AI Trading Bot Position Drift: 8 Reasons Your Bot and Exchange Disagree Your AI trading bot says you are long 0.50 BTC. The exchange says 0.35 BTC. That is not a minor dashboard discrepancy. It can mean: • A partial fill was recorded incorrectly • A manual trade changed the real position • A stop or liquidation executed outside the bot • An execution update was missed • A retry created duplicate exposure • Fees or precision changed the effective amount • Position or margin mode does not match • The bot is reading stale state The dangerous response is to blindly send an opposite order to “fix” the difference. The safer sequence is: Pause new exposure → fetch exchange-side fills and open orders → reconcile timestamps and identifiers → explain the drift → only then resume. We also added a free DN Position Drift Reconciler to help compare the bot-reported position with the exchange-reported position. Read the full guide: https://t.co/IB2R3qUwyX #AITrading #CryptoTrading #TradingBots #RiskManagement #Automation