Risk Disclaimer

1. High-risk products

Gold (XAUUSD) and stock index CFDs (such as USTEC and DE30) are leveraged products. Small market movements can produce large gains or losses relative to your account. You can lose some or all of your capital, and you can lose the full fee paid for a prop-firm challenge.

2. No guarantee of results

No prop-firm pass, funded account, payout or trading profit is guaranteed. Any figures we publish, including pass rates, breach counts and median times to pass, describe past or simulated performance only. They do not predict or guarantee future results.

3. About our backtest figures

• Published figures come from the MetaTrader 5 Strategy Tester: 38 monthly Phase 1 starts per rule profile and preset.
• Backtests are hypothetical. They benefit from hindsight in strategy design and may not fully reflect real spreads, commissions, swaps, slippage, requotes, latency, liquidity, server outages or broker-specific execution.
• Pass rate and breach rate are different metrics. A simulated challenge that neither reached the target nor breached a loss limit within the test window is counted as not passed.
• A sample of 38 starts is limited. Real-world results will differ and may be materially worse.

4. Not financial advice

CitadeLab provides software and a hosting service. Nothing on this website, in our Playbook, in support conversations or in any communication from us is financial, investment, tax or legal advice, or a recommendation to buy or sell any instrument. Seek independent professional advice if you are unsure whether trading is appropriate for you.

5. Prop-firm rules

Prop firms set their own rules and may change them at any time, including rules on EAs, news trading, consistency, minimum days, instruments and drawdown calculation (static or trailing). A firm may refuse a payout or close an account under its terms. The "Category A/B/C" labels we use are shorthand, not definitions of any firm's rules. Always verify current rules with the firm before buying a challenge.

6. Compounding

The Personal Account Edition sizes positions from your current balance. This increases position sizes after gains and reduces them after losses. Compounding magnifies both gains and losses and does not ensure account growth.

7. Technology risk

Automated trading depends on software, servers, internet connectivity, MetaTrader and your broker's systems. Failures, delays, updates or errors in any of these can cause missed trades, unintended trades or losses, even with our monitoring in place.

8. Testimonials and results shared by others

Individual results shared by customers or by us are individual outcomes, labelled where possible as backtest, demo, evaluation, funded or live. They are not typical or guaranteed, and your results may differ.

9. Your responsibility

You decide whether to trade, which account and firm to use, and how much risk to accept. By using CitadeLab you confirm that you understand and accept these risks.