Risk Disclosure. NextBatch Trading Products

Version: 1.1

Effective date: February 12, 2026

Article 1. General Trading Risks

Trading foreign exchange and contracts for difference (CFDs) on margin involves a high level of risk and is not suitable for all investors. You should carefully consider your objectives, financial situation, needs, and level of experience before engaging in any margined transactions.

You can lose some or all of your invested capital. Do not trade with funds you cannot afford to lose. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Article 2. No Investment Advice / No Fiduciary Duty

NextBatch is not a broker, dealer, investment adviser, or fiduciary. NextBatch trading products and any related materials are provided for informational/automation purposes only and do not constitute investment advice, recommendation, or solicitation to buy or sell any instrument. You are solely responsible for your trading decisions.

This communication is not a financial promotion. Consider seeking independent advice if needed.

Not for distribution where prohibited by local law or regulation.

Article 3. Trading Product Specific Risks

Automated Trading Software & Tools

NextBatch trading products including Expert Advisors, indicators, trading tools, and automated systems are subject to technical failures, software defects, mis-configuration, and model risk. No trading product can guarantee profits. Automated trading and signal-based strategies can generate rapid losses during adverse market conditions or technical issues.

Technical Infrastructure Dependencies

Performance depends on third-party infrastructure including (without limitation) VPS uptime, internet connectivity, broker servers/liquidity, market data, and trading platforms (MetaTrader 4/5, cTrader, etc.). Interruptions, latency, desynchronization, or updates may cause missed signals, unintended positions, duplicate orders, or material losses.

Market & Execution Conditions

Strategy outcomes may differ across market regimes. Trending vs. ranging markets, high volatility, low liquidity, spread widening (especially around news), gapping between sessions, partial fills, and order rejections can materially impact results. Slippage, requotes, swap/financing costs, and execution delays are inherent to live trading.

Backtesting vs. Live Trading

Backtests are hypothetical and rely on assumptions (historic data quality, modeling of slippage/spreads, execution). Live trading involves variable spreads, liquidity, latency, and broker-specific execution rules that cannot be perfectly replicated in simulations.

Article 4. Broker, Platform, and Rule Risks

Compatibility & Specifications

Although NextBatch trading products have been tested with several brokers and platforms, compatibility is not guaranteed. Broker symbols, contract sizes, precision, margin, filters (min/max lot, step), FIFO/hedging rules, and trading sessions differ and can affect performance or prevent proper functionality.

Regulatory & Platform Changes

Changes in laws, exchange rules, broker terms, or platform updates may impair or disable trading product functionality, require parameter changes, or render certain strategies non-viable. You are responsible for ongoing compliance with your broker's terms and all applicable regulations.

Article 5. Leverage & Jurisdiction Risks (EU vs Offshore)

Using high leverage magnifies both gains and losses. Higher leverage reduces your margin buffer and can lead to rapid margin calls and forced liquidation during normal price swings. In volatile conditions, stop-losses and risk controls may offer less protection when leverage is excessive.

  • EU retail accounts are typically capped at up to 30:1 (forex majors) and include consumer safeguards such as Negative Balance Protection under MiFID/ESMA rules.
  • Offshore brokers may offer 100:1-500:1+ leverage and may not provide Negative Balance Protection, investor compensation schemes, or comparable dispute resolution. You can, in some cases, lose more than your deposit.
  • Higher leverage increases the probability that small price moves exhaust margin and trigger forced close-outs, particularly when using pyramiding, grid, or martingale techniques.

Your choice and responsibility: If you select an offshore broker or high leverage, you accept additional risks and potentially reduced regulatory protections compared with an EU-regulated broker.

Ways to reduce risk:

  • Prefer EU-regulated brokers that provide Negative Balance Protection and leverage limits.
  • Use lower leverage (e.g., 1:10-1:30) and conservative position sizing relative to account equity.
  • Avoid combining high leverage with grid/martingale multipliers.
  • Test on demo first and scale gradually.

Nothing herein is legal or investment advice. Verify your local rules and your broker's terms before trading.

Article 6. Proprietary Trading Firm Risks

Prop firms impose unique, evolving rules (e.g., max daily loss, news trading, overnight/weekend holds, automated trading tools allowed/forbidden, copy trading rules). Violations may result in account termination or profit forfeiture.

User Responsibility: You must understand and comply with your prop firm's rules. NextBatch is not liable for terminations, breaches, or losses arising from prop-firm policies or interpretations.

Article 7. No Performance Guarantees

NextBatch makes no representations or warranties-express or implied-regarding profitability, success rate, drawdowns, or continuity of performance for any trading products. Outcomes vary based on market conditions, user settings, broker specifications, latency, and other factors outside our control.

We do not guarantee prop-firm passes or consistent profits.

Article 8. User Responsibility & Acknowledgements

By using any NextBatch trading products, you acknowledge and agree that:

  • You understand the risks of leveraged/automated trading and accept the possibility of total loss.
  • You are solely responsible for correct installation, configuration, risk settings, and ongoing monitoring.
  • You will not risk capital you cannot afford to lose and will use appropriate position sizing and risk controls.
  • You will ensure compliance with all broker, exchange, prop-firm, and regulatory requirements applicable to you.
  • You understand that backtests and past results do not guarantee future outcomes.
  • You accept full responsibility for all trades, positions, and account outcomes.
  • Proceeding to live trading without adequate demo testing materially increases the risk of loss and operational error.

