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Complete WebSocket auto-reconnect guide for trading bots. Implement automatic reconnection with exponential backoff, heartbeat ping-pong, message gap detection, and state recovery.
WebSocket connections drop. Not maybe. Definitely. Exchanges reset connections every 24 hours. Networks glitch. Load balancers rotate. HTTP proxies timeout. Your trading bot will experience disconnects.
The question isn't whether you'll disconnect—it's whether your bot recovers correctly when you do.
If you only do three things
