The short version (please actually read this)
Stratsemble is a research and education sandbox. You use it to study well-known trading strategies, run your own backtests on famous liquid assets, paper-test them going forward, and get generic alerts. That is all it is.
- Trading is genuinely risky. You can lose money — including everything you put in.
- We are not your adviser. We give no personal recommendations and nothing here is "right for you."
- Everything you see is the same for everyone running the same test. It is not tailored to you.
- Backtests and paper results are hypothetical. They are not real trading and they do not predict the future.
- You make every decision, on your own broker, with your own money. We never touch your funds and never place an order.
- We earn the same whether you win or lose. We are not selling you a way to get rich — we sell tools that try to prove strategies wrong.
If any of that is a dealbreaker, this is not the product for you, and that is completely fine. The full detail follows.
1. Trading involves a substantial risk of loss
Buying and selling stocks, crypto and other assets carries a high level of risk and is not suitable for everyone. Prices move for reasons no model can foresee. You can lose some, all, or (with leverage, which we do not encourage and do not model for you) more than the money you commit. Past gains — yours or anyone else's — are no promise of future gains.
Only you know your own financial situation. Never trade with money you cannot afford to lose, and consider getting advice from a licensed professional who is allowed to look at your specific circumstances. We are not that professional (see §3).
2. What Stratsemble is — and what it is not
Stratsemble is an educational and analytical publishing service. We publish impersonal research tools, historical backtests, a library of well-known strategy mechanisms, generic calculators, and generic, rule-based alerts. The same tools and the same alerts are made available to everyone on the same terms.
Stratsemble is not: an investment adviser, broker, dealer, commodity trading advisor, portfolio manager, or fiduciary; a place where trades are executed, orders routed, or money or assets held; a source of personalized "suitable-for-you" advice; or a promise, prediction, or guarantee that any strategy, backtest, or alert will make money or avoid loss.
We do not know your portfolio, income, goals, or risk tolerance, and nothing we provide is built around them.
3. Not investment advice — no advisory relationship
Nothing on Stratsemble is investment, financial, legal, tax, or trading advice, and nothing is a recommendation that any security or asset is suitable for you. Using Stratsemble creates no advisory, brokerage, agency, or fiduciary relationship between you and us.
Every backtest, forward-test, alert, calculator, and verdict is impersonal and identical for every user who runs the same inputs. None of it is attuned to your particular situation, and it must not be relied on as personal advice. You alone decide what to do, and you execute any trade yourself, through your own broker or exchange. We never touch your funds and never place an order for you.
If you want advice tailored to your circumstances, speak to a licensed adviser in your country who is authorised to give it.
4. How alerts work (and what they are not)
Alerts are generic, rule-triggered notifications about publicly observable conditions on well-known, liquid assets — for example, "Strategy X crossed its entry rule on a given asset at a given time." Every subscriber to a given alert receives the same message. An alert is not a recommendation or instruction to you to buy or sell; not based on your holdings, position size, or risk tolerance; and not a statement that acting on it is a good idea for you.
An alert is a signal about the market, not advice about your account. You decide whether it means anything for you, and you execute — or don't — entirely on your own. Each alert carries this reminder: "Generic alert. Not advice. You decide and execute on your own broker."
5. Backtests and simulated results — read this carefully
Backtests and paper (forward) tests on Stratsemble are hypothetical. They are simulations run against historical or paper data — no real money is at stake and no real trades are placed. Real trading is different, usually worse, and here is why:
- Fills and timing. A backtest assumes you got in and out at prices a live market may never actually have given you.
- Costs. Commissions, spreads, fees, financing, and taxes eat into real returns and are easy to under-count in a simulation.
- Slippage and liquidity. Real orders move the market and don't always fill at the price you wanted; a backtest can quietly assume they do.
- Hindsight. Any strategy tested on the past was, by definition, designed knowing how the past turned out. That flatters it.
- Survivorship. Historical datasets often quietly drop companies that failed, were delisted, or went bankrupt — so the surviving names look better as a group than the real, full universe did at the time.
Because of all this, a strategy that looks good on Stratsemble may perform very differently — or lose money — in the real world. We build our tools to try to disprove a strategy, not to sell you one, precisely because these gaps are real.
Hypothetical-performance notice. As a matter of best practice, we display the following statement — modelled on the U.S. CFTC's Rule 4.41 language — wherever simulated or hypothetical results are shown. (We are not a registered commodity pool operator or trading advisor, and that rule does not by its terms apply to this product; we show the statement voluntarily because it is the clearest standard description of the limits of simulated results.)
