"My 12-Day War with Ghost Orders - A Crypto Bot Horror Story"

So I've been building a trading bot. How hard can it be, right?

Day 1: Bot works! Opens trades, sets Stop Loss and Take Profit. I'm basically a genius.

Day 2: Wait... why are there 6 orders for 1 position? And why are there orders for coins I don't even hold anymore? 👻

Days 3-11: Debugging montage

"It's the error handling!" - Nope
"It's the spam filter!" - Nope
"It's the registry sync!" - Nope
"Maybe if I just..." - Definitely nope

Day 12: Finally contact Binance support. Their response:

"Sir, STOP_MARKET and TAKE_PROFIT_MARKET are Algo Orders. They need different API endpoints to cancel."

Me: 😐

So for 12 days I was calling futures_cancel_all_open_orders() like an idiot while the ALGO orders just sat there laughing at me.

But wait, there's more!

While debugging, I didn't notice my bot had been DEAD for 5 days. Just... not running. Meanwhile, mystery trades appeared in my testnet account. Still don't know who did those. Ghosts? Hackers? My cat? 🐱

Lessons learned:

RTFM (Read The F***ing Manual) - Algo Orders ≠ Normal Orders
Set up a watchdog that texts you when your bot dies
Binance Testnet will humble you

Now excuse me while I mass delete orders on binance. Still have 6 of them up there... somewhere!

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