Interceptor Trading, Inc. (the “Company”, “We”, “Us”, “Our”, “INTERCEPTOR”) owns and operates the Interceptor Trading Alert System (“ITAS”), and offers software as a service (SaaS), and SaaS related web-based tools; proprietary data analytics and data screening involving securities within certain asset classes; and access to its related websites including, but not limited to, www.interceptortrading.com, access to tools, data and information on its websites, digital publications, podcasts, newsletters and publishing platforms (the “SERVICES”).
INTERCEPTOR is a data analytics, software as a service (SaaS) provider that allows subscribers to utilize easy to use SaaS tools created by INTERCEPTOR that remove time inefficiencies associated with asset class screening and transaction execution processes.
When you access and use our SERVICES as a subscriber (“SUBSCRIBER”), you will have the ability to use our SaaS related web-based tools to assist you in the routing and execution of your purchase and sale of securities within certain asset classes.
By accepting the terms and conditions associated with your subscription, you are the sole authorizing party, exclusively involved in the unsolicited transmission of your ordered transactions with your brokerage firm. We offer our SaaS related web-based tools as an accommodation feature only. Similarly, the data provided through our SERVICES is yours to use, or not use, as you see fit.
The ITAS websites are not trading execution platforms or order execution systems. We do not, will not, and cannot manage your investments, on-line or off-line. We do not, nor will not offer any investment advice.
The information provided through the SERVICES are primarily based upon market data information, candlestick chart analytics, long standing mathematical formulas, statistical models, technical indicators, underlying price action, and data filtering.
We are primarily a data provider that operates a large data pool analytics program. We manage this program using proprietary tools and formulas that we designed and built to filter market data and price action information through an extensive series of algorithms. Our daily reports are the result of our analytics program we refer to as ITAS.
SERVICES Provided
Please refer to these Disclaimers and SUBSCRIBER Responsibilites a detailed description of SERVICES Provided.
Managing Your Own Risk
Purpose and Scope:
Our goal is to provide users with comprehensive trading insights and educational content to assist in making informed trading decisions. It is important to understand that all information provided through the SERVICES is for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice.
Investments can go up as well as down and involve risk of loss and your past performance will not necessarily be repeated in the future. Your use of the information provided by the SERVICES can proffer results that vary from those of the ITAS portfolio module(s) results.
Changes in market performance and market volatility can affect results and performance of the SERVICES and information underlying the SERVICES we provide.
You can choose to utilize the information provided by the SERVICES, including but not limited to data, educational content and trading insights, or any other information or not utilize any of the aformentioned when utilizing the SERVICES we provide.
SERVICES.
Our SERVICES incorporate advanced algorithms to analyze market trends, identify potential trading opportunities, and evaluate historical data. These algorithms employ a combination of technical indicators to highlight conditions such as oversold, overbought, and breakout scenarios. However, the use of algorithms does not constitute a recommendation or endorsement of any specific trades or actions.
Our performance and results from our screening of data may differ from the results you obtain using the SERVICES.
New Position Information is Provided in the ITAS Simulator as Follows:
- Initial Trending Higher signal.
- Exit Higher Trend signal is meant for an existing Trending Higher opportunities.
- Intitial Trending Lower signal.
- Exit Lower Trend signal is meant for existing Trending Lower opportunities.
Important Disclosures and SUBSCRIBER Responsibilities:
- The SERVICES does not provide real time data during market hours.
- Using the suggested quantity of shares for each position derived from the ITAS Simulator, your execution price will produce a cost per trade that could be (a.) equal to; (b.) more; or (c.) less than the entered maximum amount of capital allocated per position.
- Using a fixed maximum amount of capital allocated per position (as indicated by your entry in the ITAS Simulator), your execution price for each trade will produce a quantity of shares that could be (a.) equal to; (b.) more; or (c.) less than the simulated shares derived from our alert price and system.
