01 What Navrox is
Navrox is software you install and operate yourself. It helps you design, backtest, optimize, execute and govern your own algorithmic trading strategies. It is not a broker, not an investment manager, and not a signal provider. Navrox does not hold your funds and does not transmit orders to markets on your behalf.
Because the software is a tool, all financial outcomes resulting from its use depend on your choices: which strategies you write, which parameters you set, which assets you trade, which broker and venue you connect, and how much capital you put at risk.
02 General market risk
Trading financial instruments — including but not limited to equities, futures, options, foreign exchange, contracts for difference, crypto-assets and structured products — involves a substantial risk of loss. You can lose all the capital you trade, and in some product types more than the capital you initially deposited. Trading is not appropriate for every investor.
Markets are subject to volatility, illiquidity, gaps, halts, regulatory intervention, and macroeconomic shocks that cannot be predicted or modelled with certainty.
03 Backtests & optimization
Backtested performance is hypothetical, calculated with the benefit of hindsight, and is based on historical data which may be subject to gaps, errors, survivorship bias, look-ahead bias or unrealistic fill assumptions.
Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results. Strategies that appear profitable in backtest can, and frequently do, lose money in live trading. Optimization may fit a strategy too closely to historical noise (overfitting); the more parameters you tune, the larger this risk becomes.
04 Execution & technology risk
Algorithmic trading carries operational risks that manual trading does not, including:
- software bugs in user-written strategies or in third-party libraries
- latency, slippage, partial fills, and rejected orders
- data-feed errors, market-data outages, or stale ticks
- broker downtime, API rate limits or connectivity failures
- local machine failures, power outages and network issues
- misconfigured risk limits or stops
You are responsible for monitoring your systems, your broker connection, and the live behaviour of your strategies. Navrox provides tooling to help you do this; it does not absolve you of the responsibility itself.
05 Leverage
Many instruments traded via brokerage accounts use leverage, which magnifies both gains and losses. Small adverse market moves can quickly produce losses that exceed your initial margin. You should fully understand the leverage settings of every account you connect to Navrox before trading live.
06 Prop-firm governance features
Navrox includes governance features — drawdown caps, daily loss limits, scaling rules — intended for proprietary trading firms and disciplined individual traders. These features enforce the rules you configure; they do not predict markets and do not guarantee that losses will be kept within the configured limits in fast-moving conditions, on gap moves, or during outages.
07 No advice, no signals, no recommendation
Nothing on the Navrox website, in product UI, in documentation, in example code, in default parameters, in community channels, or in customer-support correspondence constitutes:
- investment advice (Anlageberatung);
- investment brokerage (Anlagevermittlung);
- portfolio management (Finanzportfolioverwaltung);
- a recommendation to buy, sell, hold, or otherwise transact in any financial instrument;
- a trading signal, model portfolio, or copy-trading service.
Example strategies, templates and default parameter values are provided for educational and illustrative purposes only.
08 Decide for yourself
Before trading any strategy live, consider your objectives, your financial situation, your level of experience, and your risk appetite. Where appropriate, consult an independent, licensed financial adviser, tax adviser, or lawyer. Only trade with capital you can afford to lose.
By using Navrox you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and accepted this Risk Disclosure.