Mentor Responsibility Clause

Last Updated: February 15, 2026

Understanding the Mentor-Follower Relationship

This document outlines the responsibilities, limitations, and legal framework governing the relationship between Strategy Providers ("Mentors") and their followers on Capital Minds. Both parties should carefully review these terms to understand their rights and obligations.

Liability Limits

Mentors are not liable for follower trading losses

Information Only

Signals are informational, not personal advice

User Discretion

Followers make their own trading decisions

A

For Strategy Providers (Mentors)

1. Mentor Role and Status

As a Strategy Provider on Capital Minds, you understand and acknowledge that:

  • You are an independent strategy provider, not an employee of Capital Minds
  • You are sharing your trading strategies and signals for informational purposes
  • You are not providing personalized investment advice
  • You do not have a fiduciary relationship with your followers
  • You are not acting as a registered investment advisor unless separately licensed

2. Mentor Obligations

All Strategy Providers agree to:

  • Honest Representation: Provide accurate information about trading history and methodology
  • Transparency: Clearly disclose strategy risks, trading style, and expected drawdowns
  • No Guarantees: Never promise or guarantee specific returns or profits to followers
  • Risk Warnings: Include appropriate risk warnings in communications with followers
  • Ethical Conduct: Refrain from market manipulation, front-running, or other unethical practices
  • Compliance: Comply with all applicable laws and platform policies

3. Prohibited Mentor Conduct

Mentors may NOT:

  • Guarantee or promise specific returns or profits
  • Claim that their strategy is "risk-free" or guaranteed to succeed
  • Solicit funds directly from followers outside the platform
  • Offer to manage follower funds or accounts
  • Provide personalized investment advice based on individual circumstances
  • Misrepresent their credentials, experience, or track record
  • Engage in any form of market manipulation

4. Mentor Liability Limitations

Mentors are NOT liable for:

  • Trading losses incurred by followers who copy their strategies
  • Differences in execution prices or timing between mentor and follower trades
  • Decisions followers make based on signals or information provided
  • Technical issues that prevent followers from receiving or acting on signals
  • Market conditions that cause strategies to underperform

This limitation applies provided the mentor has acted in good faith and not engaged in fraud, willful misconduct, or gross negligence.

B

For Followers

5. Follower Acknowledgments

By following any strategy or mentor on Capital Minds, you acknowledge that:

  • Signals and strategies are informational only, not personalized investment advice
  • You are making your own independent trading decisions
  • Past performance does not guarantee future results
  • You may incur significant losses by following any strategy
  • The mentor has no knowledge of your personal financial situation
  • You are solely responsible for your trading activities and results

6. Follower Responsibilities

As a follower, you are responsible for:

  • Conducting your own due diligence on any mentor or strategy
  • Understanding the risks and methodology of strategies you follow
  • Setting appropriate position sizes based on your risk tolerance
  • Monitoring your own accounts and managing your own risk
  • Making final decisions about whether to execute any trade
  • Not investing more than you can afford to lose

7. No Fiduciary Relationship

Important Legal Notice

The relationship between mentors and followers is not a fiduciary relationship. Mentors do not owe followers the duties of care, loyalty, or acting in followers' best interests that would apply in an investment advisory relationship.

Mentors share trading ideas for general informational purposes. Followers are expected to conduct their own research and make independent decisions.

C

Platform's Role

8. Capital Minds Platform Role

Capital Minds serves as:

  • A technology platform connecting strategy providers with followers
  • A provider of infrastructure for signal distribution and tracking
  • A neutral intermediary that does not endorse or guarantee any strategy

Capital Minds does NOT:

  • Guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or reliability of mentor information
  • Verify the suitability of strategies for individual users
  • Take responsibility for mentor trading performance
  • Act as an investment advisor or make recommendations

9. Dispute Resolution

In the event of disputes between mentors and followers:

  • Parties should first attempt to resolve issues directly
  • Capital Minds may mediate at its discretion but is not obligated to do so
  • Platform decisions regarding policy violations are final
  • Legal disputes are subject to applicable laws and the platform's arbitration clause

10. Enforcement and Consequences

Violations of mentor responsibilities may result in:

  • Warning and required corrective action
  • Temporary suspension of strategy provider privileges
  • Permanent removal from the platform
  • Withholding of earned fees
  • Legal action if fraud or willful misconduct is involved

Mutual Acknowledgment

By participating in Capital Minds' copy trading ecosystem, both mentors and followers acknowledge that they have read, understood, and agree to this Mentor Responsibility Clause. This document forms part of the binding Terms of Service governing platform use.