1. General information only, no advice
LiquidONE provides software that executes instructions you configure against your own broker or exchange accounts. We do not recommend trades, strategies or markets, we do not manage money, and we never take custody of your funds.
2. You can lose money, including more than you deposit
The value of financial products rises and falls. You may lose some or all of the money you trade with, and in leveraged or short positions you can lose more than your initial outlay. No trading strategy, indicator, risk control or automation removes this risk. Only trade with money you can afford to lose, and consider your experience, objectives and financial resources before enabling live trading.
3. Automated and algorithmic trading risks
A bot executes without asking you first. That speed and discipline cuts both ways. Automated trading exposes you to risks that manual trading does not, including:
- Configuration errors. A wrong parameter (size, symbol, direction, session window) is executed exactly as configured, potentially many times, before you notice.
- Software defects. Bugs in the platform, in your strategy logic or in broker APIs can cause missed entries, missed exits, duplicated orders or unintended positions.
- Runaway behaviour. An anomaly can produce rapid consecutive losing trades before daily loss limits or other guardrails intercept it.
- Guardrail limits. Risk controls such as loss limits, position caps and the emergency stop are software features that depend on data feeds and broker acceptance. Gaps, halts and outages can cause losses that exceed your configured limits.
- Data-dependent features. Settings that rely on external data, such as the news event pause and the economic calendar, only act when that data is present and current. If calendar data is missing, delayed or incomplete, a bot configured to pause around news can trade straight through a news event.
- Connectivity. If LiquidONE, your broker or the network between them is degraded, your bot may be unable to open, manage or close positions, leaving you exposed while the market moves.
You must supervise your bots during live market hours. Automation reduces manual effort; it does not remove your responsibility.
4. Custom strategy code risks
If you supply your own strategy code (JavaScript, Python, Pine Script or TradingView-style logic), you take on the additional risk of your own programming. Logic errors, unhandled edge cases, lookahead bias and behaviour under abnormal data can all cause unexpected live orders. LiquidONE validates and sandboxes code to protect the platform, not to verify that your strategy is correct or profitable. Test thoroughly in paper trading before running any custom code live.
5. Backtests, paper trading and simulated performance
Backtest results, paper trading results and any other simulated performance shown on LiquidONE, including statistics in marketplace listings, have inherent limitations. They are prepared with the benefit of hindsight, they do not involve real capital, and they cannot fully account for liquidity, slippage, fees, order rejections, or the discipline required to follow a system through drawdowns. Real results routinely differ from simulated results, usually for the worse. Past performance, real or simulated, is not a reliable indicator of future performance.
6. Marketplace strategy risks
Strategies sold on the LiquidONE marketplace are created by other users. LiquidONE does not vet, endorse or verify the profitability of any listing. A strategy that performed well historically, for its seller, in a particular market regime, may perform badly for you. Displayed statistics are historical or simulated and subject to section 5. Buying a strategy transfers a configuration, not a result. Evaluate every purchased strategy in paper trading before running it live, and size it according to your own risk tolerance.
7. Copy trading risks
Copy trading replicates fills from a master account onto follower accounts. Replication is not instant or guaranteed: follower orders can fill at different prices, partially, or not at all, so follower results will diverge from the master, sometimes materially. Sizing modes that scale by equity or multipliers can produce larger positions than you expect as balances change. Errors or losses in the master account are replicated into every follower before you can intervene. Review sizing rules, filters and per-trade risk caps carefully, and monitor all linked accounts.
8. Webhook signals and access credentials
Inbound webhooks let external systems, such as TradingView alerts, open, manage and close real positions on a connected account. A webhook URL and its secret are live trading credentials: anyone who obtains them can place trades on that account until you rotate or delete them. Signals are executed as received, so an error in the external system, a misfiring alert, or a malicious sender with your URL becomes real orders. The same applies to API keys, MCP keys and paired Terminal sessions, which can adjust strategies and start or stop bots programmatically. Protect these credentials like passwords, review paired devices regularly, and revoke anything you do not recognise.
