Hunting 'Ghost Positions': The F-160 Rule and Defensive Design in System State Reconciliation

Hunting 'Ghost Positions': The F-160 Rule and Defensive Design in System State Reconciliation It was 1:15 AM, and the trading system was running its routine midnight checks. Suddenly, the logs lit up with a series of critical warnings. The position_monitor had detected active, highly leveraged positions on the exchange—specifically, a 75x leveraged 1000PEPEUSDT long and a 20x leveraged ETHUSDT…

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