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Module 03 · Checklist

Execution habits that keep the desk stable

The terminal should support these decisions, but the operator still owns them.

Before enabling live flow
  • Verify symbol mapping and account context.
  • Confirm the capital budget matches the strategy's tested assumptions.
  • Check that pause, stop, and escalation actions are understood.
While the bot is running
  • Watch status and health indicators, not just PnL.
  • Track whether the live trade pattern still resembles tested behavior.
  • Treat repeated warnings as operational data, not noise.
Reasons to intervene
  • Execution quality changes materially from expectations.
  • Capital usage breaches the intended budget or cluster risk.
  • The strategy behaves in a regime it was never designed to handle.
In this lesson
  • Before enabling live flow
  • While the bot is running
Try it — slippage & fills

A market order takes whatever price is available. The larger and more urgent the order relative to liquidity, the further your average fill drifts from the quote.

Quote
€100.00
Avg fill
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Slippage
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Execution risk reminder

Do not promote directly from a promising backtest into full-size live flow.

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