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Anonymized write-ups of the failure modes that keep showing up when I read live, real-money trading bot code closely — no repo names, no calling anyone out, just the pattern and how to check for it in your own code.
Two more bugs from live trading bot audits — where the protection looked real everywhere except in the one place that mattered: a stop-loss that logs "closed" but never sends an order, and a daily-loss limit fed a hardcoded zero that can never trip.
Read the post →A pattern found across three independent trading bots — including one I run myself: stop-loss and take-profit levels computed from a price that's minutes stale by the time the position actually opens.
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Not investment advice. Honest Backtest provides technical code review and
backtest recalculation only — an honest read on what the code and the numbers actually show,
not a recommendation to trade.
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