Watchdog
Checks the desk every 60 seconds. If the service crashes, it is restarted 5 seconds later.
Alpha
Desk · software you run yourself
The guardrail layer we built to run our own desk around the clock: a watchdog, pre-trade guardrails, a risk budget, a drawdown ladder, a kill switch only you can re-arm, a log of every rejected order, and a dashboard. You bring the strategy settings and the exchange account. We sell the software; you are the trader.
Checks the desk every 60 seconds. If the service crashes, it is restarted 5 seconds later.
Every order must pass your daily loss limit, trades-per-session cap, open-position limit, cooldown, per-trade loss limit and symbol watch list.
Total risk across open positions, plus the new one, must stay within the share of the account you set. Otherwise the order is skipped.
Measured from the peak: full size, then half size, then no new entries. A deeper limit closes everything and stops the desk.
A stop file or a one-word stop from you halts the desk. Other agents cannot trip or clear it. Only you can re-arm it.
Every order a guardrail refuses is written down with the reason, so you can see exactly what the desk would not do and why.
A live page with the desk state and its positions, served from your own server.
How it runs on our own desk: case study.
No exchange account. No API key. The same binary, watchdog and entry path that run the live desk, pointed at a local paper book that fills at the public mark.
What you get on paper, exactly as on live:
Everything the paper desk writes stays in its own paper folder. A paper config may not even reference a venue secret: the loader refuses it by name.
When it has earned your trust, a one-time licence (one desk, your VPS) unlocks the live venue adapter and support. Same config; one line changes.
No performance claims. Paper fills at the mark with no fees or slippage; live will be worse. Run paper on its own checkout, separate from any live desk. Trading futures can lose all of your capital.
Alpha. Tell us your use: book a 20-minute call.
Done for you instead: an Agent Desk Safety Audit of your own trading agent, then an optional guardrail retrofit on your own infrastructure and keys. Tell us your scope: book a 20-minute call.
Ten checks from the ledger where our desk turns each lesson into a guardrail.
Or email us.