Safety
These aren't terms-of-service boilerplate. They are engineering constraints, binding on every feature, prompt, and interface string — and violations are treated as release-blocking bugs.
Absolute prohibitions
No auto-execution — ever
CortexQuo never places, modifies, or closes trades, and no broker execution integration will be added. The ceiling of any future account connectivity is read-only. You execute every trade yourself, at your broker, with your own hands.
No financial advice
Every output is research and decision support. Nothing CortexQuo produces is a recommendation to buy or sell any instrument. The disclaimer ships on every trade-related surface in the product — not in fine print, in the interface.
No profit promises
No page, output, or marketing claim promises or implies profits. Words like “guaranteed”, “sure thing”, and “risk-free” are banned strings, enforced by automated tests against the AI's own output.
No reckless signals
Every trade idea must carry: a reason for, a reason against, an invalidation point, a risk warning, and a confidence score. An idea that can't state its own failure condition doesn't ship.
No fabricated data
When live data providers aren't connected, CortexQuo uses clearly-labeled mock data — a visible MOCK DATA badge in the interface, and a source label on every payload. Backtests without sufficient data say “insufficient data” instead of inventing statistics.
The risk engine is code, not opinion
AI analysts may add warnings, but only the deterministic risk engine can approve a trade check — and it can override any AI decision downward, toward safety, never upward. Its rules:
- ■Maximum risk per trade: 1% (hard cap — larger requests are clamped)
- ■Maximum daily loss: 2% — all further trades blocked that day
- ■Maximum 3 trades per day
- ■No trade without a stop loss
- ■No trade inside the high-impact news window (±30 minutes)
- ■Minimum risk/reward of 1:2
- ■Revenge-trading cooldown after a loss
- ■No trading against the higher-timeframe bias
- ■No trading a strategy whose backtest is unprofitable
Psychology safeguards
CortexQuo measures success by discipline, not trade count. There is no gamification of trade frequency — no streaks, no badges for volume, no engagement mechanics that profit from your overtrading. The journal flags overtrading and revenge-trading patterns because those are the failure modes that actually end trading careers.