Risk Disclosure

This Risk Disclosure describes the most important risks of using SpikeLabs (the "Service") and of trading cryptocurrency in general. By using the Service you confirm that you have read, understood, and accept these risks.

1. The Service is not financial advice

SpikeLabs is a signal-detection tool. It scans public market data and notifies you when a configurable statistical condition is met. It does not:

• Recommend buying or selling any asset.
• Predict future price movements.
• Take into account your personal financial situation, goals, risk tolerance, or tax situation.
• Act as a fiduciary, broker, investment advisor, or financial planner.

An alert is an observation that a pattern occurred, not an instruction to act. Any trade you place is your decision, made at your own risk.

2. Crypto trading is high-risk

Cryptocurrency markets are extremely volatile. Prices can move 20%, 50%, or more within minutes. Risks include, without limitation:

• Total loss of capital. Coins can drop to zero, lose listing status, or be delisted from exchanges.
• Leverage liquidation. Trading futures or other leveraged products can wipe out your position on a routine market move.
• Exchange risk. Exchanges can suffer outages, freeze withdrawals, get hacked, or go bankrupt.
• Counterparty risk. Stablecoins can depeg; bridged assets can lose backing; protocols can be exploited.
• Regulatory risk. Crypto regulations vary by jurisdiction and change frequently. An activity that is legal today may not be tomorrow.
• Tax obligations. Trading crypto generally creates taxable events. Tracking and reporting them is entirely your responsibility.
• Illiquid and newly-listed assets. Detectors fire on any pair the Service monitors, including thinly traded coins, recently listed tokens, and coins that may turn out to be scams, rug pulls, or manipulation targets. Spikes on such coins can be artificial and reverse rapidly.

3. The nature of detector signals

• Statistical, not predictive. Detectors observe that a measurable threshold has been crossed (a price spike, an EMA cross, an S/R approach, a trendline forming). They do not forecast what will happen next.
• False positives are expected. Patterns can fail to follow through. Volume spikes can fade; level approaches can reject; trend signals can flip almost immediately. Every signal must be validated against your own analysis before you act.
• Past performance is not a guide. Even if a particular detector or pair "worked well" historically, that does not imply future performance.
• Signals do not distinguish organic moves from manipulation. Wash trades, pump-and-dump schemes, coordinated buy/sell campaigns, and exchange-listing pumps all produce the same statistical patterns the Service detects. A signal firing on a coin does not imply the move is organic, sustainable, or safe to follow.

4. Latency, timing, and delivery

The Service is best-effort. Alerts may be delayed, duplicated, missed, or fail to deliver due to:

• Exchange feed lags, disconnects, or maintenance windows.
• Telegram delivery delays or rate limits.
• Portal session timeouts, page-refresh requirements, or unstable connections affecting the Inbox / Stream surfaces.
• Network conditions on your device, on our infrastructure, or on any path in between.
• Bugs, outages, or scheduled maintenance of the Service itself.

By the time you see an alert and react, the market may already have moved past the level the alert described. Treat all signals as information about what just happened, not as live order entries.

5. No guarantee of profit

The Service makes no representation or guarantee that following any signal — alone, combined with others, on any timeframe, on any market — will be profitable. Most short-term traders lose money over time, even with good tools.

6. Your responsibilities

• Trade only with funds you can afford to lose entirely.
• Use position sizing, stop-losses, and risk-management practices appropriate for your strategy.
• Verify each signal against your own analysis. Do not act on a signal you do not understand.
• If you are unsure whether the Service or any trading activity is appropriate for you, consult a licensed financial advisor in your jurisdiction before using the Service for trading decisions.

7. Service availability and changes

The Service is provided on a best-effort basis. We may suspend, change, restrict, degrade, or discontinue the Service — or any specific feature, detector, market, exchange, signal type, or delivery channel — at any time, with or without notice. We do not guarantee continuous availability, long-term existence, or backward compatibility of any feature you may have come to rely on.

If you build a trading workflow or business process around the Service, you accept the risk that the Service may stop delivering alerts at any time, leaving you without notifications. We are under no obligation to keep operating, to maintain feature parity, or to support migration to any alternative.

8. Acknowledgment

By creating an account, sending /start to the bot, opening the portal, or otherwise using the Service, you confirm that:

• You understand the risks described above.
• You accept those risks in full.
• You will not hold the Service, its operators, or its contributors responsible for any trading losses or other damages, as described in the Terms of Service.

If you do not agree, do not use the Service.