Risk Disclosure Statement
Effective Date: June 1, 2025 · Last Updated: June 1, 2025
1. Purpose of This Disclosure
This Risk Disclosure Statement is provided by CorFutures LLC ("CorFutures") to inform you of the significant risks associated with futures trading. This disclosure is required as a condition of using any CorFutures service and is intended to ensure that all users understand the inherent dangers of speculative futures trading before engaging with our educational content, tools, or community.
BY USING CORFUTURES SERVICES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND ACCEPTED THE RISKS DESCRIBED IN THIS DOCUMENT.
2. Futures Trading Involves Substantial Risk of Loss
Trading futures contracts carries a HIGH DEGREE OF RISK and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider whether trading is appropriate for you in light of your experience, objectives, financial resources, and other relevant circumstances.
Key risk factors include, but are not limited to:
- Loss of Capital: You may lose all of the funds you deposit with your broker. If markets move against your position, you may be required to deposit additional funds on short notice to maintain your position or face immediate liquidation at a loss.
- Leverage Risk: Futures contracts are leveraged instruments. A relatively small market movement can result in a profit or loss that is large relative to the initial margin deposit. This leverage effect can work both for and against you.
- Margin Calls: If your account equity falls below the required maintenance margin, your broker may issue a margin call requiring you to deposit additional funds immediately, or your positions may be liquidated at a loss without prior notice.
- Losses Exceeding Deposits: Under certain market conditions, it is possible to lose more than your entire account balance. You may be personally liable for any deficit in your account.
- Market Volatility: Futures markets can be extremely volatile. Price movements driven by economic data, geopolitical events, central bank decisions, or unexpected news can be sudden and severe.
- Liquidity Risk: Under certain market conditions, it may become difficult or impossible to execute trades at favorable prices. Gaps in market prices (e.g., overnight gaps, news-driven gaps) can result in significant slippage.
- Overnight/Weekend Risk: Positions held overnight or over weekends are exposed to price gaps when markets reopen. These gaps can result in losses significantly larger than anticipated.
- Electronic Trading Risk: Trading systems may experience outages, connectivity issues, or technical failures. CorFutures and your broker are not responsible for losses resulting from system failures or internet disruptions during trading.
3. CorFutures Is an Educational Platform — Not a Financial Advisor
CorFutures is an educational platform providing trading education, analytical tools, and community resources. WE ARE NOT A REGISTERED INVESTMENT ADVISOR, COMMODITY TRADING ADVISOR (CTA), BROKER-DEALER, OR FINANCIAL PLANNER. We are not registered with or regulated by the SEC, CFTC, FINRA, or NFA.
Nothing communicated by CorFutures — whether in written content, video lessons, live trading rooms, chat rooms, tools, alerts, analysis, commentary, or any other format — constitutes:
- Financial advice;
- Investment advice;
- A recommendation to buy or sell any security, futures contract, or other financial instrument;
- A solicitation to trade;
- A guarantee of any trading outcome.
All trade ideas, setups, analyses, and educational content are shared for illustrative and educational purposes only. Any trade you place is your own independent decision and your sole responsibility.
4. Past Performance Is Not Indicative of Future Results
Any references to past trading performance — including results shown by CorFutures instructors, community members, case studies, or simulated examples — are provided for educational illustration only and are NOT indicative of future performance. You should not assume that you will achieve similar results.
Trading results vary significantly based on individual skill, discipline, market conditions, capital size, risk management practices, execution quality, and psychological factors. Many traders lose money. There is no guarantee that you will profit from using CorFutures educational content, tools, or strategies.
5. Hypothetical and Simulated Performance Disclaimer
HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS HAVE MANY INHERENT LIMITATIONS, SOME OF WHICH ARE DESCRIBED BELOW. NO REPRESENTATION IS BEING MADE THAT ANY ACCOUNT WILL OR IS LIKELY TO ACHIEVE PROFITS OR LOSSES SIMILAR TO THOSE SHOWN. IN FACT, THERE ARE FREQUENTLY SHARP DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS AND THE ACTUAL RESULTS SUBSEQUENTLY ACHIEVED BY ANY PARTICULAR TRADING PROGRAM.
ONE OF THE LIMITATIONS OF HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS IS THAT THEY ARE GENERALLY PREPARED WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT. IN ADDITION, HYPOTHETICAL TRADING DOES NOT INVOLVE FINANCIAL RISK, AND NO HYPOTHETICAL TRADING RECORD CAN COMPLETELY ACCOUNT FOR THE IMPACT OF FINANCIAL RISK OF ACTUAL TRADING. FOR EXAMPLE, THE ABILITY TO WITHSTAND LOSSES OR TO ADHERE TO A PARTICULAR TRADING PROGRAM IN SPITE OF TRADING LOSSES ARE MATERIAL POINTS WHICH CAN ALSO ADVERSELY AFFECT ACTUAL TRADING RESULTS.
6. No Liability for Trading Losses
CORFUTURES LLC, ITS MEMBERS, MANAGERS, EMPLOYEES, INSTRUCTORS, CONTRACTORS, AND AFFILIATES SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY TRADING LOSSES, FINANCIAL LOSSES, OR OTHER DAMAGES ARISING FROM OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF OUR SERVICES OR YOUR TRADING ACTIVITY.
You acknowledge and agree that:
- All trading decisions are made by you independently;
- CorFutures has no control over your trading activity, brokerage account, or execution;
- You are solely responsible for the consequences of your trading decisions;
- No instructor, mentor, community member, or CorFutures representative is responsible for your trading outcomes;
- CorFutures does not manage funds or accounts on your behalf.
7. Seek Professional Guidance
Before engaging in futures trading, we strongly recommend that you:
- Consult a licensed financial advisor who is familiar with your individual financial situation;
- Thoroughly understand the mechanics of futures contracts, margin requirements, and leverage before risking real capital;
- Practice extensively with a paper trading or simulated account before trading with real money;
- Only trade with risk capital — money you can afford to lose entirely without affecting your financial stability or lifestyle;
- Establish clear risk management rules and adhere to them consistently.
8. Specific Instruments — NQ and ES Futures
CorFutures focuses primarily on E-mini Nasdaq-100 (NQ) and E-mini S&P 500 (ES) futures contracts. These contracts are highly leveraged and can experience significant intraday volatility. A single NQ contract has a multiplier of $20 per point; a single ES contract has a multiplier of $50 per point. A 10-point adverse move in NQ equals a $200 loss per contract. Market conditions can produce moves of hundreds of points within minutes during high-impact events.
Micro contract versions (MNQ and MES) exist with 1/10th the contract size and may be more appropriate for traders with smaller accounts or those still learning. Nothing in CorFutures content constitutes a recommendation regarding which contract size to use.
9. Acknowledgment
By using CorFutures Services, you expressly acknowledge that you have read this Risk Disclosure Statement in its entirety, that you understand the risks described herein, and that you accept full responsibility for your trading decisions and their outcomes.
If you have questions about this disclosure, contact us at: legal@corfutures.com