Disclaimer
Effective: 2026-10-24
Chinese reference translation (non-binding): 中文参考译文 · Previous version: 2026-09-19 (Chinese text)
Operator
CatalystDesk is operated by BANFF MANAGEMENT DATA ANALYSIS LIMITED (班夫管理數據分析有限公司), a Hong Kong company, Flat/Rm 1911, Lee Garden One, 33 Hysan Avenue, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.
Not investment advice
Public market research is for information and education, not personal investment, legal or tax advice or an offer to buy or sell a security. Professional services deliver the software, evaluation or workflow-design outputs agreed in the SOW; they do not include personal investment advice, managed trading or guarantees of returns.
Risk
Trading securities and options carries substantial risk, including loss of all capital; intraday trading is especially risky. Make your own decisions and consult a licensed professional where appropriate.
No performance claims
We publish and imply no returns, hit rates or performance; historical patterns and analogues do not predict future results.
AI-assisted content
Some text (such as plain-language reads of filings and news) is generated with AI assistance. It may contain errors or omissions and is neither a verification of any fact nor a recommendation of any action. Rely on the original filings and your own judgement.
Three red lines
We do not hold user private keys or seed phrases or provide custodial trading accounts. Research, simulation and testnet are distinct environments. Where a testnet workflow is enabled, users approve each specified action in their own wallet and the result requires reconciliation. A signature or submission acknowledgment is not proof of a fill. This does not establish commercial live execution availability.
Research and evaluation limits
Research observations, Agent outputs and evaluation scores have stated inputs and limitations. An evaluation may identify poor performance or unsafe behavior without improving a model. Acceptance concerns completion and quality of the agreed work; it is not a guarantee of model improvement, production certification or trading profitability.
Third-party protocols, venues and markets
The Service indexes public on-chain and outcome-market data. It is not the agent, affiliate or partner of any venue, market deployer, oracle provider or outcome market, and none endorses it; it operates, lists, deploys and settles no market. Contract identifiers appear on the page only as far as naming them requires. An on-chain synthetic perpetual is not a share and carries no shareholder right; leveraged positions can be liquidated and are exposed to oracle, funding, basis and book-liquidity risk, most of all while the listed market is closed. Such products are restricted or prohibited in some jurisdictions; whether you may use them is yours to determine. The optional on-chain channel is not offered to persons in the United States, mainland China or any other jurisdiction that restricts such products, and we do not help anyone circumvent a venue's or a regulator's restrictions.
Commercial arrangements
The public service guide describes proposed engagement fees, not completed sales or proven commercial traction. Product Credits and professional services have separate terms. Any future referral or execution-related arrangement would require explicit terms and disclosures before use; the roadmap is not evidence that such an arrangement is active.
Compensation disclosure
If the optional on-chain channel is enabled and you choose to use it, the protocol may pay us a channel fee that you approve yourself in your own wallet on orders filled through it, and may pay us a referral share; the rate is shown before you sign and you may revoke the approval at any time. That is a conflict of interest and is disclosed as one; the computation and display of research readings do not change because of it. In white-label community tapes the referral link is supplied by, and is the responsibility of, the community owner; part of the builder fee generated by members who arrived through a community's card may be booked to that community owner's rebate ledger, so the community owner has a financial interest in members' trading, which is disclosed here as well.
Conflicts of interest
Published research is neither an instruction to buy or sell any security nor tailored investment advice. The operator and its affiliates may hold or trade securities or options mentioned in the Service without disclosing each position. Published research is generated by the same algorithm for every reader and is not changed because of those positions, and the operator does not trade ahead of published names in a way that conflicts with subscribers' interests.
Founder experience and scope
Sean Wu's U.S. equities experience began in 2006; the CatalystDesk project began in 2022. That experience informs software, decision knowledge and workflow design. It is not a claim of company operating history since 2006, a client performance record or an endorsement by a broker, clearing firm or technology provider. Professional services are expert-led and do not include brokerage, clearing, managed trading or investment advice.
Data
Data may be delayed, missing or erroneous. Derived analysis and Agent responses can be wrong; review source context, timestamps, availability and limitations. Third-party data remains subject to its owners' terms. Examples are illustrations, not live market evidence, trading instructions or a complete validated strategy.
Service boundaries
The service guide describes software, research, evaluation and workflow-design engagements. It does not establish any regulated authorization, broker or venue certification, production order routing or investment-advisory service. The final SOW identifies the contracting party and applicable legal terms.
Publisher status
CatalystDesk is a publication for the general subscriber audience, operated by BANFF MANAGEMENT DATA ANALYSIS LIMITED; it is not a registered investment adviser, broker-dealer or trading venue. Hong Kong SAR law applies and the Hong Kong SAR courts have exclusive jurisdiction. Professional engagements are governed by their signed SOW.