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Last updated: 24 September 2026.
Education and independent decisions
The Fringe Trader publishes research, market commentary, outlooks, strategy studies, indicators, calculators, and other trading resources for general information and education. The material does not take account of your finances, objectives, experience, or ability to bear losses. It is not personalized investment advice, an instruction to trade, or an offer or solicitation to buy or sell a financial instrument.
Reading the site or using a tool does not create an advisory, fiduciary, or other professional relationship with TFT. Make your own assessment and seek qualified professional advice where appropriate before making a financial decision.
Trading, leverage, and loss
Trading involves substantial risk and is not suitable for everyone. You can lose all the capital committed to a trade. Futures and other leveraged products can also produce losses greater than your initial deposit, with additional margin payments or forced liquidation. See the CFTC's introduction to futures risks.
Gaps, limited liquidity, execution delays, and system failures can prevent an order from filling at the expected price. A stop order does not guarantee a maximum loss. A backtest's starting balance or position size is a study assumption, not a statement that an account of that size is adequate or that the risk is suitable for you. Use only risk capital you can afford to lose.
Hypothetical and backtested performance
Backtests and simulations apply rules to historical data. Their trades and profits or losses are hypothetical, rather than a record of live execution. They benefit from hindsight, including the choice of rules, markets, periods, and examples. Selected examples illustrate an idea and may not represent a typical trade or the full range of outcomes.
Simulations depend on their data and assumptions. Modeled fills may differ from prices obtainable in a live market. Commissions, slippage, spreads, financing, taxes, and other expenses may be omitted or simplified; use each study's stated assumptions to understand what is included. Market impact, liquidity constraints, missed fills, and margin restrictions may not be fully modeled.
A simulation cannot reproduce the financial and emotional pressures of risking real money, including the ability to continue following a strategy through losses. Historical or hypothetical performance does not establish future profitability. Actual results can differ substantially, and no account is assured of achieving similar gains or avoiding similar losses.
Pattern research, models, and outlooks
Historical pattern frequencies and price excursions describe the observations measured in a study. They are not automatically trading win rates or achievable returns. Sample selection, overlapping observations, data quality, and market changes can affect the findings. An apparent pattern does not by itself establish a repeatable trading advantage.
Outlooks, model readings, and scenarios express an interpretation at a particular time. They can be wrong and may become outdated as prices or conditions change. Read their dates, assumptions, and invalidation conditions; do not treat them as actionable signals or promises about the future.
Calculators, indicators, and other tools
Tool outputs depend on the inputs and assumptions used. Illustrative defaults are not recommended trading settings. A positive calculation or indicator reading does not show that a strategy is suitable, executable, or profitable. Check the inputs, units, costs, and limitations, and independently verify any output before relying on it.
Accuracy, availability, and external services
TFT aims to explain its work clearly, but data, calculations, code, and commentary can contain errors or omissions. Content and tools are provided as available, without a guarantee of accuracy, completeness, timeliness, or uninterrupted access. A publication date or later update does not mean an earlier observation remains applicable to current conditions.
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