4. Risk Management & Trade Controls

Service Description

Session 4 is all about protecting the downside because good traders don’t win more, they lose less when they’re wrong. We’ll walk through how professional crypto trading desks approach risk, from inventory exposure and drawdown limits, to hedging, slippage, and operational fail-safes. You’ll learn how firms use futures and options to reduce directional risk, and how to design quote logic that adapts dynamically to market conditions. This session also covers liquidity risk what happens when markets freeze, spreads widen, or tokens suddenly delist and how pro desks respond with quote throttling, circuit breakers, and kill switches. Finally, we’ll explore operational and DeFi-specific risks smart contract exploits, bridge failures, and what to do when execution APIs or on-chain transactions fail. You’ll come away with a robust understanding of how real firms stay alive, preserve capital, and keep bots running 24/7 even in chaos. ✅ What You’ll Learn: Market risk vs. inventory risk vs. platform risk Hedging with futures, funding rate strategies, and options How to manage slippage, latency, and unexpected volatility Designing circuit breakers, kill switches, and quote guards Operational risk in DeFi: contracts, bridges, and gas fee spikes 🎓 Session Format: Live 60-minute session with Q&A Lifetime access to slides, examples, and dashboards Access to Discord for risk management discussions 🧠 Instructor Insight: This session is taught by traders who’ve built bots that survived black swans. You’ll learn the internal controls they use to protect PnL and sleep at night.