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Effective April 28, 2026 · Version 1.0
This Risk Disclosure forms part of the agreements every mentor must accept before being listed and is referenced in our Terms of Service and Mentor Agreement. Public users accessing the Platform are also bound by Sections 1–9 to the extent applicable.
This document describes, in plain terms, the financial and behavioural risks of trading and investing in financial markets, and the limits of any benefit a mentor or directory like Mentorly can provide. By accepting this Risk Disclosure you confirm you have read it, you understand it, and you accept the risks before you trade or pay a mentor.
Trading and investing in financial markets, including but not limited to equities, exchange-traded funds, futures, options, forex, contracts for difference, cryptocurrencies, and tokenised assets, carries the risk of partial or total loss of capital. Markets can move rapidly against your position, gaps and slippage can prevent stop-losses from filling at your expected price, liquidity can disappear, and brokers can fail. There is no strategy and no mentor that eliminates this risk.
Leverage magnifies both gains and losses. A small adverse move in the underlying can wipe out your entire account and, in some products and jurisdictions, leave you owing more than you deposited. You should fully understand a product's margin mechanics before trading it.
Most trading losses are caused by behavioural failures, over-leveraging, revenge trading, overtrading, holding losers, cutting winners early, fear of missing out, and trading under emotional or financial stress. Education and mentorship can help, but they do not remove the responsibility to manage your own behaviour. Trading should not be financed with debt, retirement savings, or money required for living expenses.
Anything a mentor publishes, teaches, signals, or shares, including watchlists, trade ideas, alerts, video content, and one-on-one feedback, is general education and information, not personalised investment advice, unless the mentor is licensed in your jurisdiction and has performed the suitability assessment that licensed advice requires. You are solely responsible for evaluating any idea before acting on it. See the Non-Advisory Agreement for the full statement.
Performance metrics on Mentorly mentor profiles are self-reported by mentors and reviewed for internal consistency only, they are not audited. Even where data is genuine, past performance does not guarantee future results. Hypothetical, simulated, or back-tested results have inherent limitations: they are constructed with the benefit of hindsight, may not account for transaction costs, slippage, taxes, or capacity constraints, and almost always overstate the results that real trading would have produced.
You acknowledge and agree that Mentorly is a neutral directory. Mentorly does not place trades for you, hold your funds, or supervise your decisions. You will not look to Mentorly for recovery of any trading loss, mentorship-fee dispute, or third-party broker failure. Your remedies, if any, are against the third party concerned.
Before you trade, before you pay any mentor, and certainly before you make any significant capital allocation, consult a licensed financial adviser, tax adviser, and (where applicable) a lawyer in your jurisdiction. Nothing on Mentorly substitutes for personalised professional advice.
If you are a mentor, by accepting this Risk Disclosure you additionally confirm that you will:
Mentorly is a neutral directory. We do not provide financial advice or endorsements. Read also our Terms, Privacy Policy, Mentor Agreement, Risk Disclosure, Non-Advisory Agreement, Cookies, and Refunds.