Lead Trader / Signal Provider Agreement
Last updated: 2026-07-08
This Lead Trader / Signal Provider Agreement (this "Agreement") is a separate agreement between you and Candella that you accept when you enroll as a Lead Trader on Candella Copytrade. It supplements and is made a part of the Candella Terms of Service at candella.dev/terms (the "Master Terms") and the Candella Copytrade Addendum at candella.dev/terms/copytrade (the "Addendum"). Capitalized terms used but not defined here have the meanings given in the Master Terms and the Addendum, including Service, Lead Trader, Follower, Mirroring, Manual Approval Mode, Automated Mode, and Sponsorship Code.
The Service is operated by Lutz Consulting Group, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company doing business as Candella Labs ("Candella", "we", "us"). By enrolling as a Lead Trader, by publishing your trades on Copytrade, or by issuing a Sponsorship Code, you accept this Agreement. If there is any conflict between this Agreement and the Addendum with respect to your activity as a Lead Trader, this Agreement controls. If there is any conflict between this Agreement and the Master Terms, the Master Terms control except where this Agreement or the Addendum expressly says otherwise.
1. Your Status: Independent Third Party
You are an independent third party. You are not an employee, agent, partner, joint venturer, representative, or affiliate of Candella, and nothing in this Agreement creates any of those relationships. You have no authority to bind Candella, to speak for Candella, or to make any commitment on Candella's behalf.
You are not an investment adviser to, a fiduciary of, a broker for, or a portfolio manager of any Follower. You do not enter into an advisory, fiduciary, or principal-agent relationship with any Follower through the Service. You publish the fact of your own trades. The decision to mirror any of your trades is the Follower's, and the Follower is the principal who bears all risk of the resulting positions.
The trades you place in your own brokerage account are placed by you, in your name, on your account, with your funds. Candella exercises no investment discretion over your account, makes no recommendations to you, performs no suitability evaluation, and never custodies your funds or has authority to withdraw from your account. The connected brokerage, reached through SnapTrade (operated by Passiv Technologies Inc.), is the regulated entity that effects trades in your account.
2. Your Regulatory Compliance Is Your Responsibility
Candella is a technology and execution-software platform. It is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer, commodity trading advisor, or fiduciary, and it will not register, file, or license you with any regulator.
You are solely responsible for determining whether your activity as a Lead Trader requires you to register or qualify in any capacity, including as an investment adviser, investment adviser representative, broker-dealer, associated person, commodity trading advisor, commodity pool operator, or any other regulated capacity under federal law, state law, or the rules of any self-regulatory organization. If your activity requires any such registration, qualification, notice filing, or exemption, obtaining and maintaining it is your responsibility, not ours. You agree to comply with all laws applicable to your activity, including securities laws, commodities laws, and advertising and solicitation rules.
You are solely responsible for your own tax obligations arising from your activity as a Lead Trader, including any income you receive from Candella or from your own followers, and including any reporting and withholding your jurisdiction requires. Candella does not provide legal, regulatory, or tax advice.
3. Compensation
Candella earns flat fees. Candella may charge you a flat platform fee or subscription fee to publish as a Lead Trader on Copytrade. Candella never earns a share of any Follower's trading profits and never earns a per-trade commission.
Candella never pays you a share of any Follower's trading profits. Any compensation arrangement between you and Candella, if any, is a flat fee arrangement stated separately in writing or in the Service interface at the time you enroll.
You may separately bill your own followers off-platform. Any billing, subscription, or fee arrangement you have with your own followers is solely between you and them. Candella is not a party to that arrangement, does not set its terms, does not guarantee its collection, and is not responsible for it. You are responsible for the lawfulness of your own billing arrangements, including any disclosures, refunds, and registrations they may require. Where the Service collects a Follower subscription fee on your behalf under Section 6 of the Addendum, that collection is a convenience feature and does not make Candella a party to your relationship with your followers or a share-of-profits participant.
4. No Guarantees; No Misrepresentation
You agree not to make any guarantee, promise, or representation to any current or prospective Follower, on the Service or off it, about future profits, expected returns, win rates, risk-adjusted returns, or the likelihood that mirroring your trades will be profitable. You agree not to describe your trading or the Service as "risk-free," "guaranteed," or "no-loss," and not to promise any particular result.
