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Bug patterns from real trading-bot audits

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.

The Safety Net That Isn't There

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.

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Stale Price Bug: Why Your Stop-Loss Might Not Protect You

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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