What changes between backtest confidence and live supervision
The terminal exists because strategy quality is only one part of execution quality.
- Do not promote directly from a promising backtest into full-size live flow.
- Do not ignore terminal health because short-term PnL looks fine.
- Do not let one bot silently consume more attention than the desk can support.
Broker behavior matters
Order acceptance, latency, session context, and account state all affect live behavior even when the strategy logic is unchanged.
Operators need immediate context
A bot that technically runs but cannot be supervised clearly is operationally weak. The terminal should compress health, capital, and status into one view.
Intervention rules should exist before the first live trade
You should already know what spread, slippage, drawdown, or engine behavior would justify a pause or shutdown.