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We Thought Enabling 5-Minute Trading Was One Toggle. It Was Six Bugs.
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We Thought Enabling 5-Minute Trading Was One Toggle. It Was Six Bugs.

FILTER_5M_DISABLED = False. One line. Should've been the whole story. Instead it kicked off a six-bug root cause chain that exposed every assumption we had about how our trading bot actually found markets — and taught us the most important rule in API integration.

February 26, 20268m read
My Live Trading Bot Was Hung for 7 Hours. Here's the System That Fixed It.
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My Live Trading Bot Was Hung for 7 Hours. Here's the System That Fixed It.

A $50-bet live trading bot silently hung for 7 hours while generating STRONG signals. No alerts. No restarts. I diagnosed the asyncio event loop failure, killed the process manually, and then built Horus — a self-healing watchdog daemon that would have caught it in under 10 minutes.

February 25, 20268m read