Revision 1.0 of 22.09.2026. Effective from the moment of publication at https://sync.trade/legal/en/risk.
This document is an integral part of the Terms of Service. The User confirms having read it before starting to trade.
The essentials in three lines. Trading crypto assets is a high-risk activity. Using leverage can wipe out your entire deposit within minutes. Sync automates your own decisions and guarantees neither profit, nor order execution, nor its own uninterrupted operation.
1. What you accept when you start trading
1.1. You trade with your own funds in your own exchange account. Sync only generates and sends orders according to the rules you set.
1.2. The Sync Operator does not give investment advice, does not manage your funds, does not promise income and does not compensate losses.
1.3. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Neither channel statistics, nor results of past periods, nor another user's returns are a promise of your result.
1.4. You decide on every setting — position size, leverage, stop-loss, grid range, averaging step — yourself and consciously.
2. Market risks
| Risk | What it means in practice |
|---|---|
| Volatility | The price of a crypto asset can change by tens of percent within hours. The loss can exceed what your settings anticipated |
| Leverage and liquidation | Leverage multiplies both profit and loss. At 25x leverage a move of roughly 4 % against the position leads to liquidation, at 50x about 2 %, at 100x about 1 %. Upon liquidation the exchange forcibly closes the position and the margin on it is lost |
| Cross margin | In cross mode, liquidation affects the entire account balance, including funds used by other bots |
| Slippage | The actual execution price may differ from the expected one, especially during sharp moves and low liquidity |
| Low liquidity and delisting | An instrument may become untradeable or be removed from trading by the exchange |
| Price gaps | A stop-loss is executed at the available price, not the set one: in a gap the loss may be larger than expected |
| Funding | On perpetual futures a funding rate is periodically charged or credited, which reduces the result |
| Fees | Exchange fees reduce the result of every trade; with frequent trading their impact is significant |
3. Risks of automated trading
3.1. A strategy follows formal rules and does not assess the situation. A grid does not earn outside its set range; averaging during a prolonged decline increases the position and freezes funds; the bot will not "realise" that the market has changed.
3.2. A mistake in settings is executed literally. An incorrectly specified position size, leverage or range will be applied exactly as set.
3.3. Several bots on one account share a common balance. One bot's loss reduces the margin available to the others.
3.4. Trading without a stop-loss is possible and permitted by the settings. In that case the position has no automatic protection, and the risk is limited only by liquidation.
3.5. Sync's protective mechanisms (stop-loss, kill switch — stopping Grid and DCA bots on a balance drawdown, Grid and DCA protections, warnings) reduce but do not eliminate risk and themselves depend on the availability of the exchange and the network.
4. Technical risks
4.1. The Service may be unavailable. Causes: maintenance, hardware failure, network outage, actions of telecom providers, regulatory restrictions.
4.2. The exchange may be unavailable or restrict API operation: overload, maintenance, regional restrictions, rule changes, suspension of trading.
4.3. The Telegram messenger may delay or fail to deliver messages. A channel signal, a command or a notification may arrive late or not at all.
4.4. An order may not be executed or may be executed partially: insufficient margin, instrument restrictions, exchange rejection, a change in the minimum order size.
4.5. When the Service is unavailable, an open position is left without automatic management. You must be ready to manage it manually through the exchange interface.
4.6. Stop-loss and take-profit orders placed by the Service on the exchange continue to operate on the exchange side even when the Service is unavailable; conditional and internal mechanisms (trailing, target recalculation, protections) do not operate while the Service is unavailable.
5. Risks related to channel signals
5.1. The channel author is a third party. The Operator does not verify their qualifications, does not confirm the soundness of their signals and is not responsible for their results.
5.2. Your result is not the channel's result. You have your own entry price, leverage, fees and settings.
5.3. Channel statistics are theoretical. They answer the question "did the price reach the level", not "was your trade executed".
5.4. The channel author may change or close a signal at any time, make a mistake in the levels, publish a signal late or stop publishing altogether.
5.5. Signal text is parsed automatically: with non-standard formatting a signal may be parsed incorrectly or not parsed at all.
6. Access and security risks
6.1. Access to the Service is through your Telegram account. A compromise of that account means access to your trading settings. Enable two-factor authentication.
6.2. API keys must be created without withdrawal permission. A key with withdrawal permission creates a risk of losing funds that the Operator does not control and does not compensate.
6.3. Revoking the keys in the exchange account is the only way to completely stop the Service's access to your account.
6.4. Beware of fake bots and channels. Official addresses are listed on the website https://sync.trade and in the help centre https://help.sync.trade.
7. Legal and tax risks
7.1. Regulation of crypto assets is changing. Changes in the law of the country of your citizenship or location may restrict or make impossible the use of the Service or access to the exchange.
7.2. Taxes. You determine, declare and pay taxes on your results yourself. The Operator is not your tax agent, does not keep tax records of your trades and does not file reports with tax authorities on your behalf.
7.3. Territorial and personal restrictions are set out in the Acceptable Use Policy. Use of the Service by a person who is not permitted to use it is that person's risk and responsibility.
8. How to reduce risk
These recommendations are not investment advice and do not guarantee any result:
- start with minimal amounts and leverage of 1–3x;
- do not use funds whose loss would be critical for you;
- always set a stop-loss;
- test a new strategy on a small volume before scaling it up;
- enable the kill switch — automatic stopping of Grid and DCA bots on a balance drawdown — and keep auto-trading of signal bots under control;
- follow notifications and the state of your exchange account;
- keep access to the exchange interface at hand so you can close a position manually.
9. Acknowledgement
By starting to trade through Sync, you confirm that you have read this Disclosure, understand the risks listed, accept them in full and are aware that you may lose all funds placed in your trading account.
In addition, before the first launch of a Grid or DCA bot with real funds, the Service shows a risk warning and requires a separate confirmation by button. Such confirmation is recorded in the Service with the date and time.