Post-Mortem on Trading Agent Production Failure
BotandBull · reddit · 2026-07-09
A detailed post-mortem of an autonomous trading agent failing in live trading: although the login step appeared successful, subsequent actions returned "not logged in" errors, leaving positions unprotected for a period. The root cause was multiple agents sharing a single cached authentication token. After expiration, continuous retries without backoff triggered API rate limits, making remediation incredibly difficult.
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