A firm's client used to stay logged in around the clock, renewing on a fixed
timer overnight and at weekends. Now, once a firm has nothing open, nothing
pending and nothing left to trade before its next session for a random
15–45 minutes, its client disconnects and the dashboard shows it Resting.
It logs back in a random 20–50 minutes before the next session opens, at a
check-in every 3–7 Central daytime hours, or at once when trading starts, a
manual leg, copy trade, manual order or AutoBuyer run needs it. Token
renewals fall at random points (Tradovate 15–45 min before expiry, TopstepX
every 45–150 min). Settings → Trading → Rest idle broker sessions
(session_rest) turns it off.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
When the master changes an account type with "New accounts only", it now
serves the type's old rules as kept rule sets (firm.keptAccountRules), each
for accounts dated inside [openedAt, closedAt). This build applies them:
- getAccountConfig, the one rules lookup trading reads, puts a kept set's
rule fields over the live type when the account's rules date falls in
its window. Id, label, prefix, size and the projection fields stay the
live type's, so every report still names the live type.
- account_assignments gains rules_date and rules_date_manual. A new row is
dated when the machine first sees the account, on the master's clock
when this one runs behind and never before the catalog's last change.
Auto dates come down to the broker's evidence: the end of the first fund
day in Chicago, or a DXtrade registration instant. Evidence is applied
before an account's first trade. Rows from before the migration get its
time; unpinning keeps the row and its date. Backups carry both columns.
- An account on a kept set stays on its type while its prefix and cached
size still match, so a tie-break flip can't move it off its old rules.
- Kept entries parse through the same normalizer as live types (now
normalizeAccountType in lib/kept-rules.ts); a malformed one rejects the
sync like a malformed type. The cached catalog records the parser that
stored it, and a cache from an older parser is fetched in full rather
than trusted with ?since= (this also brings in maxConcurrentAccounts).
- Reports add keptRuleIds per firm and live counts per kept set per type.
- The dashboard row and the account page show the rules date next to the
account name, with an "old rules" chip saying what differs. Clicking
the date edits it inline (PUT /api/accounts/:id/rules-date), previewing
which rules the date lands on.
Also: the master's per-firm cap on accounts traded at once
(maxConcurrentAccounts), applied on top of the machine's own max
concurrent when a batch is drawn and in copy trading.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
On 2026-10-06 two Topstep Express accounts sat finished, waiting for their
payouts. The hub moved their balances the moment the payouts landed, but
reconcileFunds books a withdrawal only in the next sync. 28 seconds later
the plan read the drop as lost profit, reopened the cycle as stage 1 and
fired a full 3xNQ leg with no stop, on what should have been a drain day.
Both were liquidated against the $0 floor a payout leaves.
- TopstepX: unbookedBalanceChange holds an account while its balance is
$200+ off its books (today's realized read fresh off the trades, so the
5 PM roll doesn't trip it); the sync books it as before.
- Every platform: a finished cycle marks its books in account_meta; a later
drop of $200+ with no fund row booked since holds the account until the
payout books and moves it to its next stage. Relative to the mark, so
history missing from before the cache cancels out; a wipe clears it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Every FirmStats now carries statusVersion 1, the catalog firmId and, once
synced, syncedAt (from lastSyncAt), including the no-accounts branch, which
is now built by emptyFirmStats(). Each accounts[] entry adds status, reason,
balance, floor, accountTypeId, firstFundDate, positiveFunds and brokerStatus,
each left out when null or at its default.
accountStatus() in platform-client.ts is pure: a missing balance is unknown
(cash_missing), never dead; with a balance, dead is exactly the old floor
test (legacyDead); then history_pending, locked, live. Only the reporter
uses it. The aggregates, totals and every trading decision keep their own
dead test, unchanged.
The reporter reads history readiness through a new Tradovate
peekHistoryReady(), because historyReady() there can start a hold and move
the balance baseline. DXTrade exposes accountStatus and registrationTime via
brokerAccountMeta(). A throw in the new fields reports the account as
unknown instead of losing the report.
sendReport skips the socket for a firms payload over 900,000 chars (the
master's frame cap is 1,000,000 bytes) and POSTs it, logging once per switch.
scripts/check-account-status.mjs proves the legacy invariant over the full
matrix and the size budget (worst 228 B added per account, 154 B typical
live; 2000 accounts 592,501 B).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- A batch sizes its leg on every mapped candidate, each at the leverage
the broker states for it, and trades the cheapest (spread, commissions,
expected swap) that reaches the target hold — else the quickest. The
dashboard ranks the same way from a half-hourly candidate survey.
