Trading futures, perpetuals, and CFDs involves substantial risk and is not suitable for all investors. You may lose more than your initial investment.
Read this page in full before subscribing to Q7 AEGIS AI, before connecting a venue, and before funding any account you intend to trade through the platform. If anything below is unclear, stop, take the time to understand it, and consult an independent financial adviser in your jurisdiction.
what the system is and is not
Q7 AEGIS AI is an autonomous trading system. When you connect your broker account and enable a strategy, the platform routes orders to your venue based on calibrated Pine v6 logic and a hybrid AI gate stack. It is software. It is not a guarantee, a promise, an endorsement, a forecast, or personalized advice. Past results, including the backtests and calibration metrics displayed on the platform, do not predict future results.
You are the trader. The platform is a tool you choose to point at your account. You can stop using it at any time.
leveraged trading
The strategies the system runs use leverage. Leverage amplifies both gains and losses. A small adverse move at high leverage can wipe out a position's margin, trigger a liquidation, and in some venues and instruments result in losses that exceed the initial margin posted. Crypto perpetuals on EdgeX, micro-futures on NinjaTrader and Tradovate, spot CFDs on gTrade, and FX futures all have distinct margin mechanics. You are responsible for understanding the margin and liquidation behavior of every venue and every instrument you trade.
Q7 caps leverage at the strategy level based on calibration. Your venue may permit higher leverage than the strategy targets. If you override the strategy's leverage on the venue side, you are taking on more risk than the calibration assumes, and the platform's risk-management subsystems may not behave as designed.
total loss is possible
You can lose your entire balance at the venue. In some products and conditions, you can lose more — exchanges can fail to liquidate in time during fast moves, gaps can exceed stop-loss levels, and certain futures products are settled in ways that can leave a debit balance you owe the broker. Do not trade with funds you cannot afford to lose. Do not borrow money to fund a trading account. Do not commit emergency savings, retirement funds, or money earmarked for living expenses.
past performance does not guarantee future results
Every performance number on the platform — equity curves, win rates, profit factors, drawdown bands, Sharpe ratios, and the calibration matrix — is historical. Some numbers come from backtests run against historical tick or bar data. Some come from the treasury-account canary trades the company runs on its own capital before subscriber rollout. None of them is a forecast.
Backtests, no matter how carefully constructed, are hypothetical reconstructions. They do not include every cost of trading. Among other things:
- Slippage. Real fills do not match the backtest's assumed fill prices. The Hawkes-process slippage model in the calibration pipeline is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Liquidity constraints. Some backtested fills assume the venue had the liquidity to fill the entire position at the modeled price. In thin markets, real fills can be materially worse.
- Order routing latency. Webhook delivery, venue queueing, and matching-engine latency can change the price at which an order is executed compared to the bar close the signal fired on.
- Exchange outages and API rate limits. A signal that fires during a venue outage simply does not execute. The backtest cannot replicate this.
- Funding rates, financing costs, borrow fees, and exchange fee tier changes are modeled with current assumptions; they change over time.
A strategy that produced a clean equity curve in backtest can still lose money in live trading. Treat backtest metrics as a sanity check on the architecture, not a promise of future P&L.
extended drawdown periods are normal
Even strategies that pass every calibration gate experience losing streaks. A 30% drawdown is within the system's design envelope; some configurations will draw down more in conditions the calibration did not see. Drawdowns can last weeks or months. The system halts itself when it crosses configured ELU thresholds, but until it halts, it continues to take signals — and the next signal during a drawdown is, by construction, not guaranteed to be the one that turns the curve around.
If you cannot psychologically tolerate a multi-week drawdown without intervening, automated trading is probably not for you.
market gaps and flash crashes
Stop-loss orders are not guarantees of an exit price. They are instructions to the venue to send a market order when a level is touched. In gap conditions — weekend opens, news events, flash crashes, illiquid hours, exchange halts — the market price at the moment the stop triggers may be materially worse than the stop level. Losses on a single trade can exceed the stop-loss distance the strategy calculated.
This is a feature of markets, not a flaw in the platform. No software prevents gap losses. The calibration pipeline tests against historical gap events and the ELU accumulator halts trading when gap losses accumulate, but no system avoids them entirely.
you are responsible for venue-side risk management
The platform respects whatever the venue enforces. The venue is your last line of defense:
- Margin. Set initial and maintenance margin at the venue to levels you can survive.
- Leverage caps. Set the venue's leverage cap to a level consistent with the strategy's calibrated target. Higher caps increase your risk.
- Position-size limits. If the venue offers max-position and max-order safeguards, configure them.
- Withdrawal protection. Use trading-only API keys with no withdrawal permission. Enable 2FA. Use IP allowlisting if your venue supports it.
- Account isolation. Consider funding the connected venue account with only the capital you have allocated to algorithmic trading. Keep the rest separate.
If you do not configure these settings, the platform does not configure them for you. We do not have the ability to enforce risk parameters that live inside your venue account.
the platform does not custody your funds
Your money lives at your broker. EdgeX holds your crypto perpetual margin. NinjaTrader and Tradovate hold your futures margin. gTrade holds your CFD margin. We do not have wallets. We do not have omnibus accounts. We do not have the technical ability to move your funds.
This has two consequences. The good news: a failure of Quant7 — bankruptcy, security breach, service shutdown — does not threaten your trading capital. The constraint: any dispute about a fill, a margin call, a liquidation, or a withdrawal is between you and the venue. We can sometimes help you reconstruct what the platform sent, but we cannot resolve venue-side disputes.
suitability
Only fund what you can lose. This is not a slogan. It is the only honest answer to "how much should I put in?"
The platform is intended for traders who:
- Have sufficient financial cushion that the loss of the entire trading account would not materially affect their lifestyle, retirement plans, or obligations to others.
- Understand leveraged trading, margin, and liquidation mechanics — or are willing to take the time to learn them before connecting capital.
- Can tolerate extended drawdowns without intervening manually in ways that disturb the strategy's calibrated behavior.
- Are comfortable being legally and practically responsible for the consequences of every trade the system makes on their behalf.
If any of those is not true, the platform is not appropriate for you, regardless of headline performance numbers.
no regulatory protection of the platform itself
Quant7 is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, or any other licensed financial intermediary. The platform is not covered by SIPC, FSCS, FCA compensation schemes, MiFID-II investor protections, or any equivalent regime, because none of those schemes apply to non-custodial software. The protections that apply to your trading account are whatever the venue you have connected provides, under that venue's regulatory regime.
jurisdictional limits
The platform is not offered to residents of OFAC-sanctioned jurisdictions. Some venues we integrate with restrict service in additional countries; those restrictions apply on top of ours. Some products (certain crypto perpetuals, US-listed micro-futures) may be illegal for retail traders in your jurisdiction regardless of the venue's willingness to accept your account. Confirm before subscribing. ⚠ confirm whether additional risk-disclosure language is required for UK FCA, EU MiFID-II, Singapore MAS, Australia ASIC, or Hong Kong SFC retail audiences.
contact
Questions about this disclaimer, or anything you read here that you would like clarified before subscribing: legal@quant7alpha.com.