The Journey Blog

We build RoboTrader in public. Every incident, root-cause analysis, and milestone becomes a story — under our honesty-first editorial standard: the good, the bad, and the ugly, with no marketing spin.

The Ghost Fleet: We Had 6,691 Trading Bots Enabled. Only 163 Had Ever Traded.

How a live futures trading platform accumulated 6,528 zombie bot configs — 97.6% of the enabled fleet — without anyone noticing, and how we cut it down to the 163 that were real in two snapshot-verified waves.

2026-07-03

More journey posts are in editorial + legal review and will appear as they clear.