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Trust, Safety, and Limits

This page summarizes what to review before purchasing, registering, or using AlphaForge. The source-of-truth legal pages are Disclaimers, Privacy Policy, and EULA. This guide is a plain-language purchase checklist that links back to those pages.

Local execution and data handling

AlphaForge CLI is designed around local execution. Backtest settings, optimization parameters, strategy data, trade history, positions, local files, and usage logs normally stay on your machine and are not sent to Alforge Labs servers.

If you configure external data providers or broker APIs, those integrations communicate with the providers you choose. You are responsible for securing and managing API keys and brokerage credentials.

What is sent during authentication

During authentication, only information required by the Whop OAuth 2.0 PKCE flow is sent to the external auth service. When you run forge system auth login, the authorization code and PKCE parameters are sent, and the response returns OAuth tokens together with your Whop user ID and membership status.

Backtest settings, API keys, trade history, and strategy data are not sent during authentication. See the Privacy Policy for details.

Not financial advice

AlphaForge is developer software for strategy research, backtesting, and optimization. It is not financial advice, trading signals, managed investing, or brokerage service.

Backtests, optimization outputs, and simulation results are based on historical data or hypothetical assumptions and do not guarantee future outcomes. You are solely responsible for trading decisions, instrument selection, parameter settings, position sizing, and execution.

Limits of backtesting

Backtests cannot fully reproduce live-market conditions. The following factors can materially change live results.

  • Slippage, fees, and spreads
  • Latency, liquidity, and partial fills
  • Data quality, missing records, and timezone differences
  • Overfitting and curve fitting
  • Taxes, regulation, margin, and liquidation risk

Do not treat validation results as live-performance expectations. Combine walk-forward analysis, realistic cost settings, out-of-sample checks, and small-scale live validation before relying on a strategy.

Plan limits

AlphaForge operates on two tiers: the Trial plan (no Whop registration, free, indefinite) and the paid plans (one of Lifetime / Annual / Monthly purchased on Whop). The Trial plan limits data fetch and evaluation dates to 2023-12-31, caps optimization at 50 trials, and hard-blocks Pine Script export.

The paid tier comes in three flavors—Lifetime (one-time), Annual (yearly subscription), and Monthly (monthly subscription)—and any of them unlocks the same feature set: the latest data, unlimited trials, and full Pine Script export. For the affected commands, JSON output fields, and local verification workflow, see Trial Limits.