Guides on exchange and broker MCP servers, exchange API setup, and the risk arithmetic behind position sizing.https://cotrading.io/https://cotrading.io/learn/market-hours-and-liquidity/https://cotrading.io/learn/market-hours-and-liquidity/Crypto never closes but it does go quiet. The same strategy run at the wrong hours pays more and fills worse, for reasons unrelated to the signal.Thu, 24 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/api-versioning-and-breaking-changes/https://cotrading.io/learn/api-versioning-and-breaking-changes/Endpoints get deprecated, fields get added, and libraries rewrite themselves. What breaks silently, and how to find out before your positions do.Wed, 23 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/ai-and-trading-discipline/https://cotrading.io/learn/ai-and-trading-discipline/A model can make discipline easier or much harder, and which one depends on where you put it. The failure mode is subtle and worth naming.Tue, 22 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/scaling-in-vs-all-at-once/https://cotrading.io/learn/scaling-in-vs-all-at-once/A planned ladder and a rescue look identical in the arithmetic. The difference is whether the full size was decided before the first entry.Mon, 21 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/why-traders-oversize/https://cotrading.io/learn/why-traders-oversize/Nobody decides to oversize. It happens through six mechanisms that each look reasonable, and only one of them is about greed.Sun, 20 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/choosing-an-exchange-for-automation/https://cotrading.io/learn/choosing-an-exchange-for-automation/The API properties that decide how much work an integration is — and they are not the ones exchanges advertise.Sat, 19 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/equity-curve-reading/https://cotrading.io/learn/equity-curve-reading/The shape tells you about variance and sequence, which the headline return hides. What to look at, and the three ways a curve flatters a strategy.Fri, 18 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/backfilling-trade-history/https://cotrading.io/learn/backfilling-trade-history/Pagination, archive endpoints and retention limits. The three things that make historical data harder to collect correctly than it looks.Thu, 17 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/multi-agent-trading-risks/https://cotrading.io/learn/multi-agent-trading-risks/Several specialised models sounds like separation of concerns. It multiplies non-determinism, adds untrusted channels between components, and diffuses accountability.Wed, 16 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/trading-journal-what-to-record/https://cotrading.io/learn/trading-journal-what-to-record/Most journals record outcomes, which is the least useful column. The fields that make a review answer questions, including the ones usually missing.Tue, 15 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/position-reconciliation/https://cotrading.io/learn/position-reconciliation/The single check that catches the failures nothing else reports. What to compare, how often, and what to do when the numbers disagree.Mon, 14 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/llm-context-window-trading/https://cotrading.io/learn/llm-context-window-trading/A model reasons over whatever is in its context, with no sense of how old any of it is. In a moving market that is a correctness problem, not a cost one.Sun, 13 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/order-lifecycle-and-partial-fills/https://cotrading.io/learn/order-lifecycle-and-partial-fills/An order is not filled or unfilled. It moves through states, and the partially-filled one breaks more automation than any other single case.Sat, 12 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/volatility-and-stop-distance/https://cotrading.io/learn/volatility-and-stop-distance/A 2% stop is generous on one instrument and inside the noise on another. Sizing stops from volatility makes the same rule mean the same thing everywhere.Fri, 11 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/local-vs-hosted-model-trading/https://cotrading.io/learn/local-vs-hosted-model-trading/Your chart context and position data are sensitive. Where the model runs decides who else sees them, and the trade-off is capability against custody.Thu, 10 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/ai-trade-journal-review/https://cotrading.io/learn/ai-trade-journal-review/The one AI trading use case with a clear payoff and almost no risk — provided you supply data rather than ask for impressions.Wed, 09 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/what-is-open-interest/https://cotrading.io/learn/what-is-open-interest/Volume counts trades; open interest counts positions still held. The difference between the two is what makes a move informative or not.Tue, 08 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/spread-and-liquidity/https://cotrading.io/learn/spread-and-liquidity/The quoted spread is the visible part of a cost that grows with your size. What to check before assuming a market can absorb your position.Mon, 07 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/risk-per-trade-vs-per-day/https://cotrading.io/learn/risk-per-trade-vs-per-day/A 1% per-trade rule says nothing about what a day can cost. The two limits control different things and you need both.Sun, 06 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/exchange-outages-and-degraded-mode/https://cotrading.io/learn/exchange-outages-and-degraded-mode/Venues go down, and they go down badly more often than they go down cleanly. What your automation should do when it cannot tell what is true.Sat, 05 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/sub-accounts-for-automation/https://cotrading.io/learn/sub-accounts-for-automation/A