My bot rejected every trade for being 'too wide' — and the gate was measuring the wrong thing (opens in new tab)

This is the third post in an accidental series about my paper-trading bot finding new and creative ways to do nothing. First it ran for 48 hours and rejected every trade. Then it logged hundreds of trades it never made. This time it had a number to hit — 100 completed trades before I'd even consider real money — and it had crawled to 87 and stalled. Days passed. The counter didn't move. So, again: I dumped the rejection log and bucketed by reason. $ awk '/rejected/' state/decisions.jsonl | jq...