Risk disclosure
This page explains, in plain English, the risks involved in using an automated trading platform for cryptocurrencies and other financial instruments. Read it fully before you make your first deposit. Nothing on this page is meant to discourage you; it is meant to make sure you decide with your eyes open.
The short version. Trading can produce losses as well as gains, and you can lose some or all of the money you deposit. Automation changes how trades are executed; it does not change how markets behave. Never allocate money you cannot afford to lose.
1. Introduction and general warning
Cryptocurrencies, shares and other tradable instruments are volatile assets. Their prices can move sharply in minutes, in either direction, and the value of your portfolio can fall as quickly as it rises. Automated strategies react to market conditions faster than a person can, but they cannot make risk disappear, and in some conditions they can realise losses faster than manual trading would.
Murravyn provides technology: analysis tools, automated execution and account management features. The decision to deposit, the amount you allocate and the strategies you run remain yours. We recommend that you treat any money placed on the platform as risk capital, meaning money whose loss would not change your daily life, and that you review your positions and reports regularly rather than setting and forgetting.
2. Market risk: volatility and sudden price moves
Market risk is the risk that prices move against your open positions. Cryptoassets in particular can move by double-digit percentages within a day, and even established shares gap up or down on earnings, macroeconomic news or geopolitical events. When a market moves against you, automated strategies close or adjust positions according to their rules, which may lock in a loss.
A practical protection is position sizing: keep the amount allocated to any single strategy small relative to your total capital, and prefer strategies whose historical drawdown fits your temperament. Our dashboards show the risk level configured for each strategy so you can see what you are running at a glance.
3. Liquidity risk and slippage
Liquidity is how easily an asset can be bought or sold near its displayed price. In thin markets or during news spikes, there may not be enough counterparties at the quoted price, so an order fills at a worse level than expected. The difference between the expected and actual execution price is called slippage, and it is a real cost that can turn a marginal trade into a losing one.
You can reduce its impact by trading the more liquid instruments the platform tracks by default, avoiding strategy types that concentrate activity in the first minutes of violent moves, and checking the execution quality section of your reports. During extreme conditions, the platform's volatility guardrails may pause automated activity rather than trade into an empty order book.
4. API connections and integrations
Murravyn connects to third-party exchanges through interfaces (APIs) that those exchanges operate. If an exchange changes its interface, applies rate limits or suffers degraded performance, automated strategies may receive delayed data or fail to place orders until the connection stabilises. A misconfigured key, such as one missing trade permissions, can also stop a strategy from working as intended.
Treat API keys like passwords: create them only inside the platform's guided flow, never share them, and use keys scoped to the minimum permissions your setup needs. The getting started guide describes the correct settings, and the audit history in your account shows every connection event so you can verify what was linked and when.
5. Counterparty risk and where funds are held
When strategies execute on third-party exchanges or with liquidity providers, you carry exposure to those entities: their solvency, their operational standards and their own regulatory status. Funds held with an exchange are generally not protected the same way a bank deposit is, and in the unlikely event a venue fails, recovery can be slow and partial.
Mitigations are structural: the platform works with well-established venues, spreads activity across more than one where practical, and keeps withdrawal rights under your control so you are never locked into a single counterparty. Review where your strategies execute in the account settings, and contact your manager if you want to concentrate less activity on any single venue.
6. Operational and technical risks
Software has defects, servers need maintenance and internet paths fail. An outage that arrives at the wrong moment can delay an order, miss an alert or leave a strategy in a waiting state until service is restored. Redundancy reduces these events but cannot fully eliminate them, and their timing is, by nature, inconvenient.
Our engineering team monitors the platform continuously and publishes incident notes for significant events. On your side, keep your contact details current so we can reach you during an incident, and review open positions after any outage rather than assuming the system simply continued where it left off.
7. Cybersecurity and phishing
Accounts on any financial platform are targets. The most common attack is not a break-in but a trick: a message that imitates Murravyn and steers you to a fake login page, or a caller who quotes a little of your own data to sound credible. Data theft and unauthorised access can lead to the loss of personal information and, in the worst case, of funds.
Protect your account with the tools described on the security page: two-factor authentication, login alerts and session management. Enter your details only on our official domain, be suspicious of urgency, and remember that our staff will never ask for your password or one-time codes. If a message feels off, forward it to [email protected] before acting on it.
8. Models and automation limits
The analysis layer of Murravyn is built on probability-based models that look for recurring micro-trends and market patterns. Models are simplified descriptions of reality, trained on past data. They can be wrong, they degrade when market behaviour shifts, and the platform does not present their output as certain. No algorithm, bot or automated strategy on this platform comes with a guarantee of results, and any figure you see in our materials is illustrative.
Treat automation as a tool you supervise. Read the strategy description before launching it, watch how it behaves in its first weeks with a smaller allocation, and stop or reconfigure it when its behaviour no longer matches your expectations. The Artificial Intelligence page explains what the technology analyses and what it deliberately does not claim to do.
9. Service availability
Scheduled maintenance, upgrades and unexpected failures can make the platform temporarily unavailable, in whole or in part. During maintenance windows you may be unable to change settings, open the dashboard or place manual instructions, and automated strategies operate according to their last saved configuration. Announced maintenance is communicated in advance inside the platform.
We schedule significant work for low-activity weekend hours where possible and keep the read-only status of your account accessible during most work. If you expect to need urgent control over positions at a specific time, such as around a major news event, plan for it in advance with your manager rather than relying on last-minute access.
10. Before you start: a practical checklist
Four habits do most of the work of risk management. Understand the strategy: read its description, its instruments and its risk level, and ask your manager about anything unclear. Define your acceptable loss: decide in advance the amount you are prepared to lose, and let that number, not enthusiasm, set your deposit. Protect your account: enable two-factor authentication and login alerts from day one. Keep supervising: review reports weekly, check the audit history when something surprises you and stop what you do not understand.
If any point on this page describes a risk you are not comfortable accepting, the honest answer is not to deposit yet. The platform, the guides and the support desk will still be here when you are ready, and there is no scenario in which hurrying this decision improves your outcome.