Last updated: November 2025
Please read these Terms of Service (“ToS”) carefully before subscribing. By subscribing to any paid service on slim.systems, you accept and agree to be bound by these ToS.
1. Parties
These ToS constitute a legally binding agreement between:
- You (the “Subscriber”, “Customer”, “you”), and
- SLIM Systems, Roger Rusch, the individual or entity stated in the Imprint/Privacy Policy of the website (the “Provider”, “SLIM Systems”, “we”, “us”).
2. Nature of the Service & Target Audience
2.1 The Provider offers a subscription-based information service that delivers automated buy and sell signals (the “signals”) generated by the proprietary trend-recognition system called SLIM (“Stop Loss Investment Model”).
2.2 Main channel for delivery of our signals is e-mail. In some countries, we offer signal delivery via text message (SMS). If available, you can choose to receive signals via e-mail and/or SMS at the time of your subscription or later in your user account.
2.3 The service consists exclusively of the delivery of non-personalized, system-generated information (signals). It does NOT constitute investment advice, financial advice, a recommendation to buy or sell any financial instrument, portfolio management, or any regulated financial service.
2.4 The service is intended exclusively for sophisticated and knowledgeable investors who possess substantial experience with financial markets and who fully understand the risks associated with investing and trading in stocks, ETFs, derivatives, leveraged instruments, and other securities.
3. Integral Part of these ToS: “Important Notice & Disclaimer”
The “Important Notice & Disclaimer” (the “Disclaimer”) published at https://slim.systems/disclaimer (as amended from time to time) forms an integral and binding part of these ToS. By subscribing, you explicitly accept all provisions contained in the Disclaimer. In particular, the limitations of liability, risk warnings, and statements regarding backtesting and future performance set out in the Disclaimer apply fully and are hereby incorporated by reference.
4. No Investment Advice / Full Responsibility of the Subscriber
4.1 All signals are for informational purposes only and must be evaluated by you independently.
4.2 You alone bear full responsibility for any investment decision you make or do not make, whether or not based on our signals.
4.3 You acknowledge that trading and investing in financial markets can lead to the total loss of invested capital and is not suitable for everyone.
4.4 You accept the fact that we are not financial advisers nor do we provide a service that’s related to financial advice or any regulated financial service.
5. Past Performance & Backtesting
5.1 All performance figures, risk metrics, equity curves, and statistics published on the website or in fact sheets are based exclusively on historical backtesting from 2011 onward.
5.2 The published KPIs on our website and in our fact sheets are without brokerage fees and slippage. While a transaction fee of 0.1% only slightly impacts the performance of SLIM (according to our backtesting), a fee of 1% can kill a large part of the potential benefits of using SLIM signals. Slippage can be avoided by acting as closely to the type of transaction price (e.g. open price) stated in our SLIM fact sheets. You are responsible for reducing fees and slippage as much as possible. Do read our How-to page for more information on how to use our signals.
5.3 Past performance – even if rigorously backtested – is no guarantee of future results. Real-life trading results might deviate from backtested results (see also the Disclaimer) depending on the transaction fees of your broker and the time of your transaction (slippage).
6. Limitation of Liability
6.1 We provide visitors of our website and our Subscribers with certain financial information. We do not take any liability for the accuracy of the information on our website and sent to our Subscribers (e.g. signals).
6.2 To the maximum extent permitted by law, the Provider will not be liable in any way for any loss or damage suffered by website visitors and Customers through use of or access to this website, our subscription services, or our failure to provide this website or our subscription services.
6.3 In particular, the Provider shall under no circumstances be liable for any losses or damages arising from the use of the signals by our Subscribers or from late, missing, or incorrect delivery.
6.4 We do not and cannot guarantee uninterrupted or error-free delivery of signals. While we do our best to ensure daily on time and accurate signal evaluation and immediate delivery in case of a new signal, neither we nor our market data providers and IT partners can be hold accountable for customers’ damages due to failed or late delivery of signals or incorrect signals, e.g. caused by IT problems or software errors.
7. Personal and Non-Professional Use Only
7.1 The signals are provided exclusively for your personal, private, non-professional use in connection with the management of your own personal investment portfolio.
