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WebSocket Auto-Reconnect Guide for Reliable Trading Bots
WebSocket connections in trading bots frequently drop due to exchange resets, network glitches, and load balancers. This guide provides a minimum viable implementation with exponential backoff, sequence number tracking, and REST state verification after reconnect. Key strategies include automatic reconnection with jitter and never trusting WebSocket alone for state recovery.
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Practical advice for a common pain point, but the guide's reliance on a single code snippet may oversimplify production complexities like rate limits and multi-stream synchronization.
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