Live Crypto Trading Bot Operations: Monitoring, Alerts, and Failure Playbooks
Live trading is where strategies break. Learn what to monitor (fills, latency, DD), what to alert on, and how to design kill-switches and playbooks for exchange/API failures.
Vantixs Team
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Live Crypto Trading Bot Operations: Monitoring, Alerts, and Failure Playbooks
Backtests don’t fail—operations fail.
Live crypto trading introduces:
- API instability
- rate limits
- slippage spikes
- partial fills
This hub is for running bots like a system, not a hope.
What to monitor (minimum)
- order placement success rate
- fill ratio / partial fills
- latency (signal → order)
- slippage vs expected
- drawdown vs limits
- exposure and position size caps
Alerts you should have
- “no fills in X minutes”
- “DD exceeded”
- “API errors rate > threshold”
- “spread widening”
A kill-switch is not optional. It’s the cheapest insurance you’ll ever buy.
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