1. No investment advice
Aetherion is an educational analysis tool. Nothing it produces — including but not limited to scan results, grades, recommendations, watchlist triggers, position sizing calculations, screenshots, or written analysis — constitutes investment advice, a solicitation to buy or sell any financial instrument, a recommendation tailored to your individual financial situation, or a fiduciary relationship.
The system applies a fixed, transparent ruleset to live market data. The output is a structured opinion based on those rules. It is not personalized advice. It cannot account for your tax situation, your other holdings, your risk tolerance, your liquidity needs, or your investment goals.
2. No registration as an advisor
Aetherion is not a registered investment advisor under the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the National Futures Association (NFA), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), or any equivalent regulatory body in any jurisdiction.
It is a personal-use software project that you operate on your own machine, against your own data feed, to inform your own trading decisions.
2.5. No order execution
Aetherion does not place orders, execute trades, hold customer funds, transmit credentials to brokers, or initiate transfers of any kind. It is a read-only analysis layer over your existing TradingView chart. All trading decisions and order placements are made manually by you, on your broker's platform, under your sole control.
3. Past performance disclaimer
Past performance — whether of Aetherion's grading system, of any methodology referenced in rules.json, or
of any third-party trading content — does not guarantee future results. Forex markets are volatile. Conditions that
produced winning trades historically may not reproduce. Conditions that produced losing trades historically may
recur with greater frequency.
Aetherion does not publish performance numbers because none have been independently verified. The trade_log.json file in the
repo is for users to log their own outcomes — it is not a backtest, and it is not a proof of profitability.
4. Risk of loss
Trading foreign exchange carries a high level of risk and may not be suitable for all investors. The high degree of leverage available in forex trading can work both for and against you. Before deciding to trade forex, carefully consider:
- Your investment objectives
- Your level of trading experience
- Your risk tolerance
- Your financial situation, including the possibility of losing some or all of your initial investment
You should not invest money that you cannot afford to lose. The Aetherion methodology specifies 0.5% risk per trade and a B+ minimum grade precisely because most retail accounts blow up from oversizing and overtrading — but even with strict risk management, losses are inevitable.
5. Methodology sourcing and credibility caveats
Aetherion's mechanical rules — engulfing patterns, market structure (HH/HL vs LH/LL), Areas of Interest, multi-timeframe alignment, head-and-shoulders patterns — are classical price-action principles independently documented by sources such as BabyPips, ForexTrainingGroup, FXOpen, and decades of published trading literature. None of this is proprietary or new.
We explicitly distinguish between:
- Technical mechanics (the patterns and structure rules above) — independently validated, adopted in full.
- Marketing claims (specific win-rate boosts, student income figures, "guaranteed" results) circulating in the broader forex education space — unverifiable by definition, not endorsed by Aetherion.
The credibility_caveats sections in rules.json document this distinction explicitly. Aetherion's stance:
adopt the mechanics, ignore the hype, always backtest before risking real capital.
6. No warranty
Aetherion is provided "as is," without warranty of any kind, express or implied. The authors and contributors make no representations or warranties regarding:
- The accuracy or completeness of the analysis
- The reliability of the TradingView CDP connection
- The fitness for any particular purpose
- The continued availability of any third-party data feed
- The absence of bugs or errors in the rules engine
Use of the software is entirely at your own risk.
7. Limitation of liability
In no event shall the authors, contributors, or any party associated with Aetherion be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or exemplary damages — including but not limited to trading losses, lost profits, lost data, or business interruption — arising out of or in connection with the use of the software, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
8. Your responsibilities
By using Aetherion, you agree that:
- You will not rely solely on Aetherion's output for any trading decision
- You will perform your own due diligence on every potential trade
- You will not exceed risk-management limits you can afford
- You will comply with all applicable laws and regulations in your jurisdiction
- You will not redistribute Aetherion's output as your own analysis or as professional advice
- You accept full responsibility for all trading decisions and their outcomes
9. Privacy
Aetherion runs entirely on our servers. The service is cloud-hosted. It collects no analytics, no telemetry, no error reports, and no usage data. It transmits nothing externally. Your account balance, your watchlist, your scan results, and your screenshots remain on your own filesystem.
The marketing pages (when hosted publicly on a third-party platform like Vercel or Netlify) may be subject to those platforms' standard access logs (IP address, user agent, referrer). Aetherion itself does not add any tracking beyond what the hosting platform requires.
10. Changes to this disclaimer
This disclaimer may be updated as the methodology evolves. Material changes will be reflected in the system.version_notes
block of rules.json. Continuing to use the software after a disclaimer update constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.