This Terms of Service & Risk Disclosure (“Agreement”) is a legal agreement between you (“you,” “user,” or “subscriber”) and TradVeX, LLC, an Indiana limited liability company doing business as SteadForge Trading Company (“SteadForge,” “we,” “us,” or “our”), governing your access to and use of SteadForge's website, dashboard, and related software services (collectively, the “Service”). By creating an account, checking the acceptance box at signup, or otherwise accessing or using the Service, you agree to be bound by this Agreement and by our Privacy Policy, which is incorporated by reference.
If you do not agree to this Agreement, do not create an account or use the Service.
SteadForge is a software platform that generates algorithmic, AI-derived trading signals for publicly traded U.S. equities and, for eligible subscribers who choose to enable it, can place trades reflecting those signals directly in the subscriber's own third-party brokerage account. SteadForge offers Pro and Elite subscription plans, and a 30-day free trial with Starter-level access; only Elite subscribers may enable automated trade execution.
All signals are generated identically, by software, for every subscriber watching a given security. Signals are impersonal and are not tailored to any individual subscriber's financial situation, goals, or risk tolerance beyond the fixed, platform-defined risk profile (Conservative, Moderate, or Aggressive) an Elite subscriber may select for their own account's execution parameters.
SteadForge is an investment adviser. It is not a broker-dealer. SteadForge provides impersonal trading signals generated by software, identically for every subscriber watching a given security, and, for Elite subscribers who enable it, automated trade execution within the fixed risk profile the subscriber selects. Signals are not tailored to your individual financial situation, goals, tax circumstances, or risk tolerance beyond that profile selection, and SteadForge provides its advisory services only through its website and platform.
When acting as your investment adviser, SteadForge owes you the duties imposed by the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, including the duty to act in your best interest and not place its interests ahead of yours. Our services, fees, and conflicts of interest are described in our Client Relationship Summary (Form CRS) and our Form ADV Part 2A brochure, available at adviserinfo.sec.gov.
You decide whether SteadForge's services are appropriate for you, including whether to enable automated execution and which risk profile to select. You may wish to consult a licensed financial or tax professional about your overall financial situation.
SteadForge currently offers Pro and Elite subscription plans at the pricing displayed on our website at the time of signup, along with a 30-day free trial with Starter-level access for new accounts; Starter is not offered as a standalone paid plan. Pricing, trial length, and included features may change; we will provide notice of material pricing changes before they apply to your account. Subscription fees are billed in advance (monthly for monthly plans, and annually for the Elite annual plan) and are charged to your payment method via our third-party payment processor, Stripe. You may cancel or downgrade your subscription at any time from your account settings. For monthly plans, cancellation takes effect at the end of the then-current billing period, and no partial-month refunds are issued. If you cancel the Elite annual plan before the end of its annual term, you will receive a prorated refund of the unused portion of your prepaid fee. Full billing terms, including fee amounts and our upgrade, downgrade, and cancellation policy, are set out in our Fee & Pricing Schedule, which is incorporated into this Agreement by reference.
Elite-tier automated trade execution is available only where you have connected an eligible brokerage account and enabled that feature; SteadForge may condition Elite features on additional verification or approval steps from time to time.
If you choose to connect a third-party brokerage account (currently supported: Alpaca Securities LLC), you authorize that connection directly on your brokerage's own site via OAuth. SteadForge never receives or stores your brokerage login credentials. The access SteadForge requests is deliberately limited to trading-only scope; SteadForge cannot withdraw funds, transfer money, or access your brokerage account for any purpose beyond placing trade orders you have authorized through your account settings. You may revoke SteadForge's access at any time, either from your SteadForge account settings or directly from your brokerage's own platform.
SteadForge never takes custody of your funds or securities. All custody, clearing, and execution of trades occurs at your brokerage, which is solely responsible for maintaining your account and executing orders it receives.
The value of securities can rise or fall rapidly and unpredictably. Past performance of any signal, strategy, or the Service generally does not guarantee or indicate future results. You may lose some or all of the money you trade using signals or features of the Service, including money that executes automatically under your own risk profile settings.
