Risk disclosure

1. You can lose money, including all of it

Financial instruments such as shares, currencies, commodities, contracts for difference, futures and crypto-assets, and other leveraged and speculative trading products, move in ways nobody can reliably predict. Prices can fall quickly and without warning. You may lose the entire amount you put in.

With leveraged products, losses can exceed your initial deposit unless your provider offers negative balance protection, which not all of them do and which is not available everywhere.

2. Leverage magnifies losses exactly as it magnifies gains

Leverage lets you control a position much larger than your deposit. A small adverse price move can wipe out a large part of your account, and a margin call can close your positions at the worst possible moment without your involvement.

3. The $50,000 demo account is virtual money

Practice during the training happens on a demo account credited with $50,000 in virtual funds. That balance is simulated money supplied by the platform for practice: it cannot be withdrawn or converted, it is not income, and it is not a suggestion that you would or should trade with such an amount. Demo results are not an indication of real results, for structural reasons:

• A simulator usually fills your order at the quoted price. A real market in motion often does not.
• Financing costs, commissions and spreads are frequently simplified or absent in a demo environment.
• A demo account has no liquidity constraint. A large real order can move the price against you.
• The practice balance is larger than most people would put at risk, so the same percentage loss feels abstract on a demo account and severe on a real one.
• Losing virtual money costs you nothing. The emotional pressure that causes most real trading mistakes is absent, so a demo account flatters your discipline.

Performing well on a demo account is not evidence that you would perform well with real money.

4. A broker bonus does not remove risk

The bonus of up to $1,000 on a real account after the training is offered by a third-party partner broker under its own terms, not by us. Read the broker's bonus terms before you deposit: the amount and any conditions for using or withdrawing it are set there. A bonus can be lost together with your deposit, it does not protect you from losses, and it is not a reason to deposit more than you had planned.

5. Past results are not a promise of future results

No historical result, chart pattern, indicator, backtest or track record, whether Mark Barsky's, a member's, a broker's or anyone else's, reliably indicates what a price will do next. Account statistics and members' results shown on the page are individual and past. They are not typical, they are not a forecast, and they say nothing about what you will earn or lose.

6. Earnings disclaimer

Income figures on the page, such as what a trading skill can bring in a day or a month, describe what the skill can bring to some people. They are not typical or guaranteed results, and individual results vary: with experience, capital, discipline and market conditions, and many people lose money instead.

7. Entries and the bot are not instructions

Entries posted in the community and by the trading bot are examples for study. They can be late, wrong, or wrong for your account size. The bot puts up the entry; the decision to press the button is yours, and so is the result.

8. Nothing here is financial advice

The training provides general educational information about how markets, instruments and platforms work. It does not take your financial situation, objectives, tax position or risk tolerance into account, and it therefore cannot be a personal recommendation.

Mark Barsky is not a licensed or regulated financial adviser and gives no advice on what to buy, sell or hold. The project is not a broker, does not execute orders and does not hold or manage client funds. Before making any financial decision, consider consulting a professional licensed in your own country.

9. No promise or estimate of profit

Neither Mark Barsky nor this page promises, projects or implies any level of profit, income or return. Any message that appears to come from us and does contain such a promise is not genuine; please report it to [email protected].

10. Only risk what you can afford to lose

If you decide to trade with real money after the training, do so only with money you can lose entirely without it affecting your housing, obligations, dependants or wellbeing. Do not trade with borrowed money, credit, or funds set aside for something else.

11. Trading can become compulsive

Frequent short-term trading shares characteristics with gambling and can become compulsive, particularly when it is used to recover a loss. If you recognise that pattern in yourself, stop and speak to a support organisation in your country. Mark Barsky will end the training if that appears to be what is happening, and will say why.

12. Eligibility

The training is for adults aged 18 or over. The page is not directed at residents of jurisdictions where the described activity would breach local law or regulation, including the United States, Canada, Japan, Belgium, and any territory subject to applicable sanctions. Rules on the marketing of leveraged products vary by country and are your responsibility to check.

13. Your decisions are yours

Any decision you take about your money after the training is yours alone, and you bear its consequences. We accept no liability for trading losses. See the terms of use and how it is funded.