Risk disclosure

1. Introduction and general warning

Everything in this disclosure reduces to one sentence: you can lose money, including all of the capital you deposit. Digital assets in particular can change price by double-digit percentages within a day, and past behaviour of any market, strategy or model is not a reliable guide to what happens next. No feature of the Quanaliz platform, including its AI-assisted analysis and volatility guard, eliminates this risk.

Automated execution deserves its own word of caution. A system that acts without your constant supervision also acts on your behalf between your reviews, so the settings you approve matter more, not less, than they would on a manual platform. Treat configuration as a decision about money, because it is one.

2. Market risk: volatility and sharp price movements

Market risk is the risk that prices move against a position faster than it can be closed. Cryptoassets trade around the clock, including weekends and holidays when liquidity is thinner and moves are exaggerated. Shares gap open and gap down on earnings and news. Leverage, where used, multiplies both directions of every move.

The practical consequence is that stop-losses and pauses may not execute at the exact level you imagine; slippage past a trigger is normal in fast markets. Our recommendation: decide in advance the maximum loss you are willing to accept for a strategy, and size the allocation so that reaching that loss is uncomfortable but not damaging.

3. Liquidity risk: execution and slippage

Liquidity risk is the risk that an order cannot be filled at the displayed price, or at all. Thin order books, sudden news and exchange outages all widen effective spreads. A strategy that back-tests beautifully on paper can bleed value through execution costs in an illiquid pair.

On this platform, liquidity risk appears mainly through the venues the strategies connect to and through the spread applied to conversions between currencies. Practical steps: prefer instruments with deep, continuous volume, be sceptical of small-cap assets during news windows, and remember that the price you see on a chart is the last trade, not a promise of the next one.

4. API and integration risks

The platform connects to exchanges through interfaces (APIs) operated by those exchanges. These can be rate-limited, changed without much notice, or fail outright. A connection that drops mid-session can leave a strategy temporarily blind, and a misconfigured key can grant wider permissions than intended.

We mitigate this by restricting key permissions to reading and trading (never withdrawal), by monitoring connections and alerting on interruptions, and by designing strategies to fail safe: when data stops arriving, execution pauses rather than improvising. You mitigate it by keeping your side healthy: verified contact details for alerts, and an immediate message to support when something looks wrong.

5. Counterparty risk and the custody of funds

Counterparty risk is the risk that another institution in the chain fails: an exchange becomes insolvent, a payment provider freezes a transfer, a bank delays a settlement. History offers examples of each. When a counterparty fails, assets held there can be trapped for months or lost entirely, regardless of what a screen balance said.

Quanaliz does not operate its own exchange; strategies execute through the venues described in your account documentation, and client money moves through monitored payment partners. Understand which venues your strategies touch, keep only what a strategy needs on any single venue, and treat concentration on one exchange as the risk it is. Digital assets held anywhere are generally not covered by bank-deposit or investor-compensation schemes.

6. Operational risks: software, infrastructure and connectivity

Operational risk is the risk of failure in the machinery itself: a bug in an analytical model, a faulty deployment, a data-centre outage, or a severed cable between you and the platform. Trading systems are engineered carefully, and they still break, usually at the least convenient moment.

Our side includes redundancy, monitoring, staged releases and a full audit trail of changes. Your side is shorter but real: a stable internet connection matters if you intervene manually, and you should know in advance how to reach support quickly if the platform is unreachable from your device. Write the emergency email address somewhere offline.

7. Cybersecurity and phishing

Accounts holding money attract thieves. The most common attacks are not exotic: a password reused from a breached site, a convincing email that links to a cloned login page, a caller posing as support who urgently needs a code. Each of these defeats any platform-level protection, because the attacker logs in as you.

Defences are unglamorous and effective: a unique password stored in a manager, two-factor authentication enabled from day one, the discipline of typing quanaliz.org rather than following links, and the rule that no genuine Quanaliz representative will ever ask for your password or a 2FA code. The Security page details every measure; the Fraud warning page lists the clones we know about.

8. Models and automation: what algorithms cannot promise

Automated strategies and AI-assisted analysis are tools with limits. Models learn from history; when the market does something without precedent, the model is extrapolating beyond its data. Probability-based analysis expresses likelihood, not certainty, and a run of favourable outcomes changes nothing about the next one.

The volatility guard can pause execution when conditions become excessively unstable. That mechanism limits exposure during chaos; it does not return money already lost and does not guarantee the resumed market will be kinder. Our recommendation is to regard any strategy output, including our own, as one input into your judgement rather than a substitute for it.

9. Service availability

The platform requires working infrastructure, and there will be maintenance windows, occasional incidents and moments when a feature is briefly unavailable. Withdrawal processing depends on payment partners and banking days; a request submitted on a Friday evening is handled on the next working day.

Availability risk becomes acute when it coincides with market risk: being unable to reach a dashboard during a fast move is precisely when you wish you could. Plan for it. Know your strategy settings well enough that an hour of inaccessibility is an annoyance rather than an emergency, and never allocate money whose loss would force a panic reaction.

10. Before you start: a practical checklist

• Understand the strategy. If you cannot explain to a friend what a strategy buys, when it exits and what it costs, do not allocate to it yet.
• Fix your maximum acceptable loss. Decide the figure before depositing, write it down, and reduce your first allocation until the figure feels boring.
• Protect the account itself. Unique password, two-factor authentication, verified contact details, and the discipline never to share codes with anyone.
• Keep monitoring. Review the dashboard and the audit history on a schedule, and read the alerts rather than filing them. Automation is a delegate, not an abdication.

If, after reading this, the risks are more than you want, that is a legitimate conclusion, and no one at Quanaliz will push you past it. Questions about anything here can go to [email protected].