Article 9. Indicative Values & Displayed Information

Any values displayed, reported, or communicated by NextBatch trading products (including risk amounts, potential profit/loss, position sizes, margin requirements, and notifications sent via Telegram, email, dashboard, or any other channel) are indicative only. They are based on market data available at the time of calculation and may differ materially from actual values at the time of order execution.

Factors that may cause deviation include: market price changes between calculation and execution, slippage, spread fluctuations, gaps, delayed or inaccurate data feeds, broker execution conditions, and rounding. Indicative values do not constitute a guarantee or commitment of actual execution price, risk, or outcome. You must independently verify all values in your trading platform before relying on them for trading decisions.

Article 10. Presets, User Configuration & Unintended Actions

Certain NextBatch trading products allow you to configure presets for order types (market, limit, stop), parameters, and execution sequences. You are solely responsible for the correct configuration of all presets and settings. Incorrectly configured presets (such as selecting the wrong order type, entering incorrect price levels, or setting an incorrect execution sequence) may result in unintended trades, increased risk, or losses.

Where products include confirmation prompts or other interface safeguards, these are enabled by default. If you choose to disable them, you accept full responsibility for all actions that result, including accidental clicks, stuck or repeating inputs, unintended keyboard shortcuts, or any other user-side event that causes the Software to execute an action.

When we update preset options, behavior, or execution sequences, we will communicate material changes through our official channels. You are responsible for reviewing such communications and verifying your configurations after any update before live use.

Article 11. Important Recommendations (Non-Binding)

  • Demo First: It is strongly recommended that you test the Software in a demo environment that mirrors your intended live setup (broker, symbols, leverage, VPS) for a reasonable period sufficient to validate configuration and behavior under normal and volatile market conditions before going live or scaling risk.
  • Re-test on Changes: Whenever you change broker, account type, leverage, VPS/hosting, or materially alter risk parameters, it is strongly recommended to run an adequate demo test to confirm correct operation before resuming live trading.
  • Validate Updates in Demo: Before applying any NextBatch Software update (new version or patch), it is strongly recommended to perform a short demo validation to confirm correct operation before live use.
  • Continuous Monitoring: Regularly monitor your trading products and platform/broker connection to confirm proper operation.
  • Staged Deployment: Thoroughly test on a demo (and, if appropriate, a small live account) with your intended broker before scaling risk.
  • Broker-Specific Validation: Verify symbol settings, contract specs, trading sessions, and margin/lot rules for your broker and trading products.
  • Order Transparency: Where appropriate for your use case, consider pending orders to aid auditability and visual verification of order placement.
  • Resilience: Use reliable VPS/hosting, maintain backups, and plan for power/network outages.

Article 12. Emergency Deactivation & Unmanaged Positions

In the event of a critical safety issue, NextBatch may remotely deactivate trading features or block specific Software versions (a "kill switch"). Additionally, the Software may stop functioning due to license server unavailability, connectivity loss, platform issues, or other technical events outside your or our control.

When the Software stops functioning for any reason, it ceases all active trade management. This means open positions on your account will no longer be managed by the Software. Automated functions such as stop-loss adjustments, break-even management, trailing stops, take-profit execution, hedge management, and all other order management will stop. Open positions will remain on your account without any automated protection or management.

Your responsibility: You must be prepared at all times to take immediate manual control of your trading account and all open positions. You are solely responsible for monitoring your account, detecting when the Software is no longer active, and managing or closing positions manually. NextBatch will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify users via available channels (Telegram, email, in-product) when an emergency deactivation is triggered, but delivery and timing of such notifications are not guaranteed.

NextBatch is not liable for any trading losses arising from positions that remain unmanaged after the Software stops functioning, whether due to an emergency deactivation, connectivity loss, license issues, or any other cause.

Article 13. Third-Party Services & Updates

NextBatch trading products may rely on third-party platforms, data, and APIs that we do not control. Availability, accuracy, or continued compatibility is not guaranteed. Software updates (by us or third parties) may change behavior and require user re-validation. If you encounter a critical issue during demo testing that could increase risk, please report it immediately to [email protected] so we can issue guidance and notify other users if needed.

Article 14. Affiliates & Partner Communications

NextBatch may engage affiliates or partners who promote our trading products. Affiliates are independent contractors and are not authorized to provide investment advice, make performance promises, or speak on behalf of NextBatch. Any statements, testimonials, or performance claims made by affiliates are their own and must include clear disclosure of any material connection (e.g., paid relationship or commission). NextBatch does not endorse or guarantee affiliate claims and is not liable for losses arising from third-party promotions or misrepresentations.

Article 15. Limitation of Liability (Summary)

To the maximum extent permitted by law, NextBatch shall not be liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential, exemplary, or punitive damages, including loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, or data, arising from the use of or inability to use any NextBatch trading products. (Full limitation and indemnity terms are set out in the EULA/Terms of Service.)