- The SERVICES screening results are derived from data compiled during stock market trading days (“Trading Days”), except on days where the stock market is closed for the observance of holidays or any other market closing event or events (“ITAS Data”).
- ITAS Data will be made available for publication to the SUBSCRIBER, after the market close.
- Barring force majeur or other uncontrollable or unforeseen technical difficulties, ITAS Data from each Trading Day should be made available to the SUBSCRIBER for the first time, on or about, between 6:00 pm and 9:00 pm EST after the market close on the Trading Day.
- ITAS Data from each Trading Day will be available to the SUBSCRIBER until it is replaced with new ITAS Data available after the close of the next Trading Day.
- While SUBSCRIBER is free to allocate any amount of funds for use with the SERVICES, due to certain industry restrictions, rules, regulations, and brokerage firm-based limitations on active trading, we believe the ideal trading account should have a minimum of $25,000 to use ITAS and the SERVICES effectively.
User Responsibility and Evaluation:
SUBSCRIBERS are solely responsible for their own trading decisions and should independently evaluate and assess any trade plans or strategies generated by the SUBSCRIBER’s use of the SERVICES. INTERCEPTOR does not consider individual financial situations, investment goals, or risk tolerances. It is essential that you, as the SUBSCRIBER thoroughly review, assess, and consider seeking professional advice before implementing any trading decisions or authorizing any transactions utilizing the data we provide through our SERVICES.
User Generated Input:
As a SUBSCRIBER, you have the ability to input a daily dollar amount you intend to use for risk allocation purposes, as well as a dollar amount per the initial trading opportunities (“ITOs”) presented daily. These SUBSCRIBER inputs help generate the distributable size per ITO. Final outputs from the ITOs that will be used for execution at the SUBSCRIBER’s brokerage firm, are based on SUBSCRIBER’s input, and do not constitute personalized investment advice from INTERCEPTOR.
Risk Management and Trade Parameters:
The data derived through our SERVICES may suggest risk management parameters, including potential exit points for ITOs. These suggestions are provided are offered as educational information and information on risk management disciplines utilized by investment professionals, including but not limited to hedge funds, high frequency traders, as part of risk mitigation and management. We offer these suggestions as guidance and a risk management approach, but we do not guarantee profitable outcomes. Users should exercise discretion and judgment when considering these suggestions as part of their trading strategies.
Integration with Brokerage API:
For additional monthly fees, the SERVICES we provide also offers an accommodation of transmitting the ITOs and other trade instructions (“OTIs”) via integration with brokerage APIs. These transmittal services are an additional benefit to you as a SUBSCRIBER to assist in the routing of the ITOs and OTIs authorized solely by you as a SUBSCRIBER, or your authorized representative.
As a SUBSCRIBER, only you or your authorized representative have the authority and the ability to route these ITOs and OTIs directly from your SUBSCRIBER interface on our website to your brokerage account(s). It is important to note that users maintain complete control over ITOs and OTIs, and INTERCEPTOR assumes no liability for actions taken within SUBSCRIBER’s brokerage account(s).
Even after SUBSCRIBER authorizes the transmission of ITOs and/or OTIs, SUBSCRIBER, should always log into their brokerage account, or speak to a representative at their brokerage firm to insure the accuracy of SUBSCRIBER’s instructions made through the transmission of the ITOs and OTIs.
Your Brokerage Account:
It is possible that you can apply less than $25,000 to use ITAS and the SERVICES. However, you may encounter certain restrictions governing your account. Please confer with your brokerage firm for additional details as you may fall under the definition of a pattern day trader (PDT). Additionally, if you emulate our system, you could fall into the definition of a Pattern Day Trader. Please consult your advisors for more information on your requirements.
SUGGESTED USE OF DATA AND INFORMATION
The suggested use of the data and information we provide you with is utilized by us to assist you in the efficiency and time management of screening data to produce filtered market data and price action information through an extensive series of algorithms. Our daily reports are the result of our analytics program we refer to as ITAS.
