live trading
3 articles on live trading.

risk · safety · live-trading
Guardrails for Live Capital: Leverage Caps, Sanity Checks, and a Kill SwitchBetween a strategy's signal and a real order sits the most important code in the system: the guardrails. A NaN price, an over-leveraged book, a strategy throwing errors run after run — each is a path to ruin, and each is blocked before it reaches the exchange. Here's the safety layer that validates every signal and auto-disables a misbehaving strategy.
The Fluxy Team ·

execution · risk · reconciliation
Refusing to Trade a Stale Book: Reconciliation as a Pre-Trade GuardThe scariest moment in automated trading is when your signal thinks you hold one thing and the exchange holds another — from a manual trade, a partial fill, or a stale signal. Our executor reconciles intended vs. actual positions before every live run, alerts the moment they drift materially, and — when a portfolio arms the gate — refuses to trade through it. Here's the guard that turns a silent disaster into a caught one.
The Fluxy Team ·

backtesting · live-trading · execution
Same Code, Everywhere: From on_bar() Backtest to Live Cron in One EngineThe deadliest gap in systematic trading is between the code you backtested and the code that trades live. We close it by running the exact same engine in both — preflight in milliseconds, backtest in minutes, then schedule the identical strategy as a live signal runner with mandate execution and a dry-run safety net.
The Fluxy Team ·