Watchdog · early access

The kill switch your trading bot does not have.

A monitor that runs apart from your bot, connected to the exchange with a read-only API key. It watches drawdown, position size, stale data and heartbeat, and alerts you before the account is gone. Because it is independent of the bot, a bug in the bot cannot switch it off.

Reserve early access No payment now. One email when the first version is ready.

Why a separate monitor

Every failure in the evidence behind this site has the same shape: the bot that placed the trades was also the only thing watching them. A stop-loss kept in the bot memory dies with the bot. A circuit breaker inside the bot is skipped by the code path the last feature added. A grid bot that crashes overnight loses 10,000 USD before anyone wakes up. The commercial suites bundle their kill switch with the bot that needs watching; none of them sells the monitoring on its own.

How it works

01
Create a read-only API key at Binance.US, Coinbase, Kraken or Robinhood Crypto. The watchdog can read balances, positions and orders; it can never trade or withdraw.
02
Set your limits: maximum daily loss, maximum drawdown from the high of the day, maximum position per market, and how many minutes without a heartbeat from your bot counts as dead.
03
Get the alert by email or Telegram the moment a limit is crossed, with the numbers that crossed it: which market, which size, which limit, at what time.
04
Read the daily digest: every check, every alert, and the exchange figures they were computed from, kept as a log you can show the exchange in a dispute.

What it watches

CheckQuestion it answersControl it covers
Daily loss capHas the account lost more than X today?Global circuit breaker
DrawdownIs equity more than Y % below the high of the day?Global circuit breaker
Position sizeIs any position larger than Z, in the quote currency?Maximum order size
Unprotected positionIs there an open position with no stop order resting at the exchange?Orphaned stop-loss
HeartbeatHas the bot gone silent for more than N minutes?Reconnection
Ghost positionsDoes the exchange hold a position the bot never reported?Reconciliation
Key permissionsDoes the key the bot uses allow withdrawals?API key permissions

Founding price

19 USD/monthkept as long as you stay · first month free

Reference: commercial bot suites charge 20 to 140 USD per month, and none of them sells the monitoring layer separately. Founding members get the first version, shape the alert rules, and keep this price for as long as they stay subscribed.

Requesting early access is not a purchase; see the terms.

Reserve early access

Tell us where you trade and what you run. You get one email when the first version is ready, and the founding price for as long as you stay.

No payment now and no account. One email when the first version is ready, and nothing else. Your address is stored on our own server and never shared; see the privacy policy.

What it is not