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>
