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Risk disclosure

Ignition is not financial advice. It is a stock-screening and alert tool provided for informational and educational purposes only. Nothing on this site is a recommendation, solicitation, or offer to buy or sell any security, and we are not a registered broker-dealer or investment adviser.

These stocks are high-risk. Ignition's Small Cap engine focuses on low-float, micro-cap, and sub-$2 stocks. These are among the most volatile and illiquid securities in the market. They can move violently in either direction, can be hard to buy or sell at the price you want, and are more exposed to manipulation, halts, and total loss. You can lose some or all of the money you put in.

Large Cap carries different risks, not smaller ones. The Large Cap product alerts on companies above $2B, which are more liquid than micro-caps, but the rule deliberately buys shares that are falling. A company that looks cheap can keep falling or fail outright. In testing, roughly half of all positions went more than 1% underwater before finishing green, and testing that includes companies which collapsed and never recovered shows a worst peak-to-trough fall in the account of about 67%, against about 15% when only survivors are counted. Its −15% stop is a sell alert, not a floor, exactly as above.

Large Cap has no meaningful closed-trade record yet. The book is live: its positions are published on this site as they are bought, marked at their latest quote and labelled unrealized. As of this writing it has been running 2 weeks and holds 1 open position; a handful of trades have closed, which is not a track record. An unrealized mark is not a result either, and none of it counts toward any return figure. Every other figure we have for that rule comes from testing against historical data, not from alerts sent to members in real time, and backtests flatter strategies that buy declines because companies that fell and never recovered are frequently missing from historical datasets. Until Large Cap has a body of closed trades published the same way the small-cap record is, treat any figure for it as illustrative only, and note that no return figures for it are published anywhere on this site.

How to read our numbers. "Alert price" is the price the scanner flagged a stock at. "Peak" is the highest price it reached afterward. "Max gain" and the "from peak" portfolio are the best move that was theoretically available: they do not represent a real trade, a realized return, or any guarantee that a person could have bought at the low and sold at the high. The rules-based portfolio (out at −10%, or in full once a run gives back 35% of its peak profit, 15% once doubled) is an illustration, not a live brokerage account. Slippage, fees, taxes, liquidity, and timing would all change real-world results. Elapsed time is stated alongside every return figure — the Small Cap book's return in months, the Large Cap book's in weeks while it is young — and is rounded so that it never understates how long a return took.

The −10% stop is a resting order, not a guarantee. Our rules cap a loss at −10% below the alert price, and every figure we publish books a stopped position at exactly that line. Real fills do not work that way. On our own record, 55 of 79 closed positions (70%) traded straight through the −10% line inside a single five-minute bar, and the deepest intrabar move was −42.1% below the entry before the price recovered. A stop rests at a price and becomes a market order once touched: in a thin, fast-moving, low-float stock it can fill far below where you set it, or gap past it overnight with no chance to fill at all. Assume a real loss can be several times larger than the −10% our published figures show. Measured on five-minute EODHD data across every closed position. The same is true of any stop, in any account, on stocks like these.

Past performance does not predict future results. A pattern that worked before can fail at any time. Past, hypothetical, simulated, or peak / high-water-mark figures are illustrative only, are not indicative of future results, may not be obtainable in actual trading, and no profit, return, or outcome is promised or guaranteed.

Hypothetical and simulated performance. All portfolio figures on this site and in our emails are simulated, rules-based illustrations, not actual trading. Simulated or hypothetical performance results have inherent limitations: they do not reflect actual trades, real liquidity, fees, taxes, slippage, or the impact of the strategy's own orders on these thin markets, and they are generally prepared with the benefit of hindsight. No representation is being made that any account will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those shown.

Data sources. Prices and market data are drawn from third-party sources believed to be reliable but not guaranteed. They may be delayed, incomplete, or inaccurate, and published figures may change when source data is corrected (for example after reverse splits or bad prints).

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