- Last stand: when a daily-loss stop-out would leave the account within
15% of that loss above its max-drawdown floor (the account type's static
max loss, or the broker's liquidation floor), the leg carries no
daily-loss stop and is sized against the firm's own breach.
- The daily-loss reserve is 10% of the limit or 0.1% of the position,
whichever is more, since a stop's slippage grows with the position.
- The account type's max notional is gone: the broker's margin rates cap
each symbol. planLegSize holds the one sizing rule fireLeg, the pick and
the dashboard share.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Transfers: a close books its SETTLEMENT and COMMISSION under one
transaction code, and keying by the code alone let the commission
overwrite the P&L. Keys now carry the type, so the day-start balance,
daily-loss room, realized P&L, daily history and books check all see
closed-trade profit and loss.
- Volatility from a week of hourly closes (was 48 h), still measured once
per trade date, so one quiet weekend can't triple a hold estimate.
- Each symbol's margin rate from the account's instrument details caps
the position at available funds / rate (Tradeify: 5:1 crypto, 2:1
stocks); the account type's max notional stays as an optional ceiling.
- Firms with overnight financing add the swap a winning leg is expected
to pay (the winners' mean hold, (A²+2AB)/3σ²) to its take-profit, and
the sizing and hold estimate count it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The symbol map's fixed notional per contract is gone: every DXtrade leg is
sized from the instrument's recent volatility for the firm's target hold
(blank = 12 h), and a candidate without a volatility isn't picked. Percent
commission and every-day trading are ignored on non-DXtrade firms, which keep
measured per-contract fees and the CME calendar.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- DXtrade client (lib/dxtrade-class.ts): REST session login with lockout-safe
backoff, 60s sync of accounts/metrics/positions/orders/transfers, history and
fund transactions from cash transactions, day-start balance at the 22:00 UTC
reset, CLOSE-by-positionCode exits (native OCO group, else a stop-first
emulated pair), a cross-account hedge guard, stray-order reaper.
- Instrument selector: the firm's symbol map lists candidate symbols per CME
root; the cheapest tradable one per unit of recent hourly volatility wins
(spread + 2x commission [+ financing] / sigma).
- Fees: a firm's commission % of notional prices every fee off the fill; the
take-profit is solved in closed form so the leg nets its target.
- Hard daily loss limit per account type: every leg carries a stop keeping the
firm's day inside the limit less a 10% reserve and both fees (rounded in);
a green day never widens it; no room or a refused bracket flattens.
- Notional sizing where the platform prices positions: target-hold volatility
sizing or the symbol map's fixed notional, under a per-type notional cap.
- Every-day firms trade weekends/holidays; the scheduler runs lanes (futures,
one per DXtrade firm) with their own hours, flat gate, mutex and batches.
- The catalog sync skips platforms this build doesn't know instead of treating
them as Tradovate. One shared fireLeg replaces the duplicated batch/copy code.
- npm run check: fee/stop/sizing/hours/selector checks; scripts/dxtrade-smoke.mjs
confirms the API against a real login before trading.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Sixth review round (8e66631):
- An entry of unknown outcome is judged against a good sync that STARTED
at least 90s after it was declared unknown (lastSyncStartedAt: TopstepX's
pass start, Tradovate's request time), not one that merely ended then —
a sequential pass can read the account before a late fill.
- Once the broker shows its fill (a position, or realized P&L moved), the
entry becomes an ordinary filled one instead of holding the account for
the rest of the day.
- It never settles while the broker still shows a working order on the
account: Tradovate now reads working orders from the sync snapshot, and
its fill-timeout cancel checks Tradovate's answer instead of assuming it.
- A second wipe (after a restart) keeps the pending wipe's pre-wipe fund
signature instead of overwriting it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Second review round (e496404, 9b2d677):
- Tradovate: past the 5 PM roll an old-dated cash record counts only what
it gained since the roll (its realizedPnL as last seen while current is
kept as the roll base), so tonight's fills booked onto it before
Tradovate rolls the account stay visible — no re-trading a one-and-done
account. A record this process never saw before the roll leaves the
account waiting for the broker's roll (ROLL_PENDING, counted in play for
stop-after-all). The 60s snapshot carries the roll base and can't undo a
newer record the socket delivered.
- A wipe's hold is kept in account_meta, so a restart onto a failing Cash
History still holds the account.
