Risk — the architecture of refusing to lose
14 independent pre-trade checks. A regime classifier that blocks LIVE starts when the market is DANGEROUS. Kill switches. The engineering of saying "no" to bad trades upstream of the exchange.
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The 14 risk gates we run before a LIVE bot starts trading your money
Before a single real order leaves the api, fourteen independent checks fire — symbol allowlist, regime classifier, kill switch, beta allowlist, notional sanity, subscription state, bot count, plan permissions, Telegram link, strategy compatibility, exchange-key verification, and the final risk evaluator with plan-specific notional ceilings. Each gate emits its own machine-readable reason code so the user knows exactly which one fired.
Read article →The regime detector — what we kill live trades on, and why
Quantor refuses to start LIVE bots when the market regime is DANGEROUS. This post explains the exact 50-line classifier — realized volatility plus drawdown from peak — what flips the switch, and why we accept missing some upside in exchange for not getting our users blown up in a crash window.
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