"THESE RESULTS ARE BASED ON SIMULATED OR HYPOTHETICAL PERFORMANCE RESULTS THAT HAVE CERTAIN INHERENT LIMITATIONS. UNLIKE THE RESULTS SHOWN IN AN ACTUAL PERFORMANCE RECORD, THESE RESULTS DO NOT REPRESENT ACTUAL TRADING. ALSO, BECAUSE THESE TRADES HAVE NOT ACTUALLY BEEN EXECUTED, THESE RESULTS MAY HAVE UNDER- OR OVER-COMPENSATED FOR THE IMPACT, IF ANY, OF CERTAIN MARKET FACTORS, SUCH AS LACK OF LIQUIDITY. SIMULATED OR HYPOTHETICAL TRADING PROGRAMS IN GENERAL ARE ALSO SUBJECT TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE DESIGNED WITH THE BENEFIT OF HINDSIGHT. NO REPRESENTATION IS BEING MADE THAT ANY ACCOUNT WILL OR IS LIKELY TO ACHIEVE PROFITS OR LOSSES SIMILAR TO THESE BEING SHOWN."
This same notice appears next to the results themselves inside the product, not only here.
6. Past performance is not a reliable indicator
Past performance — whether from a backtest, a paper forward-test, a chart, or a "results" page — is not a reliable indicator of future results. Paper forward-tests use no real capital and are subject to the same limitations as backtests (§5); a paper track record is not a live one. Markets change, edges decay, and a rule that worked yesterday can fail tomorrow.
7. No profit claims — and why we have no reason to make any
We make no representation or guarantee that any strategy, backtest, alert, or output will be profitable, will beat holding an asset, or will avoid losses. We do not promise returns of any kind.
We also want you to understand our incentives, because they matter: we charge (when we charge) for access to software, not for your success. We earn exactly the same whether you make money or lose it. We take no share of your trades, no commission, and no cut of your account. Our job is to give you honest tools — including tools designed to show when a strategy does not work — not to talk you into trading.
8. Data comes from third parties — we do not control it
Market data is supplied by independent third-party sources, including Yahoo Finance (for equities) and Binance (for crypto assets). We do not originate, control, verify, or guarantee this data. It may be delayed, interrupted, incomplete, inaccurate, adjusted, restated, or discontinued at any time and without notice, and we are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or an authorised redistributor of these sources.
Every backtest, indicator, and alert is calculated from this third-party data, so any error, gap, or delay in the data flows straight into the results you see. Treat outputs as only as good as the data behind them.
9. No guarantee the service is available or correct — please note this block
THE SERVICE, AND ALL DATA, BACKTESTS, FORWARD-TESTS, ALERTS, CALCULATORS, VERDICTS, AND OTHER OUTPUTS, ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE," WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, WE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, ACCURACY, AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. WE DO NOT WARRANT THAT THE SERVICE OR ANY DATA IS ACCURATE, COMPLETE, TIMELY, ERROR-FREE, OR UNINTERRUPTED, OR THAT ANY STRATEGY, BACKTEST, OR ALERT WILL BE PROFITABLE. STRATSEMBLE IS CURRENTLY IN BETA: IT MAY CHANGE, BE UNAVAILABLE, OR LOSE DATA AT ANY TIME, WITH NO SERVICE-LEVEL COMMITMENT.
What we never exclude. Nothing in this section limits any right you have that cannot be limited by law, or any liability that cannot be excluded — including liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; for death or personal injury caused by our negligence; for gross negligence (culpă gravă) or intentional misconduct (dol); for the mandatory conformity of the service under Directive (EU) 2019/770 (we remain responsible for the Service performing as we honestly describe it); for compensation under Article 82 GDPR; and, for consumers in the EU/Romania, your mandatory statutory rights. If you are a consumer in the EU/Romania, some of the limitations above may not apply to you, and your legal protections are unaffected. The full warranty, liability, and limitation terms are in our Terms of Use.
10. You assume the risk — your decisions are yours
By using Stratsemble you accept that every trading, funding, and execution decision is yours alone, made on your own broker or exchange with your own money, and that you are solely responsible for those decisions and their outcomes, including any losses. You use the tools and any output at your own risk. You are responsible for deciding whether using Stratsemble is legal where you live, and for your own tax and regulatory position. This does not remove any right you have under mandatory law (see §9).
11. Who we are, and who does not regulate us
Stratsemble is software operated by Alexandru Prichindel, an individual based in Romania. Because it provides no regulated service — no personal investment advice, no order handling, no custody of funds, no crypto-asset services — it is not an investment firm and is not authorised or supervised by the Romanian Financial Supervisory Authority (ASF), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, or any other financial regulator.
For our EU users specifically: we provide no investment advice and no personal recommendation within the meaning of MiFID II (Directive 2014/65/EU), and no advice on crypto-assets and no crypto-asset services within the meaning of MiCA (Regulation (EU) 2023/1114). Everything we publish is generic and identical for every user — anyone running the same test sees the same numbers.
We keep it this way on purpose. Staying impersonal is not a loophole; it is what Stratsemble is.
12. Changes to this disclosure
We may update this Disclaimer & Risk Disclosure as the product and the law change. The version and effective date at the top always show the current one, and we keep previous versions on record. This document is provided together with, and forms part of, our Terms of Use and Privacy & Cookie Policy, all of which you accept when you create an account. Governing law: Romania, without stripping any mandatory consumer protection you have where you live.
If anything here is unclear, email us at [email protected]. We would rather answer a question than have you misunderstand the risk.