Risk disclosure: what every Auredane client should understand
Trading shares, cryptocurrencies and other financial instruments carries genuine risk, including the partial or total loss of the capital you invest. This page explains, in plain English, the specific risks connected with automated, AI-assisted trading through Auredane, and the practical steps that reduce, but never remove, them. Please read it in full before you register and fund an account.
1. A general warning before anything else
No feature of this platform, including automation and AI analysis, protects you from loss. Prices move against positions, strategies underperform, and whole markets can fall at once. Any statement describing how the platform works is information, not a promise of returns.
Auredane is a technology platform providing tools, analysis and information related to trading financial assets. When you fund an account and activate strategies, your capital is exposed to markets that no participant controls: the value of your portfolio can fall as well as rise, and past behaviour of a strategy, an asset or a market does not reliably predict what happens next. Only commit money you could lose without changing your standard of living, and never borrow to trade.
We publish this disclosure because we want clients who understand what they are agreeing to. Your personal manager will discuss your attitude to risk during onboarding, and you can ask them to explain any part of this page in more detail before you deposit.
The eight risks that matter most
Each card names the risk, what it means in practice and one concrete step you can take to manage it.
2. Market risk and volatility
Share and cryptocurrency prices change constantly, sometimes within seconds. Sharp moves can wipe out expected gains, trigger automated exits at unfavourable prices, or make an entire portfolio fall at once when markets move together. Cryptocurrencies are especially prone to large swings over a single day, and even diversified positions can correlate in a sell-off.
Practical step: set position sizes and strategy limits that assume a bad week, not just an average one, and review them with your manager quarterly.
3. Liquidity risk and slippage
Liquidity is how easily an order fills at the price you expect. In thin markets or fast news periods an order may execute at a noticeably worse price than the one on screen. This gap, called slippage, is a normal part of trading and affects automated strategies in exactly the same way as manual ones.
Practical step: keep some of your account unallocated rather than running every pound through active strategies at once, so a rushed exit is never your only option.
4. API keys and integrations
Automated trading works through exchange API connections. If a key is stored carelessly, shared with a third party, or granted wider permissions than needed, someone else could act on the connected account. Keys can also stop working when an exchange changes its interface, pausing a strategy until the connection is repaired.
Practical step: treat API keys like bank card numbers. Create them only inside the platform, never grant withdrawal permission you do not need, and tell your manager immediately if anything looks unfamiliar.
5. Counterparty and custody risk
Orders execute through third-party exchanges and payment providers. If one of them suffers an outage, an insolvency or a security incident, your positions and transfers can be affected by events outside Auredane's control. Digital assets held with a third party are generally not covered by the protections that apply to bank deposits.
Practical step: ask your manager which venues your strategies use, and keep withdrawal details verified and up to date so funds can be moved promptly.
6. Operational and technical risk
Software has defects, servers need maintenance and internet connections drop. A technical fault could delay data, mis-state a price for a moment, or leave a strategy idle while markets move. We design for resilience, but no operator can promise a system that never fails.
Practical step: check your dashboard after any scheduled maintenance notice before assuming a quiet day means a profitable one.
7. Cybersecurity and phishing
Attackers target accounts, not just platforms. A convincing email, a cloned website or a rushed phone call can trick a person into revealing a password or a one-time code. Once inside, an attacker can change withdrawal details or redirect funds.
Practical step: turn on two-factor authentication, treat every unprompted message with suspicion, and read our fraud warning page, which explains exactly how to verify a communication really came from Auredane.
8. Model risk and automation limits
The AI engine looks for patterns and micro-trends, but a model is a simplified picture of markets, not the markets themselves. Conditions it has never seen, such as an abrupt policy change or a market-wide shock, can produce signals that lose money. Automation also obeys instructions exactly as given: a mistyped limit or an overly wide risk setting will be executed, not corrected.
Practical step: start with conservative settings, understand each parameter before you change it, and remember that no algorithm guarantees an outcome.
9. Service availability
Platforms pause for maintenance, updates and, occasionally, incidents. During unavailability you may be unable to view positions, adjust settings or request a withdrawal until service returns. We communicate planned work in advance, but emergency downtime cannot always be announced in time.
Practical step: never leave time-critical decisions to the last minute, and contact support through a second channel if the site is unreachable.
10. Before you start: five habits of a prepared client
Risk cannot be deleted from trading, but it can be handled deliberately. These are the habits we ask every client to build before the first deposit.
Understand the strategy
Ask your manager to explain what each strategy buys, when it exits and what its worst recorded period looked like. If you cannot explain it, do not fund it.
Decide your loss limit in advance
Choose the largest amount you could lose without distress and treat it as a hard boundary for reviews, not a vague hope.
Protect the account itself
Enable two-factor authentication, use a unique password and read every new-device alert. Most account losses begin with a compromised login, not a bad trade.
Review settings on a schedule
Book a quarterly call to revisit allocation, risk limits and goals. Strategies that suited spring may not suit autumn.
Keep records
Save statements and withdrawal confirmations. Clear records make tax simpler and give you something concrete to point at when you ask questions.
Ask early, not later
If a report, alert or fee looks wrong, contact support the same day. Small questions are cheap; unspoken worries compound quickly.
If any part of this page describes a situation you are not comfortable with, do not fund an account. Questions about this disclosure go to [email protected], and our team answers within one business hour during Monday to Friday, 9:00–17:30 GMT/BST (excluding public holidays). Related pages: the security overview, the AML / KYC policy and the FAQ.