7.2 You are expressly prohibited from:
- sharing, forwarding, publishing, or otherwise disclosing the signals (or any part thereof) to any third party, whether free of charge or for payment;
- using the signals in any professional or commercial capacity, including but not limited to managing third-party assets, operating or advising a fund, providing investment advisory services, or incorporating the signals into any client-facing product or service;
- giving or offering investment advice or recommendations to any third party that is based wholly or partly on the SLIM signals.
7.3 The subscription fees displayed on the website apply only to private individual subscribers who use the signals strictly for their own personal portfolio. Professional or institutional use requires a separate license agreement and individually negotiated fees. If you intend to use the signals professionally, we kindly ask you to contact us (click to send e-mail) before subscribing to obtain a specific quote. Any unauthorized professional use constitutes a material breach of these ToS.
8. Contractual Penalty for Breach of §7
(Konventionalstrafe – Art. 160 et seq. Swiss Code of Obligations)
In the event of any breach of §7 above (in particular sharing the signals or using them professionally without authorization), you shall pay the Provider a contractual penalty as follows, without the Provider being required to prove actual damage:
- CHF 5’000 for the first proven violation, plus
- CHF 10’000 for each additional proven violation,
limited in total to a maximum of CHF 50’000 per subscriber.
The penalty is due immediately upon written demand by the Provider. The Provider expressly reserves the right to claim additional damages exceeding the penalty (Art. 161 CO) and to seek injunctive relief. Pursuant to Art. 163(3) CO, a court may reduce the penalty if it is manifestly excessive.
9. Subscription & Payment
9.1 Subscriptions are offered on a monthly or annual recurring basis.
9.2 Payment is processed via the third-party payment providers shown at checkout.
9.3 You authorize automatic renewal charging until you cancel.
9.4 Your payment data is directly sent to our third-party payment provider, ensuring state-of-the-art data security. We do not process or store any payment data in our IT systems.
10. Cancellation & Refund Policy
10.1 You may cancel your subscription at any time with immediate effect via your user account or by written notice to the support address provided to our Subscribers in the user account and in our e-mails.
10.2 Cancellation ends your subscription at the end of the current billing period. For example: If you are charged on the 15th of the month and you cancel on May 25th, you will receive our signals until June 15th. No prorated refunds are granted. Already-paid fees are non-refundable.
11. Account Security
You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activities under your account.
12. Intellectual Property (“IP”)
12.1 All content, copyright, trade marks, algorithms, source code, and other IP belong to us or a third party.
12.2 Subscribers receive only a limited, non-transferable, non-exclusive, non-sublicensable right to receive and privately use the signals during the active subscription period in accordance with §7.
12.3 Information on this website and sent to our Customers via e-mail or SMS must not be reproduced, adapted, uploaded to a third party, framed, performed in public, distributed or transmitted in any form by any process without clear and noticeable mention of SLIM Systems as the IP owner or our specific written consent to do so without.
13. Termination by Provider
13.1 The Provider may terminate or suspend your access immediately and without prior notice or refund if you breach these ToS or the Disclaimer – in particular, but not limited to, any violation of §7 (Personal and Non-Professional Use Only).
13.2 In addition to the contractual penalty under §8, the Provider may claim damages and seek injunctive relief.
13.3 We reserve the right to discontinue our subscription services and terminate active subscription services with prior notice at any time.
14. Changes to the Service, Disclaimer, or ToS
14.1 The Provider may modify his services, the Disclaimer, or these ToS at any time. Material changes will be announced by e-mail or on the website at least 14 days in advance. Continued use after the effective date constitutes acceptance.
14.2 Unless otherwise stated in a promotional offer (e.g., with the addition of “lifetime”), the Provider may change prices at any time. Subscribers will be notified at least 3 months in advance and may cancel their subscription at any time, effective at the end of their payment cycle.
14.3 The current and valid versions of our ToS and the Disclaimer are always the ones published on our website.
15. Governing Law & Jurisdiction
These ToS and the Disclaimer are governed by the laws of Switzerland (excluding conflict-of-law rules). Exclusive place of jurisdiction is the registered seat of the Provider in Switzerland, insofar as permissible by mandatory law.
16. Severability & Entire Agreement
If any provision is invalid, the remainder remains fully effective. These ToS, together with the Imprint/Privacy Policy, and especially the Disclaimer at https://slim.systems/disclaimer, constitute the entire agreement between you and the Provider.
By completing the subscription process, you confirm that you have read, understood, and unconditionally accept these ToS and the incorporated Disclaimer. If you do not agree, do not subscribe.
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