Desk Setup Acknowledgment

This acknowledgment must be accepted by every client before a Desk Setup session begins. It is deliberately short and written to be understood. It supplements — and in no way replaces — the Terms of Service and Risk Disclosures, which continue to apply in full. Read all three.

By accepting, I — the client — acknowledge and agree to each numbered clause below:

1. 1.My account, my keys, my control.

   The brokerage account connected during the session is mine, opened and funded by me before the session. The automation tool account (TradersPost, PickMyTrade, SignalStack, or similar) is mine. All API keys and credentials are generated by me, entered by me, into my own tool. At every moment before, during, and after the session, control of my account and my automation rests solely with me.

2. 2.CMA never accesses my keys or my broker account.

   Crash Money Analytics LLC ("CMA") will not see, store, transmit, hold, or request my API keys, passwords, or brokerage credentials. I will be asked to perform all credential entry myself, and I agree not to send credentials to CMA through any channel. CMA has no login to, authority over, or access to my brokerage account.

3. 3.This is a standardized, non-personalized service.

   The Desk Setup session follows CMA's publicly published runbook (crashmoneyanalytics.io/setup) exactly, and is identical in content for every client. Nothing in the session is tailored to my financial situation, objectives, experience, or risk tolerance, none of which CMA knows or will ask about.

4. 4.No discretion, ever.

   CMA exercises no discretion over my account. CMA will not decide, and has no ability to decide, what trades occur in my account. Any orders that result from the automation are the product of configuration choices I made and can change or terminate at any time.

5. 5.No monitoring duty on CMA; I monitor my own positions.

   After the session ends, CMA has no obligation to monitor my account, my positions, my automation connection, or the behavior of my tools or broker. Monitoring my positions and my automation is my responsibility alone, and I understand that unmonitored automation can accumulate losses.

6. 6.Automation risk: technology can fail and orders can slip.

   I understand that webhook delivery can be delayed, duplicated, or dropped; tools and brokers can suffer outages; market orders can fill at prices different from the signal (slippage); stops are not guaranteed exit prices; and misconfiguration can produce unintended orders. Automated execution compounds market risk with technology risk. I accept these risks as mine.

7. 7.I can disconnect at any time.

   I retain a kill-switch at all times: I can disable the strategy or connection inside my own tool, or revoke my API keys at my broker, instantly and without CMA's involvement or permission. The runbook documents how in each supported tool.

8. 8.Flat fee, never contingent on results.

   The Desk Setup fee is a one-time flat charge of $499 for a standardized technical service. It does not depend on, and will never be adjusted by, the performance of my trading, and CMA charges no performance fees and takes no share of profits or losses.

9. 9.No personalized advice during the session; presets only.

   No part of the session is investment advice. If I ask sizing or suitability questions, CMA will answer only by pointing to the two fixed published presets (Conservative / Standard) as defined in the public runbook, which are identical for all subscribers. CMA will not recommend a preset, modify a preset for me, or discuss what is appropriate for my circumstances.

10. 10.Risk of loss.

    Trading futures, forex, and options involves substantial risk of loss and is not suitable for all investors. I can lose more than my initial investment in leveraged products. Past performance, actual or simulated, is not indicative of future results. No representation has been made to me that I will or am likely to achieve profits.

11. 11.Not investment advice; CMA is not my adviser, CTA, or fiduciary.

    CMA is a publisher of impersonal trading signals. It is not registered as an investment adviser or commodity trading advisor, is not my fiduciary, and the Desk Setup service does not create an advisory, agency, or fiduciary relationship. The service exists to connect my own tools to a publication I already subscribe to — nothing more.

12. 12.Prerequisites were mine to meet.

    I arrived with a pre-existing, already-funded brokerage account and an active CMA subscription. CMA did not assist me in opening or funding any brokerage account, did not recommend a broker to me, and receives no compensation from any broker or automation vendor in connection with my accounts.

Acceptance is recorded (name, email, timestamp) before the session is scheduled. If any clause is unacceptable, do not book the session — and note that CMA cannot waive or modify these clauses for individual clients, precisely because the service is standardized.

Drafting note: this acknowledgment, like all legal pages on this site, is a draft prepared for attorney review and has not yet been reviewed by counsel. One attorney hour is budgeted before the first paid Desk Setup session.