Read this disclosure before activating live automation. By activating an automated strategy, you acknowledge that Atlas may generate, transmit, modify, or cancel orders without asking you to approve each trade; trading losses are possible; technology and broker connectivity can fail; risk controls are not guarantees; and you remain responsible for monitoring and controlling your brokerage account.
1. Trading Can Cause Substantial Loss
All trading involves risk. Securities can lose value rapidly or become illiquid. You may lose some or all of the capital in your trading account. Leverage, short positions, options, and certain complex or volatile instruments can increase loss severity and, depending on the product and account, can create obligations greater than the amount initially committed.
2. Automated Trading Can Amplify Errors
Automation can react faster than a human and can repeat an erroneous instruction across multiple orders or strategies before you notice. A configuration mistake, data issue, software defect, unexpected market condition, or broker or API response can produce losses more quickly than manual trading. Begin with settings and capital appropriate to your ability to monitor and bear loss.
3. Order Generation and Transmission Risk
An Atlas strategy may determine that an order should be generated, but an intended order may not be transmitted, accepted, routed, filled, modified, or canceled as expected. Orders can be rejected, partially filled, filled at multiple prices, filled after a delay, or executed at a materially different price because of market conditions, broker controls, exchange rules, liquidity, volatility, halts, or technical conditions.
4. Stop Orders and Risk Controls Are Not Guarantees
Stop-loss orders can become market orders or otherwise execute at prices materially different from a trigger. Price gaps, halts, thin liquidity, and fast markets can defeat intended loss limits. Daily drawdown controls, take-profit controls, allocation caps, exposure limits, and similar safeguards depend on accurate data and successful order processing and cannot guarantee a maximum loss or a realized profit.
5. Brokerage, API, and System Outages
Atlas, the brokerage, an exchange, a market-data vendor, a cloud provider, or an internet or network path can fail independently. A failure can leave positions unmanaged even when the user interface appears active. Maintain direct access to the brokerage and know how to cancel orders or manage positions without Atlas.
6. Position Reconciliation and Authoritative Records
The brokerage's records are authoritative. Atlas displays may lag or differ because of rejected orders, partial fills, corporate actions, manual trading, synchronization issues, or data delays. If a discrepancy exists, manage risk using the brokerage record and contact Atlas.
7. Existing Positions and Required Clean Account
Connect only an account that has no open positions you wish to keep. When a supported brokerage connection is completed, the Atlas connection process is designed to transmit orders to close all existing open positions in that account so the account can begin from the position state required by the platform. Closing positions can realize gains or losses, create taxable events or wash-sale consequences, incur brokerage fees, spreads, slippage, or other costs, and occur at prices materially different from displayed prices. Market conditions, broker controls, outages, or technical conditions can cause an order to be rejected, delayed, or partially filled. Before connecting, review the account and close or transfer any position you wish to retain. After connecting, review the brokerage's official records and directly manage any order or position that remains.
8. Manual Trading Alongside Automation
Manual orders entered directly at the brokerage or through a supported Atlas interface can conflict with automated strategy assumptions and can cause unintended net exposure, duplicate orders, or unexpected position sizing. You are responsible for understanding how your manual activity affects active strategies. Atlas does not promise perfect or instantaneous reconciliation.
9. Multiple Strategies and Allocation Risk
Running multiple strategies in one brokerage account can create correlated exposures, competing orders, concentration, increased turnover, or aggregate risk greater than each strategy considered alone. Per-strategy risk settings do not necessarily cap total account risk. Allocation percentages are operational settings, not guarantees of exact capital usage or loss partitioning.
10. Margin Risk
Margin trading allows you to borrow from a broker and can magnify gains and losses. Atlas strategies are designed around 1:1 leverage, and leverage is not required. The platform includes an Allow Margin Trading control where supported. Enabling it is your decision. Your broker can change margin requirements, issue a margin call, decline to extend credit, restrict trading, or liquidate assets without consulting Atlas. See the Margin, Intraday Trading, Short Selling and Settlement Risk Disclosure.
11. Intraday and Day-Trading Requirements
Do not rely on a universal statement that every U.S. margin account is subject to the historical $25,000 pattern-day-trader minimum. FINRA's new intraday-margin standards became effective June 4, 2026, and member firms may transition their implementation through October 20, 2027. During the transition, the treatment applicable to a customer can depend on the brokerage and its implementation schedule. Review the current day-trading, intraday-margin, and account restrictions imposed by your brokerage.
12. Cash-Account and Settlement Risk
Cash accounts are subject to payment and settlement rules. Selling securities before paying for them or using unsettled proceeds can result in brokerage restrictions or violations depending on the transaction and account. Atlas does not control the broker's settlement or good-faith and freeriding enforcement.
13. Short-Sale and Borrow Risk
If short selling is available, shares may be hard to borrow, borrow rates may change, a lender may recall shares, and the broker may buy in a position. Short-sale loss can be theoretically unlimited because a security's price can continue to rise. A separate or highlighted acknowledgment may be required before a short-capable strategy is enabled.
14. Corporate Actions and Special Events
Splits, mergers, tender offers, dividends, symbol changes, delistings, trading halts, and other corporate or market events can alter positions or strategy behavior. Automated systems may not react as you expect. You remain responsible for brokerage notices and open positions.
15. Taxes
High turnover, short holding periods, options, wash sales, and other trading activity can have significant tax consequences. Atlas does not provide tax advice. Consult a qualified tax professional regarding your circumstances.
16. Acknowledgment
By connecting a brokerage account and activating automated trading, you acknowledge that you understand the account should have no open positions you wish to keep; completing the connection is designed to transmit orders to close all existing open positions; those orders can create realized gains or losses, taxes, costs, slippage, rejection, delay, or partial fills; automated orders may be transmitted without per-trade confirmation; trading losses are possible; technology and broker connectivity can fail; risk controls are not guarantees; and you are responsible for independently reviewing and controlling your brokerage account.