Risks and disclosures

Forte Mare operates as a publisher under the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Rule 4.14(a)(9) publisher’s exemption. Our output is fully standardized and identical for every subscriber. Nothing on this site, in our signals, commentary, or correspondence is personalized to your circumstances, and nothing constitutes investment, tax, or legal advice.

You are solely responsible for deciding whether any given position is appropriate for you, your account size, your risk tolerance, and your broader financial plan. If you need personalized guidance, consult a licensed financial professional.

Users may lose money due to market volatility. Do not trade with money you cannot afford to lose.

Futures trading involves substantial risk of loss and is not appropriate for all investors. Losses can exceed the initial margin deposited and you may be required to pay additional funds to cover losses. Leveraged instruments amplify both gains and losses. Gaps, slippage, circuit breakers, exchange holidays, liquidity events, and unforeseen market conditions can all materially affect outcomes.

Past performance — including hypothetical, backtested, and forward-tested results — does not guarantee future results. Real execution outcomes will differ from historical simulations.

All historical performance data presented on this site is either hypothetical or derived from backtesting. Hypothetical performance is developed with the benefit of hindsight and does not involve financial risk. Backtested results have inherent limitations, including but not limited to:

• No account of the emotional or behavioral factors that affect live trading decisions.
• Approximation of transaction costs, slippage, and fills that may not match live-market reality.
• Look-ahead bias introduced by any data or parameter not strictly available at the time a historical trade would have been placed.
• Limited data history, which may not capture all market regimes — particularly rare high-volatility events.

Forte Mare does not take custody of subscriber funds. For the Standard and Executive tiers, the system stages each trade in your own Interactive Brokers account and surfaces a modal approximately ten seconds before bar close with a live countdown. The order is only placed after you tap Confirm within that window. If the countdown expires without an affirmative click, the signal is skipped and no trade fires. You can revoke the IB connection at any time. For the Basic tier, you execute every trade yourself — we never touch your account.

Forte Mare does not exercise discretionary trading authority over subscriber accounts. Every trade is user-initiated. This posture is designed to keep the service within the scope of the publisher’s exemption under CFTC Rule 4.14(a)(9).

A 14-day free trial is provided before any charge — you may test in paper or live at your option, and your card is on file but not charged during the trial. At the end of the trial the first subscription charge applies, and it is covered by a money-back guarantee for the first month, no questions asked. Combined, this gives roughly 45 days in which you can evaluate the system and recover any amount paid. Cancellation is available at any time from your account settings.

Participation in the trial or subscription does not alter the risk disclosures on this page and does not constitute advice.

Forte Mare is not a Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA), Commodity Pool Operator (CPO), Registered Investment Advisor (RIA), or broker-dealer. We are a publisher of standardized trading information, operating under the publisher’s exemption. Should our business model ever require registration, we will pursue the appropriate licensing before continuing operations affected by that change.

Questions about this disclosure, our regulatory posture, or specific risks related to your situation can be sent through the contact form. We respond personally, usually within one business day.