Why I Fired My Broker (and What I Replaced Them With)
Part of the IBKR Saga The question wasn't hard to answer. A stop order is the most basic risk management primitive in trading
Production Elixir. Real Systems.
Serious Alchemy
Real systems fail in interesting ways. Notes from building one in Elixir.
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When the Broker Lies: Debugging Stop Orders That Silently Fail
Part of the IBKR Saga The Python port was working. Orders were flowing. The system was live on IBKR, trading real capital with real stops,
Building a Python Port in Elixir to Crack IBKR's Encryption
Part of the IBKR Saga The supervision tree was solid. The architecture handled crashes and reconnections gracefully. The next step was actually talking to a
The Supervision Tree That Watches the Market While You Sleep
This system has been trading real capital for about eight months. It's been running on a DigitalOcean droplet, unattended, for about five of