Deploying code to a live trading bot without stopping it sounds like an ops trick. It's actually a fundamental question about what your system is allowed to forget.
Most systems treat deployment as a pause button. Foresight treats it as a signal. Here's the architecture that lets a 24/7 trading bot absorb code changes without ever stopping.
Restarting a live trading bot mid-session isn't a deployment — it's a gamble. Here's how we eliminated that gamble entirely.
Most trading systems treat signal calibration as a launch event. Alpha Journal treats it as a continuous closed loop — and that distinction is worth more than any single signal.
Our live Polymarket trading bot was scoring 11 high-conviction signals per day (avg score: 83.3) and blocking every single one. The culprit: a 10-second timing threshold we'd never questioned. Here's what production data taught us about hardcoded constants.