<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Finbula Blog</title><description>Finbula insights</description><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/</link><item><title>How a partially filled order distorts your records</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/how-a-partial-fill-distorts-records/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/how-a-partial-fill-distorts-records/</guid><description>When half an order fills, the position counts as open but smaller than planned. Average cost, stop size, and the one check a bot has to run.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How an exchange API rate limit affects a trading bot</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/how-an-api-rate-limit-affects-a-bot/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/how-an-api-rate-limit-affects-a-bot/</guid><description>Once the limit is crossed the exchange refuses requests and the bot reads that as a market event. Weights, backoff, and keeping the order path separate.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The difference between market, limit and stop-limit</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/market-limit-and-stop-limit-orders/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/market-limit-and-stop-limit-orders/</guid><description>The three order types do not do the same job. Which one guarantees the price, which guarantees the fill, and the case where a stop never fills at all.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Missing candles, data gaps and maintenance windows</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/missing-candles-and-data-gaps/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/missing-candles-and-data-gaps/</guid><description>If three candles are absent from an hourly chart, the indicator never saw those three hours. Three causes of a gap, and the most misleading way to fill one.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why maximum drawdown is read before the return</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/why-drawdown-is-read-before-return/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/why-drawdown-is-read-before-return/</guid><description>Annual return tells you what a strategy earned. Maximum drawdown tells you whether you would still be running it, and the link between the two is arithmetic.</description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why candle close and time zone change the same chart</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/candle-close-and-time-zone/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/candle-close-and-time-zone/</guid><description>The same asset&apos;s daily chart can look different on two platforms. The cause is not the data but where the day ends, and it reaches indicators and backtests too.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>How fees and slippage eat a strategy&apos;s return</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/how-fees-and-slippage-eat-returns/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/how-fees-and-slippage-eat-returns/</guid><description>Costs that look small per trade get multiplied by the number of trades until they outweigh the strategy itself. How to work the cost out before you run it.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Working out portfolio return when money moves in and out</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/portfolio-return-with-deposits-and-withdrawals/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/portfolio-return-with-deposits-and-withdrawals/</guid><description>A calculation based on the change in balance counts your own deposits as gains. Two standard measures of return, and which question each of them answers.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>The three numbers a position size comes from</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/three-numbers-behind-position-size/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/three-numbers-behind-position-size/</guid><description>Position size is a division of three numbers, not a percentage of the balance. How the arithmetic works and why changing two at once hides the result.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What happens when a bot loses its exchange connection</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/when-a-bot-loses-its-exchange-connection/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/when-a-bot-loses-its-exchange-connection/</guid><description>The risk in a dropped connection is not that the order failed to send. It is not knowing whether it sent. Client order IDs and the reconciliation step.</description><pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Why does the same asset show a different price on two exchanges?</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/same-asset-two-exchanges-different-price/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/same-asset-two-exchanges-different-price/</guid><description>The gap isn&apos;t an error, it&apos;s the natural result of exchanges keeping separate order books. What widens it, and why the gap you see can&apos;t be taken.</description><pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Three mechanisms that inflate a backtest result</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/mechanisms-that-inflate-a-backtest/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/mechanisms-that-inflate-a-backtest/</guid><description>A backtest isn&apos;t a prediction, it&apos;s a measurement of the past. Three mechanisms that flatter the result, and how to make the test harder.</description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>What to watch when crypto and stocks share one table</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/reading-crypto-and-stocks-in-one-table/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/reading-crypto-and-stocks-in-one-table/</guid><description>Two assets on adjacent rows may not trade on the same calendar, in the same currency, or with the same liquidity. Four differences that break the comparison.</description><pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Five questions before you take a bot live</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/before-you-take-a-bot-live/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/before-you-take-a-bot-live/</guid><description>A strategy that looks good in Demo mode can behave differently with real money. Five questions to answer first, and the stop rule to write down.</description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Which permissions should an exchange API key have?</title><link>https://finbula.com/en/blog/exchange-api-key-permissions/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://finbula.com/en/blog/exchange-api-key-permissions/</guid><description>Read-only, trade and withdrawal sit on the same screen but do not carry the same risk. 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