Safety

Safety

Safety is a core design requirement. The project must be useful for research and paper/demo validation without accidentally enabling live execution.

Defaults

• Live trading is disabled by default.
• The public market-data collector cannot submit or cancel orders.
• The paper runner has no execution path.
• MetaScalp order and cancel CLIs are dry-run by default.
• Demo submissions require explicit confirmation strings.
• LLMs must not participate in live signal generation or execution routing.

Required Blocks

The risk engine must stop opening new positions when any of these conditions apply:

• max daily loss reached;
• max open position count reached;
• max per-symbol notional reached;
• max total notional reached;
• max active symbols reached;
• duplicate symbol/direction exposure;
• Binance feed stale or missing;
• MEXC feed stale or missing;
• MetaScalp disconnected or connection inactive;
• observed feed latency above threshold;
• reconnect storm or order-book desync;
• repeated order placement/cancel errors;
• abnormal cancel ratio;
• repeated fill slippage above threshold;
• unexpected position or balance mismatch;
• manual kill switch active.

Secrets

Do not commit:

• .env files;
• API keys or secrets;
• cookies;
• PEM or key files;
• MEXC UID values;
• local MetaScalp user settings;
• local account state.

The project stores secret references only as environment-variable names in memory/memory.json.

MetaScalp Demo Confirmation

Real MetaScalp demo order submission requires:

--submit-demo --confirm-demo-submit METASCALP_DEMO_ORDER

Real MetaScalp demo cancel requires:

--submit-demo --confirm-demo-cancel METASCALP_DEMO_CANCEL

These paths must verify a connected DemoMode=true MEXC connection before POST calls.

Before Any Live Consideration

A strategy must pass:

• shadow/paper validation;
• replay report;
• latency report;
• fee report;
• slippage report;
• fill-model comparison;
• MetaScalp demo reconciliation;
• operator review of audit logs.

Live mode remains out of scope until explicitly designed, configured, and confirmed.