// faq

FAQ.

Why should I trust this?

You shouldn’t. Not yet.

Start on the free tier. You get the same signals as paid users, delayed 15 minutes. Log them. Compare them to your broker’s 5-minute bars. Run that for 30 days before paying a cent.

Every trade the bot takes is logged with entry, exit, reason, and P&L. You can see the losing weeks. You can see the max drawdown. You can see the trades that stopped out inside 90 seconds.

We don’t screenshot winners. We don’t post “closed +$2,400 today” reels. The equity curve is published in full at /performance, updated every session close.

Evaluate us on 90 days of receipts, not a landing page.

What happens in a flash crash?

The bot hits a hard daily loss cap at -$500 per contract and flattens immediately. No averaging down. No “wait for the bounce.”

If the tape goes no-bid, market orders become stop-market at the first resting liquidity. You may slip. On MNQ, expect 2-8 ticks of adverse fill in fast markets. We don’t pretend this isn’t real.

The kill switch is wired to three triggers: daily loss cap, VIX spike above 40, and broker heartbeat loss. Any one of them flattens you and locks out new entries until you manually re-arm.

You will still lose money in a flash crash. You will lose less than holding.

Is this investment advice?

No. Apex Predator is software that executes a rules-based strategy on a brokerage account you connect and control. We don’t know your financial situation, goals, or risk tolerance, and we don’t customize anything to them. That keeps us clearly on the publisher side of the line — not the registered-advisor side.

The bot places orders through your broker’s API using credentials you own. You can pause, override, or disconnect from your broker app at any time.

Futures carry substantial risk even with hard caps in place — exchange-level events like gaps and limit moves happen regardless of any software. Read the full regulatory disclosures before funding an account. If you need personalized advice, hire a licensed advisor.

Which brokers work with Apex Predator?

Retail futures: Tradovate, NinjaTrader, Interactive Brokers, TradeStation, and Tastytrade. Prop-funded accounts: Apex Trader Funding, TopStep, and Earn2Trade. More are on the active roadmap — we ship a new broker integration roughly monthly.

Adding a broker isn’t a config flag. Every integration goes through order routing, fill reconciliation, and 30 days of paper-sim testing before it touches a real account. That’s why new names arrive deliberately, not all at once.

If your broker isn’t listed and you want it next, email support@apexpredator.live — we prioritize by demand.

How much money do I need to start?

Direct retail futures: around $1,500–$2,000 is a realistic working minimum for trading one MNQ micro contract with the system’s default risk caps. Day margin per contract is low (roughly $50 overnight / $1,300 intraday depending on broker), but you want a cushion so a normal losing day is single-digit percentage of the account, not catastrophic.

Prop-funded accounts: as little as $150. That’s the evaluation fee at Apex or TopStep for a $50K simulated account. Pass the eval (the bot can help), the firm funds it, you keep a cut of profits without wiring your own capital.

Zero capital: stay on the free tier. You get live alerts on a 15-minute delay and the full track record. Enough to evaluate the system before you fund anything.

Never trade with rent money, borrowed money, or money you can’t afford to lose entirely.

Why is the free tier real?

Because we want users who can evaluate us fairly.

The free tier pushes every signal to your dashboard 15 minutes after the bot fires. That’s enough delay that you can’t front-run the paid copy-trade. It’s not enough delay to hide a losing system. If the strategy stops working, you’ll see it on the free tier the same day paid users do.

Fifteen minutes on a 5-minute MNQ bar means you miss entries but you keep every stat: win rate, average R, max drawdown, streaks. Log 90 days. Compare to what you’re paying elsewhere.

We’d rather lose you to your own backtest than to a refund request. Signal groups hide performance. We don’t.

How do I cancel?

One click in /account, once v1.1 ships. Until then, email cancel@apexpredator.live and you’ll be off within one business day, prorated.

No retention modal. No “are you sure?” three times. No “please tell us why you’re leaving” survey gating the button. No exit offer at 50% off for three months. No chat widget firing at the cancel page.

Your access ends at the current billing period. Your logged signal history stays readable on the free tier. You can come back any time at the same price you left at, assuming the tier still exists.

If canceling is harder than that, screenshot it and send it to support. We’ll fix the flow.

How does the system handle losing trades?

Losing trades are a feature of any honest system — ours prints them openly on the track record. What matters is the shape of the losses, not avoiding them.

The bot enforces three hard floors before any trade fires:

• Per-trade stop — sized so a single adverse move can’t blow the day.
• Daily loss cap — when hit, the bot flattens and locks out new entries until you manually re-arm.
• Kill switch — triggered on VIX spikes, broker heartbeat loss, or anomalous fill patterns. Flatten first, ask questions after.

You hold the brokerage credentials. You can pause, flatten, or disconnect from your broker app in under 10 seconds, any time. The bot never holds your money and never locks you out of your own account.