Our goal is to provide users with comprehensive trading insights and educational content to assist in making informed trading decisions. It is important to understand that all information provided through the SERVICES is for educational and informational purposes only and should not be considered as financial or investment advice.
You are free to use this information as you please. There is no guarantee that if you utilize this information that you will be able to achieve satisfactory results.
If you choose to incorporate this information in the use of the SERVICES, you should, at the very least dedicate ample time after the market closes, and ample time before the market opens, to evaluate the information while using the SERVICES.
Suggestions Prior to the Execution Date:
If you are a first time SUBSCRIBER and receiving your first panel of data from your SUBSCRIPTION for the very first time, review all new alerts. This data will include ITOs and may include exit alerts. Please review all information for accuracy prior to transmission.
What to Expect When Using the ITAS Simulator:
Once you receive an execution price for each ITO, upon entry of each execution price per ITO, the SERVICES included in your subscription will also produce additional data that will include targets for risk management that provide for additional trade order execution by you, the SUBCRIBER. Such additional trade orders may included, but not be limited to an initial stop loss order, or a trailing stop limit order (“Risk Management Orders” or “RMOs”).
If you have an accommodation subscription, our SERVICES will include OTIs, whereby you, the SUBSCRIBER has the full discretion and responsibility to authorize each and every transmission of ITOs, OTIs and/or RMOs.
If you do not have an accommodation subscription, it is still your discretion and responsibility, to place these suggested ITOs, OTIs, and/or RMOs manually through their brokerage account.
No Liability for Losses:
In no event shall INTERCEPTOR, its creators, partners, shareholders, officers, directors, advisors or affiliates be liable for any losses, damages, or claims arising from the use of the SERVICES or reliance on its use of content, or transmission of information and data.
SUBSCRIBER acknowledges and agrees that trading involves inherent risks, and any trading decisions are made solely by SUBSCRIBER after full evaluation, and at SUBSCRIBER’s own risk.
Updates and Modifications:
The information provided by INTERCEPTOR is subject to change without notice. INTERCEPTOR reserves the right to update algorithms, data sources, and content at any time. SUBSCRIBER should remain aware that changes may impact the accuracy and relevance of previously presented information.
Legal and Regulatory Compliance:
SUBSCRIBER is responsible for ensuring compliance with all applicable laws and regulations in their jurisdiction. INTERCEPTOR does not guarantee that its content or services are suitable or compliant with all jurisdictions.
Professional Consultation:
SUBSCRIBER hereby agrees that while using our SERVICES, that SUBSCRIBER is not relying on INTERCEPTOR for investment advice of any kind, nor do we or ever will offer any investment advice of any kind. SUBSCRIBER is solely responsible for any and all investment decisions he/she or it makes while using our SERVICES and should only seek guidance from qualified legal, financial, or tax professionals regarding their investment objectives and circumstances before making any trading decisions.
Data and Information Provided by INTERCEPTOR:
Information provided by INTERCEPTOR and contained in this email and other emails from us and contained on websites maintained by INTERCEPTOR are provided for educational and informational purposes only. Nothing contained therein and therefrom the information provided by Interceptor to SUBSCRIBER and the general public is an offer or a recommendation to buy or sell any security, options, derivatives, futures contracts, cryptocurrency or any other asset class. INTERCEPTOR is neither a registered investment adviser nor a broker-dealer and does not provide customized or personalized recommendations. None of the information or data, or email newsletters, video updates, special offerings, and suggestions and results regarding our own proprietary ITAS portfolio models should be deemed to be one-on-one coaching or constitute personal advice. Nor does it take into consideration, and is not based on the unique or specific needs, objectives or financial circumstances of any SUBSCRIBER, and is solely intended for informational and educational purposes only.
Disclaimer on Securities Positions Held by INTERCEPTOR:
INTERCEPTOR and/or its affiliates may hold a position in any security, options, derivatives, futures contracts, cryptocurrency or any other asset class mentioned in the information and data provided through the SERVICES.
