Risk disclosure

Trading leveraged financial instruments — including foreign exchange, contracts for difference, metals, indices and commodities — carries a high level of risk and is not suitable for everyone. Leverage magnifies losses as readily as gains. You can lose the entire amount you deposit, and with some instruments and account types you may lose more than your deposit.

Do not trade with money you cannot afford to lose entirely, and do not trade with borrowed money or funds you need for living expenses, debts, or obligations.

Helios automates decision-making and execution. It does not change what the market does. An automated system can lose money faster than a person would, because it acts without hesitation and without a human's reluctance to realise a loss.

The risk controls described on this site — daily loss limits, drawdown limits, position sizing, spread and volatility filters, trailing stops and emergency exits — bound the size of a loss under normal market conditions. They do not prevent losses, and they can fail to bind under abnormal ones. In particular:

• A stop or exit level may be filled at a materially worse price than requested during fast markets, low liquidity, or news events.
• A market that gaps — over a weekend, on a holiday, or on an announcement — can open beyond your exit level, so the position closes at a loss larger than the limit implied.
• Your broker may reject, requote, delay or partially fill an order for reasons outside our control.
• Correlation assumptions used to cap concentrated exposure can break down precisely during the stressed conditions in which they matter most.

The proposal layer of Helios uses a large language model. Language models produce confident output that can be wrong, can misread context, and can behave differently on inputs that look similar. This is a known and unavoidable property of the technology, not a defect we expect to eliminate.

The system is architected on that assumption: the model can only propose, and a deterministic risk engine decides whether any proposal becomes an order. That boundary limits the damage a wrong model output can do. It does not make the model reliable, and it does not make a losing trade less of a loss.

Helios depends on your MetaTrader 5 terminal, your broker's servers, your internet connection, the machine you run the system on, and third-party services including a language-model provider. Any of these can fail, disconnect, or behave incorrectly.

The trading core is designed to keep managing open positions when the AI layer, the dashboard and the database are unavailable, and to stop opening new positions when market data goes stale rather than act on a price that may no longer be real. Neither behaviour is a guarantee that a technical failure cannot cost you money.

We publish no historical performance record. Where any figure, backtest, simulation or example appears anywhere in this product or its documentation, it is illustrative only. Past performance, simulated performance and backtested results are not indicators of future results.

Simulated results in particular carry well-documented limitations: they are produced with hindsight, they generally do not reflect real slippage, liquidity, or the psychological pressure of live capital, and no simulated record can account for the specific market conditions you will actually trade in.

Helios is a software product. We are not a broker, a dealer, an investment adviser, a portfolio manager, or a financial institution. We do not hold client funds, provide custody, execute trades as principal or agent, or offer personal recommendations.

Nothing in this product or on this site constitutes investment advice, a solicitation, or a recommendation to buy or sell any instrument. The configuration you choose and the trades placed on your account are your decisions and your responsibility. If you are unsure whether trading is appropriate for your circumstances, seek advice from an independent, qualified financial adviser.

Availability and legality of leveraged trading products vary by country, and some jurisdictions restrict or prohibit them for retail clients. You are responsible for ensuring that your use of Helios and of your broker account complies with the laws that apply to you, including any tax obligations arising from your trading.

We strongly recommend running Helios on a demo account first, for long enough to see how it behaves across different market conditions — including conditions in which it loses. Watch which proposals the risk engine rejects and why. Move to live capital only once the system's behaviour holds no surprises for you.

See the risk controls for what each limit does, and how it works for the architecture behind them.