8.5 Risk Disclaimers (No Illusions)

Let’s be explicit.

1. Market risk

   • Prices can move against you between detection and execution.

   • “Risk-free” arbitrage is a theoretical concept. In reality:

     • Volatility.

     • Gaps.

     • Liquidity evaporating.

   • You can and will take losses on some trades.

2. Liquidity / slippage risk

   • Order book depth can vanish the moment you hit it.

   • Your fills can be far worse than the quoted price, especially with size.

   • Small percentage edges disappear instantly once size hits thin pools.

3. MEV and adversarial actors

   • Other bots will:

     • Front-run your routes.

     • Sandwich you.

     • Copy your behavior once it’s obvious.

   • MEV protection reduces this; it doesn’t eliminate it.

4. Protocol / smart contract risk

   • DEXs, aggregators, and Solana itself can:

     • Have bugs.

     • Get exploited.

     • Behave unexpectedly in edge conditions.

   • If a DEX blows up while you’re mid-route, that’s your problem.

5. Infrastructure / operational risk

   • RPC issues.

   • Network partitions.

   • Bugs in your code or config.

   • Power outages, VPS failures, missed alerts.

6. Model / logic risk (Capture Bot)

   • Any decision logic (rules, ML, whatever) is built on assumptions.

   • If assumptions break, the bot can:

     • Over-trade.

     • Mis-size.

     • Take trades it shouldn’t.

   • There is no guarantee any historical performance will persist.

7. User error

   • Misconfigured thresholds.

   • Wrong wallet.

   • Wrong token (fake/illiquid version).

   • Forgetting a safety cap.

   • That’s on you.

Hard rule:

Only allocate capital you can afford to see go to zero. If losing that amount would wreck you financially or psychologically, your position size is wrong.

Capture OS gives you better information and faster tooling. It does not remove the fundamental reality: you are engaging in high-velocity trading on a volatile, adversarial, experimental system.