Last updated: October 1, 2026
All trading in stocks, options, and cryptocurrencies involves the risk of losing some or all of your invested capital. Market conditions can change rapidly, and losses can exceed your expectations, particularly with leveraged instruments.
Past performance is not indicative of future results. Backtests and paper-trading results shown in OTTOBOT are hypothetical: they do not represent actual trading, may not account for fees, slippage, liquidity constraints, or market impact, and are subject to biases such as survivorship bias and overfitting. A strategy that performed well in a backtest may lose money in live markets.
Options involve additional risks, including time decay, volatility risk, and the potential for total loss of premium paid. Selling options can expose you to theoretically unlimited losses. Make sure you understand the Characteristics and Risks of Standardized Options before trading options.
Cryptocurrencies are highly volatile, trade around the clock, and operate in an evolving regulatory environment. Exchange outages, extreme price swings, and liquidity gaps can occur without warning.
Automated strategies execute without your real-time involvement and can compound losses quickly if misconfigured. AI-generated analysis, code, and parameters may contain errors or reflect incomplete information. Technology failures — including API outages, connectivity loss, or software bugs — can prevent orders from executing or cause unintended orders. You remain responsible for monitoring your bots and the positions they hold.
OTTOBOT is a software platform and does not provide investment advice. Nothing in the app constitutes a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security. Decisions about what to trade are yours alone.
Securities in your Alpaca brokerage account are protected by SIPC up to $500,000 (including $250,000 for cash claims). SIPC protection does not cover market losses. Brokerage protections are provided by your broker, not by OTTOBOT.