Risk disclosure
Trading crypto assets, equities, and derivatives carries the possibility of partial or total loss of the amount invested. This page explains each risk in plain language, because a risk you understand is a risk you can manage.
1. Introduction and general warning
All investment activity on Nuvaultance involves risk. Prices of crypto assets and equities can move sharply against a position, automated strategies follow rules rather than judgment, and no feature of this platform guarantees the safety of capital. Past performance, including the illustrative profiles shown on the home page, never predicts future results. Read this page fully before you fund an account, and invest only money whose loss would not change your life.
2. Market risk
Market risk is the risk that prices move against you. Digital assets are volatile: double-digit percentage moves in a day are common, and moves of that size can trigger stop-losses at worse levels than expected. Equities gap on earnings and news. A diversified portfolio softens but never removes this risk, because correlations rise in stressed markets and assets that seemed independent can fall together.
Recommendation: agree on position sizes and stop levels with your manager before the first trade, and treat a volatile week as normal rather than exceptional. Decide in advance what a bad month looks like in dollars, not percentages; a number you have already accepted is easier to live with than one you meet for the first time.
3. Liquidity risk
Liquidity risk is the risk that an order cannot be filled at the price you see. In thin markets, executing a large order can move the price itself, and the difference between expected and actual fill is slippage. During fast moves, liquidity disappears exactly when exits are wanted most. Recommendation: keep position sizes modest relative to the asset's normal volume, and avoid exotic low-liquidity tokens.
4. APIs and integrations
Strategy execution connects to exchanges through APIs, and integrations can fail: keys expire, rate limits bite, exchanges change interfaces without notice. A connection error can delay an entry or an exit. Recommendation: review your active connections in account settings, revoke anything you do not recognize, and tell support when a strategy behaves unexpectedly.
5. Counterparty risk and custody
Assets held through third-party exchanges or providers are exposed to those parties: an exchange can be hacked, freeze withdrawals, or fail. Nuvaultance places execution and custody with CIRO-member partners where possible, but no allocation removes counterparty risk entirely. Recommendation: ask your manager where each part of your portfolio is held, and read the Licensing page for the framework.
6. Operational risk
Software has defects, infrastructure has outages, and connections drop at bad moments. An operational failure can delay monitoring, order placement, or reporting. The platform is designed for resilience, but it is not infallible. Recommendation: never rely on a single channel for time-critical decisions, and keep your manager's contact reachable outside the platform.
7. Cybersecurity and phishing
Your account is a target for people who want your funds. Phishing emails, fake support calls, and cloned websites impersonating Nuvaultance exist, and human error is the most common cause of loss. Recommendation: enable 2FA, use a unique password, verify you are on the official domain before entering credentials, and read the fraud warning.
8. Models and automation
The analysis engine follows statistical rules, and rules have limits. Models are built on historical data that may not repeat, unusual regimes can produce false signals, and automation executes without hesitation or common sense. No algorithm guarantees results, and a strategy that performed well can lose money next month. Overfitting, a model tuned so tightly to past data that it fails on new data, is a documented failure mode of quantitative systems everywhere.
Recommendation: set drawdown limits with your manager and review them quarterly. Ask for the plain-language version of what each strategy does, and treat any explanation you cannot understand as a reason not to enable it.
9. Service availability
The platform is taken offline occasionally for maintenance, and unplanned outages can happen. During downtime you may be unable to view positions or submit requests, while markets keep moving. Recommendation: know the support email by heart or bookmark it, and report availability problems immediately rather than waiting to see if they fix themselves.
10. Before you start: four habits
Understand each strategy you enable, in plain words, before it trades. Decide the maximum loss you can accept and write it down. Protect the account: 2FA on, unique password, alerts read. Review active strategies and limits regularly instead of setting and forgetting. These four habits do not remove risk, but they remove most avoidable losses.
How these risks interact
Risks rarely arrive alone, and the combinations matter more than the list. A fast market (market risk) thins liquidity (liquidity risk) exactly when automation wants to execute (model risk), over connections that are under the most strain (operational risk). The March 2020 equity drawdown and several crypto weekends are textbook cases: everything became harder at the same time, and strategies that looked independent moved together.
This is why the platform layers its protections instead of relying on one. Position caps bound market risk; liquidity filters gate execution; volatility pauses suspend strategies in abnormal regimes; drawdown limits stop a strategy after sustained losses rather than after a single bad day. Each layer assumes the others will sometimes fail, which is the only honest way to engineer around risk.
Two numbers are worth deciding before your first deposit: the largest single-day loss you could see without acting emotionally, and the total drawdown at which you would want everything paused. Write both down, give them to your manager, and let the settings enforce them. Deciding these numbers in advance is the closest thing this business has to a free lunch.
What is not on this list
Some risks clients worry about are actually handled elsewhere. Fraud against your account is a security matter covered by the nine measures on the Security page. Money-laundering and identity risks are managed through the checks in the AML/KYC policy. Counterparty behaviour is described on the Licensing page, including which protections apply to cash, securities, and digital assets in Canada. This page stays focused on what can happen to your money through markets and machines.
Finally, the risk of doing nothing exists too. Cash held for years at low rates loses purchasing power to inflation. That risk is slower and quieter than a market drawdown, which is why people underestimate it. A balanced view holds both truths: investing carries real loss risk, and never investing carries its own slow cost. Your allocation between the two is a personal decision, and the manager call exists to make it an informed one.
Questions about anything on this page are answered in writing by Client Support and Compliance at [email protected]. If a risk described here is unacceptable to you, the right decision may be not to invest.