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My trading bot lost $4,232 running naked. Then I built it a cage.

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Every post-mortem of a 2026 AI trading blowup reads the same. The model is never the story. The story is permissions: an agent that could move 100% of a balance eventually did . Retail shipped the intelligence and skipped the cage — the position limits, daily loss brakes, kill switches and approval…

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  1. 2026-10-27 01:56 · DEV Community — AI
    My trading bot lost $4,232 running naked. Then I built it a cage.

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