Handling Exchange Outages in Crypto Bots: Retries, Pauses, and Safe Recovery
Exchanges go down. Learn how bots should behave during outages: idempotent retries, pause policies, cancel/replace strategies, and recovery steps to avoid double orders.
Vantixs Team
Trading Education
Handling Exchange Outages in Crypto Bots: Retries, Pauses, and Safe Recovery
Outages are normal. Bad recovery is optional.
Safe outage behavior
- retry idempotently (avoid double orders)
- pause opening new positions after repeated errors
- resume only after health checks pass
Next reads
- Live ops hub: /blog/live-crypto-trading-bot-operations-guide
- Safety checklist: /blog/how-to-evaluate-crypto-trading-bot-platform-safety
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