Responsible Use

Every claim we make about strategy performance, every audit, every drawdown estimate — we publish openly, including the failures. The Sprint Graveyard exists for this reason.

We extend that commitment to users: we will not encourage you to deploy more capital than is appropriate, override your circuit breakers on request, or hide live trade outcomes.

Read everything

• Read the Methodology page.
• Read the Risk Disclosure in full.
• Read at least five entries in the Sprint Graveyard.
• Understand R83 deflation — why our published CAGR is conservative.

Understand your bot

For each bot you deploy, you should be able to answer:

• What symbol does it trade?
• On what timeframe?
• What is its audited Sharpe, CAGR, and maximum drawdown?
• What conditions cause it to pause?
• What is its expected trade frequency?

If you cannot answer these questions, you are not ready to deploy.

Set realistic expectations

• Audit-deflated CAGR is conservative, but live results may still differ.
• Monthly returns can be negative for several months in a row — this is normal.
• Drawdowns of −15% to −20% are expected within a typical year.
• The first year often underperforms long-term averages (small-sample noise).

Start small

Begin with the minimum capital that lets the bots function ($1,000–$5,000). Trade for three to six months. Observe behaviour. Scale up only after you have experienced a drawdown and stayed comfortable.

Diversification

Vrelum bots are not a substitute for diversification. Allocate capital across:

• Multiple asset classes — not just trading.
• Multiple time horizons — cash, long-term investments, and trading.
• Multiple strategies — don't put 100% in Vrelum.

A reasonable benchmark: trading capital ≤ 10–20% of total liquid net worth.

Emergency fund first

Maintain 6–12 months of expenses in cash before allocating to trading. Trading should not be your primary income source until you have demonstrated multi-year consistency.

Use trade-only API keys

Configure your broker API key with only "trade" permissions. Disable withdraw, transfer, and account-modification permissions. Even in a worst-case scenario where Vrelum's infrastructure is compromised, your capital cannot be moved out of your broker.

Monitor, don't watch

Check your account weekly or daily, not minute by minute. Excessive monitoring leads to overrides that compromise the audit framework. The bots are designed to operate autonomously within their risk caps.

Don't override mid-trade

If a bot is in a losing trade, do not manually close it. The audit framework includes the full distribution of outcomes — overriding distorts the audited statistics and likely results in worse long-term performance. If you find yourself wanting to override frequently, your capital allocation is too high; reduce it.

Use the circuit breakers

Each bot pauses at −7% drawdown (warn) or −10% (halt). The portfolio-wide circuit breaker triggers at −15%. These exist to protect you when the system is not performing as audited. Do not disable them.

Trading involves emotional engagement with money. If you experience:

• Anxiety about checking your account.
• Inability to stop monitoring even at work or social events.
• Lying to family about trading activity or losses.
• Using credit, savings designated for other purposes, or borrowed money to trade.
• Sleep disruption due to trading thoughts.
• Mood swings tied to daily profit and loss.

Pause and assess. Trading has compulsive characteristics for some users.

Resources

• Thailand — Department of Mental Health hotline 1323 (24-hour).
• Singapore — National Council on Problem Gambling 1800-6-668-668.
• EU — National gambling helplines, varies by country.
• US — National Council on Problem Gambling 1-800-522-4700.

These resources include automated-trading and forex-related compulsive behaviours.

If you participate in Vrelum's Discord or community forums:

• Be respectful to other users.
• Do not share specific position information (front-running risk).
• Do not promote financial advice you are not qualified to give.
• Do not promote external trading services without disclosure.
• Report harassment or fraud to support@vrelum.com.

To maintain audit integrity, Vrelum will not:

• Provide personalised trading advice.
• Recommend specific position sizes for your situation.
• Trade for you outside the audited bot framework.
• Disable circuit breakers on user request.
• Share strategy code or parameters.
• Run unaudited strategies.

Requests for these are politely declined.

We commit to:

• Publishing every failed sprint in the Graveyard.
• Publishing live trade outcomes, including losses (such as the −$34.48 first trade).
• Updating audit-framework documentation when methodology changes.
• Notifying users 30 days before material changes to bot behaviour.
• Providing data exports on request.

General questions: support@vrelum.com

Problem trading concerns: support@vrelum.com — we will respond with appropriate resources.

Audit questions: audit@vrelum.com