Signals are generated by an automated, multi-layer process combining technical indicators, news sentiment analysis, and synthesis by an artificial intelligence model. This process may be incorrect, incomplete, delayed, or based on data that does not accurately reflect current market conditions. AI-generated analysis, including any confidence score, price target, or supporting rationale, is not a guarantee of any outcome and may be wrong.
If you enable automated trade execution, SteadForge will place trades in your connected brokerage account automatically, based on qualifying signals and the risk profile you have selected, without your review or confirmation of each individual trade. You remain solely responsible for every trade placed under your account once automated execution is enabled, whether or not you were aware of a specific trade at the time it was placed. Automated execution is subject to the fixed parameters of your selected risk profile (Conservative, Moderate, or Aggressive); it is not customized to your individual circumstances beyond that selection.
Market conditions such as gaps, halts, illiquidity, or high volatility can cause an executed trade's actual price to differ meaningfully from the price in effect when a signal was generated (slippage). System, network, or third-party outages (including outages at your brokerage, at SteadForge, or at underlying data or AI providers) may delay or prevent a trade, including a stop-loss or take-profit order, from executing as intended.
SteadForge offers a paper (simulated) trading mode using simulated funds, which does not involve real money and may not accurately reflect the price, liquidity, timing, or execution quality you would experience with a live brokerage account. Strong or consistent paper trading performance does not guarantee similar results with real money.
SteadForge does not guarantee any specific outcome, return, or level of performance. You should only trade or invest funds you can afford to lose.
The Service depends on third-party market data, news, brokerage, and AI infrastructure providers. Interruptions, errors, outages, or changes at any of these providers may affect signal quality, timing, or the availability of the Service, and are outside SteadForge's control.
SteadForge and its licensors own all right, title, and interest in and to the Service, including its software, signal-generation methods, design, and content, excluding data or content you provide. We grant you a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to access and use the Service for your own personal, non-commercial use, subject to this Agreement.
THE SERVICE IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE,” WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND, WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT, OR THAT THE SERVICE WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED, ERROR-FREE, OR SECURE. STEADFORGE DOES NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR TIMELINESS OF ANY SIGNAL OR OTHER CONTENT GENERATED BY THE SERVICE.
(A) TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, STEADFORGE AND ITS PRINCIPALS, EMPLOYEES, AND SERVICE PROVIDERS WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, OR FOR ANY LOSS OF PROFITS, REVENUE, DATA, OR TRADING LOSSES, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO YOUR USE OF THE SERVICE, INCLUDING ANY TRADE PLACED THROUGH AUTOMATED EXECUTION, EVEN IF STEADFORGE HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
(B) EXCEPT FOR LIABILITY ARISING FROM (I) STEADFORGE'S GROSS NEGLIGENCE, WILLFUL MISCONDUCT, OR FRAUD; OR (II) STEADFORGE'S INDEMNIFICATION OBLIGATIONS FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY INFRINGEMENT, STEADFORGE'S TOTAL AGGREGATE LIABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE SERVICE WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (A) THE AMOUNT YOU PAID STEADFORGE IN THE TWELVE MONTHS PRECEDING THE CLAIM, OR (B) ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($100).
(C) NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WAIVES OR LIMITS ANY RIGHT YOU MAY HAVE UNDER FEDERAL OR STATE SECURITIES LAWS, INCLUDING THE INVESTMENT ADVISERS ACT OF 1940, THAT CANNOT BE WAIVED OR LIMITED BY CONTRACT.
You agree to indemnify and hold harmless SteadForge and its principals from any claim, loss, or damage, including reasonable attorneys' fees, arising out of your use of the Service, your violation of this Agreement, or your violation of any law or the rights of a third party.
You may stop using the Service and close your account at any time from your account settings. We may suspend or terminate your access to the Service, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have violated this Agreement, engaged in fraudulent or unlawful conduct, or if required to do so by law or a brokerage or regulatory partner. Upon termination, your right to use the Service ends immediately; sections of this Agreement that by their nature should survive termination (including Sections 6, 9, 10, 11, and 13) will survive.
This Agreement constitutes a legally binding contract between users and TradVeX, LLC (d/b/a SteadForge Trading Company), an Indiana limited liability company, governing the use of its website, dashboard, and software services. By creating an account or accessing the Service, users consent to these terms, which include provisions for dispute resolution, governing law, and a class-action waiver, detailed in full below.
