Trading futures carries a substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for every investor. You can lose some or all of the money in your account, and on a funded or evaluation account you can lose the account itself. Please read this page in full before you use TrainingWheels.
Substantial risk of loss
Futures are leveraged. A small price move can produce a loss larger than you expect, and fast markets can move through your intended exit before an order is filled. Only trade with money you can afford to lose.
TrainingWheels provides charting and risk-management tools. It does not remove trading risk, and no feature of the software should be read as making trading safe.
Not investment advice
TrainingWheels does not provide investment, financial, tax or trading advice. Canfield Candles, signals, risk zones and every other output of the software are tools to help you read the market. They are not recommendations to buy or sell anything. You are solely responsible for every trading decision you make.
No validated performance for the automated strategies
The automated strategies included with some plans have never been validated. There is no backtest, no trade log, no out-of-sample test and no signed simulated-account sign-off behind them.
We make no claim that TrainingWheels, its signals or its strategies are profitable, and we present no past or hypothetical performance. Past performance of any signal or strategy, if it existed, would not guarantee future results.
What account guardrails can and cannot do
Apex Account Safety and the other guardrails are designed to reduce the risk of breaking your account rules. They cannot guarantee it. They cannot prevent losses caused by:
- market gaps, where price jumps past a level without trading through it;
- broker, data-feed or internet outages;
- NinjaTrader platform faults or execution failure;
- anything that stops the software running on your computer.
Strategy entries ask the engine for approval before an order is sent. Manual orders work differently: they are checked after you submit them and cancelled if they break a rule. A manual market order can fill before that cancel reaches the broker.
Prop-firm rules are your responsibility
Apex and other prop firms set and change their own rules, sometimes without notice. TrainingWheels may not reflect the latest version of a firm's rules. You remain responsible for knowing the current rules of your account and for making sure your trading, and your use of this software, complies with your agreements with your broker and prop firm. TrainingWheels does not ensure compliance without your oversight.
Limits of hypothetical and simulated results
Hypothetical or simulated results, including anything you see on a chart replay, in a simulated account or in a backtest you run yourself, have serious limits. They are usually prepared with the benefit of hindsight. They do not involve real money, so they do not reflect the effect of fear, hesitation or other pressures of live trading.
Simulated fills may ignore or understate commissions, slippage, latency and liquidity. A strategy that looks profitable in simulation can lose money when traded live, and results that ignore real trading costs are especially misleading.
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