Risk disclosure: read this before you fund an account
Trading cryptoassets, shares and foreign exchange carries significant financial risk, including the partial or total loss of the capital you invest. Nothing on the Brunevo platform, including its automation and analysis, changes that fact. This page describes the risks honestly and, for each one, what a sensible investor can do about it. If you read only one page on this site carefully, make it this one.
Market risk
Prices move against positions, sometimes violently and without warning.
Liquidity risk
Exiting a position can cost more than the screen price suggests.
Automation limits
Models are tools with edges, not oracles with answers.
Operational risk
Software, connections and institutions can all fail at the worst moment.
01 Introduction: the general warning
The value of any asset can fall as easily as it rises, and cryptoassets in particular can lose a large share of their value in hours. Leverage, where used within a strategy, multiplies losses in exactly the way it multiplies gains. Past performance, including the back-test results of any strategy, is not a reliable indicator of future results, and no statement on this website should be read as a promise of profit.
You should engage only with money you can afford to lose without changing your life. Savings you need within the year, borrowed funds and emergency buffers have no place in a trading account, automated or otherwise.
02 Market risk: volatility and sharp price movements
Volatility is the day-to-day reality of the markets the engine watches. Prices respond to economic data, company news, regulatory announcements, large trades and shifts in sentiment, and the response is not always proportionate to the trigger. A position that looked sound at breakfast can be deeply underwater by lunch, and sharp movements can cascade as other market participants react.
What to do about it: size positions so that a move against you is an annoyance rather than a crisis, prefer strategy profiles whose maximum exposure you understand, and judge performance over months rather than days. The engine can pause activity in disorderly conditions, but a pause limits further exposure; it does not unmake a loss already taken.
03 Liquidity risk: order execution and slippage
Liquidity is how easily a position can be exited near the price you see. In thin markets, the act of selling pushes the price down before your order fills, and the difference between the expected and actual fill, slippage, is a real cost. During fast moves, order books thin out precisely when exits are most wanted, and execution can be materially worse than the last quoted price.
What to do about it: favour strategies that operate in liquid instruments and timeframes, treat very small-cap cryptoassets with suspicion regardless of their recent performance, and remember when reading results that slippage is included in real fills but often flattered in back-tests.
04 API and integration risk
The platform connects to exchanges through API keys, and that connection is a dependency. Keys can be entered with the wrong permissions, scoped too broadly, or expired by the exchange side; exchange API behaviour can change without notice; and any integration can develop faults between version updates. A misconfigured key can stop a strategy from acting, or worse, allow more than intended.
What to do about it: review the key permissions in your dashboard periodically, keep withdrawal rights separate from trading rights unless you have a concrete reason not to, and test changes in a small strategy before scaling them. The Security page describes the scopes in detail.
05 Counterparty risk and custody of funds
Funds and positions sit with third parties: exchanges, brokers and payment providers. Any of these can suffer insolvency, security failures or regulatory action that freezes assets. Cryptoasset balances held at an exchange are generally not protected by the deposit guarantee schemes that apply to bank accounts, and recovery in a failure may be slow, partial or impossible.
What to do about it: keep trading balances proportionate to your activity rather than parking your whole portfolio on any single venue, withdraw profits you do not need deployed, and read the deposit and withdrawal page so you know how money moves before it needs to move quickly.
06 Operational risk: software, infrastructure and connectivity
The engine runs on software and infrastructure, and both can fail: bugs survive testing, servers restart, networks partition, and a strategy can be left unable to act, or acting on stale data, until the fault clears. Failures tend to cluster at moments of market stress, when load spikes exactly when correctness matters most.
What to do about it: understand what your chosen strategy does when its connection drops, keep an eye on the platform status notifications rather than assuming silence means all is well, and treat any unexplained dashboard behaviour as a reason to reduce exposure rather than wait it out.
07 Cybersecurity and phishing
Accounts are attacked constantly and impersonally: credential stuffing using passwords leaked elsewhere, phishing pages cloned from real sites, and social-engineering calls that sound disconcertingly professional. A compromised account can mean stolen funds, corrupted strategies or identity misuse that surfaces months later.
What to do about it: enable two-factor authentication, use a unique password, and be sceptical of any contact that creates urgency around money. We will never ask for your password, full card details or a one-time code. If a message or call pressures you to act now, that pressure is the tell.
08 Models and automation: the limits of algorithms
Brunevo's engine is a probability-based tool: it looks for patterns with a historical edge and applies them with discipline. Models are built on past data, markets change character, and an edge that existed for months can decay or invert. Automation adds its own failure modes: a strategy executes exactly as instructed, including when its assumptions have quietly stopped holding.
No algorithm eliminates losses, and no automation removes your responsibility for the decisions made on your account. What to do about it: understand a strategy in outline before running it, review whether it still behaves as expected, and never scale an approach you could not explain to a friend in two sentences. Treat anyone promising guaranteed returns as a fraudster, whatever they claim to be selling.
09 Service availability and maintenance windows
Like any platform, Brunevo requires maintenance, and there will be windows where the dashboard is unavailable, orders cannot be adjusted or data is delayed. Scheduled maintenance is announced in advance; incidents are not. An outage during an open position is unpleasant by definition.
What to do about it: factor availability into how you size positions before events known to move markets, such as major economic releases, and contact support at [email protected] if the platform is unreachable for longer than an announced window.
10 Before you start: four things to do first
Four habits cover most of what this page has described. First, decide in advance the amount whose total loss would not change your plans, and let that number, not excitement, set your deposit. Second, write down your loss tolerance and review any strategy against it: if a bad month would breach the number, the strategy is too large. Third, protect the account itself with 2FA, a unique password and a glance at the session list now and then. Fourth, stay engaged: read the weekly reports, notice when behaviour drifts from what you expected, and ask your manager when it does.
Risk cannot be removed from trading, only respected. If anything on this page is unclear, ask before you fund the account: our team would rather answer a hundred questions than comfort one user who registered in a hurry.