The morning I noticed my trading bot hadn't traded in three days.
I run a small trading bot. Every morning before the market opens it pulls signals, weighs them, and decides whether to act. It had been humming along for weeks, so I'd mostly stopped watching it.
Then one morning I opened the dashboard out of idle curiosity and something was off. No trades. Not "it decided not to trade", just crickets. I scrolled back. No trades the day before either. Or the day before that.
Three days. The bot had silently stopped running and I had no idea.
Here's the part that stuck with me: there was no error to find. No red text, no stack trace, no alert in my inbox. The overnight process that was supposed to kick everything off had just… not kicked off. A scheduling hiccup on my machine, most likely. The code was fine. The code simply never ran.
