantee their absence, and we may withdraw a signal after publication if we find an error.

12. No custody, no control of your funds

Zonelytix never holds, receives or controls your trading capital. Your money is with your broker, under your broker’s terms, regulation and protections, if any. We cannot deposit, withdraw, close positions or change leverage. Anyone claiming to be Zonelytix and asking you to send funds, share broker credentials or install software other than the official Expert Advisor from your dashboard is not us; report it to abuse@zonelytix.com.

13. Tax

Trading profits, losses and reward payouts may be taxable where you live, and the treatment of forex, CFDs, crypto and prizes differs by country. Zonelytix does not withhold tax, does not report to tax authorities unless the law requires it, and does not give tax advice. Keep your own records; the journal export exists to help.

14. Is this for you? A self-check

Automated signal trading is likely unsuitable for you if any of these is true:

• you would need the money you are trading within the next year, or losing it would affect your rent, bills or family;
• you do not understand leverage, margin, spread, slippage or how a stop loss can be exceeded;
• you have never traded a demo account through a losing streak of ten trades;
• you expect a fixed monthly return, or you are relying on the Service to pass a challenge you cannot afford to fail;
• you cannot check your terminal and your settings at least once a day;
• you are trading borrowed money or money that belongs to someone else.

If any applies, use the free tier, the simulator and a demo account until none does.

15. Your acknowledgement

Before enabling tap to execute or full auto, you will be asked to confirm that you have read this disclosure, that you understand automated trading can lose money quickly, that you chose your own settings and broker, and that Zonelytix provides educational analysis and software, not financial advice, and does not guarantee any result. We record the time and the version of this document that you accepted. By using any part of the Service you accept these risks. See also the Terms of service and the Disclaimer.