- A Cash History whose pre-request balance the last vouched-for baseline
can't explain, and which booked nothing, holds the account instead of
rebasing onto an unbooked payout.
- Holds compare fund transactions by date and amount (a second payout on a
date that already has one), and an in-flight hold is judged against the
rows from before its report.
- The saved baseline tracks the day's realized P&L and folds, so a restart
judges against current figures; held refetches back off to an hour, and
a balance hold no Cash History can check is released after an hour.
- TopstepX: a fetched account is promoted only by a sync whose
reconcileFunds actually checked the books (not one skipped for an open
position), and a direct fetch awaits that sync, so wipe routes report
the real outcome.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Both clients track which accounts this process has loaded history for
(historyReady). An account restarted, rebuilt, wiped or newly listed is
ineligible until its fetch lands, instead of trading as a fresh stage-1
first day; a failed fetch with no cache no longer reads as empty history.
Waiting accounts get a targeted fetch on the next sync.
- Tradovate holds an account whose start-of-day balance moves without a fill
(a payout between hourly Cash History runs) until a Cash History books it,
so a payout-pending account isn't re-traded on its ended cycle.
- Wipe routes forget history through the client and count accounts whose
history didn't come back as failures.
- TopstepX sendOrder picks up a fill that arrived before the place response,
and its REST backstop uses the documented Trade/search and Order/search.
- POINT_VALUES: SI 5000 (was 50), M2K 5 (was 10).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Why the autotrader sometimes broke after a weekend until `pm2 restart`:
`next start` only logs uncaught errors, so nothing ever crashed, and a few
paths could leave a client dead for the life of the process.
Tradovate: a closed socket scheduled exactly one re-login, with no catch —
one failure during weekend maintenance (or a rate-limit penalty returned as
a 200 without a token) and the client never came back. connectAndAuth is now
a single-flight loop that never throws: jittered backoff capped at 5 min,
penalty tickets waited out, captcha demands backed off. A 15s watchdog
abandons silent, never-authorized or stuck-closing sockets and stale syncs;
renewal falls back to a fresh login; orders fail fast (OrderNotPlacedError)
on a dead socket and time out instead of hanging; a bad sync answer no
longer wipes accounts and positions.
TopstepX: hub start/stop/invoke and every REST call are bounded; a wedged
hub is discarded and rebuilt; a stuck sync is superseded after 3 min;
re-login no longer tears down the sync loop; a watchdog re-logs when syncs
go stale; a no-fill timeout cancels the order.
Scheduler: one unready client used to hold every firm forever. It now holds
the tick for a 10-minute grace, then trades the other firms without it.
Per-firm try/catch in batch collection, one batch at a time, accounts marked
in flight, legs un-counted only when the entry never reached the broker, and
the scheduler starts before the first batch fires.
Boot and supervision: instrumentation.ts boots the process at server start
(it used to wait for the first dashboard request); a supervisor rebuilds a
client that has been unhealthy for 20 min (not a TopstepX one holding a
position); broker HTTP calls default to a 60s timeout; GET /api/health shows
each client's liveness and the scheduler's last decision. Shared state the
eager boot would otherwise split across bundles lives on globalThis. Logs no
longer carry access tokens or whole AxiosErrors (which include the encoded
Tradovate password).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
cycleCompletion() says whether today's P&L finished the current cycle
(profit target, consistency and minimum days all met) — projectPerfectPath's
completion probe run without and with today. The reporter counts those as
`completed` (a subset of targetHit) and sends their names, so the master
can keep an account a firm erases after it passes. Checked ahead of the
lockout branch: a firm locking a passed account is no DLL loss. The local
dashboard shows them with a purple Completed pill.
Because the master keeps a completion for good, doubtful reads stay
'none': weekends, a Monday with a weekend-dated row, the first minutes
after the 5 PM roll, and history that hasn't freshly loaded.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- TopstepXClient (ProjectX Gateway): API-key auth, SignalR user hub,
Trade/search daily P&L, emulated OCO exits, books-invariant
withdrawal detection for $0-start accounts
- Platform-aware client pool, credentials (api_key column), and
credential form; $0-size account types match by prefix alone
- Drain stages: min-day ($5-$15 randomized) MNQ legs for the
configured days, then wait for the 50% withdrawal; stage pills
show 'Stage N – Drain'
- Account calendar projects the perfect path: future days book their
planned targets, simulated 50% withdrawals, payout marker
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