This Agreement is governed by the laws of the State of Indiana, without regard to its conflict-of-laws principles, except that the Federal Arbitration Act (9 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.) governs the interpretation and enforcement of this Section 13.
Except as set out in Section 13.6 below, you and SteadForge agree that any dispute, claim, or controversy arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the Service, or your relationship with SteadForge (a “Dispute”) will be resolved by binding, individual arbitration rather than in court, and you and SteadForge each waive the right to a trial by jury. This agreement to arbitrate is intended to be interpreted broadly and applies to Disputes based on contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation, or any other legal theory.
YOU AND STEADFORGE EACH AGREE THAT ANY ARBITRATION OR PROCEEDING WILL BE CONDUCTED ONLY ON AN INDIVIDUAL BASIS AND NOT AS A CLASS, COLLECTIVE, CONSOLIDATED, OR REPRESENTATIVE ACTION. NEITHER YOU NOR STEADFORGE MAY BRING A CLAIM AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS, COLLECTIVE, OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING. THE ARBITRATOR MAY NOT CONSOLIDATE MORE THAN ONE PERSON'S CLAIMS AND MAY NOT OTHERWISE PRESIDE OVER ANY FORM OF A REPRESENTATIVE OR CLASS PROCEEDING. IF THIS SPECIFIC CLASS ACTION WAIVER IS FOUND UNENFORCEABLE AS TO A PARTICULAR CLAIM, THEN THAT CLAIM (AND ONLY THAT CLAIM) MUST BE BROUGHT IN COURT AND SEVERED FROM ANY ARBITRATION.
Arbitration will be administered by the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) under its Consumer Arbitration Rules then in effect. The arbitration will be conducted by a single arbitrator and may be conducted by telephone, videoconference, or based on written submissions, at the choice of the party seeking relief, unless an in-person hearing is required by the AAA rules or requested by a party. SteadForge will pay all AAA filing, administration, and arbitrator fees for any claim under $10,000 brought by you, except where the arbitrator finds your claim frivolous. For claims of $10,000 or more, fees will be allocated according to the AAA Consumer Arbitration Rules. Each party will bear its own attorneys' fees and costs unless the arbitrator awards fees and costs as part of the outcome under applicable law.
You may opt out of this Section 13 (the agreement to arbitrate and the class action waiver) by sending written notice to support@tradvex.org within 30 days of the date you first agree to this Agreement, stating your name, the email address associated with your account, and a clear statement that you wish to opt out of arbitration. If you opt out, all other provisions of this Agreement, including Section 13.1, will continue to apply, and any Dispute will be resolved in the state or federal courts located in Indiana, to whose exclusive jurisdiction you and SteadForge consent.
Notwithstanding Section 13.2, either party may: (a) bring an individual action in small claims court for a Dispute within that court's jurisdiction; and (b) seek injunctive or other equitable relief in court to prevent actual or threatened infringement, misappropriation, or violation of a party's intellectual property or confidentiality obligations under this Agreement.
If the class action waiver in Section 13.3 is found to be unenforceable for a particular Dispute, that Dispute must proceed in court rather than in arbitration, and Sections 13.2 and 13.3 will otherwise remain in effect for all other Disputes. If any other part of this Section 13 is found unenforceable, the unenforceable part will be severed and the remainder of this Section 13 will remain in full effect.
We may update this Agreement from time to time to reflect changes in our Service, technology, or legal requirements. We will post the updated Agreement with a revised “Last Updated” date. Material changes will be communicated to active subscribers via email or in-app notice before taking effect; continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Agreement.
If any provision of this Agreement is found unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect. This Agreement, together with our Privacy Policy, constitutes the entire agreement between you and SteadForge regarding the Service. Our failure to enforce any right or provision will not be deemed a waiver of that right or provision.
If you have questions about this Agreement, please contact us at:
TradVeX, LLC
d/b/a SteadForge Trading Company
Email: support@tradvex.org
State of Organization: Indiana
This Terms of Service & Risk Disclosure should be read together with SteadForge's Privacy Policy.