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Primeavantex Securities, Inc. is an SEC-licensed broker dealer and a CFTC-licensed futures commission merchant (FCM), and a member of FINRA, SIPC, CME, NFA and several equities and futures exchanges, which offers to self-directed investors and traders Equities accounts for stocks, exchange-traded products (such as ETFs) and equity and index options, and Futures accounts for commodity and financial futures and futures options (Primeavantex Securities does not offer Crypto accounts).

Primeavantex Crypto, Inc. is neither a securities broker dealer nor an FCM, and offers to self-directed investors and traders cryptocurrency brokerage services under federal and state money services business/money-transmitter and similar registrations and licenses (Primeavantex Crypto is not a member of FINRA, SIPC, CME, NFA or any equities or futures exchange, and does not offer Equities or Futures accounts).

Primeavantex Technologies, Inc. is a software development company which offers analytics subscriptions that self-directed investors and traders can use to chart, analyze and design back-tested strategies for Equities, Options, Futures, Forex and Crypto markets (Primeavantex Technologies is not a financial services company).

You Can Trade, Inc. is an online educational, news and entertainment media publication service that seeks to provide to the public a marketplace of potentially actionable investment and trading content, ideas, demonstrations and informational tools. You Can Trade is not an investment, trading or financial adviser or pool, broker-dealer, futures commission merchant, investment research company, digital asset or cryptocurrency exchange or broker, or any other kind of financial or money services company, and does not give any investment, trading or financial advice, or research analyses or recommendations, or make any judgments, hold any opinions, or make any other recommendations, about whether you should purchase, sell, own or hold any security, futures contract or other derivative, or digital asset or digital asset derivative, or any class, category or sector of any of the foregoing, or whether you should make any allocation of your invested capital between or among any of the foregoing.

Primeavantex Crypto accepts only cryptocurrency deposits, and no cash (fiat currency) deposits, for account funding. In order for you to purchase cryptocurrencies using cash, or sell your cryptocurrencies for cash, in a Primeavantex Crypto account, you must also have qualified for, and opened, a Primeavantex Equities account with Primeavantex Securities so that your cryptocurrency purchases may be paid for with cash withdrawals from, and your cryptocurrency cash sale proceeds may be deposited in, your Primeavantex Securities Equities account. Therefore, if you want to open a Primeavantex Crypto account, you must also have an Equities account with Primeavantex Securities. This cash in your Primeavantex Securities Equities account may also, of course, be used for your equities and options trading with Primeavantex Securities.

Primeavantex and YouCanTrade account services, subscriptions and products are designed for speculative or active investors and traders, or those who are interested in becoming one. No offer or solicitation to buy or sell securities, securities derivative or futures products of any kind, cryptocurrencies or other digital assets, or any type of trading or investment advice, recommendation or strategy, is made, given or in any manner endorsed by any Primeavantex Group company, and the information made available on or in any Primeavantex Group company website or other publication or communication is not an offer or solicitation of any kind in any jurisdiction where such Primeavantex Group company or affiliate is not authorized to do business. Past performance, whether actual or indicated by historical tests of strategies, is no guarantee of future performance or success. There is a possibility that you may sustain a loss equal to or greater than your entire investment regardless of which asset class you trade (equities, options, futures, futures options, or crypto); therefore, you should not invest or risk money that you cannot afford to lose. System access and trade placement and execution may be delayed or fail due to market volatility and volume, quote delays, system, platform and software errors or attacks, internet traffic, outages and other factors. The trademarks “TradeStation®,” “YouCanTrade” and “SheCanTrade,” as well as other trademarks, domain names and other proprietary intellectual property of Primeavantex Group companies, are owned by Primeavantex Technologies. The proprietary Primeavantex platform is offered by Primeavantex Securities for Equities (including equity options) and Futures trading. Primeavantex Crypto offers its online platform trading services, and Primeavantex Securities offers futures options online platform trading services, through unaffiliated third-party platform applications and systems licensed to Primeavantex Crypto and Primeavantex Securities, respectively, which are permitted to be offered by those Primeavantex companies for use by their customers.

Please also read carefully the agreements, disclosures, disclaimers and assumptions of risk presented to you separately by Primeavantex Securities, Primeavantex Crypto, Primeavantex Technologies, and You Can Trade on the Primeavantex Group company site and the separate sites, portals and account or subscription application or sign-up processes of each of these Primeavantex Group companies. They contain important information, rights and obligations, as well as important disclaimers and limitations of liability, and assumptions of risk, by you that will apply when you do business with these companies.

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