Past performance is not indicative of future results. Any performance figure you present must be realized and historical, and you must not present it as typical. Most users do not achieve exceptional results. You may not selectively remove losing trades, losing days, or losing periods from any performance you present, and you may not present hypothetical or backtested results as if they were realized. Broker-verified data displayed through the Service is shown as-is, without omitting losing trades or periods.
You agree not to misrepresent your trading history, your track record, your professional credentials, your registration status, your identity, or the nature of your trading activity.
You acknowledge that the Service performs as described when the platform is available and your configured rules are mechanically applied, regardless of whether any individual trade, day, week, or month is profitable. Candella makes no promise, and you may not represent that Candella makes any promise, that use of the Service will be profitable.
5. Endorsements, Testimonials, and Disclosure
When you promote Candella, the Service, or your own results, you agree to comply with the Federal Trade Commission's rules on endorsements and testimonials and with all other applicable advertising laws.
You agree to clearly and conspicuously disclose any material connection between you and Candella, and any compensation, discount, free access, or other benefit you receive in connection with a promotion, at the time and place of the promotion. If you promote your own results, any performance you show must comply with Section 4. You agree not to use fake, incentivized-but-undisclosed, or misleading endorsements, and not to present paid promotion as independent opinion.
6. Your Obligations as a Lead Trader
In addition to the Lead Trader terms in Section 3 of the Addendum, you agree that:
- You will use only your own brokerage account and your own funds as your signal account, and you have the legal authority to use that account.
- You will not use the Service to engage in market manipulation, insider trading, front-running your own Followers, layering, spoofing, wash trading, or any manipulative or fraudulent practice, and you will not trade against your Followers in a way that exploits the timing of Mirroring.
- You will keep Sponsorship Codes within the distribution limits in the Addendum and will not distribute them to attract a general audience of unspecified investors.
- You will not solicit Followers to move their relationship, their funds, or their execution off the Service in a manner that circumvents the Service's controls, the Addendum, or applicable law.
- Any statement you make on the Service, including any profile description, biography, or track-record claim, is your statement, and you are responsible for its accuracy.
7. Indemnification
You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Candella, its affiliates, and their officers, employees, agents, and licensors from any claim, loss, damage, liability, cost, or expense (including reasonable attorneys' fees) arising out of or related to (a) your conduct as a Lead Trader, (b) any statement, representation, guarantee, promotion, testimonial, or performance figure you make or present, (c) any trade or order you place in your own account, (d) your failure to obtain or maintain any registration, license, qualification, or filing your activity requires, (e) any dispute between you and your own followers, including any off-platform billing arrangement, (f) your breach of this Agreement, the Addendum, or the Master Terms, and (g) your violation of any law or the rights of any third party.
This indemnity is in addition to, and does not limit, the indemnification in the Master Terms. We may, at our option, assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter for which you are required to indemnify us, and you agree to cooperate with our defense.
8. Termination and Suspension
You may stop publishing as a Lead Trader at any time by changing your account settings, as described in the Addendum. Stopping publication does not close, reverse, or modify positions already mirrored into any Follower's account; those remain the Follower's positions.
We may suspend, restrict, or remove your Lead Trader profile at any time, with or without notice, if we believe you have violated this Agreement, the Addendum, the Master Terms, or applicable law, if your conduct presents a legal, regulatory, security, or reputational risk to Candella or to Followers, or if we cease offering Copytrade. On suspension or removal, your Sponsorship Codes may be deactivated and existing subscriptions tied to them may stop mirroring your trades.
Sections that by their nature should survive, including Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, and 9, survive termination or suspension of your status as a Lead Trader.
9. General
Relationship to other agreements. This Agreement supplements the Master Terms and the Addendum. Together they are the entire agreement between you and Candella regarding your activity as a Lead Trader.
Future assignment to Candella Inc. The Service is currently operated by Lutz Consulting Group, LLC, and is expected to be assigned to a successor entity, currently anticipated to be Candella Inc, upon that entity's formation. You consent in advance to that assignment, on the terms and with the effect described in the Master Terms.
Governing law, disputes, changes, and notices. The governing law, dispute resolution and arbitration, changes, and notice provisions of the Master Terms apply to this Agreement.
10. Contact
Lutz Consulting Group, LLC, d/b/a Candella Labs
10120 W Flamingo Rd, Ste 4-2055
Las Vegas, NV 89147-8394
United States
Email: support@candella.dev