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Day Trading Risk Disclosure StatementThis special Day Trading Risk Disclosure Statement is provided to you in connection with your opening a Day Trading Account (the "Account") with TurboTrade Financial, Ltd. You should consider the following points before engaging in day trading activities. For purposes of this notice, "day trading" means the transmission by you of multiple intraday electronic orders to effect both purchase and sale transactions in the same security or securities. Day trading is extremely risky . You should be prepared to lose all of the funds that you use for day trading. In particular, you should not fund day trading activities with retirement savings, student loans, second mortgages, emergency funds, funds set aside for purposes such as education or home ownership, or funds required for current income to meet your living expenses. Be cautious of claims of large profits from day trading . You should be wary of advertisements or other statements that emphasize the potential for large profits in day trading. Day trading can also lead to large and immediate financial losses. Day trading requires knowledge of securities markets . Day trading requires in-depth knowledge of the securities markets and trading techniques and strategies. In attempting to profit through day trading, you must compete with professional, licensed traders employed by securities firms. You should have appropriate experience before engaging in day trading. Day trading requires knowledge of the company's operations of each you are dealing with. You should be familiar with each securities firm's business practices, including the operation of the firm's order execution systems and procedures. You should confirm that the firm has adequate systems capacity to permit customers to engage in day trading activities. Day trading may result in your paying large commissions . Day trading may require you to trade your account aggressively, and you may pay commissions on each trade. The total daily commissions that you pay on your trades may add to your losses or significantly reduce your earnings. Day trading on margin or short selling may result in losses beyond your initial investment . When you day trade with funds borrowed from a firm or someone else, you can lose more than the funds you originally placed at risk. A decline in the value of the securities that are purchased may require you to provide additional funds to the firm to avoid the forced sale of those securities or other securities in your account. Short selling as part of your day trading strategy also increases the risk of extraordinary losses because you may have to purchase a stock at a very high price in order to cover a short position. Potential Registration Requirements . Persons providing investment advice for others or managing securities accounts for others may need to register as either a "Investment Advisor" under the Investment Advisors Act of 1940 or as a "Broker" or "Dealer" under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. Such activities may also trigger state registration requirements. |



