The fine print, in plain language

Terms of Use

1 · What this is

The Honest Quant is an educational software tool. It lets you build hypothetical trading strategies, test them against historical market data, and receive statistical analysis of the results. That is all it is.

2 · What this is not

• It is not investment advice. Nothing on this platform is a recommendation to buy, sell, or hold any security or instrument.
• We are not a SEBI-registered Research Analyst or Investment Adviser, and we do not sell trading signals, tips, or calls — to anyone, at any price.
• Backtested results are hypothetical. They use end-of-day historical data, are split-adjusted but not dividend-adjusted, and will differ — sometimes drastically — from live trading. Past performance does not indicate future results.

3 · Your account

You're responsible for your password and your API key. Free accounts have a monthly usage limit which may change. We may suspend accounts that abuse the service (automated scraping, attacking the platform, reselling access).

4 · Your strategies

Strategies you build are yours. We store them to provide the service (your ledger, trial counting). We do not sell them, trade on them, or show them to anyone else. If you share a verdict publicly, only the verdict is published — your strategy's rules stay private.

5 · Honesty about our own limits

Our bundled datasets carry survivorship bias where disclosed on each arena card, and our scoring is statistical inference, not certainty. A high honesty score means a backtest survived our tests — not that a strategy will make money.

6 · Liability

The service is provided "as is". To the maximum extent permitted by law, we are not liable for trading losses, data inaccuracies, or downtime. If you trade real money based on anything you see here, that decision — and its consequences — are entirely yours.

7 · Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India.

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