- 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hub is discarded and rebuilt; a stuck sync is superseded after 3 min;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>
When a fund transaction starts a new cycle (the days revert to 0), the
cycle it ended is checked against the completion rule for a week after and
named if it stood complete — its final day may never have been reported.
Only for a cycle this instance saw begin: the clients now note where the
ended cycle started as they move last_fund_date forward. Completions carry
the cycle they belong to, and each firm reports its whole account list so
the master can tell erased accounts and spot new funded ones.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Four features:
- Backup: lib/backup-sync.ts pushes the full settings table and firm
credentials (the deliberate exception to "credentials never leave the
machine") to the master's bearer-gated /api/instances/backup — every
5 minutes when the content hash changed, within seconds of a settings
or credential edit, and on the new backup-now command. Enabled by the
master_backup_token setting.
- Restore: a dead VPS's replacement pulls the backup and adopts its
uuid/name, so roster, payouts and card links carry on. Pre-boot via
seed-settings.js --restore-from (setup-linux.sh prompts for it) or
the Settings page's restore picker (lib/backup-restore.ts). Stop the
old machine first; the master 409s a live-name rename.
- Proxy: the proxy_url setting routes BROKER traffic only — TopstepX
REST + SignalR hub, Tradovate REST + websocket, Yahoo quotes — via
lib/outbound-proxy.ts (axios agents, undici dispatcher, ws agent).
The master link, reporter, catalog and backup push stay direct, so a
dead proxy cannot take down the control channel. Restart to apply.
- Multi-instance: AUTOFIRMER_DB moves the SQLite file so one checkout
runs N instances; scripts/instances.json (per-device, gitignored)
drives start-all/update-check, and add-instance.sh / remove-instance.sh
manage the extra PM2 processes. Absent registry = single-instance
behavior, unchanged. Instance 1 keeps port 3000 for the clicker and
extension.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both the MLL floor and the books-invariant fund detector assumed a $0
starting balance (correct for Express, wrong for funded/eval sizes). A
150K account (accountSize 150000) built its balance curve from $0, so
the floor came out near -$4,500 and a $145k balance never crossed it —
the account never marked dead — while reconcileFunds saw the whole
$150k as an unexplained deposit. Seed both with accountSize so the floor
is an absolute balance (150K/$4,500 drawdown → 145,500, locked at the
funded size once the EOD high climbs a drawdown above it) and the books
invariant nets out the starting balance. Skip reconcile until the
account type is known, since the start balance is unknowable before then.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The MLL floor no longer recomputes while a position is open or while
the balance disagrees with the books beyond fee noise — the last
settled floor stands, so balance ≤ floor can only come true when a
booked fill crosses a settled floor (Topstep's own liquidation fill
included). The floor also survives canTrade flipping off, so a blown
account stays ☠ instead of demoting to inactive.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
TopstepX never reports the Maximum Loss Limit, but it's deterministic:
floor = min(0, eodBalanceHigh − trailingDrawdown), locking at the $0
starting balance. The EOD curve rebuilds from daily P&L + fund events,
with off-book fee drift spread across days proportionally to reported
fees (validated against a platform-reported MLL to ~$0.10). Stored in
autoLiqThresholds — negative, or +$0.01 once locked — so dead detection,
dashboards, and the ruin model's startThreshold all use the real room.
Guards move from '> 0' to '!== 0'; 0 still means no floor. canTrade=false
accounts are skipped. daily_pnl gains a fees column for the weighting.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@microsoft/signalr does an unconditional require('ws')/require('eventsource')
when constructing a connection; bundled (turbopack) builds throw 'dynamic
usage of require is not supported', which the login chain mislabelled as a
login failure and retried every 60s. Externalize the package and never let
hub setup fail the login — REST polling covers everything the hub does.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 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>
