What we are, what we are not, and what can go wrong.
This page states our regulatory position, the risks of the service, where custody sits, how we report performance, and how virtual digital assets are taxed in India. Final wording is pending legal review.
Regulatory status
AlgoGains is not SEBI registered
AlgoGains is not a SEBI-registered portfolio manager or investment adviser, and the crypto service described on this site is not a Portfolio Management Service under SEBI regulations. Nothing published here is investment advice, a recommendation, or a solicitation to invest.
Virtual digital assets are not a SEBI-regulated securities class in India. Investors have no recourse to SEBI investor-protection mechanisms in respect of this service. Legal entity name, registration details and final terms are pending legal review and will be published before client capital is accepted.
We do not sell software or licences
We do not sell, licence or hand over trading software. We operate strategies inside your own exchange account under a trade-only API key and are paid a share of profit. Nothing on this site should be read as an offer of a software product.
Risk disclosure
You can lose your entire capital
Investing in virtual digital assets carries a high degree of risk, including the total loss of capital. Crypto markets are volatile, trade continuously, and can gap through a stop level. Never invest money you cannot afford to lose.
Specific risks include market and volatility risk, leverage and liquidation risk on perpetual contracts, funding-rate cost while positions are held, exchange counterparty and outage risk, API and technology failure, model risk where a strategy stops working as market character changes, and regulatory change affecting virtual digital assets in India.
The loss guards limit exposure, they do not remove it
Position sizing, per-trade stops, the daily loss halt, the leverage ceiling and the outage failsafe are designed to cap how much a bad run can cost. They cannot guarantee a stop fills at the intended price, and they do not prevent losses.
We do not guarantee returns
AlgoGains does not promise, project or guarantee any return. Any service that guarantees crypto returns is either misrepresenting risk or breaking the law. Our commitment is to process and disclosure, not outcome.
Custody and access
Assets are custodied by Delta Exchange, not by AlgoGains
Your funds remain in your own Delta Exchange account, opened in your name under your own KYC. AlgoGains is not a custodian, holds no client wallet, and has no withdrawal permission — that restriction is enforced by the exchange.
Exchange counterparty risk therefore sits with Delta Exchange. If the exchange fails, is hacked, or restricts withdrawals, your assets are exposed to that event and AlgoGains cannot make you whole.
You can revoke our access at any time
The kill switch in your dashboard halts all trading immediately. Deleting the API key inside Delta Exchange revokes our access entirely, needs no approval from us, and takes effect at the exchange the moment you do it.
How we report performance
The published record is a founder account, not a client return
The performance shown on this site is from a founder's own live account on Delta Exchange, updated monthly with losing months included. It is not a composite of client accounts and is not indicative of what any client will achieve.
Client results differ by capital, start date, mandate, exchange fees and slippage. Past performance does not indicate future results. Until the first monthly update is published, the live figures on the homepage are shown as pending rather than filled with sample numbers.
We publish losing periods
Monthly updates include drawdown alongside return. We do not restate, re-baseline, or quietly drop a bad month from the record, and we do not present backtested results as if they were live trading.
What each monthly update contains
Five figures, every month: period return, the equity curve since inception, maximum drawdown, the count of months in loss against the total tracked, and the capital base. Updates publish monthly, within the first five working days of the following month. The format is set out below so the numbers can be checked against it when they arrive.
Publishing the format before the figures is deliberate. A track record you cannot audit the shape of is a marketing claim; one with a stated measurement basis, cadence and restatement policy is a record. The table below is that basis.
| FIGURE | HOW IT IS MEASURED |
|---|---|
| Period return | Net change in account equity for the calendar month, after Delta Exchange trading fees and funding costs. |
| Equity curve | Month-end account equity for every month since inception, months in loss included. |
| Maximum drawdown | Largest peak-to-trough fall in month-end equity since inception. |
| Months in loss | Count of negative months, shown against the total number of months tracked. |
| Capital base | Capital in the account at the start of the period, so the return can be read against its size. |
- Every month publishes, including losing months. A published month is never dropped, restated or re-baselined.
- Figures are taken from the Delta Exchange account statement, not from our own trade log.
- Backtested and paper results are never presented as live trading, and are labelled simulated wherever they appear.
- The record is a single founder account. It is not a composite of client accounts and is not a client return.
- Until the first monthly update publishes, no return, drawdown or equity figure appears anywhere on this site.
Status today: the first monthly update has not been published yet, so no return, drawdown or equity figure appears anywhere on this site. The homepage shows the tracked account with its figures marked pending rather than filled with sample numbers. The inception date and the date of the first update publish here as soon as they are fixed.
Tax treatment in India
Gains on virtual digital assets are taxed at 30% with 1% TDS
Under current Indian law, gains on virtual digital assets are taxed at 30%, transactions attract 1% TDS, and losses cannot be set off against other income or carried forward. Tax is your responsibility as the account holder.
We provide statements to support your ITR filing, and a tax pack for Managed clients. AlgoGains is not a tax adviser; confirm your own position with a qualified professional. Tax rules for virtual digital assets in India may change.
This page is a plain-language summary for prospective investors and does not replace the client agreement, which governs the relationship once you invest. Where the two differ, the agreement applies. Questions on any of it belong in a call before you connect an account — start with the FAQ.