9. AI-generated content risks
The AiCopilot copilot and AI Strategy Analysis are powered by large language models. AI output can be plausible but wrong: it may misread data, hallucinate facts, reflect stale market conditions or propose parameter changes that increase your risk. AI output is general information only, is not advice, and must not be relied on as the sole basis for any trading decision. You choose whether to apply any AI suggestion, and you bear the outcome.
10. Leverage and margin
If your broker account is approved for margin or you trade leveraged products, small market movements produce proportionally larger gains and losses. You can lose more than your initial margin, be required to deposit additional funds at short notice, and have positions liquidated by your broker without your consent and at unfavourable prices. Automated strategies can open leveraged positions faster than you can react. Understand your broker's margin rules before enabling live trading on a margin account.
11. Crypto asset risks
Trading crypto assets through connected exchanges carries additional risks:
- extreme volatility and 24/7 markets, meaning large moves can occur while you are asleep and your bot is active;
- crypto assets are largely unregulated or lightly regulated in many jurisdictions, and consumer protections that apply to traditional financial products may not apply;
- assets held on an exchange are exposed to the exchange's security, solvency and withdrawal practices. Exchange failures have resulted in total loss of customer assets;
- thin liquidity in some pairs produces severe slippage, and network congestion or exchange outages can prevent timely execution.
12. Prop-firm evaluation risks
If you trade a funded or evaluation account, your prop firm's contract governs your obligations, including daily loss and trailing drawdown rules. LiquidONE's prop-firm mode tracks common rule structures to help you stay inside them, but it is an informational tool: the firm's own systems measure breaches, their measurements can differ from ours (for example on timing, fees or price feeds), and automation can breach a rule faster than you can intervene. A breach can forfeit your evaluation fee or funded status entirely. Confirm your firm permits automated trading before connecting an account; many prohibit or restrict it.
13. Market, liquidity and execution risks
Prices can gap through your intended entry, exit or stop level, especially at market open, around news events and in thin markets. Orders may fill at prices significantly different from the price at which the signal was generated (slippage), fill partially, or be rejected. Trading halts, circuit breakers, delistings and exchange interventions can prevent exit from a position entirely. LiquidONE does not guarantee execution, execution price or execution time.
14. Broker and technology risks
LiquidONE depends on infrastructure it does not control: broker and exchange APIs, market data feeds, cloud hosting and the public internet. Broker API downtime, rate limits, maintenance windows, data feed errors, cloud provider incidents and our own maintenance or outages can each delay or prevent signal generation and order routing. Third-party integrations you configure, such as TradingView webhooks or Discord alerts, add further dependencies. Build the assumption of occasional failure into your risk settings: never run exposure that you could not tolerate holding through an outage.
15. Tax
Trading has tax consequences. For Australian residents, profits may be assessable income or capital gains, crypto disposals are generally CGT events, and record-keeping obligations apply. Automated strategies can generate high trade volumes that complicate tax reporting. LiquidONE does not provide tax advice; consult a registered tax agent or accountant about your situation.
16. International users
Laws about automated trading, financial products and crypto assets differ by country. It is your responsibility to ensure that using LiquidONE, and trading the instruments you choose, is lawful where you live, and to comply with local licensing, disclosure and tax rules. Disclosures on this page that reference a specific regulator (such as ASIC or the CFTC) apply in addition to, not instead of, your local requirements.
17. Your acknowledgement
By enabling live trading on LiquidONE you acknowledge that you have read and understood this statement, that you accept the risks described in it, that you are solely responsible for your trading decisions and configurations, and that LiquidONE is a technology provider that does not advise on, manage or guarantee your trading. This statement forms part of our Terms of Service. If anything here is unclear, ask us at hello@liquid1trade.com before trading live.