funding boundary bounds damage from correct-but-wrong behaviour, which no permission flag does. The strongest control available for third-party code.Fri, 04 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/evaluating-ai-trading-claims/https://cotrading.io/learn/evaluating-ai-trading-claims/Six questions that account for most of the gap between a published result and what you would experience. Use them on any tool, including ours.Thu, 03 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/model-non-determinism-trading/https://cotrading.io/learn/model-non-determinism-trading/The same prompt, the same chart, a different trade. Why a single evaluation run is a sample rather than a result, and what to do about it.Wed, 02 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/liquidation-cascades/https://cotrading.io/learn/liquidation-cascades/Forced selling begets forced selling. Why leveraged markets move further than the news justifies, and what it means for stop placement and sizing.Tue, 01 Dec 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/perpetual-vs-futures/https://cotrading.io/learn/perpetual-vs-futures/One never expires and pays funding to stay near spot. The other expires and converges by contract. The difference decides how holding cost behaves.Mon, 30 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/why-leverage-is-not-risk/https://cotrading.io/learn/why-leverage-is-not-risk/Leverage sets the margin you post and where liquidation sits. Risk is set by stop distance and position size. Conflating them produces both kinds of mistake.Sun, 29 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/structured-output-trade-plans/https://cotrading.io/learn/structured-output-trade-plans/Prose analysis cannot be validated, logged comparably, or checked against limits. A schema turns a model's opinion into something a program can refuse.Sat, 28 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/monitoring-a-trading-integration/https://cotrading.io/learn/monitoring-a-trading-integration/The failures that cost money are the silent ones — a stale stream, an expired permission, a position that drifted. What to alert on and what to ignore.Fri, 27 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/secrets-management-for-trading-bots/https://cotrading.io/learn/secrets-management-for-trading-bots/Where exchange credentials actually leak — logs, shell history, synced dotfiles, MCP config files — and how to make a leak cost less when it happens.Thu, 26 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/api-error-handling-patterns/https://cotrading.io/learn/api-error-handling-patterns/Classify before you react. Most trading integration bugs come from treating a refusal and an unknown outcome as the same kind of failure.Wed, 25 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/sample-size-for-strategy-evaluation/https://cotrading.io/learn/sample-size-for-strategy-evaluation/Twenty trades tells you nothing, and high-R strategies need far more than low-R ones. Why, and what to look at while the sample is still too small.Tue, 24 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/what-is-a-trailing-stop/https://cotrading.io/learn/what-is-a-trailing-stop/It locks in gains automatically and cuts your average win. Whether that helps depends on how your winners behave, which you can measure.Mon, 23 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/when-not-to-use-ai-trading/https://cotrading.io/learn/when-not-to-use-ai-trading/The situations where adding a model makes things worse rather than slower — and the one where it is most tempting and most damaging.Sun, 22 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/ai-hallucination-market-analysis/https://cotrading.io/learn/ai-hallucination-market-analysis/Not invented tickers — invented specificity. Numbers that sound like data, patterns named with confidence, and a tone that does not vary with certainty.Sat, 21 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/symbol-filters-and-min-order-size/https://cotrading.io/learn/symbol-filters-and-min-order-size/Your order is rejected before it reaches the matching engine because it failed a per-symbol filter. What the filters are and why they break sizing logic.Fri, 20 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/websocket-reconnection-patterns/https://cotrading.io/learn/websocket-reconnection-patterns/A stream that reconnects silently leaves your state wrong with no error. Reconnection is not the hard part — reconciling what you missed is.Thu, 19 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/clock-sync-and-timestamps/https://cotrading.io/learn/clock-sync-and-timestamps/Signed requests carry a timestamp inside a narrow window. Drift produces authentication failures that look exactly like signing bugs, and the fix is not in your code.Wed, 18 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/partial-exits-and-expectancy/https://cotrading.io/learn/partial-exits-and-expectancy/Taking half off at 1R feels like risk management. It caps the winners while leaving losers at full size, and the arithmetic is not obviously favourable.Tue, 17 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/correlation-and-position-limits/https://cotrading.io/learn/correlation-and-position-limits/Three positions sized at 1% each are not three 1% risks if they move together. Per-trade sizing cannot see this, which is why a separate cap is needed.Mon, 16 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/position-sizing-methods-compared/https://cotrading.io/learn/position-sizing-methods-compared/Fixed fractional, fixed dollar, fixed quantity and volatility-adjusted. Each makes a different implicit bet about what stays constant across trades.Sun, 15 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/order-types-explained/https://cotrading.io/learn/order-types-explained/Market, limit, stop, stop-limit and the flags that modify them. What each guarantees, what it does not, and which guarantee you are giving up.Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/ibkr-mcp-setup/https://cotrading.io/learn/ibkr-mcp-setup/IBKR now offers a hosted connector that needs no local gateway. Plus the read-only community option that cannot place orders by construction.Fri, 13 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/hyperliquid-mcp-setup/https://cotrading.io/learn/hyperliquid-mcp-setup/Most Hyperliquid MCP servers take a raw private key. One uses the agent-wallet delegation the venue actually provides, and one needs no key at all.Thu, 12 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/binance-mcp-server-setup/https://cotrading.io/learn/binance-mcp-server-setup/The community Binance servers ship with trading available and no documented off switch. Which means the key permission is doing all the work.Wed, 11 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/bybit-mcp-server-setup/https://cotrading.io/learn/bybit-mcp-server-setup/No official server, but one community project has the best safety defaults of any exchange MCP server reviewed — trading off until you set an env var.Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/okx-mcp-server-setup/https://cotrading.io/learn/okx-mcp-server-setup/OKX publishes its own MCP server. It ships 167 tools with trading on by default — the two flags that change that are the first thing to configure.Mon, 09 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/trading-api-glossary/https://cotrading.io/learn/trading-api-glossary/Precise definitions for the terms used across these guides — margin, funding, R multiples, MCP, order types — with links to the full explanation of each.Sun, 08 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/ai-trading-workflow/https://cotrading.io/learn/ai-trading-workflow/Where a model belongs in a trading process, in the order the steps actually happen — and which parts should never be handed over.Sat, 07 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/prompt-injection-trading-risk/https://cotrading.io/learn/prompt-injection-trading-risk/Anything the model reads sits in the same context as your instructions. With order tools attached, that turns untrusted text into a path to your account.Fri, 06 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/ai-trading-backtest-vs-live/https://cotrading.io/learn/ai-trading-backtest-vs-live/A model evaluated on data it was trained on is grading its own homework. The specific leaks, and why the gap is wider for LLMs than for rule-based systems.Thu, 05 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/can-ai-predict-the-market/https://cotrading.io/learn/can-ai-predict-the-market/Language models are not forecasting engines, and the honest answer is no. What they are genuinely useful for in a trading workflow, and where the claim goes wrong.Wed, 04 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/sequence-of-returns-risk/https://cotrading.io/learn/sequence-of-returns-risk/The same set of returns in a different order produces a different ending balance once money is being added or withdrawn. Averages hide this entirely.Tue, 03 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/averaging-down-vs-dca/https://cotrading.io/learn/averaging-down-vs-dca/Nearly identical arithmetic, opposite origins. One is a schedule decided in advance, the other a decision made under pressure — and that difference is everything.Mon, 02 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/how-to-set-a-stop-loss/https://cotrading.io/learn/how-to-set-a-stop-loss/A stop belongs where the idea is wrong, not where the loss feels acceptable. The difference decides whether the number means anything at all.Sun, 01 Nov 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/slippage-explained/https://cotrading.io/learn/slippage-explained/The gap between the price you expected and the one you got. Why it is worst on stop-outs, scales with size, and quietly lowers every R multiple you record.Sat, 31 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/maker-vs-taker-fees/https://cotrading.io/learn/maker-vs-taker-fees/Takers pay more, but the cheaper option has a hidden cost — the fills you miss are not randomly selected. When each is actually the better choice.Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/what-is-maintenance-margin/https://cotrading.io/learn/what-is-maintenance-margin/The minimum equity a position must keep to stay open. It is tiered by size, which is why a bigger position liquidates earlier at the same leverage.Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/isolated-vs-cross-margin/https://cotrading.io/learn/isolated-vs-cross-margin/Cross margin moves liquidation further away and couples every position to every other. Isolated caps the loss per position and liquidates sooner. Which risk you prefer.Wed, 28 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/expectancy-vs-win-rate/https://cotrading.io/learn/expectancy-vs-win-rate/Win rate alone says nothing about whether a strategy makes money. Expectancy combines it with payoff, and the two move against each other by construction.Tue, 27 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/risk-of-ruin/https://cotrading.io/learn/risk-of-ruin/The probability of losing enough capital to stop trading. What the formula assumes, why the assumptions fail, and the more useful question to ask instead.Mon, 26 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/daily-loss-limit-design/https://cotrading.io/learn/daily-loss-limit-design/Picking the number is the easy part. The design questions are what counts toward it, what happens when it trips, and why closing orders must be exempt.Sun, 25 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/losing-streak-probability/https://cotrading.io/learn/losing-streak-probability/How likely a run of consecutive losses is, what it does to an account at a given risk per trade, and why a cooldown rule is arithmetic rather than sentiment.Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/why-tight-stops-cost-more/https://cotrading.io/learn/why-tight-stops-cost-more/Halving the stop distance doubles the position for the same risk — and doubles how often noise takes you out. The trade is size for frequency, and it is rarely priced.Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/what-is-r-multiple/https://cotrading.io/learn/what-is-r-multiple/R is one unit of risk — the distance from entry to stop. Measuring results in R instead of currency makes trades comparable and separates sizing from selection.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/ccxt-getting-started/https://cotrading.io/learn/ccxt-getting-started/One interface across many exchanges, with a unified error hierarchy that is the real reason to use it — and the venue differences it cannot hide from you.Wed, 21 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/alpaca-paper-trading-api/https://cotrading.io/learn/alpaca-paper-trading-api/Paper and live share one API specification and differ only by URL and credentials — which makes migration trivial and pointing at the wrong one equally trivial.Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/hyperliquid-api-setup/https://cotrading.io/learn/hyperliquid-api-setup/There is no API key. A master account approves a wallet to sign for it — which changes what permissions mean and why a new account runs out of requests.Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/bybit-testnet-setup/https://cotrading.io/learn/bybit-testnet-setup/A separate hostname and separate credentials, so environment mistakes fail loudly. What carries over to mainnet and the account-type difference that does not.Sun, 18 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/websocket-vs-rest-trading/https://cotrading.io/learn/websocket-vs-rest-trading/Streams are for knowing, requests are for doing — and the mistake that matters is polling for data you should stream, which spends the budget you need to exit.Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/binance-api-rate-limit/https://cotrading.io/learn/binance-api-rate-limit/Binance meters request weight, not request count — so "how many calls per minute" is the wrong question. What -1003 means and how 418 differs from 429.Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/binance-testnet-api-key/https://cotrading.io/learn/binance-testnet-api-key/Testnet is a separate host with separate credentials, which makes environment mistakes fail loudly. What transfers to production and what quietly does not.Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/api-key-leak-what-to-do/https://cotrading.io/learn/api-key-leak-what-to-do/Revoke first, investigate second — and know the venue-specific traps, including the one where revoking a key does not stop the signer.Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/exchange-api-key-security-checklist/https://cotrading.io/learn/exchange-api-key-security-checklist/The controls that hold when your software is wrong, across five venues — including the one with no API keys and the one that ships safe by default.Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/okx-api-error-50113/https://cotrading.io/learn/okx-api-error-50113/The signature you computed does not match OKX's. Five causes in order of likelihood, including the one that makes some endpoints work and others fail.Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/okx-api-passphrase/https://cotrading.io/learn/okx-api-passphrase/OKX needs a fourth credential that Binance and Bybit do not have, and switches to demo trading with a header rather than a hostname. Both surprise people.Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/bybit-api-error-10003/https://cotrading.io/learn/bybit-api-error-10003/This code means two unrelated things depending on your account type — too many sessions on classic, an expired key under UTA. How to tell which you have.Sat, 10 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/bybit-api-key-setup/https://cotrading.io/learn/bybit-api-key-setup/Bybit V5 uses four headers and a pre-hash string that does not match Binance or OKX. The construction, the common signing failures, and how to tell them apart.Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/binance-api-disable-withdrawals/https://cotrading.io/learn/binance-api-disable-withdrawals/You do not disable withdrawals on Binance — you decline to meet the precondition for enabling them. Why that is a stronger guarantee than a checkbox.Thu, 08 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/binance-api-ip-whitelist/https://cotrading.io/learn/binance-api-ip-whitelist/Without an IP whitelist, a Binance key's spot trading permission switches itself off after 90 days. Why that happens, and how to find the address to whitelist.Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/binance-api-key-permissions/https://cotrading.io/learn/binance-api-key-permissions/What each permission flag on a Binance key actually controls, how to read a key's real state over the API, and the two rules that make the model different from other venues.Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/ccxt-common-errors/https://cotrading.io/learn/ccxt-common-errors/The exception hierarchy splits into "the exchange refused you" and "the outcome is unknown". Which branch an error lands in decides whether retrying is safe.Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/ibkr-tws-api-setup/https://cotrading.io/learn/ibkr-tws-api-setup/Two defaults decide whether the TWS API works at all — socket clients are off, and Read-Only API is on. Ports, connection, and the constraints you cannot engineer around.Sun, 04 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/read-only-vs-trade-permission/https://cotrading.io/learn/read-only-vs-trade-permission/Every venue implements the read/trade split differently — and on one of them the safe setting is the default. A comparison across five venues and what it implies.Sat, 03 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/binance-api-error-2015/https://cotrading.io/learn/binance-api-error-2015/One code covering three unrelated problems — a bad key, the wrong IP, or a missing permission. A decision procedure that identifies which one you have in a few minutes.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/retrying-a-failed-order-is-not-safe/https://cotrading.io/learn/retrying-a-failed-order-is-not-safe/A timeout on an order means the outcome is unknown, not that it failed. And a client order ID does not make the retry idempotent the way most advice claims.Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/chatgpt-mcp-trading/https://cotrading.io/learn/chatgpt-mcp-trading/ChatGPT supports MCP, but needs a remote server — which changes the security problem from local credentials to an internet-reachable service holding your keys.Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/alpaca-mcp-server-setup/https://cotrading.io/learn/alpaca-mcp-server-setup/Alpaca publishes its own MCP server, it defaults to paper trading, and it lets you restrict the tool set. What that buys you and what to configure deliberately.Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/broker-mcp-comparison/https://cotrading.io/learn/broker-mcp-comparison/Some venues now ship official MCP integrations and some do not. Which is which, and what to check in a community server before it holds your keys.Mon, 28 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-testnet-setup/https://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-testnet-setup/How each venue separates practice from real money, why the separation mechanism matters more than the setup steps, and what testnet will not teach you.Sun, 27 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-rate-limit-trading/https://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-rate-limit-trading/A model calling tools in a loop hits venue rate limits fast, and a rate-limit error on an order is ambiguous rather than safe. What to enforce and where.Sat, 26 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-trading-audit-log/https://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-trading-audit-log/The MCP spec tells clients to log tool usage for audit. For trading that log is also your review material — what to capture so it answers questions later.Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-approval-workflow-design/https://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-approval-workflow-design/What a good approval step actually shows, where it goes wrong, and why approval fatigue is the failure mode to design against rather than the one to add prompts for.Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-server-api-key-storage/https://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-server-api-key-storage/Installing a trading MCP server means handing exchange credentials to third-party code. What to check about how it stores, reads and logs them before you do.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/llm-tool-call-order-mistakes/https://cotrading.io/learn/llm-tool-call-order-mistakes/The failure modes that matter when a model places trades — wrong parameters, retried calls, stale context and injected instructions — and which are worth engineering against.Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-trading-security-checklist/https://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-trading-security-checklist/What to verify before pointing a language model at a live trading account — key permissions, server trust, client behaviour and the limits that survive software being wrong.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/can-claude-trade-for-me/https://cotrading.io/learn/can-claude-trade-for-me/Technically yes, through an exchange MCP server. What that actually sets up, what it cannot do, and the questions worth answering before you connect a live key.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-vs-trading-bot/https://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-vs-trading-bot/A bot executes rules you wrote. An MCP setup gives a model tools and lets it decide. They fail in different ways, and the difference changes what you check.Sat, 19 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-read-only-vs-trade-permission/https://cotrading.io/learn/mcp-read-only-vs-trade-permission/An MCP server's readOnlyHint is a claim it makes about itself, and the spec says never to trust it. Where read-only actually has to be enforced instead.Fri, 18 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/why-mcp-needs-an-approval-layer/https://cotrading.io/learn/why-mcp-needs-an-approval-layer/The MCP specification says there should always be a human able to deny a tool call — and then requires nothing. What that gap means once the tools place orders.Thu, 17 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://cotrading.io/learn/what-is-an-exchange-mcp-server/https://cotrading.io/learn/what-is-an-exchange-mcp-server/An exchange MCP server turns your account into tools a language model can call. What it exposes, how it goes wrong, and what must sit between the model and a live order.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT