Education first.
Real money is your decision.
Read this before you rely on anything in the Trading Academy, and before you connect an exchange account or switch anything on that reaches it. You accept it once per version; a changed notice asks again.
What the Trading Academy is
The Academy's lessons, case studies, tutor and simulator are education. They explain how markets and risk work. They are not personal investment advice, not a recommendation to buy or sell, and not a forecast. Case studies show how written rule sets behaved on historical data after modelled fees; the past does not predict the future. Simulator results are hypothetical, and simulated balances have no value. The tutor is an AI and can be wrong.
If you connect your own exchange account
The exchange holds your funds and executes orders; AlphaPride never holds, receives or moves your money, and a key that can withdraw is refused. Nothing reaches your exchange until you switch live use on for your workspace and account, accept this notice and set your limits. Orders you place yourself are confirmed on a dialog that says real funds.
If you switch a published strategy on for your account
A strategy places orders on your account automatically when its written rules trigger, sized from the risk profile you chose and never above the per-order and daily limits you set, each with a stop and a target held by the exchange. A strategy that behaved well on historical data can lose money in the future, can have long runs of losses, and can stop working altogether. Automation can fail: an outage, an exchange error or a lost connection can mean an order is missed, delayed, duplicated or filled at a worse price. You can pause or stop a strategy at any time; stopping does not close positions unless you ask for that.
What can go wrong with real money
Crypto prices move sharply and continuously, including while you sleep. Leverage multiplies losses and can liquidate your whole position. A stop or target held by the exchange is a plan, not a guarantee: in a fast or gapping market it can fill at a worse price, or not at all. An order can be accepted and not fill, or fill partly. A reply from the exchange can be lost, so an order may have reached it although the app shows it as unknown; check the exchange before sending again. You can lose all of the money you commit. Most people who trade leveraged products lose money.
What AlphaPride does and does not do
AlphaPride applies the platform's limits and the lower limits you set, checks for stale prices, refuses unsupported markets, pauses an account after repeated rejections, and gives you a Stop that cancels open orders and can close positions. AlphaPride does not promise any outcome, gives no personal investment advice, and is not responsible for exchange outages, your key being misused outside AlphaPride, or your own decisions.
Your responsibilities
Trade only with money you can afford to lose. Keep an authenticator on your AlphaPride account and your exchange account. Use a trade-only key, never one that can withdraw. Treat your exchange's own order and position pages as the record, and tell support@thealphapride.com at once if something does not match. Check that trading is lawful where you live and handle your own taxes.
Stopping
You can stop at any time: switch the account back to practice in Connections, pause or stop a strategy, use Stop in the simulator to cancel open orders (and, if you choose, close positions at market), or revoke the key at your exchange.