Advisories
Advisories — Sentry Labs bulletins on the security and integrity of automated trading systems: risk controls, kill-switches, credential hygiene, tenant isolation, market-data integrity, and audit trails. Educational, not investment advice.
Audit trails and reconciliation for trading systems
When something goes wrong at machine speed, the record is all you have. Building tamper-evident audit trails and reconciliation that prove what your system did.
Market-data integrity: stale, spoofed, and dropped
A strategy is only as good as the prices it believes. Guarding the market-data path against staleness, gaps, and manipulation before it drives a single order.
Tenant isolation in a multi-strategy platform
When many strategies and clients share one execution platform, isolation is a security control, not a convenience. How to stop one tenant from harming another.
Engineering a kill-switch you can trust
A halt button is worthless if it fails in the one moment you need it. What it takes to build a kill-switch that flattens risk reliably, even when the system is broken.
Securing API keys and exchange credentials
An automated trading system lives or dies by the keys it holds. Scoping, storing, and rotating exchange credentials so a leak cannot become a liquidation.
What separates institutional algos from retail bots
The gap between a hobby trading bot and an institutional execution system is not the signal — it is everything around it. A look at what actually distinguishes the two.
Latency, slippage, and why microseconds matter
Latency is not vanity engineering — it is a direct input to fill quality and cost. How microseconds turn into slippage, adverse selection, and real P&L.
Backtesting that survives live markets
Most backtests are optimistic fiction. What it takes to build a simulation whose results actually track live trading — order-book replay, queue position, and honest costs.
Risk controls every trading system needs
Automated trading turns a small bug into a large loss at machine speed. The pre-trade gates, kill-switches, and monitoring that any serious system should enforce.
Execution algorithms explained: TWAP, VWAP and beyond
How large orders actually get worked into a market without moving it. A plain-language tour of TWAP, VWAP, POV, and implementation-shortfall execution algos.
